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50Their shenanigans rarely run short of explosive energy.
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91A warm embrace of tradition and boisterous, ethnographically rich local culture.
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70A wild, endlessly inventive romp set in a post-war world so full of machine-guns and hand-grenades that people barely flinch when one or the other goes off.
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80There's something almost wearying as well as exhilarating about the perpetual brilliance of Bosnian-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica.
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88One frenetic movie that doesn't know when to quit -- and leaves you wishing it could go on forever.
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80Kusturica works marvels with his endlessly amusing cast, and his film has an appealingly free and easy tone.
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67Farcical mayhem. A convoluted plot that's easy to follow but hard to describe.
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91It romps along with infectious good humor but continually imparts a sense that underneath all the surreal frivolity lurks a scathing allegory of modern-day Balkan troubles.
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100Astonishing, crazily delightful.
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70It's thrilling to see something this profane, mythic and, most of all, not bored with life, love and the possibilities of cinema.
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50The slapstick is broad to the point of overkill.
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50Determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity.
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75The gusto in the flying bullets, the fleeing lovers, and the flowing music will make you want to hang around until the party is over.
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88The perfect film for anyone who finds the Keystone Cops a little too understated and I mean that as a compliment.
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80Made with such overriding jubilation that its coarseness is mostly liberating...well worth admiring for its sheer glee.
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75This is not comfortable comedy.
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84An explosive experience...and you have to love the movie's rabid energy and lust.
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50There is a point in the movie when this mayhem crosses the line from wildly imaginative to downright insufferable.
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80Kusturica's always masterful orchestration of chaos, coincidence and caricature really pays off as a sweet, soulful celebration of old friends, new loves and the mad scramble of life at the fringe.
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70An absurdist Eastern European version of "The Godfather," starring the Marx Brothers (and sisters and nephews and...).
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(Kusturica) celebrates its gaudy humanity in a joyous picture that is his most lighthearted and amusing work to date.
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AlejandroH.10It is difficult to describe such a masterpiece. A veritable reflective fantasy over the romani culture.