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Critic Score 75
A charming and funny look at the independent filmmaking business and the thin line between a masterpiece and a $9 nap. -
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Jay Carr 75
The Crimson Rivers could teach many an American thriller a thing or two about sophisticated creepiness. -
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Jay Carr 75
Less elliptical and more down-and-dirty than Lang's interesting debut film, ''The Well,'' this one tumbles through Sydney's academic and alternative poetry circles and is built around a lesbian private eye. -
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Jay Carr 75
Light on its feet and reveling in its deviousness, it stays one step ahead of us . -
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Jay Carr 75
A seductively corrosive horror story that also potently suggests the ways war can shatter childhood. -
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Jay Carr 75
Many spy capers lose their intended irony and wry black humor, but The Tailor of Panama stays stylishly on target in ways that would put a heat-seeking missile to shame. -
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Jay Carr 75
Its attributes and achievements are modest, but its arias, duets, and ensembles are engaging all the same. -
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Jay Carr 75
The pure joy of music-making is what this gem of a film is all about. -
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Loren King 75
An odd but original, at times even poetic, film about a vanished world. -
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Loren King 75
Somewhat overstylized and deliberately enigmatic, The Girl won't appeal to everyone. But its ambition and beauty ultimately triumph over pretense. -
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Jay Carr 75
The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have. -
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Jay Carr 75
Whaley's self-effacing but strongly etched and wrenchingly effective film. -
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Jay Carr 75
The triumph of La Cienaga lies in Martel's way of fashioning the kind of ensemble performance that draws us in by convincing us we're watching behavior, not acting. -
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Jay Carr 75
Watson's character grows in importance until she eclipses the recessive Luzhin. -
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Jay Carr 75
It turns the nerve-fraying Cuban missile crisis into a big pop myth with the grip of a vise. -
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Jay Carr 75
The same underdog formulas and sunny disposition that turned it into an unexpected Thai box-office hit should win it friends here, too. -
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Loren King 75
Manages the right balance of fairy tale and joyous self-discovery. And the Venice locations don't hurt. -
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Critic Score 75
A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown. -
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Loren King 75
A likable satire on celebrity, Flemish-style, it is no less pointed than its American counterparts, just a lot less pompous. -
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Jay Carr 75
While no individual plot strand is vividly compelling, their interplay makes for a hearty and humanistic mix, carried by the performances. -
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Jay Carr 75
Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do. -
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Jay Carr 75
You won't see a more humane and delicately moving riff this year on the theme of getting clean. -
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Jay Carr 75
The liveliest, most original family values film of the year so far. -
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Jay Carr 75
Perhaps not the most uproarious of Veber's farces, but entertaining and emotionally satisfying all the same. -
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Jay Carr 75
The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles. -
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Jay Carr 75
You can't help cheering on Shallow Hal. That and the fact that it's not at all politically correct. It's something better. It's big-hearted, and it's funny. -
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Jay Carr 75
A clever and satisfyingly abundant entertainment. -
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Critic Score 75
A heady, sometimes blurry combination of fable, legend, and social-political commentary. -
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Jay Carr 75
A juicy and gratifying teacher movie (a genre to which I'm partial). The joy in performance shared by Connery and Brown is the big reason. -
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Ty Burr 75
It's a soapy, simplistic, but surprisingly affecting ambisexual melodrama that plays a little like Pedro Almodovar without the surreal frills. -
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Loren King 75
MacDowell offers an engaging portrait of a complex woman who has survived life's slings and arrows. It makes Crush an affecting take on modern women. -
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Critic Score 75
The film's vintage setting is as much a character as any other. Some of the best moments evoke the best parts of easygoing small town life in a bygone era. -
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Jay Carr 75
The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much. -
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Critic Score 75
This is a deeper film, delving into the twisted motives that rule lives, the lethal cycles that shackle progress, and, ultimately, the courage it takes to choose life. -
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Ty Burr 75
I don't want to sell Like Mike as something it's not. It's a cash-in, all right - just better written, more tightly edited, sharply performed, and a little more heartfelt than most. -
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Critic Score 75
Juxtaposes slice-of-life tales with hints of worldly conflict to delightfully comic effect. -
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Ty Burr 75
This wistfully charming slice-of-life comedy celebrates an elderly man defiantly thumbing his nose at old age. -
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Janice Page 75
An invitation to see something a little less pretty, and potentially more enduring. -
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Wesley Morris 75
This present-day Paris of Le Divorce is smartly shot and costumed, and the whole affair is breezy and uncharacteristically insouciant, given the reserved nature of the folks responsible for it. -
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Ty Burr 75
This is the meatiest role Tautou has had post-''Amelie'' and she drops the zombie-pixie act for once, giving us a character who's caught in a daily dance between propriety and abandon, and who can only dance faster as desperation sets in. -
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Ty Burr 75
The Cuckoo is smart enough to steer away from allegory and into the specific every chance it gets, though -- so much so that when the film finally does slip the mortal coil, you still hang with it. -
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Ty Burr 75
Green unquestionably has a rare, intermittent knack for rapture. -
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Ty Burr 75
Should be seen: It's a worthy ordeal, with flaws that, ironically, make grist for later arguments. -
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Jay Carr 75
It has a few laughs, but it also has a lot of dead air, and barely any plot at all. In sporting terms, it's no home run. -
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Janice Page 75
fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail. -
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Jay Carr 75
Scott makes it easy to overlook the conventionality beneath his sometimes overdone but almost always enjoyable combination of atmosphere and propulsiveness. -
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Critic Score 75
All About the Benjamins has: flash, cash, and enough videogenic eye candy to make ''Miami Vice'' look like ''Little House on the Prairie.'' -
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Jay Carr 75
Somewhat sanitized but gorgeous Americana, with another impressive turn by McTeer. -
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Jay Carr 75
Made of a serene dynamite that's all but unknown to American film audiences. -
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Wesley Morris 75
At some point we're flashed a junkyard billboard telling us that Collinwood is the ''Beirut of Cleveland'' - yes, but here, it's by way of Looney Tunes. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs. -
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Ty Burr 75
The actor is magnificent -- ravaged, desperate, aware -- and no more so than in a scene toward the end when Bob's cardsharp cool finally breaks. It's a risky scene, the one note of corn, but Nolte brings it home. Too bad the movie doesn't. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Short without feeling scant. That's how big its sense of grief is. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Suffice it to say that Chris Smith's Home Movie is the most bananas episode of ''Cribs'' ever. The film is Smith's ballad of the wacky homeowner. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Kennedy doesn't take the character any deeper than a caricature of rich, nonblack fans of hip-hop culture. But as a caricature, he's fantastic. -
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Ty Burr 75
Would it be rude to suggest that your time might be better spent with your own children? -
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Ty Burr 75
A tale of narrow talent destroyed by pop hubris, raging insecurity, substance abuse, and murder. -
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Ty Burr 75
Without even trying, Coccio may have stumbled over the truest metaphor for Columbine yet. -
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Jay Carr 75
Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us. -
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Ty Burr 75
Open Hearts, like all good melodramas, is ruthless in its insistence that people are dragged, uncomprehending, in the wake of events. -
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Loren King 75
Employs both eloquent and down-to-earth methods to explain the complex reasons why so many of the world's developing countries remain caught in an economic quagmire that prevents them from becoming self-sufficient. -
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Ty Burr 75
It is an honest, dumbstruck, not particularly deep demonstration of how insanely difficult it is to make a movie, any movie, no matter how blithe the end result may appear on screen. -
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Janice Page 75
No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating. -
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Jay Carr 75
Part of the reason for the comic surehandedness is the obvious chemistry between Shannon, Ferrell, and director Bruce McCulloch. -
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Ty Burr 75
Run the game, bow to the movies that did it better and before, keep the dialogue on the line between hard-boiled and hokey, and throw one last curveball before the lights come up. It's a con in itself, but the reward's in the playing. -
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Ty Burr 75
As literary desecrations go, this makes for perfectly acceptable, occasionally very enjoyable children's entertainment. You'll forget about it by Monday, though, and if they're old enough to have developed some taste, so will your kids. -
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Jay Carr 75
Deserves a place alongside "Life Is Beautiful" and, yes, even "Schindler's List." -
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Ty Burr 75
These actors offset the modern-day ordinariness of the leads -- Jackson, especially, seems as if he's just driven over from a mall tour -- and so, ultimately, does the exquisite moral dilemma of Tuck Everlasting. -
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Ty Burr 75
It's Lopez who's the proper focus of this dream. So intent has she been on becoming a superstar in the past few years that many people have forgotten that, given decent material, she can act. -
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Janice Page 75
Maybe the redemptions offered are simplistic in the context of this place, but they make for a dramatic (if heavily foreshadowed) conclusion. -
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Jay Carr 75
From beginning to end, it bristles with ironies in classic Eastern European absurdist style. -
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Janice Page 75
The magic of their perfectly shaded performances is that you always have to wonder ... Is she really that bad? -
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Jay Carr 75
Puts the fun back into going to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. He said he'd be back, and he is. -
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Loren King 75
Mixes ''Jetsons''-style futuristic hijinks with a reliable story of a boy inadvertently whisked ''over the rainbow'' to another galaxy where his mettle is tested. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The closer you get to sorting out the truth, the less likely you are to believe it, let alone comprehend it. The latter half of this movie is as outlandish as a Mexican soap opera. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The film would be just as powerful, if less likely to saturate suburban megaplexes and flatter its patrons, were its saviors -- I don't know - French. -
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Wesley Morris 75
What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance. -
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Jay Carr 75
In a dismal summer for movies, Osmosis Jones is a fresh breath of foul air. -
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Jay Carr 75
The best thing about Together, apart from the way some of its characters grow on you even as others put you off, is the way it snatches idealism back from the brink of life-smothering orthodoxy. -
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Jay Carr 75
There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms. -
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Janice Page 75
If there's one image that sums up the filmmaking style of Takashi Miike, it's the close-up of a bubbling hot pot on the family dinner table. -
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Janice Page 75
Isn't just a feel-good movie; it's a feel-good-and-righteous movie. And audiences will forgive its flaws. -
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Jay Carr 75
It brings an enlivening wit to a comedy of culture collision. -
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Ty Burr 75
Love hurts in Secretary -- but not too much. It's not impossible to imagine adventurous young couples seeing this movie and rushing home to try out the handcuffs and paddles. -
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Jay Carr 75
A solid, not to say ironclad, winner in the less than overcrowded family animation arena. -
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Ty Burr 75
Its quirks are exactly what make Signs interesting, entertaining, and good. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Armed with a dinner theater accent and hair that looks like an LP melted on his head, Turturro pockets the picture. As a demonstration of his newly accessed maturity and benevolence, Sandler helps him do it. -
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Jay Carr 75
Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes. -
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Jay Carr 75
Everything you could want in a sequel. It satisfyingly regenerates the characters and qualities that made the first film so popular. And then it moves them forward into newer, fresher, more elaborate, more involving territory. -
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Ty Burr 75
Moves the franchise even closer to Indiana Jones territory, with bloodcurdling action scenes and a passel of climactic computer-generated slime beasties unparalleled in their potential ability to -- I'm quoting from both book and film here -- '' rip, tear, rend, kill. '' -
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Jay Carr 75
The 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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Ty Burr 75
This crudely powerful film is a throwback. Unfolding at an elliptical pace that feels like a revelation, or tedium, or both, Japon recalls the glory days of 1970s art-house filmmaking. -
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Jay Carr 75
Although there's a certain connect-the-dots quality to the storytelling, there's no denying the care and craftsmanship that Gardos has brought to her debut film. -
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Critic Score 75
This real-life alliance is part of what makes the slice-of-life comedy The Wash work as well as it does, despite a somewhat skimpy though often crassly amusing script written by the film's director, D.J. Pooh. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Medea works on von Trier's own imagistic terms. There are shots and sequences in this movie that feel unique. -
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Janice Page 75
May not be as dramatic as Roman Polanski's ''The Pianist,'' but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high. -
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Loren King 75
A delightful alternative to most current multiplex fare, which wouldn't recognize a juicy bon mot if it tripped over one in the aisle. -
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Jay Carr 75
Brightly sidesteps the cliches that cling to the genre like barnacles and reinvents a lot of the old moves. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The cast helps enliven what could otherwise come off as a treatise. All four actors played these roles during the play's off-Broadway run. -
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Jay Carr 75
Give your brain the night off, and Myers will make you smile too. -
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Jay Carr 75
In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming. -
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Ty Burr 75
It's maddeningly chowderheaded, simplistic, pretentious, and not a little silly. You can't take your eyes off it. -
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Janice Page 75
The film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths. Entirely appropriately, the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn. That's not just a farm movie, that's life. -
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Joan Anderman 75
D'Onofrio's affably wide-eyed weirdness generates not only pleasure, but a genuinely authentic conundrum, bouncing forward and backward toward the truth. -
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Wesley Morris 75
This is that rare art flick whose subject goes nuts because his work is not self-indulgent ENOUGH. -
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Ty Burr 75
Bloody and bloody funny, and Jackson and Carlyle make the best salt-and-pepper team since Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte knocked heads in ''48 HRS., '' but ultimately the movie can't find a way out of its own dead end. -
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Jay Carr 75
As luminous as the star presence at its center. It's at once a touching teacher movie and an even more touching love story. -
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Ty Burr 75
A broad, very funny, unexpectedly graceful comedy of character and community. -
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Jay Carr 75
Even when it falls back excessively on coincidence and contrived set pieces, even when it gushes irretrievably over the top in its final act, Washington makes Training Day sizzle. -
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Jay Carr 75
Charming and, compared with most Hollywood films like it, refreshing. -
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Ty Burr 75
How you feel about About Schmidt may depend in large part on how you feel About Jack. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The film is profane. But who knew police brutality could play as a laughing matter? -
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Jay Carr 75
The reason Bread and Roses works as well as it does is that as didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Corny. But it's corny in a way that a Hollywood movie about a boy who just wants to go home ought to be corny. Plus when it's done with this much care, corny works for me. -
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Jay Carr 75
Slightly misshapen and unbalanced, with a few loose ends, a few extraneous dream sequences. But there's something going on all the time. -
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Jay Carr 75
Titanic is a big-budget spectacle and director Cameron brings it off with high-tech bravura, placing us aboard the ship in real time. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The film spends its first half explaining the song -- famously and vividly about the cycle of Southern lynching. Its better second half-hour unmasks its composer as a compassionate Jewish guy from the Bronx. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's the kind of movie you can settle into, secure in the expectation that you can steal from it more than a little vintage Allen fun. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Loaded with priceless encounters that would seem incongruous in any other movie but play here as low-comedy facts of some parts of black life. -
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Jay Carr 75
The film never quite hits a sure-footed stride. The fictional love story stays fictional. But ''Pearl Harbor'' delivers the main event. -
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Jay Carr 75
Despite its conceptual shortfall, is worth seeing, if only to update yourself on what can emerge from a keyboard these days. -
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Jay Carr 75
Sequels and fun don't often coincide, but this time they do. -
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Joan Anderman 75
(Duffy) navigates the twisted collision of religious faith and the thrill of the kill, altruism and brutality, with an ingenious mix of humor, horror, mysticism, and just plain hipness. -
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Ty Burr 75
This is all far beyond silly, of course - the most inconsequential sort of winking, meta-movie in-joke. -
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Jay Carr 75
Could have been -- and should have been -- richer and more resonant. It's Hollywood Babylon Lite, only TV movie-deep. But at least it's tangy. -
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Ty Burr 75
The Academy accepts submissions only from real countries, and Palestine isn't one. This is as good a joke, and as dark, as anything in the movie. -
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Loren King 75
The film does not offer an optimistic view of relationships. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Even if some of the references are inscrutable, a lot of 8 Women is a riot. Here and there Ozon finds the key to a level of farce that would have amused Bunuel himself. -
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Ty Burr 75
The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare. -
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Jay Carr 75
There are three main reasons for seeing Someone Like You - Ashley Judd, Ashley Judd, and Ashley Judd. -
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Wesley Morris 75
A relentlessly serious action movie, characterized by, of all things, sorrow. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's flawed, but it's also rich. And how many films make you feel that you and the filmmaker are following the course of a dream? -
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An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction. -
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Wesley Morris 75
A bonanza of pop uplift. It wraps the up-from-nothing drama of ''Flashdance'' in the sassy, interracial pep rallying of ''Bring It On'' and the military romance of ''An Officer and a Gentleman.'' -
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Wesley Morris 75
A hip-hop cousin of Prince's ''Purple Rain,'' which had braver fashion sense and better original songs. -
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Critic Score 75
May bring Goldsworthy's art closer than anything else to ''permanence'' in any traditional sense. -
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Ty Burr 75
Think low-budget ''Moonstruck'' but think again: A regional dish in the most heartwarming sense. -
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Ty Burr 75
The thrill isn't gone from the sequel, but the surprise is, and it hurts more than you'd think. -
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Jay Carr 75
Like a good supermarket tabloid, Time Code grabs - and keeps - our attention. -
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Jay Carr 75
Spielberg has said that in their collaboration, cut short by Kubrick's death, Kubrick had opened his heart as never before. Although the fingerprint of each is upon A.I, there are times when the prints are blurred and merged. And this film will blur the hitherto distinctive profiles of each. -
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Critic Score 75
A small film, but its ease and grace are virtues that can't be overrated. -
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Jay Carr 75
Cruise will never be a master thespian, but there's no one better at putting across the charisma of control, and the opening sequence of ''Report'' is an astonishingly fluid demonstration of his gifts. -
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Ty Burr 75
If you prefer your domestic clashes sunnier and more strenuously poetic, Respiro may be your respite. If nothing else, it's a reminder of how severely underutilized Valeria Golino is as both actress and cinematic glory. -
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Jay Carr 75
Turbo-charged wallbanger with the IQ of a tire iron. But it jumps off the screen with the mindless panache of a good bad movie. -
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Ty Burr 75
If you've got some very small fry on your hands and 75 minutes to kill, this is as bright, colorful, and fuzzy as you're going to get. -
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Loren King 75
Presents a darkly realistic yet seductive world, with music as the tie that binds. -
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Wesley Morris 75
What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Loach makes a working metaphor of the old ant-and-grasshopper story, but the film's images are what echo the loudest. -
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Wesley Morris 75
If there's true magic to be found in the proceedings, it's in Garai's dexterous performance. -
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Critic Score 75
Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy finally gives us a reason to feel warm and fuzzy about Compton, Calif. It's not an easy feat. -
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Janice Page 75
This is a ride, a video game, a soundtrack -- unapologetic and clearly labeled as such. It has no middle speed. -
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Jay Carr 75
A powerful and surehandedly crafted depth charge of a movie. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Has to be appreciated simply for doing its job, for being the only thriller I've seen recently that made me wonder how my knuckles ended up in my mouth. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Wattstax is a disorienting and ironic moviegoing experience. It's a film about the curative powers of rhythm-and-blues music that sets out to frustrate your sense of rhythm in its insistence on the blues. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Norton is unapologetic and unflappable in his part. Slimy and vaguely nerdy, he's become the thinking man's thug, even if this character's Armani-wear is better tailored than his psychology. -
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Jay Carr 75
A zestful genre outing, and then some, right up its final overkill. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Only loosely concerned with behind-the-scenes gossip and is squarely focused on the nature of Fellini's insatiability. -
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Janice Page 75
The film means to provoke a closer look at the faces of good and evil. It questions whether we really live in a world that can be divided neatly into black hats and white hats. -
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Janice Page 75
The best that can be said of the men in Coline Serreau's Chaos is that some of them are pimps. -
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Jay Carr 75
It's a sunny, funny, fittingly cartoony blend of computer-generated 3-D representations of the flying squirrel and his pal the moose with actors. -
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Wesley Morris 75
It's a quiet little gag homage both to Boris Karloff and to the set up of shelf-loads of pulp novels and films noir. And Peltola, with his flat, serious face and damp, oil-black hair, happens to look, at times, like Richard Widmark and Kirk Douglas. -
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Janice Page 75
These children are indeed the faces of war. It's just harder to recognize them because they're the ones someone cared enough to save. -
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Ty Burr 75
Doesn't derive its power from the turning wheels of plot suspense but from the simple act of looking and not blinking. -
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Wesley Morris 75
The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around. -
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Critic Score 75
The Japanese animation is beautiful, and the script adaptation for the English-speaking audience is well-paced, clever, and absorbing enough to keep parents from squirming. -
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Jay Carr 75
Risks seeming too earnestly therapeutic for its own good. But what makes My First Mister a successful feature directing debut for Lahti is the emotional veracity it summons. -
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Reviewed by
Wesley Morris 75
It's also a message movie, about as weighty as Lara Flynn Boyle and twice as absurd. But I'd like to report that I had an excellent time. -
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Critic Score 75
More than a predictable self-discovery yarn about the caterpillar that turns into a beautiful butterfly. -
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Jay Carr 75
Boldly goes where Hollywood rarely treads: into the passionate, intense, and complex world of girls at the point in their lives when self-discovery is combined with enormous vulnerability. -
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Ty Burr 75
To appreciate Solaris, the new film by Steven Soderbergh, it helps to downshift your moviegoing metabolism to a level approaching the cryogenically frozen: The movie's that cerebral, that contemplative, that slow. -
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Critic Score 75
Raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings. That said, we could use some moxie in the sequel. -
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Jay Carr 75
A clever, affectionate, and entertaining holiday snack for sci-fi fans. Falling somewhere between slick and cheesy. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Delivers chunks of ''Yellow Submarine'' and ''The Phantom Tollbooth'' -- a vividly timeless oddity suitable for many children and most stoners. -
