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sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .
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`` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling .
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a no-holds-barred cinematic treat .
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plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year .
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all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence .
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with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .
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like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places .
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adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary .
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canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city .
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ultimately , `` mib ii '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless .
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like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit .
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tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .
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the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows .
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a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life .
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a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades .
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by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .
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rewarding .
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often hilarious .
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shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .
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i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they 're treading water at best in this forgettable effort .
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the adventure does n't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 .
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a very charming and funny movie .
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nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances .
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... the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material .
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beware the quirky brit-com .
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a sense of real magic , perhaps .
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in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it 's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life .
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a tour de force of modern cinema .
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able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history .
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it still feels like a prison stretch .
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adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel .
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he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty .
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this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative .
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the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism .
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-lrb- a -rrb- smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks .
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her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost .
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a supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama .
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an impeccable study in perversity .
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what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings .
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offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere .
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but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging .
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a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices .
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an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .
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i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen .
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time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .
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a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .
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twenty years after its first release , e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career .
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suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness .
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talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
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filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life .
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the great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home .
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beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .
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more tiring than anything .
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laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it 's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters .
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uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ...
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a perceptive , good-natured movie .
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maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor .
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if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother .
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reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness .
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if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there .
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other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst .
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the movie is like scorsese 's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot .
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like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film .
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captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper .
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gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .
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he drags it back , single-handed .
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translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya .
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there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie .
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a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause .
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reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show .
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a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .
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be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense .
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the mantra behind the project seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick . '
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both heartbreaking and heartwarming ... just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving .
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the series ' message about making the right choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls ' amusing personalities .
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the santa clause 2 's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry .
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it 's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series .
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true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation .
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the piano teacher is not an easy film .
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degenerates into hogwash .
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absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel .
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those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep .
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sex with strangers is fascinating ...
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unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .
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byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle .
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green ruins every single scene he 's in , and the film , while it 's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that .
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a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ...
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stealing harvard ca n't even do that much .
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leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb .
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if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish .
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the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness .
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a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore .
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the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script .
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neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm .
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likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom .
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this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain .
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another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
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what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point .
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expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street .
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