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# taggings

text:
  In an effort to make a crowd-pleasing film, the horrors that Gardner must have experienced on the streets feel glossed over by the Hollywood machine.

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text:
  This is Smith as you've never seen him -- an unsure, struggling, frustrated guy trying to hold together his family and failing.

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text:
  As cynical as I am, I have to admit I was completely won over by Smith's sincere and deeply effective work as a guy who was knocked down again and again, but refused to stay on the canvas.

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text: A by-the-numbers piece of Hollywood inspiration.
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text:
  Even the considerable charms of both Smith and the personable character he plays may not be enough to keep audiences from growing impatient to get to the good stuff.

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text:
  Some people will see The Pursuit of Happyness as a glorification of capitalism, but the movie is much less about 'getting' than it is about 'not having.'

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text:
  Ultimately, the real Chris Gardner emerges as an inspirational American success story -- and Will Smith emerges as a fine and nuanced actor.

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text:
  Will Smith has the right quality for the role -- he's an easy man to root for -- but he augments this by channeling some inner quality of desperation and need.

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text: A movie star who can slip easily into high-beam mode, Smith gives a restrained and nuanced turn.
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text:
  Smith may be the closest Hollywood has to a modern Cary Grant, an instantly likable actor comfortable in every role he attempts.

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text:
  There are worse ways to spend the holidays, and, at the least, it will likely make you appreciate your own circumstances.

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text:
  The whole thing works. This earnest, modest, sweet little ode to paternal love is meant to warm the cockles of our hearts in a season overrun with cockle-warming, and even a recalcitrant Scrooge may sniff back a few salty droplets.

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text:
  The Pursuit of Happyness attempts to be a warm movie with a good message. But its message is substantially skewed and the resulting warmth factor is decidedly low.

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text:
  The subject of The Pursuit of Happyness denies all the odds and refuses to quit, and this movie has the same fighting, American spirit.

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text:
  Pursuit of Happyness isn't just a balm intended to heal negative depictions of AWOL African-American fathers. The movie pays respect to all single parents striving to do the right thing with few resources.

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text:
  Few on-screen father-son relationships have felt more authentic than that depicted by Will Smith and his real-life son in The Pursuit of Happyness.

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text: It's a fine film, with a portrait of fatherhood that feels scuffed and driven and real.
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text:
  This movie roused me, made me sit up straight in my theater seat, the rapturous applause the preview audience met it with at the conclusion for once a well-earned honor.

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text:
  The role needs gravity, smarts, charm, humor and a soul that's not synthetic. Smith brings it. He's the real deal.

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text:
  Thankfully, humor leavens the dark journey, and little Jaden and his jokes go a long way to warm our hearts.

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text:
  Luckily, Pitch Perfect has just enough flaws to (almost) keep us from making terrible puns around its title, but this fun comedy is good enough to leave an a cappella version of "No Diggity" stuck in your head. For a week.

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text: The girls, for the most part, are genuinely funny, weird, real, and, most excitingly, confident.
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text:
  Warblers win the day in this sweet-natured film (based on a swell behind-the-scenes book by Mickey Rapkin) about the life and loves of collegians from competing a-cappella groups.

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text:
  Cannon doesn't go in for rococo hipster badinage in the vein of Diablo Cody. She can pare down a joke to its essence ...

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text:
  Built on a template that's familiar to anyone who's seen such movies as Bring It On, this comedy uses an engaging cast and a parade of popular songs (energetically recreated by several choral groups) to create a buoyant crowd-pleaser.

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text:
  "Pitch Perfect" is major key all the way, a blast of tuneful sugary cheer kicked up with enough tart humor to offset the glucose.

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text:
  Belatedly riffing on the TV series "Glee" might have produced some sour notes, but "Pitch Perfect" finds just the right tone.

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text:
  The musical mixes are terrific and Kendrick proves she is a real movie star but the mash-up with low comedy keeps tripping up the movie's momentum.

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text:
  "Pitch Perfect" totally gets one critical fact: A cappella singing contests are both a little bit amazing and a little bit ridiculous. The tone that the film strikes is a perfect balance between the two extremes.

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text:
  A movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as "Heathers" and "Bring It On."

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text:
  "Pitch Perfect" doesn't take itself any more seriously than it has to, and has plenty of fun both sending up and celebrating its subject matter.

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text:
  Though likable and energetic, the movie is so eager to put a finger on every pulse that it loses the rhythm.

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text:
  The spirited a cappella singing in Pitch Perfect makes a predictable, feather-light coming-of-age film irresistibly fun.

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text: Only occasionally funny and not at all illuminating about the rich world of a cappella singing.
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text:
  What helps offset the predictable in this very predictable movie is a series of show-stopping numbers, so props to the folks who oversaw music and choreography. But the true saving grace is a few of the central players.

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text: Not quite pitch perfect, but it's irresistible.
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text:
  I got a goofball kick out of Pitch Perfect. Anna Kendrick is terrific in this spoofy, sassy romp. And I have one word for Rebel Wilson - Wow!

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text:
  The throwaway lines in Kay Cannon's script are so many and so expertly deployed that you basically spend the whole movie digging through the trash.

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text: It moves at a clip, a sprightly relay race between a dozen or so mellifluous performers.
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text:
  I smiled for the first half of the movie and started laughing hysterically when a supporting character hijacked it from its stars.

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text:
  Den Bunny #2 / Piglet #1 / Piglet #2 / Action Figure Pig Kid / Picture Bunny Kid / Restaurant Bunny #2 (voice)


text:
  Like its villain, "Kung Fu Panda 4" can do an imitation, but we can tell it's not the genuine article.

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text:
  If the script was sharper or funnier and if the gags were better maybe you wouldn't notice, but it does feel like a lot of it is a bunch of people in recording booths doing some schtick and them animating around it.

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text:
  I would like for it to have built the story a little bit more than it does. It is fun. It is gorgeous to look at.

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text:
  After letting loose a little, Kung Fu Panda 4 is a fun trip down memory lane, hearkening back on the glory that propelled the treasured panda Po, voiced charmingly as ever by Jack Black, into our hearts.

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text: This dumpling is a little too light on the filling.
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text: This is an enjoyably winning continuation of Po's story.
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text:
  I enjoyed the first three adventures of the Dragon Warrior, but the best thing he can do now is to give this series a much needed skadoosh, sending it to rest in the cinematic spirit realm.

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text:
  We do get lessons in teamwork, patience and inner peace, but a flimsy story and a weak villain don't do Po - the big-hearted, Jack Black-voiced, dumpling-loving giant panda at the center of the saga - any favors.

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text:
  The latest installment of this DreamWorks Animation franchise offers visual and kinetic pleasure, but not a whole lot more.

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text:
  For its first return in eight years, directors Mike Mitchell and Stephanie Stine, a trio of credited screenwriters and a vast army of technical specialists have recalibrated the Panda format.

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text:
  Black and Awkwafina and Hoffman do their jobs, but the jokes have a way of arriving like jokes, and sounding like jokes, but not quite being jokes. This is an action movie foremost, which is fine. Or rather, OK-fairly good.

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text:
  Sure, the kids will giggle, and the animation is well-executed (even if there does seem to be something a little off around the eyes in this version of Po) but it just doesn't land with that same ebullient skadoosh.

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text:
  Granted, there's only so much that can be done at this point with this kind of concept beyond recycling it, but director Mike Mitchell keeps the story moving even during the relatively flat exposition.

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text:
  This is an enjoyable "Kung Fu Panda" movie, even if it's missing some of the pizazz of the earlier ones.

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text: It lacks both the delicate artistry and warm wit of its predecessors.
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text:
  The balance between action and humor is just right, with a very funny bulls in a china shop moment and a precariously balanced tavern. And Po is, as always, an appealing hero, always on the side of helping others but still with more to learn.

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text:
  Although this escapade is now part of the perky protagonist's "legendary tales of awesomeness," it's one that's best left forgotten.

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text:
  The series' first new installment in eight years is a reliably funny, sweet and wonderfully realized passing of the torch, with a paw in the past and another into the future -- an elegant goodbye and a hello.

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text:
  This iteration of "Panda" appealingly wears its heart on its paw. And that's sufficient reason for families to choose it over a lot of other animated schlock out there.

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text: Jack Black keeps the fists and giggles flying in a sequel that's more hustle than heart.
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text:
  There is a good deal to be said about Peter Jackson's long-awaited and exceedingly long adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, most of it bad.

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text:
  It frequently seems as though Jackson was less interested in making The Hobbit than in remaking his own fabulously successful Lord of the Rings series.

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text:
  Two thirds is so packed with charming characters, stellar visuals and sense of adventure, it makes that other third come across as much more of a failure than it really is.

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text: Are the creatures amazingly rendered? Yes. Have we seen their lifelike equal onscreen before? No.
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text:
  My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.

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text:
  To its own narrative detriment, "The Hobbit" works hard to lay the framework for what will follow. Certainly that's one way to set out on a trilogy, but it's surely not the best.

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text:
  "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" has finally arrived, not on wings of gossamer fancy but with a hairy-footed thud.

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text: Jackson himself seems to miss the forest of the story for the literal trees.
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text: An overlong adventure enlivened by wonders.
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text:
  An Unexpected Journey is a major comedown, a muddle-headed and cumbersome piece of filmmaking that betrays Jackson's mercenary motives -- Tolkien's book, too.

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text:
  If you loved the earlier films, these are moments you will hold on to, but they're very few, and they're not enough.

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text:
  Part One of director Peter Jackson's planned film trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit forces audiences to run an obstacle course before the fun kicks in.

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text:
  Between its lighter tone and a decade's worth of improvements in digital film techniques, there should be enough of a novelty factor to delight most fans.

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text:
  The tone of Jackson's latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair.

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text:
  His first installment of The Hobbit, Tolkien's relatively slim precursor to the sprawling "Rings" saga, is a technically impressive but bloated adventure that makes you feel every one of its 169 minutes.

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text:
  I was impressed with how much of the story's good humor Jackson and Co. manage to weave into the spectacle. It's there in the close shave with a gang of hungry trolls, and it really lifts off once Andy Serkis' uncanny Gollum enters the picture.

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text:
  Tolkien's inventive, episodic tale of a modest homebody on a dangerous journey has been turned into an overscale and plodding spectacle.

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text: The last hour of this movie is pretty much nonstop, and it's a gas.
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text:
  Little about the storytelling suggests a beating heart beneath the visuals; once the journey has begun, the characters find themselves in life-threatening danger with stupefying regularity.

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text:
  This is not about a reluctant hero drawing courage from some deep personal well. It's not about dread and danger. It's about visual effects.

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text:
  There is little in this film that is new, but that doesn't matter. The characters are still entertaining, the action scenes thrilling and near orgasmic, and the human relationships touching.

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text:
  Several thrilling action sequences, a great many good jokes, and an unshakable sense that everybody is just going through the paces.

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text:
  Joss Whedon set a higher bar with the first "Avengers" (2012) and tried, in many ways, to top it here. He got close...

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text:
  Fans of the franchise will be pleased, but those looking in from the outside of comic-book culture may find themselves also looking at their watches.

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text:
  "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is a sometimes daffy, occasionally baffling, surprisingly touching and even romantic adventure with one kinetic thrill after another. It earns a place of high ranking in the Marvel Universe.

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text: More does not necessarily equal better; here, more is just ... meh.
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text:
  The sharp, interpersonal dramedy that made the first movie such a delight is again present in flashes, but not infrequently it is drowned out by the noisy, inevitable need to Save the World.

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text:
  At 141 minutes, it's a miracle the movie is never merely mechanical, but like JARVIS or Ultron, it's not fully human, either.

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text:
  For the most part, "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is the hard-charging, mind-boggling spectacle fans are looking for. Smash indeed.

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text: World-saving is no longer a surprise to these characters. It's work. Grunt work. For them. For us.
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text:
  If at least nine lead characters get their due in dramatic arcs, quippy zingers, and superhero showmanship, it is inevitable that it will be cluttered.

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text:
  It is, in short, more disposable than the mere mortal blockbusters it was designed to outpace. This should defy Marvel Studios mathematics. How can a movie with more stuff than its predecessors be less fun?

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text: The thing's a behemoth. And as the franchise thunders on, it's also becoming more and more a bore.
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text:
  Not everything about Age of Ultron works... But long stretches of it are as good as anything Marvel Studios has produced, suggesting a bolder, more ambitious vision for the studio going forward.

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text:
  The amazing thing about Avengers: Age of Ultron is that it's reasonably enjoyable while feeling less like a movie than an epic sowing of seeds for multiple Marvel properties.

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text:
  Whedon & Co. provide more than enough glib jokes, FX spectacles and sweet human insights to make Age of Ultron a popcorn must for the rest of us in need of a little comic-book wisdom right about now.

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text:
  Writer-director Joss Whedon attempts to inject just enough human drama into these noisy proceedings to keep it from turning into a Transformers-style crashathon.

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text:
  The film is a work of craft, from the actors like Mr. Downey, who can deliver a comic line with the timing of a mouse trap, to the editors, Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek, upon whom so much of the movie's very elegant fluidity rests ...

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text:
  At this point the Marvel superhero movies are as machine-tooled as a Prius, and this one sticks closely to the blueprint that's made them box office titans.

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text:
  You can sense that Mr. Whedon, having helped build a universal earnings machine with the first "Avengers," has now struggled mightily, touchingly, to invest this behemoth with some life.

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text: This is Ferris Bueller's Day Off but with Spiderman.
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text:
  What makes this homecoming fun is [Tom] Holland, who seems as excited about Spider-Man as his classmates even though he is Spider-Man.

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text:
  If "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is to be judged solely on its ability to unite a diverse audience behind a fun motion picture, it seems to have succeeded wildly.

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text:
  A strangely oblivious film, one that undercuts its story with exactly the sort of praise-hungriness that its hero learns to overcome.

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text: Spider-Man: Homecoming is a sublime coming out party for the teenage wall-crawler.
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text:
  The youthful vibe of this character reset, with its sense of humor and its light touch, makes Spider-Man: Homecoming one of the most enjoyable Marvel movies in years.

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text:
  A film that smuggles in a delightfully dorky high school saga under the banner of a too familiar superhero one.

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text: This is the Spidey movie we've been waiting for. It's also the best Spider-Man movie of the bunch.
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text:
  So yeah, I liked Spider-Man: Homecoming. I laughed during the funny parts, felt moved during the moving parts, and got excited during the exciting parts. And that Tom Holland -- he seems like a good kid.

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text:
  Spider-Man: Homecoming is the perfect superhero flick for millennials (or anyone who lives for a really good movie). Like Peter Parker, we're all just trying to figure things out.

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text:
  The chorus of advance raves has declared that Watts has hit the sweet spot. I'd call it sweet-and-sour.

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text:
  An utter gas, a fast and very funny superflick that inserts Spidey into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe without ever losing sight of what makes him unique and beloved.

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text:
  What are the odds that a film with six credited screenwriters and a director (Jon Watts) with more Onion content than anything else could recapture the youthful thrill of superhero movies in general and the youthful appeal of Spider-Man in particular?

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text:
  By partially demonstrating what a newer, fresher superhero movie might look like, Homecoming ultimately underlines its own genre-defined limitations.

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text:
  Watts and his five other screenwriters are better at the small stuff - the jaunty high school scenes - than the kapowie CGI battle sequences.

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text:
  Holland is immensely appealing, young but already very much a hero. My spidey-sense tells me he's just right for the job.

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text: If they're going to be as fizzy and funny and warmhearted as this, keep 'em coming.
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text:
  Another good-enough Marvel movie that is less than the sum of its parts, a crowd-pleaser with many fine scenes but no great ones.

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text: No cobwebs on Spidey - Spider-Man: Homecoming feels breezily, pleasingly fresh.
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text: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is breezy fun.
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text:
  The plot is never the point... it's a series of nostalgic childhood images... with the interplay between nature and humanity, and nature and the modern world.

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text:
  My Neighbour Totoro is an ode to childlike innocence and the ways life can seem all the more wonderful through that lens. We aren't young forever, but movies like this capture the spirit of youth for all eternity.

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text:
  An astonishing achievement of handcrafted animation, Miyazaki's third Ghibli film solidified the studio's presence, and has become an enduring symbol of its excellence.

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text: There's still nothing quite like Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro...
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text:
  The creepy or eerie whimsy of the troll's world is wonderful, but unlike in Spirited Away, the stakes feel really low-it felt like the movie kept making choices to reassure the imagined child-audience that the world is soft, not scary.

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text: Miyazaki's film is about imagination and family in their purest, most innocent forms.
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text:
  Miyazaki makes movies the way other people hallucinate during fever dreams. No sight is too outlandish, no concept too radical, no idea too extreme.

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text: An emotionally true animated film full of whimsy and delight
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text:
  Miyazaki creates a universe where childhood and its perspective of the world is the rule, with the Japanese master highlighting, once more, his knowledge of children's psyche

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text:
  The theme of innocent love is so prevalent and it feels good to watch unconditional displays of it, even within an animated fictional film.

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text:
  Even the most amazing of the great Pixar films could be tagged with the label of "antiseptic." No one would use that for Totoro, which, especially if seen under optimum conditions, astounds with its vibrancy.

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text: Despite these limits, My Neighbor Totoro is a gentle and affirming film.
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text: Miyazaki's appreciation of miraculous possibilities and childhood visions is what drives Totoro.
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text: Sheer enchantment.
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text:
  The world the characters inhabit is less expressionist than impressionist, blessed with a delicate evocation of natural light and color that subtly incorporates Miyazaki's environmentalism.

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text:
  Miyazaki's cinematic magic is so enchanting that even a slew of unremarkable extra features won't take the smile off your face.

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text:
  Obviously aimed at an international audience, the film evinces a disorienting combination of cultures that produces a nowhere land more confused than fascinating.

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text:
  How can I describe its inexplicable power? It is like how childhood memories feel, if you had a happy childhood — wide-eyed and blissful, matter-of-factly magical and entrancingly prosaic

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text: Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy.
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text:
  It's good enough; but given the legend that is the subject matter, and the paucity of films in which his story is central, I'd argue that it needed to be better than "good enough" - if not great...

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text:
  If you're looking for a conventional bio-film, you'll be disappointed. If you want to get inside the head of the ingenious, erratic, enigmatic high priest of jazz, fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride.

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text:
  For jazz aficionados and Miles Davis enthusiasts, Miles Ahead is about as essential a piece of a filmmaking as any they're likely to watch anytime soon.

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text:
  [Such] pat psychologizing of a notoriously complex personality undercuts the swirling chaos of the 80s narrative.

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text:
  Writer-director-star Don Cheadle gives a towering performance that the film simply can't keep up with; he's truly on his own, which is perhaps the way Davis would have wanted it.

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text: A jazzy and unconventional tribute to an American icon, "Miles Ahead" is quite a ride.
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text:
  Ultimately, Cheadle's labor of love prizes the music-making over the music, and maybe even over the man.

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text:
  The problem with "Miles Ahead" isn't the playful, broad license it takes with Davis' story, but that it's so silly.

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text:
  The story has too many moving parts, and Cheadle can't keep them all in play gracefully-but his portrayal of this fantasy Miles seems to strike an almost cosmic connection with the spirit of a man we could never really know.

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text:
  Miles Ahead is more a provocative character sketch than a meaty portrait, but it's a film that should be applauded for its daring, and for Cheadle's shape-shifting, soul-baring work.

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text: Miles Ahead is a fitting tribute to the legend of jazz innovator Miles Davis.
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text:
  See it for Cheadle - for his performance and his ambition - but know that his everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach does a disservice to the man whose life he's telling.

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text:
  a wild, experimental and improvisational treatment of the biopic format -- much like a great jazz riff.

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text:
  Even when 'Miles Ahead' is going off the rails, at least you're not sure where it's going next-which is more than can be said for most films of its type.

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text: Cheadle makes the new film worth seeing despite its flaws.
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text:
  Miles Ahead isn't interested in gritty realism. It isn't really interested in facts at all. But it does seem to capture some essence of Davis that alone would make the movie worth watching, even without the killer soundtrack.

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text:
  Cheadle isn't always successful, but his efforts work out more often than not. And I'd rather see an ambitious film occasionally fall short than a by-the-numbers biography, something this movie avoids at all costs.

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text:
  In a rousing, beautifully shot closing sequence, Davis shares the stage with modern-day jazz musicians. Like most of the film, it's a bit loopy and a bit trippy, but pretty damn cool as well.

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text:
  The reason I like "Miles Ahead," despite its problems, has everything to do with Cheadle both behind and in front of the camera.

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text:
  Cheadle the director doesn't just depict Davis as larger than life - he portrays the musician as larger than larger than life, to the detriment of the production.

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text:
  Yet Farrelly and his cast deliver the cliches with such sincerity and good cheer that the film won me over anyway.

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text:
  An enthusiastic and well-intentioned but ultimately clichéd approach is abundantly evident in the final product.

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text:
  Is it a feel-good charmer poised to rake in greenbacks and Oscar gold? You bet! But don't let that keep you away from this overall well balanced (and timed) look forward from the safe distance of America's motley past.

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text:
  The screenplay essentially turns Shirley into a black man who thematically shapeshifts into whoever will make the story appealing to white audiences - and that's inexcusable.

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text: Green Book feels like a movie lost in time, and we have to do better. We demand better.
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text:
  First-rate execution can't solve all of a film's problems, but Mortensen and Ali offer a reminder that it can solve an awful lot of them.

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text: A well-meaning but glib and shallow ode to interracial healing.
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text: While I can recommend the drama it isn't without some rather substantial reservations...
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text: The actors give it their all, but they come across as extreme caricatures.
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text:
  This is an expertly-acted, perfectly telegraphed message movie that knows the buttons it's pushing, and pushes them all, right on cue. This is not a knock against it, it's a compliment.

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text: A heartfelt ode to the bond between two real-life men.
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text:
  You watch "Green Book" wishing it were a little better but nonetheless enjoying how very good much of it is, thanks to Mortensen and Ali, who make every moment sing.

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text:
  Borrowing the name of such a fraught piece of history and making a feel-good comedy about it, then failing to do that piece of history justice, is at best a misstep.

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text:
  The acting is better than the dialogue, which is better than the plotting. And I have to confess that in the current, insanely divisive political climate, I enjoyed Green Book's spoon-feeding mightily.

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text:
  M oviegoers who will leave this movie having learned for the first time that Dr. Shirley and Green Books existed but only through a white lens, deserved better than this shallow introduction to an integral part of Black history.

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text:
  Humor... keeps the movie floating, weightlessly, above the appalling bedrock of its ponderous assumptions.

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text:
  The tone leans sentimental, if not quite sugary. But the actors' honest chemistry takes Farrelly's movie to the next level. This small tale of American goodness deserves your full attention.

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text:
  In a world that seems to get uglier every day, this movie's gentle heart and mere humanity feel like a salve.

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text:
  Witty and warm as cashmere, Green Book is a two-hander in which both stars soar with humor and heart.

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text:
  Tony and "Doc" don't just learn from each other; this is heroic two-hander in which they both save each other too.

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text:
  The movie is long -- 202 minutes -- but Lee earns every tick of the clock, illuminating the many developmental moments in Malcolm X's personality.

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text:
  Washington's commanding central performance and the intensity with which the story is told make the film feel both brisk and invigorating, challenging our notions of history and what it means to be black in America, then and now.

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text: In Malcolm X, Denzel Washington delivered the best lead male performance of the 1990s.
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text:
  Only a director like Lee could have produced this saga and feature a strong supporting cast with Delroy Lindo, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, and a slew of cameos.

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text:
  Righteously confrontational though Lee's film can be regarding the historical record, there's an embedded idea that collective examination of past history can help us think through the present and lance lasting pathologies.

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text:
  Spike, never shy about courting and confronting controversy, directly engages with the leader's initial commitment to armed resistance, his conflict with the Nation of Islam, and his philosophical differences with Martin Luther King...

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text:
  Spike Lee's Malcolm X is a curiously conventional biopic of an extraordinary individual, dutifully laying out his life story, but ultimately saying little about the man himself.

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text:
  Benefits from a lively lead performance by the miscast Denzel Washington but doesn't come within light years of the book, one of the greatest American autobiographies.

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text:
  Lee and company have performed a powerful service: they have brought Malcolm X very much to life again, both as man and myth.

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text:
  Lee sketches Malcolm's life colorfully, if by the numbers. But he falls victim to the danger of movie biography: he elevates Malcolm's importance until the vital historical context is obscured.

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text:
  Finds Lee's tendencies towards gadflyish social outrage folded into the fabric of the typically reactionary biopic genre.

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text:
  An ambitious, tough, seriously considered biographical film that, with honor, eludes easy characterization.

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text:
  A spiritually enriching testament to the human capacity for change -- and surely Spike Lee's most universally appealing film.

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text: Lee has chosen a big subject and, with his quirky talent, has done it superb justice.
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text: This is an extraordinary life, and Spike Lee has told it in an extraordinary film.
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text:
  Though at times it borders on the hagiographic, Malcolm X is remarkably faithful to the essence of the man -- his anger, his sly wit, his perpetual growth.

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text:
  Lee's movie, despite good intentions, does not inspire any visceral realities. It simply is too superficial, too theatrically poised without the hard-edge that could have made it a masterpiece.

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text:
  The first feature, written and directed by satirist Chris Morris, may seem profane to some, but if you're doomed by watching it, at least you'll go down laughing.

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text:
  Four Lions is more interesting than riotous. Consider it an example - a well-paced, clever and understated compassionate example - of a filmmaker wrestling with fear.

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text: Really, these guys are just knuckleheads. And the movie is full of outrageous laughs.
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text: Might this not have worked better, and conjured more startled outrage, as a mock documentary on TV?
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text:
  I think it's appalling in all the right ways. While its lingering aftertaste of ashes in the mouth is unmistakable, I'd argue that the subject warrants it.

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text:
  The very existence of Four Lions is an act of audacity; the fact that it's also smart, humane, and frequently hilarious is nothing short of a miracle.

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text: One of the funniest movies of the year.
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text:
  "Four Lions" is a daring, brilliantly conceptualized film, but like the bumbling bombers of the title, the execution tends to be hit-and-miss.

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text:
  The comedy divides cleanly into dark, violent slapstick (much of it hilarious) and more routine gags highlighting the fanatical characters' foolishness and incompetence.

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text:
  It's an exceedingly dark comedy, a wicked satire, a thriller where the thrills center on the incompetence of the villains. It's fueled by both merriment and anger.

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text:
  These guys are not charming; they're horrifying in their ignorance, and they cause real damage. But there's a weird relief to be found in the opportunity to laugh ourselves sick at their expense, if only for an instant.

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text: Brilliantly incendiary.
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text:
  The jihadis' absurdity is rooted in real life, but Morris doesn't trivialize the danger they represent.

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text:
  While it isn't entirely successful beginning to end, the film has just enough on its mind and offers up more than enough laughs to make up for its shortcomings.

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text: A comedy of errors and terrors? Who woulda thunk it?
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text: Impending doom is rarely this much fun to watch.
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text:
  I'd say "Four Lions" is intended to be, not a jihad satire, but a satire of the idea of a jihad satire, of the belief that humor of even the edgiest variety can effectively be troweled on to any topic to make it accessible, to humanize or defang it.

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text:
  The director, Chris Morris, has been successfully making TV and radio comedies for 20 years. But he falters in this, his first feature. He's taken what might make a funny sketch and forced it to run more than an hour and a half.

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text: The movie falters with an inconsistent tone.
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text: You laugh until the laughter turns to ashes in your mouth. And then you laugh some more.
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text:
  Cumberbatch, both a natural comedian and a subtle one, knows how to get a big laugh from nothing more than an arched eyebrow.

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text: My reaction to this movie is mixed, at best.
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text:
  With Dr. Strange the Marvel magic seems largely to have run out-which is unfortunate, given the movie's titular protagonist is himself a magician.

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text: Lives up to its title, in mostly good ways.
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text:
  If it's not great storytelling, at least it's good spectacle, and that seems like the minimum these movies can provide.

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text: When Doctor Strange works it does so beautifully.
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text:
  Doctor Strange seems to represent the point at which the art of CGI and the discipline of imagining visual images spatially seems to have reached a sublime degree of 3D complexity.

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text:
  Doctor Strange is about as weird as any Marvel movie is going to get these days, which is not particularly weird.

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text:
  Even though the film is Marvel's crowning aesthetic triumph, even though all four of its stars have their game faces on and act their hearts out, even though it's got great humor and spirit, Doctor Strange isn't close to being Marvel's best movie.

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text:
  The Marvel Comics movie universe gets a bit bigger, though not appreciably better, with Doctor Strange.

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text:
  There's a bunch of mumbo jumbo about sorcerers and whatnot, which weigh down the screenplay like an anchor.

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text:
  Doctor Strange is the weirdest Marvel film so far-and that's a good thing. But while the CGI effects are impressive, the character development is insufficient.

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text:
  Just the right balance between consistency and distinctiveness, between action and wit, and, perhaps the most difficult hurdle, between magic and superpowers.

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text:
  See it in 3-D IMAX, people, and you're in for the hallucinatory headtrip of the year. And having Cumberbatch around really raises the bar on what's possible in comic-book fantasy.

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text:
  Doctor Strange has a dazzling, kaleidoscopic palette that compensates for the usual thin-ish story featuring A-list actors zapping one another, along with a hero who looks fearsomely witty even in repose.

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text:
  For a long while Doctor Strange works both sides of the spiritual street with spectacular success. Then the film becomes what it was sending up so delightfully.

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text:
  An extremely entertaining and sure-footed adaptation that manages to conjure more than enough magic to easily pass its spell check.

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text:
  Even with the fate of the entire universe at stake, Derrickson keeps the tone appealingly light and jokey, and Cumberbatch's Strange isn't so cynical that he can't thrill at discovering his spectacular capabilities ...

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text:
  McAdams costars as Strange's fellow surgeon and former lover, and her lively scenes with Cumberbatch are worth all the digital effects and then some.

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text:
  Defiantly not your everyday Avengers movie, Doctor Strange instead inhabits the same franchise universe with an outré panache.

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text:
  ... it wreaks of self-important pseudo-commentary that is more hollow and garishly humorous than it cares to admit.

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text:
  While The Big Short is hardly uplifting, it still manages to tell a rambunctiously funny tale that's as informative as it is entertaining, humor walking hand-in-hand with tragedy to ultimately craft a comedy that's impossible to dismiss.

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text: Adam McKay's The Big Short plays like an elaborate con, albeit one that uses its powers for good.
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text:
  An unlikely but oddly effective mixture of dark comedy, character study, based-on-a-true-story drama, rabble-rousing, and detective story.

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text:
  As The Big Short goes on, it becomes progressively less funny and more depressing, mirroring the attitudes of the characters.

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text:
  The Big Short is the truth-telling picture of the year. It puts beautifully shaded characters in guy comedy mode into an Altman-esque narrative, shot counter to type by Ken Loach's cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd.

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text:
  McKay cowrote The Big Short's screenplay with Charles Randolph, and they know how to keep an audience engaged, broadcasting this knowledge often, as both parody and indictment.

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text:
  The Big Short manages to be as enlightening as it is entertaining. But its ominous revelations linger long after it's over.

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text:
  Thanks to Anchorman (2004) auteur Adam McKay's caustic comedy The Big Short, the events of the great economic meltdown of 2008 are beginning to make sense.

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text:
  The Big Short's conclusions are bleaker, more funereal than any I can recall from a popular entertainment - but at least it has the good humor to send us laughing all the way to the grave.

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text:
  The Big Short sticks in the throat. You laugh at it only because you can't believe it was this awful -- that people were (and are) this awful. It's the horror movie soundtracked with nervous, incredulous giggles wrung from the rot of the soul.

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text:
  A film that winds up collapsing Marx's dictum to repeat recent history as tragedy and farce in one busy, bouncy ball. The effect is distracting, aggressive and, finally, psychically numbing.

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text:
  Far from being a dry economics lesson, "The Big Short" is an unsparing look at corporate skullduggery and its consequences - and the rare mainstream film with political bite.

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text: "The Big Short" manages to entertain you while making you really, really mad.
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text:
  McKay utilizes A-list talent and creative filmmaking to go with subprime rates and credit debt, though what it amounts to is the hyper-cool version of a boring economics lesson you slept through in college.

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text: See the movie. It's a treat. And educational, too.
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text:
  [It] works as a companion piece to 99 Homes, a film from this year about a laid-off construction worker...Both films capture the deep sense of desperation that comes with a financial crisis and the collateral damage that's left in its path.

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text:
  It's about something we think of as "boring," but it aims to code that boring story with the most exciting filmmaking techniques imaginable.

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text:
  Its excellent intentions are only undermined by how boring it really believes its subject matter to be.

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text:
  One of the most appealing things about this very appealing movie -- a stylistic Chex Mix of storytelling, satire, advocacy, and clip art -- is its high regard for the intellect of the viewer.

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  It's a blizzard of rubbish, lurching from one barely explained magical gizmo or beast to another so quickly that none of it has any impact whatsoever.

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text:
  Honor Among Thieves has a hearty sense of humor, both about its world and itself, without sidestepping too far into irony or meta self-examination.

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text:
  Video games make lousy movies, right? Not this time. Thanks to Chris Pine and a cast of merry pranksters, especially Hugh Grant and a chubwub dragon, the big-screen D&D cuts through the digital chaos to create a goofball fantasy even a non-gamer can love.

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text:
  Given how gleefully Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves embraces and exults in its genre elements, it's interesting to note that it's all the stuff geared to making the film accessible to the mainstream that is the most dully generic thing about it.

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text:
  "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" is an ebullient mix of fantasy, action, and comedy with a terrific cast, thrilling stunts and genuinely fantastic special effects."

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text:
  Rolling the dice on Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is the way to go. It's a magical ride into the fantastical, and I spent most of the film's running time giggling in engrossed appreciation.

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text:
  I could barely remember the logistics of this universe, mostly because they were never fluid. This is why I'm marginally not recommending the film.

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text:
  As an adaptation of the source material, I think it's probably not too grand to say that it works perfectly.

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text:
  Having sat in on my share of D&D campaigns, my personal idea of purgatory is five people debating whether to open a door. Luckily, the film moves faster....Plans are quickly made and just as quickly fail. "This is what we do!" Edgin yelps. "We pivot!"

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text:
  The film's affable nature and the sheer charisma oozing off Pine and Grant is intoxicating, but overall, there's a sense that it doesn't quite gel, the engine revving but never hitting the speed of which it seems capable.

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text: "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" has no business being as good as it is.
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text:
  Daley and Goldstein have delivered a film that refuses to take itself too seriously and perhaps that's where their adaptation differs from its lacklustre predecessors.

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text:
  Daley and Goldstein, who are obviously seasoned D&D players with a passion for the game's intricate world, have created a Princess Bride-esque saga of personal enrichment and revenge that even the most casual fan can get into.

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text:
  The fantasy elements are played straight, and the central story is a relatable romp about how people who fail as individuals can still succeed together.

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text:
  Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was a blast. Not sure if hardcore D&D Heads are going to love it, but I sure as heck did.

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text:
  The same unpredictability that allows the tabletop game to feel exciting and real occurs throughout the film, making it stand out from its action-comedy counterparts.

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text:
  It wasn't satisfying... Perhaps I'll change my mind. Perhaps I won't. But today I'll simply say that I thought it was inglorious indeed.

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text:
  When Tarantino sent this message to moviegoers in 2009, it's unlikely that he imagined how relevant it would be in 2019.

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text:
  The performance of Christoph Waltz, playing the Nazi Gestapo figure Col. Hans Landa, is the highlight of the film. His ability to convey courtliness and sympathy and then go to commit the cruelest of horrors is simply superb.

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text:
  The movie left me both exhilarated and frustrated. Not quite a masterpiece, it might qualify as a "messterpiece," an unwieldy, unfocused film with unforgettable moments that nearly get lost in a sea of excess.

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text:
  The movie is a bit long, well over two hours and probably could have been two hours had the first half of the movie not dragged. But the second half is well worth the build-up.

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text:
  Despite the injection of content from a variety of directions, Basterds lacks the crackly excitement of Tarantino's other efforts, mainly because he can't seem to tie the whole package together.

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text:
  Waltz will be unknown to most American audiences -- he was certainly unknown to me -- but he's nothing less than sensational as the silky, polyglot SS officer charged by the Fuhrer to root out the remaining Jews in France.

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text: Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.
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text:
  Dialogue is sharp, the imagery mesmerizing and both come together to create a wildly entertaining film. Impossible to watch without wanting to be a Basterd yourself.

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text:
  Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.

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text:
  Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.

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text:
  I need to learn if this is indeed the spectacularly engaging mess I want to say it is or just a plain old mess with spectacular moments, the difference between the two so razor-thin a follicle of hair might actually be thicker.

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text:
  Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.

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text:
  Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.

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text:
  Clocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, it is unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial, a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history and manages to be violent without the start-to-finish energy that violence on screen usually guarantees.

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text:
  The picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino -- the wit, the audacity, the sudden violence -- but this movie's emotional core and bigness of spirit are new.

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text:
  Tarantino's signature nastiness and his juvenile delight in shocking the audience undercut the movie's larger purpose.

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text:
  Scenes like the showdown in the tavern and the movie-premiere finale are as imaginative, energetic and, in their own weird, brutal way, beautiful as cinema gets.

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text:
  All the trademark Tarantino flourishes are here -- the joyous splaying of gore; the self-referential dialogue; the artful artificiality and the juxtaposition of humor and violence -- but they don't add up to much.

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text:
  Simply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love.

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text: It's a better than decent thriller that you can catch on your telly.
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text:
  A well-written, well-acted and hard-hitting piece of material accompanied by an excellent musical score. And it features Timothy Spall and Hugh Bonneville in key roles as some of the villains indicated in the movie's title.

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text:
  Wastes its cast and intriguing potential with a cliche by the numbers gangster film that lacks energy or engaging suspense.

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text:
  Ably performed by a cast of some formidably notable talent joined by contemporary stars, there's nothing essentially wrong with Scalpello's latest... And yet, there's nothing to make this remarkably compelling or eventually memorable.

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text: Saddled with a convoluted plot.
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text: Violent, profane, but entertaining British gangster movie.
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text: The efforts of some talented actors are squandered in this by-the-numbers British crime thriller.
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text:
  Scalpello and screenwriter Nick Moorcroft take the lowest common denominator route, falling back on tired mob-movie clichés, stock characters and leaden dialogue so generic it could have been written by an algorithm.

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text:
  In terms of the filmmaking, Serial Bad Weddings looks like a bad wedding video made with lots of French television funding.

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text: The MTV-style editing feels passé, its humor smug and fratty.
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text:
  For all its energy and vulgarity, The Gentlemen is a slog, a tedious and unnecessarily unpleasant tour of ground that Ritchie's already covered.

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text:
  Telegraphing dialogue, Tarantino-speak tributes, and a third act plot logjam are tantamount to bringing ants to the picnic, but there's enough repellent on board so as not to bother or distract too much.

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text:
  Guy Ritchie goes full reactionary in the outdated and uninteresting The Gentlemen, a boring slog of racist caricatures masquerading as style.

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text:
  It's not that Ritchie's film doesn't have some zip... But the movie time and time again exalts the gallantry of its gentlemen heroes at the expense of those unlike them. It gives this glass of Gritchie's English Lore a bitter taste.

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text: I found this movie relentlessly entertaining.
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text:
  Grant once again is stunning in a supporting role, his twisty grandeur as he spins his verbal web extraordinary.

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text:
  This crass, witless, and unpleasant attempt at comedy showcases Ritchie's lack of sense and taste. As two characters agree after looking at the bestiality video, "You can't unsee it." But one does not have to look at it in the first place.

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text: This is utter nonsense, and I was never not entertained.
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text:
  Sure, I like this movie. I've liked it every time [Guy Ritchie] has made it. He's been making it for 25 years... For me, it's all starting to wear a little thin.

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text:
  There's a very self-aware element to [Matthew McConaughey's] performance and to this film -- for the better. This is a great return to form for Guy Ritchie.

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text: "The Gentlemen" never ceases to surprise and amuse.
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text: The Gentlemen already feels dated, even anachronous, particularly in these woke times.
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text:
  [Grant's] top value and way better than the film deserves: that is class, and given how he almost redeems the film, you can't begrudge Ritchie the luxury.

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text:
  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch remain fun, but they're products of their time, and Ritchie doesn't seem to have grown as a director beyond having more money and bigger stars at his disposal.

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text:
  Written with empty-headed desperation and directed with minimal imagination by Guy Ritchie, one of the most incompetent filmmakers of the century.

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text:
  Filled with crosses and double crosses, the plot is mostly irrelevant, but the outlandish flourishes make for a good deal of foul-mouthed fun.

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text:
  "The Gentlemen" is a mongrel of a movie. There are not enough twists and tangles for a proper mystery, not enough thrills for an action flick, and not enough laughs for a comedy...

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text:
  The Gentlemen is a rollicking and biting look at everything from international relations to filmmaking, wrapped up in a veneer of polished elegance.

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text: The result isn't exactly Lock, Stock Redux. Only the "stock" part remains.
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text: Excellent account of FBI's youngest Most Wanted.
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text:
  Arguably the most gifted young actor of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio has definitely been a victim of his own success. Leo bashing was all the rage there for a while after his monster smash Titanic.

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text: This is a delectable film indeed.
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text: DiCaprio has the breeze and aplomb to keep it all bouncing along.
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text: Breezily enjoyable but thin.
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text: A delicious cat-and-mouse game flecked with intriguing Oedipal undertones.
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text:
  A gently funny, sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good, that is to say, entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp, overmanipulative Hollywood practices.

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text:
  Catch Me if You Can is one of those deceptively slight offerings that manages to reveal more about its maker than the intended masterpieces often do.

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text: What begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes.
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text:
  Most of the film is an extended chase, with Abagnale always one clever step ahead, and it's tense, good fun, if a tad underdeveloped.

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text: A pleasant, mildly diverting story.
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text:
  Spielberg perfectly re-creates the fashions, the mood and the trends of the '60s, and DiCaprio and Hanks have a lot of fun with their roles.

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text:
  It's Spielberg with the message turned off, a jaunty two hours and 20 minutes that returns the director to his first love: blissfully pure cinematic fun.

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text: One of the most enjoyable films of the year.
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text: After a series of dud roles, DiCaprio is back in star form.
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text:
  It's more amusing than hilarious, more cute than inspired, but there's just too much talent on and off the screen for it to fail.

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text: Spielberg's breeziest work in years.
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text:
  Breezy and entertaining
   essentially a celebration of the career of a con artist, [but] it celebrates his cleverness and panache rather than his dishonesty, and ends on a satisfyingly redemptive note.

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text:
  Ultimately about fathers and sons -- but it's also about the pleasures of telling a good story, with retro charm to spare.

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text:
  Puss in Boots kind of surprised me. Far more witty then I expected it to be, nicely animated and featuring a charming story of forgiveness and redemption that belies its Shrek inspired fractured fairy tale roots, this movie more than won me over.

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text:
  It starts out fun and dashing and crazy, but once the plot sets in, I was significantly less into it.

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text:
  Puss in Boots prances along on three basic truths. One, cats are funny. Two, vain Spanish cats in high-heeled musketeer boots are even funnier. Lastly, booted, vain Spanish cats voiced by a breathy Antonio Banderas are flat-out hilarious.

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text:
  It would overstate matters to say Puss in Boots leaves its cat holding the bag (we had to get that in). But it also leaves its hero awaiting a richer fable, one befitting his charms and his portrayer's talents.

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text:
  Just when you were about to give up on 3-D-and the inflated price of admission to watch it on a theater screen-along comes a film that's worth the money. In fact, it isn't the story that makes Puss in Boots stand out, but the imaginative staging...

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text:
  The character may be here to save the day, but the movie's only here to pass the time and it does that just fine.

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text: Unlike Mater, Puss is ready for his closeup.
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text:
  Almost shockingly good. And not just because a lot of you will approach it with lowered expectations.

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text:
  With his impeccable comic timing and lyrical Spanish accent, Banderas' swashbuckling charmer is an undeniable treat.

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text:
  Basically, this toon is a tired riff on Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns, punctuated by more puns and cat jokes than you can shake a litter box at.

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text:
  Less visually striking, less funny, and less heart-warming than the Shrek movies and with completely unnecessary 3D, it is a step down for the series.

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text:
  A cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters parachuted into a Spanish storybook setting.

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text: Perhaps the most engaging thing about "Puss in Boots" is that it never takes itself too seriously.
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text:
  Puss made his debut in "Shrek 2," then did time in the two decreasingly funny sequels. Now he's got a movie of his own, and not a moment too soon.

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text: It's always a pleasure to find a family film that respects its audience all the way up the line.
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text:
  "Puss in Boots'' doesn't break any new ground in the storytelling department, and its reliance on go-go-go state-of-the-art action sequences grows wearying by the end, but the movie has a devilish wit that works for parent and child alike...

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text:
  In the Shrek films, the joke of Puss in Boots, with his trilled consonants and penchant for chest-puffing sword duels, is that no one this cuddly should try to be this dashing. But in Puss in Boots, that joke wears out its welcome in 15 minutes.

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text: Puss in Boots is cute and entertaining but hardly purr-fect.
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text: Say what you will about the film's wielding of stereotypes -- it genuinely loves its characters.
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text:
  What felt like winking cheekiness in the first movie can come across now more like clumsy provocation.

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text:
  A cappella isn't something everyone wants to do, as Beca constantly reminds us, but for this kid, it's all she's ever wanted to do. And when Pitch Perfect 2 is at its best, it makes you feel, for just a second, like you want to, too.

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text: This is a rare comedy sequel that works, so let's hope they don't do a third.
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text:
  Anna Kendrick's Beca, a mash-up maestro, spends the movie looking like she'd rather scale a fish than scale her vocals. (Maybe because Kendrick is nearly 30, and she's still playing a college student?)

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text:
  Ethnic clichés abound, college comes off as a free sleepaway camp, and the simple wonders of unaccompanied singing are inflated to Las Vegas-style bombast.

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text: Stop me if you think you've heard this one before.
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text:
  It actually is difficult to write a review of Pitch Perfect 2. First you have to think up and reject a bunch of adjectives and nouns to pair with "a ca," as in, "It's a ca-lousy" ...

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text:
  This sequel succumbs to a predictable syndrome and goes big when it should have gone home. Its self-satisfaction is a step toward cynicism, and that is what a Pitch Perfect film must never be.

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text:
  As second rounds of comedies go, "Pitch Perfect 2" definitely is not perfect. Its script is more than a smidge pitchy.

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text:
  A movie with attitude and energy that's not as aca-amazing as the original, but still makes for semi-shiny summertime fun.

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text:
  The over-the-top racist caricatures feels horribly out-of-sync with the movie's positive message about girl power and friendship.

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text:
  Despite stereotypical characters and many flat jokes, the charisma of the cast and energetic direction won me over in the end.

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text:
  It is an impressive feature directing debut, with Banks handling the high-octane chaos of "Pitch" with almost perfect aplomb.

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text: Acca-heaven!
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text: There's no interest in surprising us even a little bit.
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text:
  The casual busyness of the plots does not distract from the essence of the movie, which is the pleasure and occasional stress of hanging out with like-minded girlfriends as you ease your way toward adulthood.

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text:
  Like many of the musical artists whose songs are covered, the series has suffered a slump with its second outing. "Pitch Perfect 2" plays the notes, but not the music.

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text:
  Despite so much returning talent (the film also shares the same screenwriter in Kay Cannon), Pitch Perfect 2 is singing a completely different tune from the 2012 original. And the notes are feeling a bit over-produced.

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text:
  The Blues Brothers is the year's best film to date; one of the, all-time great comedies; the best movie ever made in Chicago. All are true, and, boy, is that ever a surprise.

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text:
  The Blues Brothers is unlike anything you've ever seen before, at once touching and far-far out -- and most of all, best of all, it is hugely entertaining.

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text:
  Too many times, The Blues Brothers is static when it should be ecstatic. When it tries to hit the heights, it's not nearly dizzying enough And when it should soar, it simply hangs there.

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text:
  Despite the temporary lift that the old pros give the picture, it is difficult for the non-cultist to feel anything but dismay, again, that so much has been squandered to produce so little that is truly artful or genuinely entertaining.

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text:
  As spectacular as the chases are, Blues Brothers works because of Aykroyd and Belushi, who play off each other with nearly flawless timing and sustain it throughout the movie's two hours and 10 minutes.

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text:
  The film is a monument to car wreckage, with a tip of the hat to rhythm and blues. If you've seen the preview, you've seen the movie.

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text:
  Only the music, a collection of rock and blues hits, is palatable but not enough to pull this film out of the gutter.

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text:
  Landis' staging and camera blocking aren't always up to the task, but the performers are so electrifying, it doesn't much matter.

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text:
  The script, written by Aykroyd and director John Landis, is full of opportunities for comedy, few of them realized.

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text:
  The Blues Brothers contains enough energy for 10 movies. Much of it is misdirected, but enough remains to please less demanding movie patrons.

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text:
  Because there is no development in Jake and Elwood in the course of this overly long movie, Landis falls back on chases and crashes with the enthusiasm of a three-year-old kicking his blocks over.

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text:
  There is no more material sustaining The Blues Brothers"than one would find in a silent comedy short running 10 or 20 minutes.

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text:
  There's no indication that Landis knows what the words "pace" or "mood" mean. He operates on one track.

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text: A demolition symphony that works with the cold efficiency of a Moog synthesizer gone sadistic.
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text:
  Given all the chaos, director and, with Aykroyd, cowriter, John Landis manages to keep things reasonably controlled and in a straight line.

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text:
  The humor is predicated on underplaying in overscaled situations, which is sporadically funny in a Keaton-esque way but soon sputters out through sheer, uninspired repetition.

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text:
  There's even room, in the midst of the carnage and mayhem, for a surprising amount of grace, humor, and whimsy.

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text:
  This essentially modest movie is reported to have cost about $30 million, and what did all that money buy? Scores of car crashes. Too many extras. Overstaged dance numbers. And a hollowness that certainly didn't come cheap.

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text:
  Just about the only Saturday Night Live skit that makes a successful transition into a feature-length comedy.

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text: Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus isn't real and Pixar is fallible.
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text:
  Capturing the spirit of old Saturday Morning cartoons, most notably of the Hanna-Barbara variety, the movie it a witty adventure kids will adore and parents will get a pretty decent kick out of.

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text: It's an example of what a sequel should, or at least can, be.
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text:
  Cars 2 is marginally better than its predecessor, but the same problem still remains: Cars just aren't very interesting as anthropomorphic animation vehicles (pun intended).

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text:
  ...by Pixar's outrageous standards of Oscar shoo-in virtuosity, this sequel is a disappointment at best.

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text:
  I have such high regard for Pixar and its creative team, led by John Lasseter, that it actually hurts to knock one of their movies-something I've never done before. But then, I've never gotten a headache watching any of their previous films. Despite...

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text:
  Larry the Cable Guy has helped make Mater one of Pixar's sweetest creations. He just happens to reside in the studio's least-magical franchise.

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text: Not that Cars 2 is an actively bad animated film. It's just sort of an average animated film.
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text:
  A work of disheartening anonymity … not only is Cars 2 mediocre, it doesn't even feel like mediocre Pixar.

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text: As lovable as Mater is, let's face it: A little bit of Larry the Cable Guy goes a long way.
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text:
  They said it couldn't be done. But Pixar proved the yaysayers wrong when it made its first bad movie, "Cars." Now it has worsted itself with the even more awful "Cars 2."

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text: Lasseter and his team's pitch-perfect way with genre cliches revs up the espionage subplot.
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text:
  It's a worthwhile diversion... but let's hope that Lasseter and friends soon return to the emotional ambition that has made Pixar such a reliable brand to date.

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text: Cars 2 demonstrates that not every hit movie merits a sequel.
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text:
  "Cars 2" teaches gentle kid-friendly lessons about the importance of friendship and being yourself and introduces some great new characters in its parallel spy drama and auto racing plots.

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text:
  All the shifts in location with four big races and the spy story get overly complicated without drawing us in, a disquieting sense of missing the forest for the trees.

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text:
  The film's frenetic pace will keep the kids from getting bored but overall Cars 2 does not further Pixar's previously pristine legacy. Cars 2 makes for a decent play date but is not an especially good movie.

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text:
  In terms of story and atmosphere and overall feeling, "Cars 2" is a brand-new experience - and a distinct improvement.

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text:
  The law of averages has finally caught up with the most remarkable studio in modern movie history, the dream factory that lived up to Buzz Lightyear's joyous cry of "To infinity and beyond." This frenzied sequel seldom gets beyond mediocrity.

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text: We've come to expect perfection from Pixar, mostly because Pixar expects perfection from itself.
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text:
  The Angry Birds Movie gets the job done, but there are strange tonal shifts here and a surprising amount of off-color jokes.

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text:
  The Angry Birds Movie is really not bad. It is actually very actively okay. The film has taken its bird-brained brand... and used it to construct characters and plots that are certainly serviceable, and possibly even inspired.

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text:
  Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.

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text: Angry Birds could be gonzo; instead, it's just kinda... there.
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text: Bright and cheerful, but under-plotted and overproduced.
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text:
  The game "Angry Birds," at its core, is a destination for switching off your brain. And movies, even throw-away summer animated kid films, should aim for something more.

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text: The kids of today deserve better. So do I, come to think of it.
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text: Game over.
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text: Parents of 5-year-olds, you have been warned.
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text:
  After paying good money to take your family to see this film, you may be dealing with some anger-management issues of your own.

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text:
  The movie is ultimately a 90-minute commercial with vivid colors and other cuddly game characters popping up along the way.

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text:
  I admit I fell victim to many a belly laugh watching The Angry Birds Movie. I loved Sudeikis' and Penn's performances.

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text:
  Screenwriter Jon Vitti and first-time directors Fergal Reilly and Clay Kaytis certainly give it a try, but their bag of tricks is mostly recycled and their sense of humor is aimed squarely at 12-year-old boys.

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text:
  Angry Birds' 3-D animation is perfectly honed for a game-based flick, but it can't make up for a story that feels cobbled together from a thousand-million cellular thumbs.

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text:
  Again and again, Angry Birds returns to the well, assuming that imitating the way other cartoons look, or making a goofy noise, will cause something funny to just kind of happen.

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text:
  "The Angry Birds Movie" is unnecessary but cute, like a bonnet on a cat - and there are certainly worse recommendations than that.

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text:
  Repackaged way past the time when the game was a peak obsession, this animated joyride is still an irresistible invitation to shake your sillies out.

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text:
  The movie's story, by John Cohen, is pretty thin gruel, but Jon Vitti's smart-aleck script can be quite funny, and the brightly colored animation is appealing.

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text:
  The 3-D animated film delivers a mildly diverting mix of winky meta-jokes and moral lessons, cannily aimed at both the next generation of tiny consumers and their more sophisticated parents.

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text: The Angry Birds Movie is a lot of things, but none of them true to the app's appeal.
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text:
  There's something about the look of Kung Fu Panda that is so novel and pleasing. Perhaps it's just that we haven't seen this vintage, Far East world in a computer-animated movie before.

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text:
  The animation work is dazzling; it's lovingly detailed without being overdone (particularly the opening sequence, which is hand-drawn and looks like prints struck from ancient woodblocks).

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text:
  Manages to entertain and dazzle, and parents won't beat themselves up for sitting through it, although what it teaches could fit on a fortune cookie.

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text:
  Hands down the most visually striking of DreamWorks Animation's releases, this lively CGI comedy is tailor-made for Jack Black.

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text:
  The aphorisms creak. The plot's an open book. But all of those clichés are part of the joke in this ebullient ursine coming-of-age tale about a humble panda destined for greatness.

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text: The action tends to blur into a whirlwind of slapstick chaos.
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text:
  The fight choreography in Kung Fu Panda is the real draw. And, especially in IMAX, the film is never visually boring.

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text: Hardly a groundbreaker, but still impressive in a good many of its particulars.
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text:
  The film settles into a succession of ritual spoofs of the kung fu genre, and peddles the sort of cloying preachments about self-esteem and human potential -- panda potential -- that little kids hear all the time on TV.

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text:
  Everything that happens in this dull tale of Po, a paunchy panda who becomes a zealous kung fu fighter, is telegraphed well in advance.

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text: A master [course] in cunning visual art and ultra-satisfying entertainment.
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text:
  Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen the way they usually happen in animated stories.

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text:
  The animation is dazzling, so lovingly detailed you can make out individual hairs on the titular beastie, and full of bright Chinese images.

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text:
  This is an unashamedly old-fashioned children's movie, and a predictable message is part of the mission. But that's okay; what the movie lacks in surprises, it makes up for in whimsical fun

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text:
  The message -- believe in yourself even when all evidence suggests you shouldn't -- is annoyingly familiar and frankly overdue for a serious debunking, but it's not about to happen here.

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text:
  Very much a Hollywood production -- formulaic, made for marketing and never quite as inspired as it could have been.

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text:
  With loads of laugh lines, Kung Fu Panda plays with the ying- yang tension of sincerity and irreverance. And it never shirks a popcorn tenet: kernels of wisdom must be tasty.

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text:
  The kung fu scenes overflow with crisp, thrilling and funny moments that whiz by in the 88-minute run time.

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text: The animation is consistently sporty and there are some choice comic riffs on martial arts movies.
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text:
  Everything about Kung Fu Panda is a little better, a little sharper, a little funnier than the animated run of the mill. It's one of the few comedies of 2008 that knows what it's doing.

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text:
  [A] satisfying, if less than sensational, sequel to the funny, charming and action-packed animated feature from 2008.

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text:
  While not as fresh or as inspired as the first film, this second chapter in roly-poly panda Po's journey is not without its charms.

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text:
  By the end, Po experiences some of the same recycled epiphanies from the first film, sans their emotional panache.

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text:
  It's tricky to change the thrust-and the tone-of a story in its second installment, but I think the creators of Kung Fu Panda 2 have pulled it off. The first movie was disarming as it introduced the unlikeliest of action heroes-an eternally...

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text:
  Hardly a scene goes by that isn't visually striking or kinetically thrilling, and all of it enhanced by 3-D.

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text:
  Po and friends redeem themselves with a terrific third act, the animation (in three distinct styles) is superb and there's enough hiii-YA-ing to keep the kids yipping throughout.

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text:
  The film's visuals are thrilling, beguiling, vivid: the greens of a glade or a terraced hillside; the molten reds of Shen's smelting works or yellow-orange arcs of fireworks.

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text:
  No, we're not talking about Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter, although it does feel that way early on in the animated Kung Fu Panda 2.

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text:
  Kung Fu Panda 2 offers nothing to tantalize adult viewers in terms of delivering quips and double meanings beyond the understanding of their kid companions. But kids are bound to get a kick out of these kung fu creatures.

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text:
  Alas, this time there are about three or four mild laughs in the whole picture, and the entire visual aspect of the movie is a botched disappointment.

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text:
  Exquisite, Asian-influenced design and a story that combines some of the classic heroic themes with gentle humor.

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text:
  Has a bright palette, an amiable vibe and enough vivacity to keep kids entertained and any accompanying moms from bolting for Bridesmaids.

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text:
  The original film was a compelling surprise, an unusually fun and sophisticated take on the wacky-animal CGI movie. The sequel remains visually beautiful and strikingly designed, but otherwise, it's a surprise in all the wrong ways.

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text:
  For a movie touting "inner peace," this 3-D sequel sure goes in for its share of battle scenes, but for the most part they are excitingly conceived by director Jennifer Yuh Nelson and her writers, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger.

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text:
  The freshness and novelty that made the original film such a kick back in 2008 has been, well, kicked to bits.

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text:
  What really makes the film work... is director Yuh's sense of timing. She knows how to get in and out of a joke before beating it to death. A quick Pac-Man reference during a chase comes and goes, delighting without ever dragging.

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text: A breezy, funny, touching, action-packed sequel.
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text: Nearly matches the original in charm and kicks.
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text: With its mix of vibrant CG and classical elements, the movie dazzles.
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text:
  Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson's true cannon fist is how seamlessly "Panda's" wild skirmishes mesh with its eloquent narrative, even if there are less pauses for reflection this time 'round.

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text:
  The lessons of The Wild Robot are simple, but the artistry it uses to get there is anything but. It's the kind of kids movie that feels all too rare with its painterly backdrops and genuine earnestness. The whole family is likely to fall in love.

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text: Lupita Nyong'o is doing fantastic voice work here. The whole cast is great.
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text: It's got lots of lovely life lessons.
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text:
  Family audiences rejoice! The Oscar for Best Animated Film belongs right here in this enchanting tale of a robot, voiced by the amazing Lupita Nyong'o, who finds herself playing mother to a baby goose. The result is spectacular in every sense of the word.

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text:
  Sanders' groundbreaking animated feature is a comment on the current and projected state of humanity. From the impacts of global warming to the reliance on robots, it's surely a warning sign.

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text: Perfect for tweens, teens and up. It helps parents teach children about the wide meaning of family.
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text:
  Every current, former or potential parent in the audience can recognize what this fledgling parental unit is going through.

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text: It's a breathtakingly human film - about a bird and a bot.
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text: Adapted from the children's book of the same name, The Wild Robot is beautiful inside and out.
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text:
  The Wild Robot is a genuinely beautiful movie, in every sense of that adjective. Its physical production is impressive, to say the least, but there are no weak links in its chain, from character design to its exquisitely rendered environment

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text:
  If it's not a perfect movie, it's the best kind of mostly perfect movie: the kind where the missteps, if they are missteps, don't diminish the delight of the perfect parts.

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text:
  It's heartwarming the way a latter-era Coldplay track is heartwarming: by design, so its effect feels somewhat synthetic.

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text: The Wild Robot is a magnificent family film.
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text: The amusing, beautifully crafted animation becomes a talking animal movie (which I love).
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text: A rare cinematic experience, a very special and transfixing film that hits all the right buttons.
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text: The circle of life is visible in "The Wild Robot," which embraces its harsh realities with daring.
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text: The film is just fine for the little ones and engaging for the grown-ups.
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text:
  Despite its machine-and-animal cast, "The Wild Robot" is a welcome step toward humanity for big-budget, studio animation.

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text:
  The edges of love may be messy, but as The Wild Robot understands and expresses beautifully, we're all more than our programming.

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text:
  With its unexpectedly moving sights, remarkable voice ensemble, and pure clarity of humanist vision, The Wild Robot emerges as a stunning achievement.

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text:
  The film's anarchy might reflect a lot of younger players' first experience with Minecraft, where destruction can be just as fun as creation. Missing on the big screen, meanwhile, is the odd, remote atmosphere that drew me in.

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text:
  "A Minecraft Movie" is quirky and goofy enough to make one wish it held together better overall, but it's also a likable venture.

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text: Jack Black and Jason Momoa together, they're okay; so it's perfectly unremarkable.
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text:
  It's got enough personality to make me wish that Hess had had a still freer hand... Don't mistake my curiosity for enthusiasm. I can't recommend that anyone see A Minecraft Movie, not even a child.

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text:
  Jared Hess directed Napoleon Dynamite. This movie is as if Napoleon Dynamite directed it, not Jared.

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text:
  For a wildly imaginative world-building project, the film is mostly ghastly to look at... if the possibilities of this world are endless, why does it all devolve into violent, ugly, boring warfare?

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text: It feels like a small miracle that the resulting film is so funny, lively, and light on its feet.
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text:
  A Minecraft Movie feigns creativity by hollowing out a name brand and inserting a zombified story that does little more than capitalize on (or cannibalize) the name.

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text:
  Mr. Hess and his five screenwriters have mined childhood to craft something that's alive with imagination. It's not the most polished movie you'll see this year, but it's as cheerfully mad as a little kid's birthday party. We could use more of that.

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text:
  What makes A Minecraft Movie so dispiriting is how it fails to spark the imagination, betraying a core tenet of the game on which it's based

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text:
  There's a self-reflexivity to the game's artifact-y textures that's lost in this film adaptation, where the finely detailed look of just about everything says nothing in itself about the endless possibilities of a digital world's malleability.

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text:
  The comic pairing of Jack Black and Jason Momoa makes this video game-turned-PG-movie pablum seem better than the cash grab it is. But not by much. Still, there's no shame in being strictly kids' stuff that knows how to serve and entertain its audience.

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text:
  Another example of Hollywood shoving a beloved property into the factory mold (cube-shaped mold, natch), hoping name recognition will be enough to justify its existence.

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text:
  Turning Minecraft into a movie presents a challenge, because the film has a lot of character development to catch up on. But, as The Lego Movie and Barbie have demonstrated, it's possible to get it spectacularly right.

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text:
  We just don't want to be the one to inform God what his creations hath wrought with this expensively cheap, 100-percent corporate mess.

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text:
  The biggest surprise is that "A Minecraft Movie" ends up feeling more necessary in an era of depreciating art appreciation.

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text:
  There's a great comedy in here somewhere that has nothing at all to do with "Minecraft," which just shows that as a storyteller, Hess has plenty of gas left in his tank.

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text:
  Hess' take on Minecraft is essentially a meathead version of "The Wizard of Oz." Four ragtag Idaho acquaintances blunder into the Overworld and beg Jack Black's wizard-bearded blowhard for help returning home. Yes, Toto, there's a cubist dog, too

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text:
  Its appreciation for the endless potential of imagination should be more likely to inspire viewers to try to play the game or even create their own.

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text:
  Th[e] loosey-goosey attitude, an "open sandbox" if you will, is a breath of fresh air after so many family films that seem preordained by lore.

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text:
  It's a strong debut for a new hero, injecting diverse blood into the MCU in a way that does not feel forced or hollow. I just think the overall film is still less than the sum of its more outstanding parts.

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text:
  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings at least continues the studio's track record of enlisting the talents of truly great artists. Here, that would be the commanding and charismatic Leung.

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text:
  It's a good movie. It's got a plausibly fearsome villain by way of Leung, a nice ensemble of heroic personalities, and a dose of actually-poignant family drama undergirding all the rest.

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text:
  Almost any movie ascending out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point requires a classicist's devotion to subtextual minutiae. Which is exactly why Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is such a breath of freshly fantastical air.

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text:
  So what if the showoff climax subs depth for dazzle. As the first Asian hero in Marvel history, former stuntman Simu Liu is action poetry in motion and his epic starring debut kicks off the fall film season on a rousing high note.

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text:
  Shang-Chi doesn't just pull off a fun western xuanhuan, but makes it feel like a door being opened for future Marvel films.

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text:
  Yes, "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" is culturally significant, but this should not be lost: It's also a fantastic movie.

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text:
  It's fresh, it's alive, it's not the same old Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are also awesome dragons.

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text:
  "Shang-Chi" holds his own, but he doesn't leave you wanting more. It feels like a one-and-done while we get back to the main attraction.

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text:
  Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film is somewhat overstuffed and lumpy in parts and the last surreal third is poorly knitted into the rest of the narrative, but it's all impossible to predict and you'll leave the theater satisfied.

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text:
  Shang-Chi isn't a hopeless addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe fold. But the movie feels as racked with a sense of inadequacy about its main character as that main character is about himself...

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text:
  I fear for the sequel, as I do for all Marvel sequels, because so often they're about delivering another round of the expected. But "Shang-Chi" may succeed there, too. It certainly succeeds here.

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text:
  The film uses the superficial markers of Asian culture and filmmaking without presenting anything unique in its Marvel take on that tradition.

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text: Disney-Marvel's first Asian lead superhero makes a semi-impressive debut.
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text:
  Razzle dazzle - with a ton of heart and a generous sprinkling of warm humor. That's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" right there.

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text: An exciting, heartfelt origin story with a wow of a fight scene on an articulated bus.
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text:
  "..doesn't feel like just another MCU installment, which is a compliment. The characters are fresh and Cretton constantly emphasizes the emotional connections between them, crafting a modern, wuxia-informed martial arts movie with heart.

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text:
  "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" certainly isn't the typical MCU entry. That's part of its appeal.

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text:
  [Shang-Chi] fits into Marvel packaging in its own way, but it has an immense soulfulness that other MCU movies, superhero movies, and action movies in general should take notes from.

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text: [L]umbers along with a weighted-down plot obsessed with backstory.
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text:
  The myriad of ways this sequel could have ended in disaster were obvious and ripe. Nevertheless, against all odds, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a good movie.

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text:
  Expanding the world of a concept is great! But the story that Welcome to the Jungle is expanded for is yet another teen-self-actualization movie, the kind of thing we already received this year.

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text:
  It strikes the balance between referencing its nostalgic origins without being obnoxious or obsequious in doing so.

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text:
  "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" makes the original "Jumanji" look like a towering cinematic achievement.

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text:
  The sequel stands alone well enough for newcomers while creating something enjoyable for those old enough to remember.

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text:
  The movie has amusingly broad performances; good, bloodless scares ... and self-empowering life lessons too bland to be specious. You could do far worse.

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text: This one is a real blast.
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text:
  What makes this a true high adventure is that it catches the details and nuances of what made Nineties multiplayer console games so infectious and frustrating.

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text:
  Like a video game, the narrative lacks any character development, relying on obstacles, chases, and the threat of elimination. Hart delivers his one-liners with precision and verve, and Johnson is sweetly funny as the muscular incarnation of a gawky nerd.

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text:
  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle might not be a great movie, but sure as heck it's an entertaining one.

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text: It's Hollywood formula at its most generic.
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text:
  But what the film lacks in depth, it balances in detail. Black's soft - but not comically squeaky - voice gives Bethany the soul she lacked in hot girl form, back when all the screenwriters could think of to have her do was take selfies.

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text:
  So much fun that by the time we get to Game Over, we just might be ready to reboot and start it over again.

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text: A likable, funny diversion, and sometimes more than that.
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text: With its smart casting and lively action sequences, this version of the game is an overall upgrade.
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text:
  It is smarter and more humorous than the first movie, and its digital effects - which include stampeding albino rhinos and mountain-scraping aerobatics - are far snazzier, as one would expect.

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text:
  In the end, the filmmakers have given us one of the most fun movie-going experiences I've had this year. Huge kudos go to Johnson, Hart and especially Black for providing some truly entertaining performances.

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text:
  Director Jake Kasdan coaxes crisp interplay from all four leads, getting more from Johnson and Hart's scenes together than Central Intelligence did.

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text:
  Johnson is good at suggesting a timid teen beneath his wall of muscle. Gillan seems believably unsure of herself as the nerd Martha, while also making exposed abs look classy.

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text: This Jumanji is a passable time-waster, the equivalent of comfort food dished up for the holidays.
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text:
  Kung Fu Panda 3 concludes on a definite high note, filled with eye-popping animated set pieces as well as thrilling story beats that I was perfectly entertained by.

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text:
  Kung Fu Panda 3 revisits the same themes as its predecessors ... But that familiarity doesn't lessen the film's emotional impact and solid laughs.

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text:
  Kung Fu Panda 3 follows that same template almost to the letter and punctuation mark. But it's so engaging and entertaining that its reliance on that well-worn hero's journey narrative doesn't feel stale.

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text: Kung Pow! for Kung Fu Panda 3. The third in the series is all that!
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text:
  So vividly immersive is Kung Fu Panda 3 - so vibrant, so tactile - it will make you feel as if you've stepped into a fully realized world. And then once you've stepped out, you'll be craving dumplings.

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text:
  With a star-studded voice cast (Black in the lead, with Rogen and Cross on backup) there's no shortage of humor. But the animation is the real standout in the film.

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text:
  I think the secret to the appeal of the entire Kung Fu Panda franchise is the enormous affection we feel for Po, that seemingly bumbling good guy who also can rise to the occasion and showcase true heroism and mystical power.

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text: Another successful entry in this dependably smart and well-crafted franchise for kids.
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text:
  Once again, it's fun to look at and full of wisecracks, which, coupled with the dueling-dads subplot, may be enough to see you through.

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text:
  The stunning visuals surpass the high standards set by its predecessors, but storywise, it breaks no new ground.

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text:
  It's gloriously colorful, very funny and, better yet, unexpectedly substantive and genuinely moving.

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text: Like the martial arts masters themselves, the film achieves a seemingly effortless balance.
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text:
  Writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger ... unfurl the narrative with buoyant clarity, gentle charm and much endearing (read: sweetly hokey) humor. The tale's "be yourself" mantra, though nothing new, is also well used.

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text:
  The main reason families enjoy the series is Po, thanks to Jack Black's frenetic and friendly approach. There's just enough huggable and HiYa! moments to keep the animated film's core audience chomping on their popcorn and glued to the screen.

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text:
  This is a visually stunning picture, a rhapsody of saturated color and contrasting texture, from the painstaking detail of coarse panda fur to the painterly dreamscape that is the spirit world.

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text:
  The whole fightin'-bear jamboree is agreeable enough, but it takes some of the spotlight away from Black being Black, and doesn't jibe with messages about having a sense of self, of what makes you you.

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text:
  In Hollywood's franchise game, sequels are seldom the best they can be. This one isn't, but it's pretty, perfectly pleasant and good enough.

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text:
  Like a well-made dumpling, it's not too heavy but not too light, has the right amount of spice, and leaves one with some appetite for the next time.

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text: Unfortunately, looks aren't everything. The plot is plodding and predictable.
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text:
  It's easy to mistake the simplicity of plot and theme here for simple-mindedness - this isn't Pynchon or Proust. Kung Fu Panda 3 has the economy of a Zen koan, not to mention its inner harmony and wisdom.

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text: Actually captures the sensation of getting absorbed in a comic book.
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text: "This film manages the delicate feat of embracing its source material while also satirizing it."
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text:
  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is immediately immersive, a colorful and adventurous cinematic experience that invites viewers along for the ride.

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text:
  The latest entry in a fully saturated genre that somehow, through sheer creative gumption, does something new.

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text:
  It easily ranks among the more enjoyable superhero releases in recent memory-and that's in large part thanks to the charming young man at its center.

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text:
  The spectacularly colorful, varied, and busy animation is impressive but bombastic, leaving little room for wonder and suggesting exertion rather than inspiration.

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text:
  Yet with great power comes great responsibility. And one such responsibility, as a critic, is to admit when you've made a mistake.

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text:
  Freed from the constraints of a photo-real look, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse took the opportunity to return this genre to its comic roots, where anything was possible.

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text:
  The delights of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" bring a newfound sense of joy and playfulness to the beloved character

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text: A superheroic stew that's as tasty as it is filling.
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text:
  The scale feels vast, yet the spirit is joyous. It's as if everyone had set out to make the best Spider-Man movie ever, which is exactly what they've done.

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text:
  An all-around terrific new animated film that perhaps more than any superhero movie I've seen translates the jubilant experience of comic books to the screen.

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text:
  For once, a movie lives up to its hype. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse is the most spectacular animated feature I've ever seen

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text:
  It's the kind of pure storytelling that's often lost in a maelstrom of special effects, villains, hype and hoopla. But clearly, when it's done right, it can be as enjoyable as it is truthful, to reality and the comic book canon.

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text:
  Into the Spider-Verse has rekindled the original glory and presented it a way that is so visually explosive, a pair of sunglasses should be provided with each ticket.

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text:
  Look, I get it. I'm weary of superhero movies, too. But "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" isn't just a superhero movie. It's also a great movie.

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text:
  Into the Spider-Verse allows its creators, and us, to have our cake and a bunch of other cakes and eat all of them, too.

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text:
  Who'd have thought that animation could turn a whole army of interdimensional webslingers into something fresh, funny, fierce and revolutionary? With a mixed-race hero at its core, this is the greatest Spider-Man epic of them all-and the coolest.

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text:
  This animated feature -- distinguished by its dazzling visual palette, which creates the feel of a comic book leaping onto the screen -- proves a great deal of fun, reinforcing that animation remains the ideal medium... for superhero adaptations.

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text:
  The directors, producers, tech crew and actors have accomplished the impossible. They've upped the animation game for everyone. What they've done may well become the new normal-and that's a high bar to hit.

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text:
  Tarantino designed this revisionist western to blow people's gaskets. Packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western...

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text:
  The film is at times brilliant but mostly infuriating. It is a good movie in that masturbatory way most Tarantino films are good.

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text:
  Django Unchained is a ruthless and romantic epic that is also filled with unbridled entertainment that challenges audiences, rather than coddling them.

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text:
  It was a mixed bag for me; some great moments scattered about amongst lots of humdrum, considering the subject matter.

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text:
  But I absolutely love and was blown away by Django Unchained, and I can't wait to see it again, and again after that.

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text: The direction stays firmly within the predictable bounds of Tarantino's violent sensibility
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text:
  The movie moves, with crispness and intelligence, arriving at the most purely satisfying conclusion we could possibly ask for. Audiences are going to eat that last reel up. I know I did.

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text:
  Django Unchained is 165 minutes and nothing much happens beyond talk and the provision of corpses. The plot lurches around and the artful structure of Pulp Fiction has been abandoned.

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text:
  Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.

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text:
  Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.

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text: Django Unchained offers an embarrassment of riches (and actors in tiny cameos).
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text:
  Genre-movie-mad writer-director Quentin Tarantino's foray into Western World is a pretty grave disappointment.

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text:
  Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.

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text: Pure cinematic testosterone and filled with saucy variations on dozens of other films.
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text: Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.
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text:
  If you had pulled me out of the theater one hour into Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, I would have raved. The first portion of the movie is utterly exuberant, full of life and the love of moviemaking.

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text:
  "Django Unchained" possesses an unmistakable subversive power, its playfully insurrectionist spirit perhaps the modern-day pop-culture equivalent of far more high stakes rebellions of yore.

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text:
  The name of the movie is "Django Unchained," but for all practical purposes it might as well be called "Tarantino Unleashed."

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text:
  There's plenty of fun here - Waltz alone is worth the price of admission - but you may leave "Django Unchained" wishing for both more and less.

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text: "Django Unchained" is the most consistently entertaining movie of 2012.
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text:
  The film does nothing to beat against the current. There's no lesson that all this 1920s extravagance is problematic. The message is to party like a rock star and dress like a robber baron - just don't waste all your money chasing a woman who waffles.

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text:
  Subtlety is not a concept but giddy as it is, The Great Gatsby lacks the lunatic excess of Moulin Rouge!

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text:
  It's a headache-inducing mishmash of waving curtains, hyperactive fades, aggressive zooms, and Baz basically just throwing things at the lens (confetti, champagne, fabric, Tobey Maguire).

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text:
  For all the antic, manic itchiness of his Gatsby, for all the jazz hands, the movie doesn't reach out and grab you.

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text: Just because a film looks like it was dipped in 18-karat gold doesn't mean it's rich in quality
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text:
  Though it is quite possible that the neutered feel of Luhrmann's Gatsby is entirely due to studio meddling, the finished product isn't enjoyable, either as campy fun or a serious attempt at dismantling the American dream.

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text:
  It's stupefying, it's vulgar, it's demeaning-it's dull and there's nothing like the dullness that is trying to be a sensation.

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text:
  There are no two ways about it: The Great Gatsby is misconceived and misjudged, a crude burlesque on what's probably American literature's most precious jewel.

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text:
  It's the struggle between the filmmaker's natural instincts and his better self that makes the results so wildly inconsistent.

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text:
  The central problem with Luhrmann's film is that when it's entertaining it's not Gatsby, and when it's Gatsby it's not entertaining.

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text:
  "The Great Gatsby" is a cool movie, in both the positive and negative sense. You may certainly be impressed, but you may not be moved.

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text:
  It is a confetti gun of a movie, all sensation and senseless mash-up. The details are gorgeous for the sake of gorgeousness, with no sense of perspective or irony.

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text:
  The best thing about Baz Luhrmann's much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that, for all its computer-generated whoosh and overbroad acting, it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. That is no small deal.

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text:
  It is, as I suspected, a gargantuan hunk of over-art-directed kitsch, but it makes for a grandiose, colorful, pleasure-drenched night at the movies.

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text:
  This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe.

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text:
  Luhrmann takes great care with the rhythms of individual scenes, yet the film as a whole plays like a long trudge through a familiar story.

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text:
  Baz Luhrmann is exactly the wrong person to adapt such a delicately rendered story, and his 3D feature plays like a ghastly Roaring 20s blowout at a sorority house.

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text:
  When The Great Gatsby actually stops to breathe, there is some greatness to be found, however brief it may be.

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text:
  Luhrmann hasn't unlocked the secrets of a story that remains all but unfilmable, but his Gatsby is far more than a collection of superficial splashes and tics.

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text:
  Even while being admirably faithful to so much of the novel's language, Luhrmann and Pearce still can't quite maneuver Carraway's more cautionary contours about America.

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text:
  This is a career-capping showcase for Redford, who with subtlety and ease goes out in style after a great long run.

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text: A late in the game montage is a crafty excuse to re-examine Redford's career.
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text:
  Robert Redford is an American legend, full stop, and he uses all of his tricks in The Old Man & the Gun to win you over and to sweep you up and to break your heart.

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text: If this is truly Robert Redford's final performance, he's going out with an exclamation point.
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text:
  A cops and robbers tale, a romance, and a gentle comedy, too. The good news is, I'm pretty sure once Redford sees how delightful the film is, he'll give up all this nonsense about quitting acting.

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text:
  If Clint Eastwood's barely reformed killer was Unforgiven, Robert Redford is unrepentant in this love letter to...Robert Redford.

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text:
  It's a light, warm story that's punctuated by the power of Redford's smile, one of the best special effects in movie history.

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text: It's a fitting send-off for a legendary Hollywood figure.
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text:
  Forrest Tucker's swan song moments in The Old Man & the Gun are well tailored for Robert Redford's swan song as an actor. It's a damn good performance that also serves as a fitting curtain call.

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text:
  The beauty of Redford's rock-steady performances over the last six decades or so is that he never showed off, and yet always commanded your attention. That's no small feat.

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text:
  It's hard to imagine anyone in this role but Redford. Without him, there would be little here worth seeing.

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text: "Old Man" is a wonderfully understated star vehicle.
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text:
  [Redford] delivers a glorious, sly performance in a gloriously sly movie that masks its idiosyncrasy in brisk and breezy storytelling.

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text:
  Redford's inherent charms do so much of the work in "The Old Man and the Gun" that they obscure what a questionable character Tucker really is.

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text:
  Mostly we just exist in the moment with Tucker, and that's fine, because we're existing with Redford, too. "The Old Man & the Gun" is his film, ultimately, and that's fine.

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text: It's a perfect role for [Redford's] swan song.
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text: The movie may not be a big deal, but it's a shrewd small one...
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text: You buy into the geniality of Lowery's movie, nourished as it is by the entire cast.
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text:
  The Old Man and the Gun is as old-fashioned and sincere, as temperamentally un-postmodern, as it's possible for a movie to be.

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text:
  I think the film disserves what Redford, at his best, can be as an actor in favor of a fraudulent, senior citizen variation on glossy movie-star iconography.

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text:
  Kids are gonna gobble Ratatouille up; adults will relish its wit, and everyone will want to go out to eat after.

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text:
  A lot of animated movies have inspired sequels, notably Shrek, but Brad Bird's Ratatouille is the first one that made me positively desire one.

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text: Ratatouille is a veritable feast for the eye and the ear. Don't miss it.
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text: In Ratatouille, the level of moment-by-moment craftsmanship is a wonder.
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text:
  The original writer and director of Ratatouille, Jan Pinkava, was replaced in midproduction and, for all the exquisite detail, the movie is missing a dash of heart.

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text:
  This delicious tale of a rat who cooks is pure joy, a grand achievement -- one of the most beautiful animated pictures ever made.

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text:
  Ratatouille doesn't center on the over-familiar surfaces of contemporary life. It harks back to Disney's older era, when cartoons seemed part of a more elegant world with less edgy characters.

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text:
  From the moment Remy enters, crashing, to the final happy fadeout, Ratatouille parades the brio and depth that set Pixar apart from and above other animation studios.

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text:
  How good, and how much fun, is Ratatouille? So good that when it was over, all I wanted to do was watch it again.

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text: This is an animated movie that's been made for adults, although kids probably will enjoy it, too.
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text:
  Ratatouille never overwhelms, even though it's stocked with action, romance, historical content, family drama and serious statements about the creation of art.

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text:
  A film as rich as a sauce béarnaise, as refreshing as a raspberry sorbet, and a lot less predictable than the damn food metaphors and adjectives all us critics will churn out to describe it. OK, one more and then I'll be done: it's yummy.

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text:
  Displaying the usual meticulousness associated with the Pixar brand, Ratatouille is a nearly flawless piece of popular art.

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text: Arguably the finest 'toon in the Pixar canon.
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text:
  The Pixar magic continues with Brad Bird's Ratatouille, a gorgeous, wonderfully inventive computer-animated comedy.

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text:
  Ratatouille has the technical genius, emotional core and storytelling audacity to lift it into the ranks of [the best] Pixar films, the crème de la crème of modern animation.

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text:
  Ratatouille has its heart, and its head, in this effort to serve up something unique and satisfying.

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text:
  Writer and director Brad Bird keeps Ratatouille moving without resorting to the cute animal jokes or pop-culture wisecracking that ruined so many other recent animated films.

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text:
  Pixar, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the animation world, retains the title with this winning tale.

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text:
  This dystopian thriller features an international cast that's just one of several key components that doesn't make a lot of sense.

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text:
  (Director) J.J. Perry saddles Bautista with a severely underdeveloped example of the reluctant hero archetype, preferring that he punch, shoot and drive his way through a wasteland of action movie clichés rendered in relentless blacks and grays

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text: one of the worst looking movies I've seen in a theater
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text:
  ... feels like it's recombining ideas from other vigilante thrillers and post-apocalyptic sagas without bringing much new to the table.

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text:
  Afterburn is a generic and terribly made action movie about a treasure hunter looking for the Mona Lisa in a post-apocalyptic world. This mindless flick (which has lackluster acting and mostly forgettable scenes) looks like a filmmaker tax write-off.

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text:
  "Afterburn" has the foundation to launch a successful B-movie, but the picture rarely gets out of first gear, stuck with uninspired writing and performances.

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text:
  One giant waste; a waste of a fantastic cast, a waste of a promising premise and a waste of something that could have been the comedy of the summer.

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text: Lazy is the word.
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text: An hour and 40 minute long, five-way, PG-13 roast with more lame jokes than actual laughs.
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text:
  It's nice that they're so supportive of one another; too bad the whole exercise is so tedious for us.

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text: Chris Rock, call your agent.
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text: It's total garbage.
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text:
  Feels like the work of people who sat around a table for an hour or so tossing around hackneyed comic notions, then decided to slap them onto the screen and hope for the best.

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text:
  Ever been around a group of friends who crack each other up while you stand to the side and scratch your head?

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text:
  It may be called Grown Ups, but too much of the new Adam Sandler ensemble comedy feels like it was written by an eight-year-old boy.

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text: From each obvious setup to its hoary payoff, Grown Ups hews faithfully to its formula...
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text:
  When Grown Ups star and co-writer Adam Sandler repeatedly slapped Rob Schneider in the face with a dehydrated banana, I was jealous of Schneider, who suffered less than I did getting slapped upside the head by this rotting fruit of a comedy.

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text: Harmless, but dull.
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text:
  I do find it odd that the guy who started out his career making unwatchable duds like Problem Child and Beverly Hills Ninja has managed to become Sandler's go-to guy as far as many of his comedies are concerned.

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