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The Hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork.
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There are plenty of scenes in Frida that do work, but rarely do they involve the title character herself.
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It is Scott's convincing portrayal of Roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph.
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4Ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as Pokemon videos, but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly.
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A chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th Century France: the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933.
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Despite all the closed-door hanky-panky, the film is essentially juiceless.
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It's one long bore.
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If you are curious to see the darker side of what's going on with young TV actors (Dawson Leery did what?!?), or see some interesting storytelling devices, you might want to check it out, but there's nothing very attractive about this movie.
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It has a dashing and resourceful hero; a lisping, reptilian villain; big fights; big hair; lavish period scenery; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out.
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None of this is very original, and it isn't particularly funny.
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Ice Age won't drop your jaw, but it will warm your heart, and I'm giving it a strong thumbs up.
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A tasty masala.
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But it does have one saving grace.
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One can't deny its seriousness and quality.
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Piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling.
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It'll keep you wide awake and ... very tense.
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An empty, purposeless exercise.
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Too bad.
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Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut.
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Can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality.
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Despite some strong performances, never rises above the level of a telanovela.
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Painfully padded.
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The Sum of All Fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context, which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots (or cinema seats).
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A diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of Palestinian and Israeli children.
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Highly recommended viewing for its courage, ideas, technical proficiency and great acting.
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None of this is meaningful or memorable, but frosting isn't, either, and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that, would you?
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A gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn Jerusalem.
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I had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven, toilet-humor codswallop, and its name was Earnest.
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A delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama, this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming, is moving, is funny and looks professional.
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For all the wit and hoopla, Festival In Cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships.
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Every joke is repeated at least--annoying, isn't it?
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'Anyone with a passion for cinema, and indeed sex, should see it as soon as possible.'
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A refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market.
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...an interesting slice of history.
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For dance completists only.
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It has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark, a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition.
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It's uninteresting.
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Bray is completely at sea; with nothing but a Savage Garden music video on his resume, he has no clue about making a movie.
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A tone poem of transgression.
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Seemingly a vehicle to showcase the Canadian's inane ramblings, Stealing Harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former Mr. Drew Barrymore.
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Confusion is one of my least favourite emotions, especially when I have to put up with 146 minutes of it.
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Road to Perdition does display greatness, and it's worth seeing.
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Ultimately, Sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic, and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness.
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An intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time.
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One of the worst movies of the year.
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Like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long: it's too much syrup and not enough fizz.
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Too bad writer-director Adam Rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the Golden Eagle's carpets.
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It has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie, which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline.
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A captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait, romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller.
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Manages to delight without much of a story.
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...an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive, unmemorable filler.
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May take its sweet time to get wherever it's going, but if you have the patience for it, you won't feel like it's wasted yours.
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Ultimately, the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly American abroad, and the too-frosty exterior Ms. Paltrow employs to authenticate her British persona is another liability.
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In the book-on-tape market, the film of "The Kid Stays in the Picture" would be an abridged edition
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It is bad, but certainly not without merit as entertainment.
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High Crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor, a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors, Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.
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The project's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger Fatal Attraction into a high school setting.
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A high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of Berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime.
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...one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages...
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An infinitely wittier version of the Home Alone formula.
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Devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special.
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Succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides.
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Fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict, inextricably entwined through family history, each seeing himself in the other, neither liking what he sees.
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Everyone's insecure in Lovely and Amazing, a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers, daughters and their relationships.
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Seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look, director Fisher Stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in Waking Life water colors.
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It's also curious to note that this film, like the similarly ill-timed Antitrust, is easily as bad at a fraction the budget.
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Don't let the subtitles fool you; the movie only proves that Hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action.
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The only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies.
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Fulford-Wierzbicki ... deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen.
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You see the movie and you think, zzzzzzzzz.
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Much of this slick and sprightly CGI feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings.
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A tightly directed, highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways.
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Confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from King Hunk.
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Best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events.
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This is a heartfelt story ... it just isn't a very involving one.
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Schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the film's past.
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George Clooney, in his first directorial effort, presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative, energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years.
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'Martin Lawrence Live' is so self-pitying, I almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show.
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The screenplay does too much meandering, Norton has to recite bland police procedural details, Fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced, Hopkins looks like a drag queen.
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If Oscar had a category called Best Bad Film You Thought Was Going To Be Really Awful But Wasn't, Guys would probably be duking it out with The Queen of the Damned for the honor.
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Anyone else who may, for whatever reason, be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning.
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I couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy.
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The latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen.
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Majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident.
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There's only one way to kill Michael Myers for good: stop buying tickets to these movies.
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Fear permeates the whole of Stortelling, Todd Solondz' oftentimes funny, yet ultimately cowardly autocritique.
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Falsehoods pile up, undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice.
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Bland but harmless.
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Like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions.
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Judd's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller Smart Women, Foolish Choices for advice.
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The criticism never rises above easy, cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters...
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Adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick, although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service.'
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About the best thing you could say about Narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture.
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An unbelievably stupid film, though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity.
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Star/producer Salma Hayek and director Julie Taymor have infused Frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own.
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What (Denis) accomplishes in his chilling, unnerving film is a double portrait of two young women whose lives were as claustrophic, suffocating and chilly as the attics to which they were inevitably consigned.
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To build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting, to say the least, not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved.
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A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive.
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Judith and Zaza's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics.
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With an unusual protagonist (a kilt-wearing Jackson) and subject matter, the improbable "Formula 51" is somewhat entertaining, but it could have been much stronger.