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A simple film that tells a lot of stories and has amazing performances. [Full review in Spanish]

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Herbert Marshall, Claudette Colbert, Mary Boland and William Gargan star in an entertaining picturization of the novel by E. Arnot Robertson....

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MacGowan will also be remembered for his oddly contagious laugh.

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Elia Kazan has directed this picture, his first, with an easy naturalness that has brought out all the tone of real experience in a vastly affecting film.

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Herzog's riveting Brechtian epic about a catastrophic expedition across the Andes and down the Amazon in 1560 is arguably his best work ...

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Engaging and beautiful cinema.

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An unconvincing, stilted adventure with a very '70s looking Lee Majors cast as a Viking leading his men into the New World while searching for his missing father. A low-budget AIP cheesefest that, at least, isn't as boring as 2007's Pathfinder.

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Myself, I loved it -- as much for the self-conscious banality and surreal pointlessness of its dialogue, which unravels over the course of 11 more or less unrelated vignettes, as for its austerely retro black-and-white photography.

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Without Nighy’s refined performance as Mr. Williams, Living’s lasting impact would be fleeting, but his embodiment of revival, despite incurable limitations, gives this film an unlikely opening to redemption.

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A generally inadequate treatment of the subject. A pity, in view of the magnificent job it might have done.

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The period atmosphere is inviting, and the film achieves a meditative quality that precious few modern films have.

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Presumably, we are meant to find this cute, rather than intensely depressing.

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As remarkable and innovative as these [action] sequences are, they're few and far between.

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Depp achieves one of his mightiest feats, rescuing the overly theatrical Libertine from itself.

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At every turn where The Proposal could have seemingly gone in a less obvious direction, it just puts on the blinders and forges ahead with the cliches of this genre.

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[Carberry and Tweel] turn this odd story into something surprisingly touching about and compassionate toward these people.

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With nary a single sympathetic soul in sight, it's impossible to care who does what to whom or when.

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Wanker Goths are on the loose! Run for your lives!

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This very early talkie should be seen for the heart-rending performance of the legendary stage singer Helen Morgan.

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Celebrated at Sundance, this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy, glib charm that's hard to beat.

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If the whole thing flags, then dive-bombs at the midway point, it's not because Farrell and Schumacher aren't trying hard, but because the filmmakers struggle to wedge in some meaning where none belongs.

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Paradise Now underlines the absurd rituals of suicide missions, the ways that the perpetrators are induced into thinking that what they're doing is special.

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The result isn't awful, but it is awfully familiar. When will someone make a film about being old, poor and ugly in Omaha?

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'Must Read After My Death' feels less like a documentary and more like a loud scream for help.

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Its technical brilliance goes far to compensate for its rather bland, preachy storyline.

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Any tennis fan interested in a straight-up account of what makes these fiercely talented players tick ... will find much to enjoy in "Venus and Serena."

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As a politically-charged action film, it accomplishes the mission.

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A handsome production design and some heartfelt performances in minor roles deliver incidental pleasures but the film as a whole feels like a wasted opportunity.

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A poignant documentary that offers something to everyone of any generation.

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The impressionSliceleaves is of a sincere but overstuffed curiosity that will be an interesting footnote in Chance's career.

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Despite occasional lapses into showy expressionistic slo-mo, Guerrero's direction demonstrates a patience and attention to emotional detail that allows the two young leads' performances to develop naturally.

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Frankly, it's a pretty wretched story, but this small, cheap film has style to spare.

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"The Wolverine" is an erratic affair, more lumbering than compelling, an ambitious film with its share of effective moments that stubbornly refuses to catch fire.

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Zellweger...channels no one less than Marilyn Monroe. Just watch the word `booze' drip from her lips.

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Arun gives a wonderful arc to her character as we watch her grow and change in her amazing debut.

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There's nothing wrong with ambiguity, but Year of the Dog seems more like a film that had a point of view, in some early draft, and then lost it in rewrites.

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It's hard to take the singing and dancing rebels seriously.

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It's not so much untold as rewritten - if not by J.R.R. Tolkien than by some clever 12-year-old overstimulated by "The Lord of the Rings."

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Fascinating yet unsatisfactory.

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Williams is very good as the subdued, slightly creepy cutter, but he could have benefited from some more explosive material.

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This film can't figure out where to go with its concept and increasingly unravels as it marches along.

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...it's hard not to root for all these characters to get what they want.

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This is one of the best and bravest of recent adaptations of classic literature; if you're even a little bit intrigued, ignore what others say and don't let it pass you by.

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A wounded, wondrous poem of a picture about many things, not limited to the needfulness of coupledom, loss, lingering, the parsing of love, the passing of language.

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The entertainingly one-note Statham tossed together with chronically versatile James Franco-in a movie scripted by Sylvester Stallone, no less.

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It's handsomely mounted and David Oyelowo (Martin Luther King in Selma) gives a rousing performance as the idealistic Seretse.

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This is yet another action-packed sequel with exquisite special effects, wonderful shots of an erupting volcano, which if seen in IMAX are captivating, and filled with various types of dinosaurs that couldn't possibly look more lifelike.

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Maine's film captures something indelible about adolescent female desire, without condescending or objectifying, because she understands, subjectively, what that looks and feels like: all the confusion and shame, but yes, also the pleasure.

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Yet another mystifyingly lionized Sirkian soaper.

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Despite the apparent ugliness and sloppiness of the piece, there's a real gem of inspiration at the core, and the character of Vincent is wonderful.

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A very unique and welcome cinematic experience.

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The most fascinating point made in the film is that it was Harryhausen who invented the way we all think dinosaurs moved. Those gestures - adopted as truth even by palaeontologists - first came from him.

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An often thrilling piece of oriental- meets- occidental hokum.

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My problem is an acute allergy to repitition. Love, Actually and other champions of the romantic-comedy flyweight division make me break out in hives.

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This witty and wise comedy is easily the most thoroughly enjoyable animated movie since The Incredibles.

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Not all the scenes are necessary, and a great deal of the movie is set-up, with Jackson reveling in his own return to Middle Earth. But it's an enjoyable experience.

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For lovers of American filmmaking, "These Amazing Shadows" may be the ultimate sampler buffet.

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This magnificent piece of cinema history should be seen on the biggest screen possible.

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It obeys every convention of the genre. But it does so with understatement, style and an exceptional group of actors who bring just the right balance of humor and restraint to their roles.

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This documentary will leave you breathless from the breadth and depth of its storytelling. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is life-changing, revealing unheard of cruelty as well as unbelievable bravery.

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Like its heroine, I Kill Giants isn't afraid to tackle the darkness or rage of little girls, or their fear and pain.

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On screen and behind the camera, Viggo Mortsensen tells a sometimes difficult to watch but often all too relatable story about families unable to sever ties with their worst members, but also unable to make peace with them when they're around.

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The most inventive vampire picture of the last 80 years.

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Men provides a compelling and layered character study that grips you until its final act. The finale may be a bit much, but it will, at least, spark conversation. 


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The film's final image is a poetic paean to the Book's living power—a power that The Secret of Kells, like Aisling, recognizes without, perhaps, fully understanding.

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Sam Rockwell delivers another outstanding performance in this saturnine meditation on greed set in backwoods Appalachia.

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An immersive, compact and unpolished documentary ...

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This ends up more as a straight news report rather than offering the insight of a cinematic documentary.

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Don't Look Now is both a chilling horror film and a fascinating portrait of grief.

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[Laura Albert] is a compelling storyteller, granting a tongue-in-cheek quality to support the documentary's rollercoaster journey concerning very real emotional traumas.

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This amalgamation of inspirational themes cuts a new notch on Eastwood's well-used viewfinder.

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Duplex collapses in rubble long before the duplex of the film does, and it's not even interesting wreckage.

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A true treasure of cinema from one its masters.

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Pulpy entertainment.

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Accuracy and realism are terrific, but if your film becomes boring, and your dialogue isn't smart, then you need to use more poetic license.

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Another foreign import founded on the belief that a good meal can solve anything...

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Lacks the consistency, depth and suspense that would put it in a league with Eastwood's best work.

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It's Fukumoto's wonderfully weathered countenance that makes Ochiai's film such an elegiac delight. On it, you can see the entire history of samurai cinema, or at least that essential part of it that died often, and beautifully so.

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It is good and worth seeing but not great.

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A winning cast helps sell [its] familiar premise...

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This gripping adventure shows Hollywood hasn't given up on thoughtful sci-fi just yet. A spectacular film and a surprising one.

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Soderbergh frames each scene with the static realism of an Edward Hopper painting, and the result is a portrait of anesthetized lives silently screaming from inside a bubble.

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The sequel will likely be a disappointment to everyone except 10-year-old barf joke aficionados and a few stoned adults.

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Like a lot of depictions of rock music on film, Bohemian Rhapsody lacks both the stylistic daring of a music video and the outright euphoria of a proper musical, but it gets closer to both with the Live Aid sequence.

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Ellison has clearly taken great delight in creating a freakshow designed to offend, but by its end, Kuso might even qualify as moving.

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Despite being jazzed up with woozy camerawork, kinetic editing and splashy graphics, 'We Are Your Friends' is old-fashioned hooey.

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A charming, quirky and leisurely paced Scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from Monty Python's Meaning of Life.

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While Excalibur is uneven, it works pretty much as intended, as a mood piece, a hallucinatory evocation of legendary times and mystical adventures. The actor who holds it together is Nicol Williamson as Merlin.

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There may be better straight introductions to the accomplishments of this most poetic of cinematic artists, but for the already initiated this will serve as a welcome remembrance.

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[The] emotional outbursts feel genuine, necessary, even, but not forced.

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More a film about unreasoning fear than the supernatural, this work demonstrates what a filmmaker can accomplish when he substitutes taste and intelligence for special effects.

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Hardcore horror fans will no doubt be impressed, but the cultural justification for this level of hateful misogyny must be slim indeed.

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Blind Side uses old playbook to jerk tears.

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It's a good movie. The book is something more - close to perfect, I would say - but since both incarnations emphasize the importance of tolerating human fallibility, I won't make too much of the discrepancy.

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A film geek's dream come true... Shaun is a delightful romp through bloody entrails and pints of beer.

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A lightweight romance for the senior crowd, Last Chance Harvey does nothing in particular, but it does it fairly well thanks to stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.

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Recalling The Return of the Secaucus Seven rather than the more expensive but more superficial The Big Chill, Everything Relative is one of the best lesbian films yet.

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You can't sell a 100-year-old idea with futuristic frills. That just doesn't add up.

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'Wendy and Lucy' is the best feel-bad movie of the year.

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A week is too short a time frame. A longer view might have left a deeper impression.

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