This engine is likewise wondrously free of stiction and internal inertia and is smoother than hot-buttered sin.

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It might turn out wondrously in which case the practice will spread.

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Robin Hoods have come and gone, at least one of them wondrously zestful (Errol Flynn's) and one of them woefully zonked (Kevin Costner's).

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And the enormous, wondrously translucent Buddha in the Japanese restaurant, Megu?

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Cartoonlike sight gags conjure his memories and fantasies, running throughout the film as it leaps ahead in time and sketches a decade of experience with a sharp, novelistic yet wondrously comical audacity.

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Tivo is both a wonderful--and wondrously frustrating--product.

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In this wondrously accomplished and furiously expressive drama blending the moody rambles of a road movie with the tightly ratcheted criminal tension of a film noir the director Amy Seimetz, in her first feature, captures the wildly flailing energy and exhausted torpor of grinding frustration as well as the flickering grace of stifled dreams.

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An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.

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