Text - the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies .
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Text - if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film .
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Text - what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy .
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Text - just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
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Text - kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera .
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Text - without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions .
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Text - though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .
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Text - . . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman .
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it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective .