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...if you, like me, think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with, then you're in for a painful ride.
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If you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them, and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you, then you're at the right film.
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One funny popcorn flick.
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Bad Company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year, full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them.
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I'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than Evelyn this year.
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A gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever, amusing and unpredictable.
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Smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise.
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A charming, banter-filled comedy... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension, accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface.
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It's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor.
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Hollywood Ending is the most disappointing Woody Allen movie ever.
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It's mildly amusing, but I certainly can't recommend it.
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This dreadfully earnest inversion of the Concubine love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension.
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Formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip.
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What Madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately, it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing, sometimes all at once.
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Rifkin's references are ... impeccable throughout.
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The director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of Truffaut.
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The fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of Demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it.
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An enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences... The Château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten.
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An engaging, formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement.
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Something must have been lost in the translation.
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Witty, contemplative, and sublimely beautiful.
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Foster and Whitaker are especially fine.
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The lightest, most breezy movie Steven Spielberg has made in more than a decade.
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If I want a real movie, I'll buy the Criterion DVD.
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An earnest, roughshod document, it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history, and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool.
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A conventional but heartwarming tale.
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A sly female empowerment movie, although not in a way anyone would expect.
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The problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage.
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There's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity, given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments, clothes and parties.
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Strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency.
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The formula is familiar but enjoyable.
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Its screenplay serves as auto-critique, and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure.
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Less an examination of neo-Nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself.
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Good performances and a realistic, non-exploitive approach make Paid in Full worth seeing.
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Just isn't as weird as it ought to be.
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If you love the music, and I do, its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary ...
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Watching Queen of the Damned is like reading a research paper, with special effects tossed in.
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Stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.
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The Merchant-Ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema, only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage.
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While there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp, the production works more often than it doesn't.
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Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense.
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Exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera...more salacious telenovela than serious drama.
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I'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment.
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Why sit through a crummy, wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies, when you could just rent those movies instead, let alone seek out a respectable new one?
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A thoroughly awful movie--dumb, narratively chaotic, visually sloppy...a weird amalgam of 'The Thing' and a geriatric 'Scream.'
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Contains the humor, characterization, poignancy, and intelligence of a bad sitcom.
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Laughably, irredeemably awful.
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One long, numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff Yuen has given us before.
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Together (Time Out and Human Resources) establish Mr. Cantet as France's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace.
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... a gleefully grungy, hilariously wicked black comedy ...
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With Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, the Spy Kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape: a James Bond series for kids.
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Reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success.
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Outside of Burger's desire to make some kind of film, it's really unclear why this project was undertaken
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As for children, they won't enjoy the movie at all.
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If you saw it on TV, you'd probably turn it off, convinced that you had already seen that movie.
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While it is interesting to witness the conflict from the Palestinian side, Longley's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context.
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Journalistically dubious, inept and often lethally dull.
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Brilliantly written and well-acted, Yellow Asphalt is an uncompromising film.
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Like Mike isn't going to make box office money that makes Michael Jordan jealous, but it has some cute moments, funny scenes, and hits the target audience (young Bow Wow fans) - with nothing but net.
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The gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon.
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While the path may be familiar, first-time director Denzel Washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting.
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown is the best kind of documentary, one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow.
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A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander, some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story.
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J. Lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie, although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear: She's a pretty woman, but she's no working girl.
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This documentary is a dazzling, remarkably unpretentious reminder of what (Evans) had, lost, and got back.
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Their work is fantastic.
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Much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of Stuart and Margolo.
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Looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of Scarface or Carlito's Way.
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A profoundly stupid affair, populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility.
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Like its script, which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire Olympic swim team through, the characters in Swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull, brain-deadening hangover.
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Do we really need the Tiger Beat version?
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If it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with Ring, an indisputably spooky film; with a screenplay to die for.
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Gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character, a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory, self-hating, self-destructive ways.
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A beautiful paean to a time long past.
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An extremely funny, ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary China.
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Sheds light on a subject few are familiar with, and makes you care about music you may not have heard before.
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But for the most part, The Weight of Water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness.
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And Diesel isn't the actor to save it.
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A feeble Tootsie knockoff.
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See it for his performance if nothing else.
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Terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life.
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The skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense.
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A thriller without a lot of thrills.
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Yet the act is still charming here.
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Far more enjoyable than its predecessor.
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A moving essay about the specter of death, especially suicide.
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Phillip Noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of Greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of The Quiet American.
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Though it runs 163 minutes, Safe Conduct is anything but languorous.
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This is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself, 'Ah, yes, here we have a bad, bad, bad movie.'
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Even at its worst, it's not half-bad.
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...even if you've never heard of Chaplin, you'll still be glued to the screen.
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A long, dull procession of despair, set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral.
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The concert footage is stirring, the recording sessions are intriguing, and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers.
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Most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears.
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Queen of the Damned is too long with too little going on.
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It ain't art, by a long shot, but unlike last year's lame Musketeer, this Dumas adaptation entertains.
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Campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over Rafael's evolution.
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Schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues Brecht faced as his life drew to a close.
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Would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial New Yorker if 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, Melanie Carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned Hollywood magic.
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A horror movie with seriously dumb characters, which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness.