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Makes you wonder whether Britain and China were wrong to allow Hong Kong to remain a free-market capitalist province--though the movie does not compare in quality to "Wall Street."

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Has the so-called Romanian New Wave slowed to a trickle?

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Yes, there are a lot of in-jokes, but they are consistently funny, and Ralph and Vanellope have a gift for turning standard tropes sideways.

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[Cage is] funny in his misery, because he has a natural air of exaggeration: he carries his own storm cloud with him, almost like a cartoon of the sad and lonely guys he played in Moonstruck and Raising Arizona.

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Ms. Rao does have an ace up her sleeve, though: Prateik, who in his first lead role gives a nuanced, career-making performance.

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The movie is a masterpiece of editing (by Sam O’Steen and Bob Wyman) and the acting is flawlessly delivered by a brilliant, tour-de-force cast.

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Manages to be both moving and poignant largely because of the superb acting, cinematography and direction.

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The film is so much fun that at about the 30-minute mark, I found myself wishing Werewolves Within was a TV series titled Welcome to Beaverfield.

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...as futuristic visions go, Babylon A.D. actually gets a lot right...

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I found the extremely uncomfortable torture and gore fascinating to watch.

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Another penny saver for Full Moon, and an unfortunate unpleasant one.

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Taken 2, taken to where? Taken to the cleaners? In the original movie, Bryan Mills had 96 hours to save his daughter, in the sequel it seems like they have spent 96 minutes on the script.

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As a film, Vanity Fair has a lot going for it -- including acting and energy.

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This is not only the best Spider-Man movie that has ever been made, but it ranks on the top of the very own superhero genre. [Full review in Spanish]

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As an avid hater of reality television, the intelligence behind James Ronald Whitney's Games People Play was quite a surprise.

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On a thin, slightly soiled dime, "Weiner" pivots from the mother of all comeback stories to an alternately fascinating, mystifying and appalling portrait of the quest for power at its most obsessive and self-destructive.

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Certainly original, often funny, and occasionally even inspired.

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Not clever enough for Smith fans, not gross enough to compete on the Farrelly brothers' ground, the movie feels like a kind of self-congratulatory fake.

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Legion is hellishly bad.

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A bona fide trash pastiche. So good it's bad, then? Almost, but the panache and playfulness machine-gun most of the shortcomings. DVD suppliers! Can we have the two films plus trailers in one now, please?

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Olivier Assayas' three-part drama about Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born radical-Marxist terrorist of the '70s and '80s, is a rivetingly journalistic account of a scoundrel's rise and fall.

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This lacklustre sequel to the 2015 hit Goosebumps hardly has enough jokes to qualify as a comedy, which leaves it stranded in the netherworld of near-horror, aimed at children supposedly not yet ready for the real thing.

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Nope is a film of many ideas, competing for primacy in a script that somehow dodges being muddled -- and instead hits the screen as a cohesive and engrossing mosaic.

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The strength of the stylistic elements and Robbie's performance aren't sufficient to overcome the deficiencies of an initially derivative and ultimately off-kilter narrative.

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It's probably best not to overthink a movie billed as a title fight between two of cinema's most iconic monsters, but as Godzilla vs. Kong pits these titans against each other... the results are surprisingly dull.

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Loving Vincent may not be unique but it's very special.

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There are so many good reasons to bag "The Bag Man." Where to begin?

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If Angel Eyes falters, it is because it becomes more obvious as it goes along, its sense of religiosity becoming less subtle.

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Meise performs all the signature movements of Almodóvar, Wong Kar Wai, Reynaldo Arenas or Pedro Lemebel adding an extra delay, as in a tragic tai-chi of Hanekian discipline.

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It's a feel-good film that actually makes you feel good.

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I won't divulge any more so you can experience the cool madness of The 11th Green for yourself. Suffice to say it's out of this world...

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What happens when 144 tweets go viral? You get a stripper field trip that will make you heard spin like a top in Zola making you think twice about who to trust. Janicza Bravo...BRAVO! Riley Keough, Taylour Paige, Colman Domingo, Nicolas Braun SLAY

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Empathetic and ethically compelling, it's tender and well-timed.

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The screenplay ... goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists' superiors ... but it's in the central characters' actions that the film truly finds its edge.

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The director of O Fantasma, Joao Pedro Rodrigues achieves his masterwork in this sublimely surreal, tragic yet transcendent melodrama celebrating the final choices of a Lisbon female impersonator.

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The need for women in leadership positions, to champion and help young women join and stay in these jobs, is at a desperate high. Like coding itself, CODE might sound intimidating, but everyone is encouraged to give it a try.

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Even when it strays from ... cinematic perfection, the memory of it remains, carrying the film through to its very bitter end.

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This taut and glamorous American giallo is so quintessentially '70s that its very existence feels like a day well spent at the museum of sleek lines and cocaine excess.

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Haseen Dillruba keeps us riveted for most parts at least. Taapsee and Vikrant are in top form ensuring we quite willingly get sucked into this pulpy universe.

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A sex-free, PG-13 version of "Freed" could be cut without shedding a second of narrative coherence, such as it is; one could ask what the point of that would be, though similar queries might be leveled at the film as it stands.

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Sony Pictures' movie based on the Slender Man internet meme falls short of its source material's scary potential with a feature that's light on frightening moments and fails to invest in its titular creature character.

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Its familiar tale of an ambitious chorus girl's sudden rise to fame is pleasant enough but not fresh enough to hold my attention.

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The success of Parasite is not merely marked by great filmmaking and an intriguing storyline, but deep within its foundations lies an overwhelming understanding on Bong's part of how bigotry operates at an almost molecular level.

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Spy Game has blockbuster written all over it. The rental kind, not the box office kind.

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Just about everything that could go wrong with this sequel did. From its tuneless songs to its flat footed dancing, there is no "Mary Poppins" magic on view anywhere.

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More like staying dead...a monotonous and unnecessary sequel that has all the grace and flow of a greased hog on rollerskates

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I think the film is too odd to win over its audience.

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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel uses a stark and spare style to depict the action. . . with breakdowns sudden and savage in contrast to the intermittent quiescence

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There's so much to see, and so many little touches, that those who fall in love with it upon first viewing, and there will be many, will likely come back over and over.

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That first half is jaw-droppingly good.

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A deep, engaging father-daughter story with very personal undertones. It's sophisticated and smart.

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This profound and immensely touching film in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic.

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A well written and well-performed outlook on the lives of discharged soldiers even though it struggles to find its footing with a balanced narrative at times.

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What Off the Map lacks in originality, it makes up for with its excellent cast and Scott's lyrical imagery.

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Greatly shortened from Mr. Fierstein's long-running, Tony Award-winning play, the film version emphasizes the lovable at every turn, but the surprise is that it does this entertainingly and well.

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The concept had potential, but the movie's broad approach (including a ridiculous turn by William Hurt as a mayor with a laughable dye job) drowns out its message.

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A great film because of the way it moves beyond social commentary to show how each character, rich and poor, is isolated and at the same time unified by his fears and needs. We're all in a class by ourselves.

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This dull, slow movie represents a major step back for director Craig Zobel, who looked like he was ready for the big time with his deeply unsettling "Compliance" a couple of years ago.

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Miike's seemingly offhand inventiveness is evident in almost every shot and cut.

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John F. Donovan may revisit a lot of familiar territory for Dolan but on this form it is good to welcome him home.

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French cinema's reigning - but sorely underappreciated - comic masters return with their distinctive brand of gawky slapstick.

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The Hunt is a film that could have been soaked in agenda, but thankfully it leans much more on entertainment. And our hero character Crystal (Betty Gilpin) might be the most effective heroine since Sharni Vinson's turn in You're Next.

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Crossing Over may hold some appeal for those who loved Crash, but this is a diluted cousin to a film that was overrated in the first place.

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This lame crime drama would be as bad as it sounds, except Lewis is such a craftsman that he puts in enough of his noted touches to make it a less criminal watch.

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Both the script and the direction, from Michael Showalter, move with such pleasing assurance, held aloft by warm currents of banter backstage and at the dinner table, that you don't notice the deceptions that Kumail practises in the name of deference.

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[Emma] Thompson deserves another best actress nomination and you will want to marry Stanley Tucci.

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... lacks emotional depth and structural originality beneath its testosterone-fueled outbursts, despite a finale that packs a punch.

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A compilation of vignettes that connect somewhat loosely but make perfect sense. The connections work because Gary and Alana make them work. Because what matters is them.

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Swardson and the gang generally opt for silly over edgy and outrageous, but Bucky is just too dashed-off a character for the movie to get by on that.

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As a film and novel, Midnight's Children is a great baggy work ...

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If you love slow moving character studies with a provocative subject matter, then go see this right now.

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Engaging children's entertainment.

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A brief flashback sequence filled with breathtaking mastery of telling, evocative detail...with wit and style and chase scenes, and then brilliantly, perfectly resolved.

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I couldn't think of a more appropriate feature screenplay or leading role debut for Mooney than Brigsby Bear-an earnest salute to the weirdo in all of us.

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The hook here - the interplay between our three leads and the twists, action, and humor that can be wrung from it-- is the end all and be all of The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil. It's designed to entertain you, and it does a great job at that.

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An engaging mystery, a warm-hearted account of friendship and an exploration of courage in the face of prejudice.

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A moral and arid thriller where Morais finds the exact distance to avoid dramatic overloading his already sorrowful story of a young renegade. [Full review in Spanish]

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Trust the Man is one of those movies in which everyone is a writer, and all the writing sounds the same.

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The Two Popes emerges as a attractive film with a lot of material for artistic, political and religious debate. Full review in Spanish

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The Queen is the most reverent irreverent comedy imaginable. Or maybe it's the most irreverent reverent comedy. Either way, it's a small masterpiece.

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The screenplay waits too long to start providing answers, causing the intrigue to morph into impatience, and finally into apathy.

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A smart and steely first feature by Calgary filmmaker David Christensen.

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Amid this special-effects maelstrom, Wade Watts never emerges as a character, and the taciturn Sheridan is in constant danger of being out-acted by his own avatar. Who can connect with a hero when he's just watching the story?

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An ingenious way to bring the story to life, such an experimental visual form's potential to captivate might leave something to be desired.

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Brian De Palma spent three years struggling to get The Black Dahlia made, which helps explain why the movie has the feel of something that was left in the oven too long: It's both overcooked and undernourishing.

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When it comes to making films that work as much for the sake of artistic expression as for capturing a moment in history, there's little question Jackie might be one of the finest pieces of cinematic storytelling we see this year.

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Even if it's a B-side, Ricki and the Flash will be worth seeing for Meryl Streep fans, music fans and, especially, anyone who's ever spent time in a working-class band. Sometimes it's the deep cuts you remember the best.

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Provides a clear view of generational influence and personal struggle, managing to catch the dam breaks of emotion as the reality of loneliness and perceived hopelessness finally sets in.

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The film is not without its flaws, but the story it tells is both terrifying and inspiring.

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Directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud ... and screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez ... cleave very close to the [original Hong Kong] film in many ways, yet the result is far less satisfying.

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Richard Linklater's adaptation of Maria Semple's novel is a critical (if characteristically humane) assessment of American society in spiritual crisis.

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With a delicate palette and soft tones, the craftsmanship on display is impeccable, but the pulse-free drama - think crying over spilled milk - makes for muted impact.

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Stella Street is the road best not taken.

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Lily Collins best ever. She is the new Audrey Hepburn. Beatty's best since Bugsy.

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...a quietly disturbing look at the choices placed before someone who is caught between two worlds, neither offering harbor.

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Why would anyone want to be caught dead with Bernie and his banal buddies a second time around? Relentlessly labored and pointless

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Rebelle is full of such careful detail, and is carried so beautifully by Mwanza's performance, that questions of authenticity slide away.

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Director Ken Loach has been flying the underdog flag for a staggering 52 years. And bless him, he still cares as fiercely as ever.

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The photogenic actors are charmless, and the whole thing has the look and feel of a cheap made-for-cable television movie.

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A man's-man of a genre pic that will satisfy the action audience while reminding more discerning viewers what they saw in director Joe Carnahan's decade-old breakthrough, Narc.

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