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makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience .
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the lower your expectations , the more you 'll enjoy it .
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like being trapped at a perpetual frat party ... how can something so gross be so boring ?
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but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned can not be said to suck .
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the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory .
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you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they 'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this .
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neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky charm to the formula .
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there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine .
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further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil .
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the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan 's madness .
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nothing 's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away -- still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun .
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this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it 's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience .
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entertains by providing good , lively company .
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for starters , the story is just too slim .
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filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels .
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like leon , it 's frustrating and still oddly likable .
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anchored by friel and williams 's exceptional performances , the film 's power lies in its complexity .
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a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution .
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the movie 's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach .
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broomfield turns his distinctive ` blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case .
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it 's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it 's brilliant .
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the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and did n't reserve enough for his second .
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there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade .
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not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j.k. rowling 's books .
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passable entertainment , but it 's the kind of motion picture that wo n't make much of a splash when it 's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards .
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perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie .
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looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton 's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . '
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one of the smartest takes on singles culture i 've seen in a long time .
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add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney 's a good director .
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but it still jingles in the pocket .
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a sequence of ridiculous shoot - 'em - up scenes .
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another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues .
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a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction .
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too much of the humor falls flat .
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the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle .
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or doing last year 's taxes with your ex-wife .
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it 's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force .
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too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance .
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if the first men in black was money , the second is small change .
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my thoughts were focused on the characters .
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delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas .
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a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers .
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the film is powerful , accessible and funny .
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it 's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that does n't feel it has to prove anything .
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... a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause .
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collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans .
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the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater .
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the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey 's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment .
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its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ?
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it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen .
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as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers .
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offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs ... a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm .
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for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue .
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dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness -lrb- which always relates to characters and story -rrb- and johnny dankworth 's best soundtrack in years .
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there 's no emotional pulse to solaris .
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while undisputed is n't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr. hill higher than he 's been in a while .
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this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work .
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a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores .
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... with `` the bourne identity '' we return to the more traditional action genre .
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more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original .
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good film , but very glum .
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as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor .
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it treats women like idiots .
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too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging ... the isle defies an easy categorization .
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very bad .
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a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow .
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i can take infantile humor ... but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer 's diapers .
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stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad .
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charles ' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld 's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams ' attempts to get his shot at the big time .
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puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with .
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and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea .
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not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers .
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for the most part , director anne-sophie birot 's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama .
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just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever .
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suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative .
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it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal .
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so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie .
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the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess 's home video of their baby 's birth .
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one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others .
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an unclassifiably awful study in self - and audience-abuse .
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has all the depth of a wading pool .
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one long string of cliches .
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combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he 's shooting the latest system of a down video .
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feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work .
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-lrb- director -rrb- o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short .
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some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the end , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny .
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building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise .
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feature debuter d.j. caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton 's narcotics noir to life .
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preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment .
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dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away .
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gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive .
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a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama .
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while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they 're presented with a wry dark humor .
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i do n't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but do n't treat me like a fool .
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offers much to enjoy ... and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends .
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and when you 're talking about a slapstick comedy , that 's a pretty big problem .
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without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality .
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slick piece of cross-promotion .
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immersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch .
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the performances take the movie to a higher level .
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