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mark pellington 's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth .
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no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script .
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prepare to marvel again .
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family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition ... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance .
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stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed .
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troubling and powerful .
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cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon .
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` dragonfly ' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue .
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a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama .
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amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it .
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maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there 's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is .
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nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
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rock 's stand-up magic wanes .
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a delightful , if minor , pastry of a movie .
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a sexy , surprising romance ... idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger .
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there are n't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming -lrb- without a thick shmear of the goo , at least -rrb- , but `` elling '' manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases .
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plays like some corny television production from a bygone era
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as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious .
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it 's like a drive-by .
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it 's sweet .
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one of the worst movies of the year .
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like brosnan 's performance , evelyn comes from the heart .
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though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
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-lrb- woo 's -rrb- most resonant film since the killer .
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it 's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that 's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious .
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this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost .
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strange and beautiful film .
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the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .
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the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood .
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the catch is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders .
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one of those so-so films that could have been much better .
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has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .
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as original and insightful as last week 's episode of behind the music .
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marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary .
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... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ...
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... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . ''
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reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others .
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as a vehicle to savour binoche 's skill , the film is well worthwhile .
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what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail .
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steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture .
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it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at .
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the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems .
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the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string .
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insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion .
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this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big , dumb action movie .
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when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs. woo , it looks like woo 's a p.o.w.
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evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention .
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characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle .
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it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning .
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is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house .
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an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship .
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cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace .
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been there done that .
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something has been lost in the translation ... another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise .
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tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun .
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despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable
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cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective .
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for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast .
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delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for .
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-- that the ` true story ' by which all the queen 's men is allegedly `` inspired '' was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen .
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you could hate it for the same reason .
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a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously .
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waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway .
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`` frailty '' starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different -lrb- and better -rrb- than most films with this theme .
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thanks to the château 's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises .
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gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing .
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julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent .
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in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players .
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elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy .
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he is n't talking a talk that appeals to me .
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a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . '
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stale , futile scenario .
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a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing .
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in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase .
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full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in .
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a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something .
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a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it 's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow .
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nothing but an episode of smackdown !
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for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there 's something creepy about this movie .
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kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other .
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the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow .
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it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
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a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists .
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it 's drab .
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... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .
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what 's so striking about jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair .
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in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works .
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i 've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie .
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woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
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horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists .
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a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire .
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a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions .
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10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away .
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an enjoyable above average summer diversion .
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watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement .
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it 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on .
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violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining .
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like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .
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as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired .
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