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the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans .
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but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
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the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans .
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eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good .
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a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
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boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
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a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
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if only it were , well , funnier .
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nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
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it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .
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nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that 's giving it the old college try .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
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another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
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serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
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another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . '
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disgusting .
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a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
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it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .
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the chocolate factory without charlie .
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an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy .
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the chocolate factory without charlie .
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the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain .
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problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
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as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character .
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problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
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a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .
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the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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but the actors make this worth a peek .
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the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time .
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never inspires more than an interested detachment .
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full of surprises .
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waiting for godard can be fruitful : ` in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
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full of surprises .
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there 's nothing to gain from watching they .
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the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
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if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it .
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the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .
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while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends -lrb- it -rrb- stimulating depth .
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and that is where ararat went astray .
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it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
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and that is where ararat went astray .
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
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the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective .
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on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
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full of surprises .
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a good film with a solid pedigree both in front of and , more specifically , behind the camera .
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it 's just rather leaden and dull .
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
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impostor is a step down for director gary fleder .
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a marvel of production design .
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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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if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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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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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
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likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
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likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
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incoherence reigns .
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director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
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director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
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although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
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` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . '
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better .
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
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in fact , even better .
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and vin diesel is the man .
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in fact , even better .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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black-and-white and unrealistic .
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we just do n't really care too much about this love story .
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black-and-white and unrealistic .
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it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
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with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .
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blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative .
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if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it .
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if only it were , well , funnier .
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chan 's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy .
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if only it were , well , funnier .
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if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
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jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
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disgusting .
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jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder .
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these people are really going to love the piano teacher .
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it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .
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it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
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your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .
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first-time director joão pedro rodrigues ' unwillingness to define his hero 's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on .
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the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .
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a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .
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a surprisingly funny movie .
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the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task .
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a surprisingly funny movie .
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a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures .
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eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good .
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a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
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eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good .
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and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
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woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back .
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a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .
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problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
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there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .
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long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
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there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .
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though in some ways similar to catherine breillat 's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten .
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a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half
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there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
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the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half
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a surprisingly funny movie .
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an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .
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hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
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an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .
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full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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and that is where ararat went astray .
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if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
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the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
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dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it .
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dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song .
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the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages .
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does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- .
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this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .
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does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- .
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it 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that 's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline .
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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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pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
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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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but it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
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what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
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an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
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what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
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hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever .
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hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
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with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .
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hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
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the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
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how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know .
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a marvel of production design .
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a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary .
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happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
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a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary .
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no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
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i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .
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i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
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first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
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despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore .
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first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb .
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and vin diesel is the man .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
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if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film .
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even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
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eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good .
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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
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execrable .
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snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this .
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a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .
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snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this .
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with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
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