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"If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question."
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"...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza..."
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"One of the more interesting themes of this movie is the question of which is more important to a cause, the man or the money."
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"If the artist is an elusive target, the art is as sharp as a razor blade. The portraits are extraordinary."
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" The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down."
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"How much truth we get in the movie version is hard to say...nobody much cares if it's gospel, as long as it's riveting. Here, alas, it is not."
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" The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f"
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"Familiar situations and trite dialogue give this movie the feel of something freeze-dried and reconstituted."
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"Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it."
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"The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny."
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"Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two."
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"Accuracy be damned. It's a very entertaining movie."
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"It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important."
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"As the Shadow used to say, the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, and Lumet has made a delicious pie out of it."
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" Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic."
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"Paul Verhoeven's WWII drama stars the lovely Dutch actress Carice van Houten as a Jewish Resistance worker, and costars her breasts. All three deserve awards consideration."
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"Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on."
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"It's a bit of a shaggy dog story, with threads that go nowhere, but nobody's in a hurry, and it's easy to go along for the ride."
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"Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics."
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"Watching The Bourne Ultimatum is like being strapped to a vibrating bed set on high for two hours in a cheap motel."
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"(Chris Cooper)is the principal reason why this unspectacular, low-key study of the Hanssen national security fiasco is so effective."
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"A movie deserves to stand or fall on the basis of what it brings to the screen, not on the baggage brought to it by memories of a book or another adaptation. By this yardstick, Julian Jarrold's film does admirably."
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"Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form."
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"You get the performances you expect from these two great stars, which lift this story mercifully but marginally above its meager content."
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"In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video."
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"There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy."
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" Eastwood, who has made fine movies in recent years, has got hold of a humdinger of a story. But he's too detached and lazy here."
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"Nichols and Sorkin have made a Cadillac of a movie, a handsome, beautifully designed chassis with a powerful motor and luxurious attention to detail."
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"There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries"
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"The joy is in the playing, and Ron Howard pulls out all the stops like the organist at the old Madison Square Garden."
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"But ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive."
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" Director Laurent Cantet has pulled together a story that feels startlingly authentic, using Mike Leigh-like methods of extensive improvisation with a cast of real inner-city kids and a real teacher. To paraphrase the Buck Owens/Beatles hit, all they had"
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"The Cove is guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide"
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"Thoughtful, sobering, hopeful, despairing, inspirational, depressing, and just in time for the holidays comes Darfur Now, a documentary about genocide in the Sudan."
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"Instead of guys named Danny and Polack and Sol and Brooklyn, you've got guys named Said and Yassir and Messaoud and Abdelkader. But it's the same deal. Prick them, do they not bleed? Blow them up, do their limbs not scatter and their guts not spill?"
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"Don't go unadvised, and don't plan anything too frivolous for right afterwards. But do go."
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"DiCillo's themes are loyalty and friendship and betrayal and redemption."
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"Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating."
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"Shanley, who has not directed a feature film since his maiden misadventure almost twenty years ago with Joe Versus the Volcano, has neither the skill nor the perspective to turn his Broadway powerhouse into a movie of similar punch."
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"With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche."
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"This is romantic fantasy, not history, and much of the time you fully expect Kapur, here making his third post-Bollywood feature, to turn his cast loose in song and dance."
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"Evan Almighty belongs to that sorry cinema subgenre, Comedy without the Funny Bits."
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"It's all up there on the screen in this impassioned, exhilarating documentary. They want to dance for you. It's what they did for love."
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"The lessons of this slight human comedy are not groundbreaking, but they do strike a warmly universal chord."
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"Rin Tin Tin would never have okayed a script like this."
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"If it doesn't rise to the level of It's a Wonderful Life, it's because Marc Abrams is no Frank Capra. And after all, this isn't about angels, it's about windshield wipers."
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"Lamorisse's film was a third of this length, and was lighter than air. Hou's is about the weight of air itself on a muggy day, and whether that sustains over 113 minutes will be between each viewer and his attention span."
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"Fracture is the kind of polished cat-and-mouse movie thriller that depends entirely on the cat and the mouse having read and agreed to the script in advance."
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"Langella inhabits the pouchy skin of the man he's playing, until soon any meaningful distinction between actor and subject disappears."
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"The great Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija gives Fugitive Pieces its heart."
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