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Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured.
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For those who like quirky, slightly strange French films, this is a must!
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Too often, Son of the Bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "big moment" will occur and not "if."
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The mood, look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a T.
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A muddled limp biscuit of a movie, a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms.
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A certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents.
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Why "they" were here and what "they" wanted and quite honestly, I didn't care.
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Shallow.
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A work of extraordinary journalism, but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry.
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But Toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again.
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All three women deliver remarkable performances.
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Koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and, in turn, his self-inflicted retaliation.
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Off the Hook is overlong and not well-acted, but credit writer-producer-director Adam Watstein with finishing it at all.
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There is a subversive element to this Disney cartoon, providing unexpected fizzability.
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In an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure, Narc strikes a defiantly retro chord, and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve.
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"Freaky Friday," it's not.
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an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we've been watching for decades
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Bolstered by an astonishing voice cast (excepting Love Hewitt), an interesting racial tension, and a storyline that I haven't encountered since at least Pete's Dragon.
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While the now 72-year-old Robert Evans been slowed down by a stroke, he has at least one more story to tell: his own.
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This is one baaaaaaaaad movie.
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Maggie Smith as the Ya-Ya member with the O2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass, then gasp for gas, verbal deportment.
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Brims with passion: for words, for its eccentric, accident-prone characters, and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life.
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Borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion.
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Appropriately cynical social commentary aside, #9 never quite ignites.
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The story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head.
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This u-boat doesn't have a captain.
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Spectacular in every sense of the word, even if you don' t know an Orc from a Uruk-Hai.
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A different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of World War II through the specific conditions of one man, and more about that man lost in its midst.
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You will likely prefer to keep on watching.
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A film that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure.
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It's leaden and predictable, and laughs are lacking.
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The Importance of Being Earnest movie seems to be missing a great deal of the acerbic repartee of the play."
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It's a lovely, eerie film that casts an odd, rapt spell.
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One fantastic (and educational) documentary.
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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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A funny and touching film that is gorgeously acted by a British cast to rival Gosford Park's.
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He allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue.
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An incoherent jumble of a film that's rarely as entertaining as it could have been.
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Cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio.
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Instead of panoramic sweep, Kapur gives us episodic choppiness, undermining the story's emotional thrust.
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I love the robust middle of this picture.
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For those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects, the new Star Wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one.
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It's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience.
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Intriguing and downright intoxicating.
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A sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception.
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I still like Moonlight Mile, better judgment be damned.
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A showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor Michel Serrault, the film is less successful on other levels.
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With an expressive face reminiscent of Gong Li and a vivid personality like Zhang Ziyi's, Dong stakes out the emotional heart of Happy.
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Steve Oedekerk is, alas, no Woody Allen.
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George Lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension.
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Putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a Pandora's Box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest.
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With the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof, which They isn't, it is more likely to induce sleep than fright.
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Though Tom Shadyac's film kicks off spookily enough, around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance.
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"Auto Focus" works as an unusual biopic and document of male swingers in the Playboy era
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With jump cuts, fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics, Yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is.
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One of the most depressing movie-going experiences I can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once.
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Except it's much, much better.
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Good fun, good action, good acting, good dialogue, good pace, good cinematography.
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It's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects.
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is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime.
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Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair.
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Its compelling mix of trial movie, escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy.
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insightfully written, delicately performed
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Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom.
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Kung Pow is Oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick, and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that.
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Wimps out by going for that PG-13 rating, so the more graphic violence is mostly off-screen and the sexuality is muted.
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The directing and story are disjointed, flaws that have to be laid squarely on Taylor's doorstep.
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The movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing.
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It's no lie -- Big Fat Liar is a real charmer.
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A gorgeously strange movie, Heaven is deeply concerned with morality, but it refuses to spell things out for viewers.
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You'll cry for your money back.
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The package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic.
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A subtle, humorous, illuminating study of politics, power and social mobility.
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I loved the look of this film.
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This little film is so slovenly done, so primitive in technique, that it can't really be called animation.
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Another boorish movie from the I-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting.
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It has its faults, but it is a kind, unapologetic, sweetheart of a movie, and Mandy Moore leaves a positive impression.
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A baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise.
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The code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute.
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For proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that Spielberg calls, retrospectively, his most personal work yet.
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A slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly, wall-to-wall good time.
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What you expect is just what you get...assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height.
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The campy results make Mel Brooks' Borscht Belt schtick look sophisticated.
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An entertainment so in love with its overinflated mythology that it no longer recognizes the needs of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots.
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Two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity.
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Aloof and lacks any real raw emotion, which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships.
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While Parker and co-writer Catherine di Napoli are faithful to Melville's plotline, they and a fully engaged supporting cast ... have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any English Lit major would have thought possible.
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The AAA of action, XXX is a blast of adrenalin, rated EEE for excitement.
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It's all surface psychodramatics.
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Comedian, like its subjects, delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun, no-frills ride.
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It was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of Bullock Bubble and Hugh Goo.
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It's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters.
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It's a sweet, laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth.
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Scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern Lothario.
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Replacing John Carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded, handheld Blair Witch video-cam footage.
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The film delivers what it promises: A look at the "wild ride" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops, cell phones and sketchy business plans.
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It thankfully goes easy on the reel/real world dichotomy that (Jaglom) pursued with such enervating determination in Venice/Venice.
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A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them.
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Like Showgirls and Glitter, the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.
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The story is predictable, the jokes are typical Sandler fare, and the romance with Ryder is puzzling.