The film's magical, mythic undertones are combined with a gritty, sparse realism that means things always err on the right side of sentiment. |
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For all of the deliberate twists and turns, the film's action is little more than aimless. |
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The film's sometimes dreamy quality is underscored by a refrain of spirituality blended with myth mixed with fable. |
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It's that two-sided nature of the script that is one of the film's great strengths. |
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I'll say no more for fear of spoiling the fun, except that the twists don't alter the film's comic tone. |
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The film also makes us focus on our social mores as we watch the film's tribe. |
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The film's amiable but lackadaisical hero is blissfully unconcerned by his lack of money or prospects. |
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Their elaborate dance of courtship, which cannot call itself by that name, is the film's central motif. |
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The film's basically a non-stop bloodthirsty assault on humanity, and as such it's consistently unsettling. |
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Sure, the low budget set designs betray the skid row mindset inherent in the film's creation. |
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This exhilarating resistance to romanticism or psychologizing is balanced by the film's vast scope and its B-movie energy. |
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The film's end is open and undecided not only narratively, but also with regard to its underlying vision of the universe. |
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Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot. |
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Thankfully, the other film's plentiful bare bodkins come to rescue us from anticipation frustration. |
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The theme underpinning the film's murder investigation is the dire and inescapable consequences of circumstance and personal choice. |
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The film's greatest strength is that it takes classic elements like perpetual rainfall and creepy subterranean settings and underplays them. |
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It's his name in bold type above the film's title and his beatific image on the poster. |
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Roxie's character had been cleaned up, but it was all done with a knowing wink that enabled audiences to relish the film's diverting sleaziness. |
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This hideous pork product does nothing but evoke traumatic memories of the film's headache-inducing brand of sledgehammer slapstick. |
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The hitherto unengaged viewer is lured or manipulated into the film's most salacious sequences. |
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What's worse is that the slow-motion fight sequence in which Peter fights a bully slides almost into a parody of that film's innovative effects. |
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Robert Crumb he isn't, but that's too bad because watching this obnoxious bore becomes tedious long before the film's 77 minutes run out. |
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The more cerebral cinemagoer, however, is left in a conundrum as he or she tries to unpick the film's slapdash symbolism and script. |
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The identity of the film's voiceover narrator is never adequately established, and this proves distracting. |
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It's a fine moment, and one that could have been looked at more closely, especially considering the film's rather narrow view of music history. |
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I suggest that, given the film's 'call to humanity', the spectator obliges unreservedly. |
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The film's authentic feel derives not from naturalism, nor even from realism in any ordinary sense. |
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The direction, too, is smart and understated and is helped by the film's clear, naturalistic cinematography. |
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The film's delight in gangland slang and its sharp eye for fashion and London locations made it an unexpected box-office success. |
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Let's hope there will not be any form of backlash following this film's release i.e. people boycotting the comedians who were in it. |
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The central character, a Woman who works in a convenience store is the the film's central focus. |
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There's a newsreel on the film's premiere, which was, up to that point, one of the biggest in Hollywood history. |
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Rounding out the disc is a brief newsreel of the film's Canadian premiere and the original theatrical trailer. |
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By using little dialogue and less music, he lets the incidental sound support the film's atmosphere. |
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The lush environments are inviting, but the characters' voices have been provided by soundalikes, rather than the film's stars. |
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The film's soundtrack is similar, referencing Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns with three Ennio Morricone songs. |
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The film's brutally unromantic conception of religion is summed up in this one scene. |
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What vexed me enough that all those details would matter, however, was the film's treatment of women. |
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Winners of the contests will get the opportunity to video-chat with the film's celebrities. |
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The centrepiece turns out to be Cruise bungeeing down a vent shaft in a retread of the first film's best scene. |
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A splatter film's charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer's soul. |
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The film's strength is in its intricate intertwining of story and image, of dialogue, voice-over and music. |
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The film has a voice-over narrator who carefully explains the film's meaning, thus sparing us the trouble of employing a single brain cell. |
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The film's children are all non-professionals, however, and one wonders to what extent they themselves are products of Glasgow's mean streets. |
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A still gallery with 34 production photos, the film's theatrical trailer, and a TV spot round out the extras. |
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The full-frame transfer, representing the film's original aspect ratio, has been lovingly restored and is amazing in its spotlessness. |
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Disc two is taken up entirely by the film's storyboards, synched to your choice of the English or Japanese soundtracks. |
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His vulpine and aggressive disposition is responsible for much of the film's finest moments. |
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In the film's madhouse passages, the grim mise en scene contrasts starkly with the warm glow of nightclubs and cabarets. |
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And both agreed it was best not to have a single note of music for that lengthy stretch of the film's narrative. |
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Audiences, on the other hand, seem perplexed that their response differs so markedly to those reflected in the film's notices. |
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The film's ending is both justified and satisfying, a moment of grace in a cauldron of anger and hopelessness. |
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Daena may be a half-baked character, but she isn't the film's weakest link. |
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Interestingly, it's Hopkins who gets one of the film's few standout moments. |
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Ironically, it's Heston, in a small cameo role as an aging ape, who has the film's best moment. |
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Scenes and camerawork are beautifully choreographed and immerse the viewer in the film's world. |
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He constitutes the third side of the film's dramatic triangle, occupying a vital position. |
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The film's genuine oddness derives mostly from the presence and performance of Glover, eccentric actor extraordinaire. |
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It is an approach that gains steam as the movie moves forward and gives the film's climax a powerful sense of the inevitable. |
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The film's dialogue is minimal and often earthy but it accurately captures the rebellious mood of the youth. |
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The film is divided by its opening credits sequence, which breaks the film's hard-won mood with a brash pop-song. |
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I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling. |
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The film's lasting power lies in its omnifariousness, which enables it to withstand any number of readings. |
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Finally, the film's conclusion contains a note of hope for the future as Lou and Grace amble together, money in pocket and hand-in-hand. |
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Some traditional rabbis and religious pundits have taken issue with what they see as the film's one-sidedness. |
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Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring. |
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Pirates have been cashing in on the time lag in the film's release by showing illegal copies of the movies in small towns. |
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The film's other characters are secondary, and often serve little purpose beyond acting as catalysts. |
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Likewise Tomu came to think of a film's plot in terms of a series of oppositions or conflicts. |
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In the end, the fear of ideas strangles the drama, because it renders the film's protagonists' struggle to survive devoid of larger meaning. |
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And in fact, the film's potential strength lies in its undermining of such bravado. |
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The only other extras of note here are a pair of Movietone Newsreels, which show clips from the film's New York and World Premieres. |
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As the film's Orphean tale unfolds, a young writer-poet-musician descends into the absinthe-soaked, decadent underworld in search of ideal love. |
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Of course, the film's digital color processing and photographic strobing gives many scenes an oddly pixilated quality. |
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Did the film's failure at the box office and at the Oscars and even in most critics groups make me right? |
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He mentions in his audio commentary that the vampire's death groans were long lost, cut by censors during the film's original theatrical run. |
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She's utterly convincing as a wallflower in the film's opening scenes, but equally impressive as a strong-willed woman as the film progresses. |
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The film's success enabled him to establish his own studio, which attracted many animators keen to embrace Williams' perfectionist approach. |
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The film's wildly uneven, but there's no disputing Argento's bravura or flair for stunt casting. |
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Dated references inadvertently betray the film's prolonged hibernation in development limbo. |
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That sort of insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable. |
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A similar need to divert the audience at every instant seems to motivate the film's incessant stream of chatter. |
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A sparse script and real sensitivity from the actors, none of whom overplay their role, only adds further to the film's power. |
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The court hopes that this film's quality will eventually overshadow its bizarre notoriety. |
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The double entendres are all back, from the film's title right down to multiple cheeseball one-liners. |
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Ironically, this very overtness of the film's concern with such questions is often held to be the source of its problems. |
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The crowd hooted, hollered and roared their approval at the film's critique. |
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Slow fades and dissolve shots are also used to complement the film's unhurried, unforced pace. |
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Though the film's homophobia, bullying and brutality are fictional, they resonate with truth. |
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The film's biggest dose of reality comes from the live, honest-to-goodness sharks that surrounded Travis and Ryan for two days during shooting. |
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Admittedly the film's premise is barely enough to sustain its 100-minute running time, but this film is as much brains as it is heart. |
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The film's hosannas to the UN most clearly establish the politics of the filmmakers and Hollywood liberalism in general. |
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To this day, cineastes talk admiringly of the film's car chase and the thrilling climactic gun battle. |
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Not only was he the film's director and producer, but he was also responsible for the cinematography. |
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I have to admit the cinematography is stunning, and it's the film's only asset. |
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Only at the end did either character become humanized, and it was too late for the film's success. |
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None of the characters are very sympathetic or warm, with the only real charm being shown by the film's villain, Kay Walsh. |
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You can sympathize with all of the film's intentions while wishing for more objective, nuanced arguments. |
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The film's claustrophobic interiors also betray its stage origins and there are no real aerial sequences to provide relief. |
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The claymation technique required a two-year time frame for the film's production-a definite task of teamwork and perseverance. |
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He's not the clean-cut bloke pictured in the film's ad art but rather someone at the end of their tether. |
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His scenes with Ruth, whom he's patiently helping to work through her own traumas, are the film's best. |
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These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting. |
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This goal is achieved in the film's narrative by transforming Billie Holiday into a hysteric. |
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This oversimplification feels sloppy, and even if it does provide greater emotional closure, it reduces the ambiguity of the film's final shot. |
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The purpose of a film's score is often to complement the visual imagery and emotional delineation at play. |
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What makes it so phenomenally stunning, then, is the film's visual imagery. |
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There's enough manic imbecility, though, to maintain the film's screwball tone. |
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So much of the film's success lies on the shoulders of the two leads, and they never make a false step in their characterizations. |
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The film's reception in the USA will no doubt be assisted by the inarguably talented cast who made themselves available to the project. |
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The principals are all effective in their roles, but the key to the film's success is Dorothy Dandridge's incandescent performance as Carmen. |
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This film's characters don't develop and, in a crystal meth haze, they never quite come down from their high. |
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There are also two short featurettes produced at the time of the film's original release and they are pretty much a waste of time. |
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But the film's authentic feel is undermined by a series of political compromises. |
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They criticize the film's lack of realism and its failure to portray comprehensively the true brutality of the death camps. |
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The film's landscape of urban desolation must have taken some ingenuity to achieve. |
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The film's lead character sports an outfit seemingly custom-designed to send fetishists into apoplexies. |
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The film's fetishistic approach to auto racing is uncomfortably like the current NASCAR craze. |
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And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place. |
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Neil Diamond himself joins in for the film's happy conclusion and ushers out the closing credits with a concert performance. |
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Also included is an alternate ending that isn't quite as good as the final film's conclusion. |
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Within the film's confined internal spaces the human body takes on a territorial presence of its own. |
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Given the film's widespread distribution, he suggests the con man works at a level of crime that intrigues the honest individual the world over. |
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She is pretty, and a fine actress, but as a femme-fatale figure, she seems too sweet, and the film's themes are too thin. |
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The film's subject isn't restricted to music, but embraces his ideas about creativity, interactivity, and spirituality. |
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By now, one of the film's main themes, consequentiality, has certainly been launched. |
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The film's long interior dialogue scenes, shot on traditional sets, are less convincing. |
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The relationship between Bob and Charlotte remains at the film's core, and remains platonic despite strong sexual undercurrents. |
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To what extent does film's latest technology give us pause as we contemplate film's images of the technological? |
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It's a fascinating track that goes into extensive detail about the film's lack of continuity. |
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Within 24 hours, the fivesome meet in an even more unlikely twist of fate and trundle towards the film's forgettable denouement. |
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The film's characters are so inwardly focused that they only rarely emerge from a neurotic bubble. |
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While the film's story is told in flashback, it is certainly a look forward, into the future, for its director. |
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My favorite scenes come when the film's comic energy is allowed to outrun its carefully maintained arty flatness. |
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Thankfully, they don't find resolution, and the film's touching final ambiguity, regarding the irretrievability of the past, is truly haunting. |
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The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium. |
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He fares well enough during his flirty scenes with Maureen O'Hara and never gets in the way of the film's energetic spirit. |
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The staff called Cheshire to complain because of the film's portrayal of President Bush. |
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The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment. |
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For a brief time, the film's success will encourage studios to shop around for cheaper, newer, or even, God forefend, Japanese talent. |
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Though the film's focus is on character and the structure appears loose, even formless at times, this is deceptive. |
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When they open their programmes, the film's credits are revealed, printed inside. |
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Relying primarily on percussive instruments, the composer can take the credit for at least half the film's creepiness. |
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But my really harsh criticisms of the film are kept for the film's attempts at meaning. |
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The film's light, frothy tone and the fact that it won the Genie in this category and an award at Cannes definitely works in its favour. |
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Despite the full-frontal nudity and frank eroticism in the film's early scenes, the answer was no. |
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The film's final scene, a post-apocalyptic custard-pie battle in the presidential bunker, was deleted before it went on general release. |
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The second flaw has to do with the film's conclusion, which kind of subverts the film's entire premise and makes it way too cutesy. |
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The utter lack of chemistry between the leads is magnified by the film's reliance on ill-designed slapstick cutesiness. |
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Nary a moment goes by without some sort of ear candy peppering the film's audio. |
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Betty is at the center of the film's assembly of cynical, contemptuous characterizations. |
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The film's racial stereotype gags might be offensive if they weren't so shamelessly dumb and done to death. |
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The film's earthy language meant it had problems attracting an American distributor. |
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The film's celebration of sheer human daffiness never descends into whimsy. |
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This dire, occasionally damnable predictability undermines the painterly finesse with which the film's director arranges his ravishing images. |
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Gaston Monescu's refined taste, elegant dress, high British accent, and droll charm denote his dandyism from the film's beginning. |
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And the story's darkness and moral ambiguity increase the film's power and appeal. |
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The film's biggest problem is the preposterousness of the script, which throws one unbelievable scenario after another at the audience. |
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When the characters are not screaming at each other, televisions blare in the background, or the film's soundtrack deafens you. |
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This version is razor sharp, virtually flawless, preserving the film's extraordinary clarity and textured darkness. |
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Ever-present cigarettes create the disturbing impression that the film's characters are possessed by a collective death wish. |
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McDowell is riveting in his screen debut, and the film's social observation and build-up of tension is quite compelling. |
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But, when we do feel a slight bit dazed, it seems as though this dementedness is part of the film's charm. |
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And she knows the film's box-office prospects are likely to be modest by Hollywood standards. |
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She's especially lucky in regards to the film's provocative treatment of sexuality. |
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The film's narrative can best be described as a boy's adventure story turned tragic. |
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Though purists may lament the film's deviations from the comic book, the mood and most of the characters remain the same. |
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As the grande dame of French film, it's easy to appreciate why Baye was a little disconcerted by the film's title. |
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In the film, this was translated into a chronology of the years, eclectically soundtracking the film's events. |
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The film's sudden violent finale graphically depicts what had been suggested all along. |
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There is a sequence with a real live tiger, but that's about the extent of the film's visual effects. |
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Several reviews have not been kind to the film's effects, particularly the creatures summoned by the game. |
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By the film's violent climax, we are grimly aware of how immature exploits can quickly escalate to tragedy. |
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The film's sheer quirkiness allows it to mercifully bypass any dime-store moralizing. |
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Rather than act as a detraction, the film's deliberate elusiveness is precisely what makes it boldly unique. |
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Besides, much of the film's charm emanates from its setting rather than its kitsch value. |
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The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint. |
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The key to unlocking the film's enchantment is to uncover the unforced romance. |
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Although the end is enigmatic like a short story, the film's strength is in its dialogues full of irony. |
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The film's artistic power lies in its appeal for enlightened, loving and spiritually satisfying relationships between human beings. |
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From these interviews, it is Morris who distills the 11 lessons of the film's subtitle. |
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A small amount of hiss and distortion shows up from time to time, though this is to be expected due in part to the film's budget. |
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When the sound mix also exceeds one's expectations based on the film's content, you start to wonder what's going on. |
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Many of America's great cathedrals of racing date from the Depression era of the film's setting. |
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The film's pseudo-values might be false, but the sincerity of the director's faith in their fantastical power effectively dynamises them. |
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The film's abounding action sequences are banging, but they're not enough to overlook its plot holes and confusing story. |
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This leads the story abruptly to a truncated finale that sidesteps the more harrowing nature of the film's first half. |
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The film's approach to its cast is a textbook example of how to waste actors. |
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For a guy who has jealously guarded his privacy, the film's frankness is surprising. |
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Raymont says his own opinion of the explorer wavered during the film's production. |
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Fortunately, they aren't serious enough to lower the film's broad-based appeal or to diminish its quotient of feel-good moments. |
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And none of these pieces of acting struggles against the film's plot demands or the narrow sensibilities of the actioner. |
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Paint peeling, blistering and flaking occurs when moisture under a non-breathing film finish destroys the film's adhesion to the wood. |
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The nod to commerciality is most obvious in the film's ending, one that is typical of hundreds of Hollywood westerns. |
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Others may well be shocked or slightly sickened by the film's determination to be as filthy rude as possible on the way to raising a laugh. |
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Slick dramatic lighting and a varied, enjoyable color design smooth out the film's disjointing plot jump-cuts and occasional coincidences. |
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The film's goal is to encourage youngsters across the district to ditch junk food and eat more fruit and vegetables. |
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This remarkable reversal of roles is the film's strongest dynamic and occurs between virtually all the characters. |
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Unlike most cut sequences, these are presented in anamorphic widescreen and look just as good as the final film's transfer. |
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The pastoral Khoisan instrumentation is also a dominating presence, effectively reflecting the film's South African setting. |
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The film's title refers to a wish list that two terminally ill men try to fulfill before each kicks the bucket. |
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Duplicities and red herrings pile up, augmented by the film's reinforcing structures of uncertainty, making for a daunting epistemological game. |
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It is debatable how far the certificate affected the film's box office takings. |
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Under his direction, the film's expert pacing builds quickly as the movie enters its second half. |
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The filmmaker keeps a tight rein on her direction and storyline, and the film's strength lies in its view of war through the eyes of women. |
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Within the film's inescapable overarching lameness, in fact, there are actually several strong elements. |
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Zwick laid down this track just days after the film's initial U.S. release. |
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Also available, however, is a remastered stereo track that further enlivens the film's audio. |
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The ravenous creatures themselves are perhaps the film's only remotely redeeming feature. |
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I think that happened because the film's copyright accidentally lapsed, putting it into the public domain. |
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More precisely, the film's fiction has nature running amuck as a result of toxic waste, dumped out of corporate greed. |
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Piccadilly, recently restored and too-long unseen, premiered its newly composed score as part of the film's re-release. |
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One of the film's funniest jokes is a running gag involving a car radio stuck on a 1980s soft rock revival station. |
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One of the film's running jokes has his three children growing fat because of their love of junk food. |
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Much of the film's historical credibility can be sheeted home to the influence of its resident consultant, a British history writer. |
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The film's most emotionally resonant moment occurs early on, when Drew confronts her parents with her pregnancy. |
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In one of the film's most powerful scenes, Rose angrily hits him on the forehead with a hairbrush. |
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To the film's credit, it certainly makes the best of a small medium, doing the best it can within the limited time restraints. |
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A bunch of usually reliable comedians are dragged down to the film's level. |
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That film's jaw-dropping ending would get its own retcon in the sixth film. |
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Even jazz legend Louis Armstrong makes a cameo appearance as the Harmonia Gardens' bandleader, singing the film's title track. |
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The film's main character and driving force has no obvious antecedents in movie history and didn't exactly spawn a new genre. |
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One of the reasons for the film's authenticity is its almost complete avoidance of recognizable actors. |
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And when the film's final scene fades to black, you will be even more eager to see how Batman Continues. |
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In fact, the dialogue moves so fast that at one point the film's subtitles actually begin to flash too quickly to read. |
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One of the awol elements is the first film's sense of breezy, light-hearted fun. |
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There was at times a giddy lightness to the film's direction that gave its dialogue an unexpected truth. |
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The rightness of the choice of director is apparent from the film's opening sequences at the shadow-enshrouded beach house. |
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During the film's climactic plane crash sequence, you can feel the bass rumble and the rear speakers roar to life. |
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For a moment the film's ominous underlying theme, parental panic, roars to the surface with great immediacy and clarity. |
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The film's basic story is appealing, and despite the critical roasting, Chaplin tells his story well. |
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As we discover near the film's conclusion, he has apparently developed an ability to create the robots based on pre-existing human forms. |
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Joe, an aging thief, serves as the film's charming rogue, desperate for money and a clean getaway. |
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The actor gambled on playing one of the film's rogues' gallery of supporting players. |
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Linney and Aykroyd serve as the film's villains and do quite a lot with small roles. |
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Many of my comrades rolled their eyes when I complained about the film's glaring lack of substance. |
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This film almost certainly paints a truer picture of day-to-day borstal life than the earlier film's rosily optimistic outlook. |
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Orafai gives the most fully rounded of the film's performances, displaying a weary dignity and grace under pressure that is moving. |
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Since the film's art house release five years ago, and subsequent turns on home video, the joke's been lost on about half the audience. |
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The film's musical score mostly consists of someone sawing away loudly on a cello. |
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With so many different characters and plot elements stuffed into the film's lean 85-minute runtime, there's a danger of losing viewers. |
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During the film's occasional lulls in pacing, I kept myself occupied by wishing his character would die. |
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Set in a tightly wound labyrinth, this is where the film's insights about human endeavour are finally brought to light under a luminous moon. |
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Aside from the film's aesthetic attractiveness, it also had an original rockin' soundtrack. |
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The chance to audition actors from both Canada and the U.K. was another bonus of the film's co-production status. |
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The film's grounding in a believable urban situation and its identifiable Australianness obviously contributed to its local success. |
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The film's target audience is teenagers, who, to one degree or another, will relate to the concept of high school cliques. |
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Some pointed out the film's emotional power, others its use of irony and satire to criticize fascism. |
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Yet somehow the film's many parts never manage to cohere into a satisfying whole. |
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His lack of charisma plays against the film's attempts to portray him as a babe magnet for young hotties. |
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The film's perspective of how things work in today's boardrooms is savagely accurate. |
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The film's few saving graces are its lavish costumes and the sporadic funny moments, usually delivered by one of the marginal characters. |
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At the film's climax, the malefic priest responsible for all this mischief sets his sights on the last woman in Hong Kong. |
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One of the film's chief flaws is its reliance on gadgets and technobabble over real action. |
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The piano pieces during the film's second half sound a little thin even though they serve more as background than anything else. |
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The film's cast is relatively subdued, and manages to generally avoid chewing the scenery. |
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In the end, the film's moderately optimistic stance is tempered with a standard commentary on war and the nature of human aggression. |
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Fortunately, the film's centerpieces, the two mano-a-mano confrontations between Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, are stunning. |
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Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave. |
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Thus, as diegetic music returns in the film's original score, it links scenes together, and adds to the film's unity. |
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The film's quieter, scoreless moments are the ones that resonate most truthfully. |
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Hip Hop and Jazz tunes were superbly mixed with turntable scratch and an infectious piano line that dictate the film's progression. |
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The image is crystal clear, and the disc includes the original score by Gottfried Huppertz that was used in the film's premiere screenings. |
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It's a pleasure to hear the film's theme music and Nat King Cole's efforts so well presented. |
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In the film's opening sequence, they carry out a successful bank robbery, from which they make their getaway on roller-blades. |
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This film's release to DVD is unwarranted, and it should be scuttled and returned to the hidden film vault beneath the Nevada salt mines. |
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Part of his dilemma is being a victim of his first hit film's massive success. |
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Densely plotted and vividly acted, the film's abundance of ideas and intrigue wind up stretched perilously thin. |
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Weekend box office numbers have become the barometer by which a film's success is determined. |
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The film's title is a reference to the sheet of nine rare postage stamps, which they see as their ticket to the top. |
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Scotland was chosen as the film's setting because of its fundamentalist religious sects and remote communities. |
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Arthur Dong, who worked with her on his documentary about gay bashing, Licensed to Kill, credits her with changing the film's whole thrust. |
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In adherence with the film's title Mamet has filled his thriller not with characters but with faces. |
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While the film's form is remarkably self-effacing, its content and visual style resemble the best of Hollywood westerns. |
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Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema. |
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The film's only major misstep comes in what appears to be a misguided attempt at humorous self-reference. |
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Several film noir techniques are used to enhance the film's melancholic bleakness. |
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The film's portrayal of a powerless woman dragged along by the tide of events doesn't lend itself to edge of the seat plot twists. |
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One of the film's many strengths is that it never descends into melodrama or sentimentality. |
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The film's stylistic time-lapse photography and multi-layered narrative isn't always successful. |
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The film's punchline is also a beaut, all the more so because it's tactfully handled, and you never see it coming. |
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The film's titles appear on screen as if they were written with a word processor, replete with mistakes that need to be corrected. |
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Also, the special effects and action scenes are quite superb, particularly the monorail sequences at the film's climax. |
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And film's action sequences all too frequently consist of little more than men running down city streets. |
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With the unparalleled realism of the film's opening sequences barely moments behind, the scene shifts to one of patriotic transcendence. |
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The film's final sequence shows a poor Kenyan woman selling bananas to the passengers on the stopped train. |
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In some ways, the film's political messages are subservient to its desire to undermine the big-budget formula. |
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The film's opening scene finds her on her psychologist's couch, tonelessly reciting her recipe for braised pigeon in thyme sauce with truffles. |
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But he sets the film's first act here, and it's obvious where his sympathies lie. |
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By now, were all tuned in to the film's peculiar brand of black humour and laugh heartily at the doomed toons plight. |
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It seemed like he attempted to address it in Minority Report, but there was something overwhelming in that film's set pieces. |
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The film's resolution doesn't necessarily endorse a conviction in a specific belief system, but, rather, belief in general. |
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Critical to the film's success is accepting that David is an impassioned believer in the immorality of the Death Penalty. |
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In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency. |
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The film's attitude towards death movingly, but objectively, strikes the right note. |
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Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. |
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He loses the plot like a shaker of salt, vaguely wrapping up the con in the film's final moments. |
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It sounds fine for a mono track, but there is some hissing that indicates the film's age. |
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As one might guess, the double-nature of this film's title bespeaks the double-nature of its narrative, its theme, and its major characters. |
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Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig. |
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