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A sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
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A beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen: the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions.
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Scotland, PA is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept.
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I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon.
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Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident.
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The movie is about as deep as that sentiment.
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Brainless, but enjoyably over-the-top, the retro gang melodrama, Deuces Wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism.
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If you ever wanted to be an astronaut, this is the ultimate movie experience - it's informative and breathtakingly spectacular.
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Even the digressions are funny.
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And, thanks to the presence of 'the King,' it also rocks.
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In other words, about as bad a film you're likely to see all year.
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Visually fascinating ... an often intense character study about fathers and sons, loyalty and duty.
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As violent, profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen.
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We’ve seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before, but there’s an enthusiastic charm in Fire that makes the formula fresh again.
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Gets better after Foster leaves that little room.
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Compulsively watchable, no matter how degraded things get.
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(Evans is) a fascinating character, and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie.
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The plot grows thin soon, and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution.
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This is rote spookiness, with nary an original idea (or role, or edit, or score, or anything, really) in sight, and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'Why?'
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Manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time.
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Feels aimless for much of its running time, until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives, leaving questions in its wake.
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A few zingers aside, the writing is indifferent, and Jordan Brady's direction is prosaic.
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The corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption.
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A wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung, but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily.
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A tired, unnecessary retread...a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with.
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Isn't as sharp as the original...Despite some visual virtues, 'Blade II' just doesn't cut it.
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Enigma lacks it.
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Mr. Caine and Mr. Fraser are the whole show here, with their memorable and resourceful performances.
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Too bad none of it is funny.
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Overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances.
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There's no conversion effort, much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a Hollywood career, if they want one.
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Yet in its own aloof, unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second.
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This film puts Wang at the forefront of China's Sixth Generation of film makers.
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A sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss: rejection by one's mother.
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Like The Full Monty, this is sure to raise audience's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll.
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I have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture, and, whatever flaws Igby Goes Down may possess, it is undeniably that.
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(N)o matter how much good will the actors generate, Showtime eventually folds under its own thinness.
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Not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days.
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After sitting through this sloppy, made-for-movie comedy special, it makes me wonder if Lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.
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Texan director George Ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare.
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Obviously, a lot of people wasted a lot of their time (including mine) on something very inconsequential.
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Should have gone straight to video.
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Maryam is more timely now than ever.
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Koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own.
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It deserves to be seen everywhere.
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A timely look back at civil disobedience, anti-war movements and the power of strong voices.
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You don't need to know your Ice-T's from your Cool-J's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned, something is rotten in the state of California.
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By turns very dark and very funny.
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Completely awful Iranian drama...as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque.
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Suspend your disbelief here and now, or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits.
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Nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy.
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Uneven but a lot of fun.
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The satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying.
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The biggest problem I have (other than the very sluggish pace) is we never really see her Esther blossom as an actress, even though her talent is supposed to be growing.
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... it's as comprehensible as any Dummies guide, something even non-techies can enjoy.
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A zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless, lifeless, meandering, loud, painful, obnoxious.
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(Moore's) better at fingering problems than finding solutions.
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...fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film.
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Is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film?
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There are cheesy backdrops, ridiculous action sequences, and many tired jokes about men in heels.
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(Green is) the comedy equivalent of Saddam Hussein, and I'm just about ready to go to the U.N. and ask permission for a preemptive strike.
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Once again, director Chris Columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to Rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours.
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Some of the characters die and others don't, and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson, and, really, nobody in the viewing audience cares.
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Brave and sweetly rendered love story.
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For decades we've marveled at Disney's rendering of water, snow, flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world.
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The level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with Washington the actor.
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While Tattoo borrows heavily from both Seven and The Silence of the Lambs, it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in.
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Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser.
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the film belongs to the marvelous Verdu, a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public
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A thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation.
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Bittersweet comedy/drama full of life, hand gestures, and some really adorable Italian guys.
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The town has kind of an authentic feel, but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial.
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This is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies.
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Remarkable for its intelligence and intensity.
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A complete waste of time.
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Should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike.
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An intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives.
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You never know where Changing Lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride.
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Resident Evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an MTV, sugar hysteria, and PlayStation cocktail.
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that works.
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What's most memorable about Circuit is that it's shot on digital video, whose tiny camera enables Shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb.
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The journey is worth your time, especially if you have Ellen Pompeo sitting next to you for the ride.
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A classy, sprightly spin on film.
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Frankly, it's kind of insulting, both to men and women.
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In addition to the overcooked, ham-fisted direction, which has all the actors reaching for the back row, the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry.
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Watching Austin Powers in Goldmember is like binging on cotton candy.
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Nothing overly original, mind you, but solidly entertaining.
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It ends up being neither, and fails at both endeavors.
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So putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film.
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One of the finest, most humane and important Holocaust movies ever made.
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This fascinating look at Israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from Gaza and, because of its heightened, well-shaped dramas, twice as powerful.
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If villainous vampires are your cup of blood, Blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest.
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If swimfan does catch on, it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh.
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A shame that Stealing Harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating, boring, and forgettable.
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Refreshing.
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A clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men.
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By the end of it all I sort of loved the people onscreen, even though I could not stand them.
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The waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity, incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter.
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...a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs.
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While the film is competent, it's also uninspired, lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires.