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The Movie is clever, offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance.
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Another week, another gross-out college comedy--ugh.
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A laughable -- or rather, unlaughable -- excuse for a film.
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Too silly to take seriously.
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Low comedy doesn't come much lower.
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It's a very tasteful rock and roll movie.
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Meticulously mounted, exasperatingly well-behaved film, which ticks off Kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant.
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Davis' candid, archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort.
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A fast paced and suspenseful Argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play.
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Ultimately the, yes, snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of Martha Stewart decorating program run amok.
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Sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower.
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Hard to resist.
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There's an excellent 90-minute film here; unfortunately, it runs for 170.
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Director Carl Franklin, so crisp and economical in One False Move, bogs down in genre cliches here.
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Like a precious and finely cut diamond, magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it's one tough rock.
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No cute factor here... Not that I mind ugly; the problem is he has no character, loveable or otherwise.
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Suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers.
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It's a Frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be.
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An incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic.
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A knowing look at female friendship, spiked with raw urban humor.
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...begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully.
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The overall result is an intelligent, realistic portrayal of testing boundaries.
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Quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie, and Moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between Jane Wyman and June Cleaver.
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Most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay, but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved
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A poignant comedy that offers food for thought.
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Deuces Wild treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story territory, where it plainly has no business going.
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There is no psychology here, and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities, which become strangely impersonal and abstract.
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Secretary manages a neat trick, bundling the flowers of perversity, comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie.
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Everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable.
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This fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality, creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives The Lady and the Duke something of a theatrical air.
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A few pieces of the film buzz and whir; very little of it actually clicks.
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Ah-nuld's action hero days might be over.
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The movie has a script (by Paul Pender) made of wood, and it's relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions.
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The filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment.
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It also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them.
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Even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency.
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It's at once laughable and compulsively watchable, in its committed dumbness.
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They threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans.
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-West Coast rap wars, this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate.
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As part of Mr. Dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in America, Family Fundamentals is an earnest study in despair.
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A movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room, complete with soothing Muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms.
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All in all, Brown Sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted.
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Represents a worthy departure from the culture clash comedies that have marked an emerging Indian American cinema.
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So bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled Generic Jennifer Lopez Romantic Comedy.
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A comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life.
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A stylish thriller.
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Constantly touching, surprisingly funny, semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act.
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Birthday Girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists, but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency.
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A poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise.
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That rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children, a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death, both pro and con, for adults.
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The universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'Baran.'
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There's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease.
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Unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country, but especially from France.
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The Rock is destined to be the 21st Century's new "Conan" and that he's going to make a splash even greater than Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claud Van Damme or Steven Segal.
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Adults, other than the parents...will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild.
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Here, alas, it collapses like an overcooked soufflé.
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Plays like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of John Waters and Todd Solondz, rather than a fully developed story.
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Snow Dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him
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Before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy, Steven Shainberg's adaptation of Mary Gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.
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... very funny, very enjoyable ...
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The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone.
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... with the gifted Pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically, this retooled Machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest, crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself.
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Much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle, there isn't much there here.
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Lathan and Diggs carry the film with their charisma, and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest.
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He has improved upon the first and taken it a step further, richer and deeper.
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It's a testament to De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all.
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This method almost never fails him, and it works superbly here.
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It's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive.
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A characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie.
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Often likable, but just as often it's meandering, low on energy, and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy.
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Rob Schneider's infantile cross-dressing routines fill The Hot Chick, the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian.
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...the tale of her passionate, tumultuous affair with Musset unfolds as Sand's masculine persona, with its love of life and beauty, takes form.
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It's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even Jason X ... look positively Shakesperean by comparison.
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A hypnotic portrait of this sad, compulsive life.
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An ugly, pointless, stupid movie.
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A fascinating, unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man.
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A smart little indie.
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A big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on.
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...what a banal bore the preachy Circuit turns out to be
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Goes on and on to the point of nausea.
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I have a new favorite musical -- and I'm not even a fan of the genre
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Master of Disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours.
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You'll feel like you ate a Reeses without the peanut butter...'
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Easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year.
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Despite the surface attractions -- Conrad L. Hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an Oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything.
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Broder's screenplay is shallow, offensive and redundant, with pitifully few real laughs.
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Looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights.
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That's why Sex and Lucia is so alluring.
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After an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly, sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be, you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be.
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Nettelbeck ... has a pleasing way with a metaphor.
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A puzzle whose pieces do not fit.
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A bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times, but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that French realism.
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After the first 10 minutes, which is worth seeing, the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés, depression and bad alternative music.
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Not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works, but Coppola, along with his sister, Sofia, is a real filmmaker.
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It's fun, but it's a real howler.
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Even through its flaws, Revolution #9 proves to be a compelling, interestingly told film.
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Just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing.
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The case is a convincing one, and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause.
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No Such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina.
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When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives, hard-driving narcissism is a given, but what a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve.