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the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor .
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the movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality .
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so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .
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victor rosa is leguizamo 's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance .
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psychologically savvy .
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a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making .
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a chilling movie without oppressive gore .
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we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low .
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star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
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several of steven soderbergh 's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist .
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the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold .
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the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal .
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a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one 's actions .
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the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving .
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directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut .
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because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags .
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viewers of barney 's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it .
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they ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering .
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as it turns out , you can go home again .
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it 's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones .
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his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories .
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writer \/ director m. night shyamalan 's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable .
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fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal .
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what bubbles up out of john c. walsh 's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch .
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abysmally pathetic
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instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized .
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the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's -lrb- unintentionally -rrb- funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care .
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blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances .
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it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense .
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an exhilarating experience .
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a dazzling dream of a documentary .
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narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films .
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jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart .
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in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father , french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition
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animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots .
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but rather , ` how can you charge money for this ? '
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`` austin powers in goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .
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not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at .
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an erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either .
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family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking .
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the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them .
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it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy .
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demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack .
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i 'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen .
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it 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems .
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like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film -lrb- at 80 minutes -rrb- is actually quite entertaining .
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the lousy lead performances ... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .
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medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt .
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is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ?
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art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema .
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madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose .
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so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming .
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... the story , like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with .
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it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect .
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it should have stayed there .
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well , it probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises , but it 's definitely worth taking a look .
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bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love .
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what a pity ... that the material is so second-rate .
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it 's that good .
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a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make ` cherish ' a very good -lrb- but not great -rrb- movie .
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enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons .
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a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation .
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directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia .
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... a confusing drudgery .
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it 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries .
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-lrb- a -rrb- mess .
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plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv 's dawson 's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story .
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black-and-white and unrealistic .
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-lrb- lin chung 's -rrb- voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating -lrb- at least to this western ear -rrb- , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters .
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it 's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling , regardless of whether you think kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter .
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hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic ... love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions .
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the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects .
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a lovely film ... elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic ... hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source 's complexity .
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a summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution .
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taken as a whole , the tuxedo does n't add up to a whole lot .
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good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork .
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intimate and panoramic .
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suffers from all the excesses of the genre .
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hate it because it 's lousy .
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this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens ... or if it were subtler ... or if it had a sense of humor .
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big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level .
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a doa dud from frame one .
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why spend $ 9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ?
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just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name .
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`` home movie '' is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time .
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it 's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .
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the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it .
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robinson 's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates .
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... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional .
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intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being .
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like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating .
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where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment .
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throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh .
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a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special .
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i did n't laugh .
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holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin .
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one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but ... also one of the most curiously depressing .
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bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent .
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such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go .
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the film is ultimately about as inspiring as a hallmark card .
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