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it 's unnerving , stimulating , likely to provoke anger and sorrow on both political sides -- and , above all , it 's extremely funny .
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the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered .
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but her marriage is loveless and she suffers from the loss of her baby in childbirth .
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viewers of `` the ring `` are more likely to remember the haunting images than the plot holes .
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sleepwalking tells the story of three friends at three very different stages of their lives .
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he soon escapes and runs into a woman who has recently had a car accident and is suffering with amnesia .
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while some of the subplots are very sketchy and the motivations of some of the characters are not clear , it is a journey worth taking because of the wondrous imagery .
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is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ?
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her cathexis was rapid and she formed an intense attachment to her young doctor , who seems to have reciprocated .
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along the way , ash continues to mature into the unstoppable pok & # 233 ; mon trainer he will become in the future .
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a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that .
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this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .
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first time director sam jones documents the making of wilco 's fourth studio album , yankee hotel foxtrot .
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we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat .
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his mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip to the jungle to search for the butterfly , leading to an adventure that will transform their lives .
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a martial artist , afflicted with a disease that makes beautiful women want to kill him , goes on a suicide mission to find true love anyway .
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terry and dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together : shotgunning their first beers , forming their first garage band , and growing the great canadian mullet known as `` hockey hair `` .
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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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everyone thinks that it 's him that has opened the chamber of secrets because that is what slytherin was famous for .
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one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact .
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .
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it 's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who ca n't come up with legitimate funny , and it 's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed .
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writer-director steven soderbergh follows up ocean 's 11 with the low-budget 'full frontal ' , his first digitally shot film .
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the movie features veteran horror heroines leslie culton and jenny wallace , and actors john saenz and jonathan tabor .
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here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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an entertaining and topical adventure drama which responds to our society 's fascination with doomsday cults , survivalist sects and their messianic leaders .
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[ t ] he film is never sure to make a clear point M-^V even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation .
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on the road to lake tahoe , a stressed out young executive meets a woman who forever changes his life .
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the primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants . it 's like watching a nightmare made flesh .
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the dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed .
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who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the 'qatsi ' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ?
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but ralph 's got a special talent - an ability to impersonate any hollywood celebrity - the perfect disguise to hide his stutter . . .
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in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz .
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how has the `` excitement `` of the 70 's turned into the `` blandness `` of today ?
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the action of the story derives from the collision of these two competing worlds .
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what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent .
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but , sometimes what we teach our children can be as deadly as not teaching them .
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writer-director debrauwer does manage to wrap things up in an * * * -pleasing 78 minutes . it 's is n't much , but it 's a lot more than callous callie khouri did with that `` ya-ya `` mess . also , there are no irritating hats .
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to say analyze that is de niro 's best film since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career .
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and the detective is n't convinced that this will be the last . . .
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it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks .
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based on an attraction at disneyland , the country bear jamboree , `` the country bears `` ( 2002 ) is one in a long line of live action disney family films .
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on her deathbed , candice klein accidentally asks the question , `` what did i ever do to deserve this ? ``
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chao was chen kaige 's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movies are about .
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stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond 's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 't is .
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watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .
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shaun brumder is a local surfer kid from orange county who dreams of going to stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household .
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new best friend should n't have gone straight to video ; it should have gone straight to a mystery science theater 3000 video .
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the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture .
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craig is an older , average-looking man who is n't handling aging well .
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in this cinematic concert , mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality , then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques .
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his destiny lies in the shadows of a black rose - the symbol of decayed innocence .
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strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild .
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gambling and throwing a basketball game for money is n't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again .
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smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country .
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two college grads land an entry level mafia job driving a retiring don 's car cross country .
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screenwriter maureen tilyou , director martin duffy and an extremely competent cast handle the controversial aspects of the topic in an even-handed manner .
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katie 's father 's injury comes back to haunt him and he finds himself paralyzed from the neck down .
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he is imprisoned , awaiting the death sentence for his crimes .
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now the chinese man shows up wanting the gems .
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the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it 's trying to set the women 's liberation movement back 20 years .
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after selling the shop to a local loan shark , calvin slowly begins to see his father 's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out .
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simultaneously devastating and hilarious , the film manages to capture the daily rituals and mundanities of life in such engrossing proximity that everything becomes drama .
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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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that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin 's film serves up with style and empathy .
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when virginia visits her aunt millie at christmas , she discovers a stack of handwritten letters over half a century old , and unlocks the story of her aunt 's youthful days as a young woman living in hamilton , mississippi , during the second world war .
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ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . '
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a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics are n't likely to enter the theater .
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and although billy does n't want jackson , two other guys do : derek , a clean-cut record store customer , and sam , the straight record store owner .
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i walked away not really know who `` they `` were , what `` they `` looked like . why `` they `` were here and what `` they `` wanted and quite honestly , i did n't care .
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with the machine they travel across the country ( uruguay ) traing to escape to brazil .
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in the spirit of voltaire and moliM-hre , on guard volleys great wit and deadly gestures in a milieu of lush apparel , landscapes , captivating music and 18th-century lacy sleeves .
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exonerated of lying , king and cuthbertson are nevertheless reprimanded by the court for their behaviour , but receive an invitation to tea with the prime minister should they ever be in whitehall .
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the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati .
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[ it 's ] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest .
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the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer 's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly .
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three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail , discover a profitable ( if not dodgy ) way to spend their time .
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noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama .
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a fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl .
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a young professional discovers the difficulty of leaving the corporate nest .
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a demand for money is made and the men wait for payment .
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but their cultural difference further separates them as lando ( antonio aquitania ) , isabel 's boyfriend , enters into the picture .
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rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment .
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especially one girl , isa , has to choose between two boys who are fighting against each other .
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the fictional film `` the dragon `` tells the story of how a young boy , who 's master is killed by a group of thugs , grows up to avenge his teacher 's murder .
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michael , sr . and michael , jr . then set out to get revenge on the man who killed peter and mrs . sullivan .
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lukas and his friends live in a commune out in the woods .
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when his affair with a young troubled janitor ( kidman ) is uncovered , the secret silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife , his children and colleague , writer nathan zuckerman , fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences .
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the most impressive quality of this charming movie is the way the characters , who are all recognizable 'types , ' refuse to behave the way we expect .
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after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it 's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen .
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it 's a movie -- and an album -- you wo n't want to miss .
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jolie 's performance vanishes somewhere between her hair and her lips .
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what 's most unusual about beijing bicycle in terms of recent chinese history is that any form of class conflict is depicted at all .
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in present-day london , twelve-year-old quinn watches as his mother , a construction engineer , inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its century-long slumber .
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the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness .
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a criminal mastermind has set in motion a plan to infiltrate a high tech prison in order to persuade a death row inmate to reveal the whereabouts of $ 200 million worth of gold .
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helmut busch ( now bruno ) will fall in love with adela , one of the activists , and that faces him into a dilema because he has orders to kill the head of the group where the young woman serves as a militant .
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a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise .
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the trail is strewn with corpses and everything points to them as the killers .
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this time nick is `` getting out ! `` . . . or
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