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It all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer.
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Van Wilder has a built-in audience, but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest.
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Forget the Psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore.
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It's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling, but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- The Believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work.
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There's no excuse for following up a delightful, well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish.
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A very capable nailbiter.
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One scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud.
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A witty, whimsical feature debut.
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"(Hopkins)doesn't so much phone in his performance as fax it.
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A moving and stark reminder that the casualties of war reach much further than we imagine.
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No big whoop, nothing new to see, zero thrills, too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film.
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Wedding feels a bit anachronistic.
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It's like Rocky and Bullwinkle on Speed, but that's neither completely enlightening, nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeness.
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Schepisi, aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch British actor who did not appear in Gosford Park (as well as one, Ms. Mirren, who did), has succeeded beyond all expectation.
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This movie got me grinning.
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A haunting tale of murder and mayhem.
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Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting.
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Me Without You has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
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Consummate actor Barry has done excellent work here.
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A decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit Franklin needs to stay afloat in Hollywood.
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...the plot weaves us into a complex web.
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Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style.
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The most opaque, self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine.
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The Scorpion King is more fun than Conan the Barbarian.
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He has a great cast and a great idea.
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"Sweet Home Alabama" is what it is – a nice, harmless date film...
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Even when there are lulls, the emotions seem authentic, and the picture is so lovely toward the end ... you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time.
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Diaz, Applegate, Blair and Posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert, if not amused.
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Sure, it's contrived and predictable, but its performances are so well tuned that the film comes off winningly, even though it's never as solid as you want it to be.
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Sadly, Full Frontal plays like the work of a dilettante.
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Runs on the pure adrenalin of Pacino's performance.
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The Tuxedo wasn't just bad; it was, as my friend David Cross would call it, 'Hungry-Man portions of bad'.
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Shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept (aliens come to Earth) and infuses it into a rustic, realistic, and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion.
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"Spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer, and hopefully, sets the tone for a summer of good stuff.
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The film is visually dazzling, the depicted events dramatic, funny and poignant.
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...a complete shambles of a movie so sloppy, so uneven, so damn unpleasant that I can't believe any viewer, young or old, would have a good time here.
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Like many Western action films, this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing, but its heartfelt concern about North Korea's recent past and South Korea's future adds a much needed moral weight.
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A charmer from Belgium.
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It's not only dull because we've seen (Eddie) Murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed.
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Even during the climactic hourlong cricket match, boredom never takes hold.
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A movie that sends you out of the theater feeling like you've actually spent time living in another community.
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Pipe Dream does have its charms.
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If you're part of her targeted audience, you'll cheer.
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Crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since Valley of the Dolls.
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It's very Beavis and Butthead, yet always seems to elicit a chuckle.
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Solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that Soderbergh's best films, "Erin Brockovich," "Out of Sight" and "Ocean's Eleven," never were.
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A modestly made but profoundly moving documentary.
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...grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized, out of character and logically porous action set pieces.
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Fessenden continues to do interesting work, and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget.
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As a feature-length film, it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character.
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Frank Capra played this story straight.
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Control-Alt-Delete Simone as quickly as possible
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Nevertheless, it still seems endless.
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There's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title.
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Mel Gibson fights the good fight in Vietnam in director Randall Wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency.
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For a film that's being advertised as a comedy, Sweet Home Alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped.
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"Barbershop" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story.
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Though Lan Yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency, the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude.
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This hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on Hopkins' inclination to play Hannibal Lecter again, even though Harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book.
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Fortunately, Elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet, genuine chemistry.
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But it has an ambition to say something about its subjects, but not a willingness.
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Please, someone, stop Eric Schaeffer before he makes another film.
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Sheridan had a wonderful account to work from, but, curiously, he waters it down, turning grit and vulnerability into light reading.
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Despite its faults, Gangs excels in spectacle and pacing.
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A loud, low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama.'
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Lovingly photographed in the manner of a Golden Book sprung to life, Stuart Little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness.
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Provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views.
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Flat, misguided comedy.
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It's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion.
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Berling and Béart ... continue to impress, and Isabelle Huppert ... again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters.
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Serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that The Road to Perdition leads to a satisfying destination.
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This overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary.
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There are moments of hilarity to be had.
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It's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star Jake Gyllenhaal but also from accomplished Oscar winners Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman and Holly Hunter, yet newcomer Ellen Pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb.
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I never thought I'd say this, but I'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies!
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I suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the DVD.
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It offers a glimpse of the Solomonic decision facing Jewish parents in those turbulent times: to save their children and yet to lose them.
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The film jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod.
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Plodding, poorly written, murky and weakly acted, the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo.
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Elegant, mannered and teasing.
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...plays like a badly edited, 91-minute trailer (and) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going.
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There are flaws, but also stretches of impact and moments of awe; we're wrapped up in the characters, how they make their choices, and why.
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By turns touching, raucously amusing, uncomfortable, and, yes, even sexy, Never Again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre.
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Not the Great American Comedy, but if you liked the previous movies in the series, you'll have a good time with this one too.
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Kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself.
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But they fascinate in their recklessness.
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A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist.
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This is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned.
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Worth catching for Griffiths' warm and winning central performance.
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'CQ may one day be fondly remembered as Roman Coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about
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Who cares?).
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Neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored.
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An unflinching, complex portrait of a modern Israel that is rarely seen on-screen.
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The first question to ask about Bad Company is why Anthony Hopkins is in it.
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An intelligent romantic thriller of a very old-school kind of quality.
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It's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie, beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting.
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A distinctly mixed bag, the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze.
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A B-movie you can sit through, enjoy on a certain level and then forget.
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A fascinating, dark thriller that keeps you hooked on the delicious pulpiness of its lurid fiction.
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Enjoyably dumb, sweet, and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky, steal a glimpse.