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The characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
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Crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy .
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It 's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty .
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A simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm .
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It might be ` easier ' to watch on video at home , but that should n't stop die-hard French film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience .
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Witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful .
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A surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director Malcolm D. Lee and writer John Ridley .
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Woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from Lonely Boy to Do n't Look Back .
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This is pure , exciting moviemaking .
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Works because Reno does n't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience .
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Nettelbeck ... has a pleasing way with a metaphor .
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The cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story .
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Steven Soderbergh 's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life .
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The film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations .
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It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho .
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Sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first -LRB- as best I remember -RRB- , but still a very good time at the cinema .
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The film is bright and flashy in all the right ways .
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Elegant and eloquent -LRB- meditation -RRB- on death and that most elusive of passions , love .
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Cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most .
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Filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power .
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It excels because , unlike so many other Hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope .
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Shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , Devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives .
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Spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing .
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A summer entertainment adults can see without feeling embarrassed , but it could have been more .
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Sparse but oddly compelling .
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A stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films
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A sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies .
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Argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she 's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .
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With so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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Brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , Haneke 's portrait of an upper class Austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt .
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Though Jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees .
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That 's its first sign of trouble .
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A dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you 're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3D goggles the theater provides .
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Be patient with the lovely Hush !
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and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience .
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The large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible IMAX sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes .
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Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence .
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The kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away .
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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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By the end you ca n't help but feel ` stoked . '
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The off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery .
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Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life
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Awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful
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Sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... Attal looks so much like a young Robert DeNiro that it seems the film should instead be called ` My Husband Is Travis Bickle ' .
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Even if you 're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of Jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced Monty Pythonesque flavor .
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The result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from Spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable .
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But it 's also disappointing to a certain degree .
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The all-French cast is marveilleux .
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There 's a lot to recommend Read My Lips .
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A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera ...
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Brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as Bond in Die Another Day .
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Audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant .
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The movie is ... very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes .
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Nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit .
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A refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market .
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It finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice .
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... an enjoyably frothy ` date movie ' ...
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The genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates .
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Two Weeks Notice has appeal beyond being a Sandra Bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy .
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The movie 's seams may show ... but Pellington gives `` Mothman '' an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling .
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If Mostly Martha is mostly unsurprising , it 's still a sweet , even delectable diversion .
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A wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of Being John Malkovich .
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Schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film 's present with the playful paranoia of the film 's past . '
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A fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '
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The sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack .
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A good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold .
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In XXX , Diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep .
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An engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients .
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It all plays out ... like a high-end John Hughes comedy , a kind of Elder Bueller 's Time Out .
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The film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by Christopher Plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil Uncle Ralph I 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work .
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This is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-Disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt .
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It is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters .
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A moving and important film .
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Deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame .
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Famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .
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Showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation .
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Sweet Home Alabama is n't going to win any Academy Awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts .
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a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack
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A gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost .
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Even though many of these guys are less than adorable -LRB- their lamentations are pretty much self-centered -RRB- , there 's something vital about the movie .
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A tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers .
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It is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise .
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When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we 'd live in if Argento 's Hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve .
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Maryam is more timely now than ever .
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An eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake .
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Piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling .
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What a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride .
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This is a more fascinating look at the future than `` Bladerunner '' and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen .
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The rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based .
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A film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships .
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Sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group .
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`` Nicholas Nickleby '' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there 's no new `` A Christmas Carol '' out in the theaters this year .
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Charlie Hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a Dickensian hero .
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Niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators ' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in Hollywood , only God speaks to the press
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Khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum .
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Impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` Manhunter ' was .
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It 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .
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Though a touch too Arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , Heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors .
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I simply ca n't recommend it enough .
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Muccino , who directed from his own screenplay , is a canny crowd pleaser , and The Last Kiss ... provides more than enough sentimental catharsis for a satisfying evening at the multiplex .
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