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clare peploe 's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverence .
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a woefully dull , redundant concept that bears more than a whiff of exploitation , despite iwai 's vaunted empathy .
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a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .
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about one in three gags in white 's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook .
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it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its `` dead wife communicating from beyond the grave '' framework is even remotely new or interesting .
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give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works .
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enough said , except : film overboard !
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a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre 's most enabling victim ... and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers .
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while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii .
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a collage of clichés and a dim echo of allusions to other films .
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combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why did n't hollywood think of this sooner ?
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if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about .
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the screenplay by james eric , james horton and director peter o'fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt .
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i 'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment .
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not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes .
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an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .
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the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze .
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... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .
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if you 're a fan of the series you 'll love it and probably want to see it twice .
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the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
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suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as dahmer demands .
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it 's not a motion picture ; it 's an utterly static picture .
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it 's probably not easy to make such a worthless film ...
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the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways .
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a brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel .
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a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters .
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does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background .
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a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system
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a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial .
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quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance .
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i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes .
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in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy 's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .
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it 's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original .
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it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes .
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boomers and their kids will have a barrie good time .
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wow .
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if disney 's cinderella proved that ' a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio 's wallet makes .
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been there , done that ... a thousand times already , and better .
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an infuriating film .
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a film with a great premise but only a great premise .
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seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof .
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a backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship .
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the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier .
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by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it ... then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop .
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soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence .
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what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance .
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sweet home alabama is n't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts .
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it 's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look .
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a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid .
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the movie is ... very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes .
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while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it 's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .
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originality ai n't on the menu , but there 's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller .
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like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal .
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the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing .
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a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story .
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strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild .
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a few hours after you 've seen it , you forget you 've been to the movies .
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yet it 's not quite the genre-busting film it 's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe .
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the biggest problem with roger avary 's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything .
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peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience .
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manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it .
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the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump .
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it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action .
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despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn 's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship .
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that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies .
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a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion .
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australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them .
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`` mr. deeds '' is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought .
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lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned .
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rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories .
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it 's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic .
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yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
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you may be galled that you 've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie .
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mr. scorsese 's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated .
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more intellectually scary than dramatically involving .
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the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the `` webcast . ''
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fun and nimble .
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when the casting call for this movie went out , it must have read ` seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . '
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the movie is a desperate miscalculation .
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what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge .
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plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp .
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what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story .
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polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style .
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the main story ... is compelling enough , but it 's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish .
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the film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing .
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it 's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke .
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if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it 's still a sweet , even delectable diversion .
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top-notch action powers this romantic drama .
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roman polanski 's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than ` shindler 's list ' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie .
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an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of don simpson .
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confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris ' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture .
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the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror\/action hybrid .
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takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights .
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` moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '
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the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style .
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the star who helped give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer 's new action film , `` the sum of all fears . ''
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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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a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child .
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a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally .
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since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche .
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