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  • Make sure you're comfortable as the running time can take its toll, but superb battle scenes and sterling performances make it worth watching. The Sun
  • While it is true that credits now roll pretty quickly on film, the reason has less to do with studios trying to keep the running time on films down and more with the proliferation of the number of credits in a film.
  • It is only the first of many sequences that jolts and stuns you into full attention over a two hour running time.
  • It has an unstoppable forward momentum and a running time as lean as an Anthony Mann western from the 1950s.
  • Some sharper cutting - the running time is more than two hours - might have made it really sing. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Although the picture is sharper and shows less speckling than the VHS release, throughout its running time it is plagued with smeary streaks; it actually looks as if it's being run through a projector.
  • It's action sequences, basically 2 hrs of its 2 hr. 45 min running time, are bravura for sure.
  • A great deal of the running time is devoted to recalling the life and death of Kolski (his widow, brother, and playwright Israel Horovitz speak about the man in reverential tones), but the true story here is Samuel Yates, who came up with the bizarre notion of mixing paint and human ash. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • He turns a daunting running time to advantage, crafting each episode into a romantic cliffhanger.
  • Nothing about him is explained at all, in fact, and many of the characters in the film prove to be completely useless and exist only to eat up running time.
  • That philosophy doubtless is part of the problem with Rose Red: it's a two-hour movie padded to more than four hours of running time.
  • For those who manage to endure the movie's too-long running time, there are some small pleasures.
  • He turns a daunting running time to advantage, crafting each episode into a romantic cliffhanger.
  • To pad out the running time, there's a lot of medieval hugga-mugga onstage and off, and some antic athletics by Mr. Dafoe, who would be right at home in the Cirque du Soleil. Sex, Murder and Medieval Melodrama
  • Only the special effect is better, more giantess action on the screen i.e. Nancy breaking Harry in half or eatting him, and longer running time. Top 10 Sexiest Cinematic Giantesses » Scene-Stealers
  • Both movies are solid films, ones that will entertain and enchant for their entire running time.
  • Untitled #9 somehow seems to dramatize this process as a kind of struggle, one we are a part of over the course of the ten-minute running time and not a predigested, aestheticist fait accompli. GreenCine Daily
  • Therefore, it is possible to determine indirectly the turning angle of robot according to the speed, running time of motor, and provides the angle parameters for the path planning of robot.
  • But while the film has a certain charm, there is not one chucklesome moment during its entire running time.
  • Unfortunately, the series ultimately fails to stay there, using too much filler material to pad the rest of the running time.
  • Though the running time is a slim 83 minutes, I took me well over two hours to plod my way through this dull and dreary mess.
  • I wonder if the film has been recut yet again for DVD release, as the running time is only 95 minutes on the disc.
  • It's a puerility pile-up, and unnecessary in a show whose running time could easily be trimmed. Times, Sunday Times
  • A lot of the running time is taken up by grainy war footage shot under less than ideal circumstances.
  • The new version has also been re-edited slightly, resulting in a running time that is about one minute shorter than the original.
  • Great video and sound and tons of trailers might make up for a too short running time.
  • Becky Tenefrancia of DAR said the caravan will be composed of six mini films with a total running time of one hour and twenty minutes representing the six different provinces of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) namely Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province. Undefined
  • Blessed with a running time polite enough to not overstay its welcome, it cuts a meandering swathe through a whole plethora of styles.
  • As for talk of the running time, Zack Snyder mentioned to the NY Times while discussing Tales of the Black Freighter that "the main picture is nearing three hours long and I know I have a fight on my hands just with that. Watchmen's Minutemen Revealed Plus Running Time Talk « FirstShowing.net
  • In addition, we get some deleted scenes, about ten minutes in total, which highlight tidbits and trims made to thin out the running time.
  • The constant intrusion of spooky music telling us that we should be really frightened achieves overkill long before the end of the film's running time.
  • For most of its running time, Cradle 2 the Grave is a fun little crime action movie.
  • These queries and dozens more come bubbling to the surface during the dragged-out running time of this sloppy soap oater.
  • Tri-Rail expects this to significantly improve running times, frequency, and ridership.
  • Alec disappears for half of the running time =, only to play an important role in the film's conclusion.
  • He was contracted to produce films of a certain length and that week, he handed in one that was more than double the agreed-upon running time.
  • Architecture parallelization can decrease the long running time of GA for time - critical conditions.
  • The Elvira pardon the expression bumpers extend the overall running time to 99m 57s and are retained from a 1983 MOVIE MACABRE broadcast from KHJ-TV, when the "B-movie queen's" disposition was more that of a sour Valley Girl than the bubbly double entendriste we know and love today. Archive 2007-11-25
  • Piggybacking on the running time saver, for your weigh-lifting workouts, try adapting it to a home workout.
  • Regardless, all this needs to attain perfection is a few minutes shaved off of the overall running time.
  • It sails smoothly throughout the majority of the running time but by the last few tracks, there is a feeling that things were wrapped up too hastily.
  • It could also do with lifting that film's concise 72-minute running time.
  • But the film is badly let down by its third act and could have done with shaving a good half an hour off its running time.
  • It devotes the first half of its running time to the rehearsals, leaving a mere 45 minutes to cover a show that contains a solid 90 minutes worth of music.
  • Also of note is the error in the listing of the running time.
  • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
  • This is one of those comedies that aims for small time targets, hits them and packs both sadness and affection in spades into its well edited 80 minute running time, without resorting to unnecessary sentimentalism.
  • Perky, painless and politically correct, this frothy little farce benefits from a remarkably trim running time.
  • This repetitiveness makes even the relatively short 20-minute running time of each episode a real slog.
  • With a running time of 163 minutes, watching Watchmen seems like hard work.
  • A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
  • Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring.
  • Admittedly the film's premise is barely enough to sustain its 100-minute running time, but this film is as much brains as it is heart.
  • The collection will have a running time of 286 minutes, which would account for 13 22-minute episodes.
  • He has now reinvented himself as a radical stand-up with just enough charm and stagecraft to get away with an amazingly low ratio of jokes to running time.
  • Perhaps cutting back on the excessive stop-motion photography would have shaved an hour off its running time, producing a tight, generally appealing whodunit.
  • This would add running time to the route, potentially jeopardizing the number of riders, who might opt to take a faster express bus instead.
  • The question is not whether they will be toppled, but why it requires an inflated running time of more than two hours for the swashbuckler to get the job done.
  • Every now and then they stretch to a nocturne (average running time: five minutes) or polonaise (around six minutes), but seldom a ballade (close to ten).
  • This film is an intriguing and hugely entertaining concoction that could benefit greatly from an extended running time.
  • In America, this director's heartfelt portrait of a family in crisis, waits patiently for much of its running time before explicitly acknowledging its portraiture of spirituality in crisis.
  • There are at least a dozen developed characters condensed into the two hour running time.
  • In this tight film, there is little fat that could have been trimmed from the running time. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
  • How natural is it that a double amputee should be running times for the 400m which put him within half a second of Olympic qualification? Times, Sunday Times
  • His latest film contains only 39 shots during its 145 minute running time.
  • Now, with so much more running time, that heart often gets lost in the humor.
  • The changes and embellishments to Poe's story don't really add up to enough to fill the running time.
  • The game itself is stretched over almost the entire running time of the film, interspersed with chunky flashbacks that replay key moments of Billy and Jane's life together.
  • The movie reliably entertains for its 90-minute running time.
  • It's been repeated by many critics and fans that Donnie Darko is simply an unclassifiable movie, bringing elements of suburban culture, science fiction, fantasy, and family drama to the screen in just under the running time of two hours.
  • While Richard Pryor is a funny guy - stuttering and stammering are his best qualities - the script doesn't include enough laughs to warrant its 102 minute running time.

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