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. . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll .
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[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue .
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will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues .
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it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies .
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a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort .
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as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink .
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solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts .
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rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down .
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often silly 聳 and gross 聳 but it's rarely as moronic as some campus gross-out films .
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like a south-of-the-border melrose place .
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the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team .
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. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism .
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this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well .
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it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch .
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it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie .
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the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be .
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there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them .
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solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke
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" the best disney movie since the lion king "
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whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment .
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wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it isn't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited .
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a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work .
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enduring love but exhausting cinema .
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evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good .
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this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like them !
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girls gone wild and gone civil again
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an odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy .
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a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience .
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the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film .
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the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece .
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the first bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun .
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at its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating .
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not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare .
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the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels .
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noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama .
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freundlich's made [crudup] a suburban architect , and a cipher .
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an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true .
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the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tedious .
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a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll .
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like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable .
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the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .
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hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues .
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from the opening scenes , it's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie .
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it's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring .
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succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen .
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o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing .
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a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes .
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dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding .
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the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end .
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just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
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. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .
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hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture .
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cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge .
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[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense .
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a taut , sobering film .
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allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today .
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a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script .
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maybe leblanc thought , " hey , the movie about the baseball-playing monkey was worse . "
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this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated .
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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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it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes .
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try as you might to resist , if you've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there .
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mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion .
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using his audience as a figurative port-of-call , dong pulls his even-handed ideological ship to their dock for unloading , before he continues his longer journey still ahead .
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for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear .
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psychologically savvy .
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it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice .
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the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch .
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the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality
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there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking .
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a slight but sweet film .
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the film's real appeal won't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers .
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if you liked such movies as notting hill , four weddings and a funeral , bridget jones' diary or high fidelity , then you won't want to miss about a boy .
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a twisty , moody slice of southern gothic . . .
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[a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment .
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a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .
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a painfully funny ode to bad behavior .
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a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy .
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this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow .
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i'm just too bored to care .
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the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep .
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i liked this film a lot . . .
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hip-hop has a history , and it's a metaphor for this love story .
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photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic .
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an extremely unpleasant film .
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there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme .
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. . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know .
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k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich .
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there's a lot to recommend read my lips .
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delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for .
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the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained .
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perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest .
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about as satisfying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through .
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shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity .
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brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie .
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that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point .
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it's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge .
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craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .
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an awful snooze .
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it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt !
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