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The only thing that separates this movie from real dog shows is that the dogs in "Best in Show" act more sane than their owners!
Sometimes it's hard to define what separates a successful, delightful comedy from one that falls flat.
This separates itself from the Simpsons and other shows on say, Cartoon Network because the jokes are more mature, not too much, but it's TV-14 for a reason.
The suspense separates this Holiday flick from all others.
The performances were the best positive for the film and Dustin Hoffman played one of his best roles he's ever done as the lonely workaholic who has to take care of his son, as his wife separates from him.
After this trauma, the couple separates and the mother becomes addicted to tranquilizers and leads a miserable existence.
Silverstein and Diaz soon find themselves enmeshed in a conspiracy involving Argentina's intelligence community and some uranium, and the film separates them at a crucial point that allows Silverstein to develop some impressive sleuthing skills of his own.
What separates it from other 50's sci-fi is the fact that the alien has no features, no face, eyes, anything, yet it can't be killed.
However, it's the outrageous political incorrectness of it all that separates this one from the mainstream -- the male characters are all cranky and abusive and the females are eager to shed their duds in response.
What separates the two groups involves what they have and don't have.
We don't know why Yella separates from her husband, and as such we don't know what she's running away from, nor do we know where she is heading.
But what separates this picture from all the other action / comedies ever made is that the screenplay is so sharp and original.
Or more specifically, the thin line that separates the American Dream from pure hell.
What separates Chaplin from other comedian filmmakers is his ability to evoke a sense of pity and/or sympathy for his character.
The whole scene it tries to make fun of is already a ridiculous one and in this Guest makes his characters so over the top that it completely separates him from the actual Hollywood, making his satire pointless and outdated.
The one thing that separates him from any other human being is that he ages backwards.
I don't understand what separates this film from other 'teen slasher/horror' movies.
In Quebecois director Robert Lepage's film Far Side of the Moon, the moon's far side serves as a metaphor for the divide that separates two brothers, each with a different sexual orientation.
There's a great mix of kids, they all are very different and have one thing that separates them very much from each other.
The second part begins when he moves to the East, loses his son, separates from his wife, defends the Indians in the civilized society until his retirement.
The thing that separates this "stupid movie" from other, inferior "stupid movies" like Zoolander and Anchorman is that the movie never takes the stupidity seriously.
That's about as profound as this film gets in contrasting a quasi-scientific world view to a quasi-luddite one ("I won't get an electrical blanket because that kind of comfort just separates you from reality in a very direct way [...] and instead of living under the sun and the moon and the sky and the stars, we're living in a fantasy world of our own making" (!?) Watch Waking Life instead, or just read some introduction to critical thinking or philosophy.
However, what separates Angelopolous films from most other films by even some great filmmakers, is his screenplays.
But what separates him from true genius is how he wasted his career trying to shock the cultural and religious establishment by being as crude and vulgar as possible.
When a former (?) agent in a supersecret government agency is on holiday with his son in Israel, a "terrorist" attack separates the father, Peter, from his son, Robin.
Unfortunately, she isn't that great, at least I see nothing that separates her.
Instead, they will most likely support cosmetic political reforms, including a new law that formally separates the roles of army commander and head of state.
Turkey's military and political old guard claim that the modern system introduced by Kemal Ataturk to replace the Ottoman caliphate almost 75 years ago separates mosque and state.
An artist who has lived under tyranny (and even one who hasn't) cannot ignore the barrier that separates the two roles.
We emphasize that societies are divided by two potential cleavages: an identity split that separates a minority from the ethnic, religious, or ideological majority, and a wealth gap that pits the rich against the rest of society.
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