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Simone is not a bad film.
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A sexy, peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in Renaissance Spain, and the fact that it's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling.
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As the sulking, moody male hustler in the title role, (Franco) has all of Dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability.
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The first Bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun.
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The problem is that for the most part, the film is deadly dull.
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For the rest of us, sitting through Dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment.
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The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey.
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Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling.
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The film is saved from aren't-kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that isn't faked and a stately sense of composition.
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Death to Smoochy is often very funny, but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of DeVito's misanthropic vision.
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The only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants... who might be distracted by the movie's quick movements and sounds.
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There's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where Santa gives gifts to grownups.
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It collapses when Mr. Taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller's rush.
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It's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy.'
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It gives poor Dana Carvey nothing to do that is really funny, and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time.
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Efficient, suitably anonymous chiller.
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... Stylistically, the movie is a disaster.
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It's mildly entertaining, especially if you find comfort in familiarity.
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...a guiltless film for nice evening out.
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What makes Salton Sea surprisingly engrossing is that Caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit, hopped-up fashion.
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An opportunity missed.
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Canada's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the Inuit people.
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Fresh and raw like a blown-out vein, Narc takes a walking-dead, cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it.
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Dignified CEO's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree.
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A creepy, intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man...about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy.
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The overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent, like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors.
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The Transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull.
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Beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination, backed by sheer nerve.
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Perry's good and his is an interesting character, but "Serving Sara" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff.
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The film's trailer also looked like crap, so crap is what I was expecting.
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The sentimental script has problems, but the actors pick up the slack.
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Puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman.
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There are some laughs in this movie, but Williams' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak.
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Boisterous, heartfelt comedy.
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It's as if Allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself.
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The characters seem one-dimensional, and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience.
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I'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled, but, for those with at least a minimal appreciation of Woolf and Clarissa Dalloway, The Hours represents two of those well spent.
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Very amusing, not the usual route in a thriller, and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both.
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If Festival in Cannes nails hard- boiled Hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy, much about the film, including some of its casting, is frustratingly unconvincing.
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Coral Reef Adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching.
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But it could be, by its art and heart, a necessary one.
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I wanted more.
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The entire cast is extraordinarily good.
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As if trying to grab a lump of Play-Doh, the harder that Liman tries to squeeze his story, the more details slip out between his fingers.
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A bracing, unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale.
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A fine, rousing, G-rated family film, aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats.
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It's immensely ambitious, different than anything that's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do.
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...a pretentious mess...
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It sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that.
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Terminally bland, painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... The movie, shot on digital videotape rather than film, is frequently indecipherable.
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A very depressing movie of many missed opportunities.
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Captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics.
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If The Man from Elysian Fields is doomed by its smallness, it is also elevated by it--the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you're one of the lucky few who sought it out.
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Writer-director Walter Hill and co-writer David Giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches, but wind up using them as punching bags.
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This wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt, it's the worst movie I've seen this summer.
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In the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes, director Roger Kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of...outrageous gags.
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Singer/composer Bryan Adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits, a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended, er, spirit of the piece.
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Doesn't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago.
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This slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time.
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The movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette Juliette Lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named Minnie and watching Slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable Halloween costume shop would ever try to sell.
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If you value your time and money, find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite, predictable rehash.
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Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy, kinky fun.
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The jokes are flat, and the action looks fake.
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It's a ripper of a yarn and I for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill.
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Weirdly, Broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end, after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car.
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Once folks started hanging out at the barbershop, they never wanted to leave.
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Choppy, overlong documentary about 'The Lifestyle.'
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Better still, he does all of this, and more, while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of Jonathan Swift.
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The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory.
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Ends up offering nothing more than the latest Schwarzenegger or Stallone flick would.
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Though there are many tense scenes in Trapped, they prove more distressing than suspenseful.
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The Last Kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact.
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Low rent from frame one.
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Sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy, and scotches most of its élan, humor, bile, and irony.
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Unfortunately, Carvey's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with Harris Goldberg.
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It may as well be called "Jar-Jar Binks: The Movie."
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Over the years, Hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies, and Ice Age only improves on it, with terrific computer graphics, inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor.
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What one is left with, even after the most awful acts are committed, is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream.
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It hates its characters.
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... an incredibly heavy-handed, manipulative dud that feels all too familiar.
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With "Ichi the Killer", Takashi Miike, Japan's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than Batman...
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Anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films, sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity.
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Comes off as a long, laborious whine, the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man.
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We don't even like their characters.
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Just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole.
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The characters never change.
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Even kids deserve better.
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While Scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that "Gangs" is never lethargic, the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about.
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Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue, all credibility flies out the window.
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This is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on Jerry Springer.
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into How Long Is This Movie?
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The work of an artist tormented by his heritage, using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims.
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Think The Lion King redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams, the world's most generic rock star.
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You'll probably love it.
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And for all the wrong reasons besides.
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Reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, most of the scary parts in 'Signs' occur while waiting for things to happen.
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In his debut as a director, Washington has a sure hand.
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If you love him, you'll like it.
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What's so fun about this silly, outrageous, ingenious thriller is the director's talent.
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I like that Smith, he's not making fun of these people, he's not laughing at them.