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this story of unrequited love does n't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | 0 | negative |
it 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . | 0 | negative |
in imax in short , it 's just as wonderful on the big screen . | 1 | positive |
sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . | 0 | negative |
i 'd watch these two together again in a new york minute . | 1 | positive |
it 's a film that 's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio 's animated classics . | 1 | positive |
continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means . | 1 | positive |
he 's a better actor than a standup comedian . | 1 | positive |
so beautifully acted and directed , it 's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . | 1 | positive |
he 's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does . | 0 | negative |
insomnia is one of the year 's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . | 1 | positive |
it 's so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . | 0 | negative |
while not quite `` shrek '' or `` monsters , inc. '' , it 's not too bad . | 1 | positive |
a slight but sweet film . | 1 | positive |
my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . | 0 | negative |
one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there 's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . | 0 | negative |
an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . | 0 | negative |
a smart , arch and rather cold-blooded comedy . | 1 | positive |
it finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers . | 0 | negative |
a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . | 1 | positive |
the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . | 0 | negative |
the son of the bride 's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . | 1 | positive |
an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection . | 0 | negative |
an uplifting , near-masterpiece . | 1 | positive |
the film 's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence . | 0 | negative |
unlike lots of hollywood fluff , this has layered , well-developed characters and some surprises . | 1 | positive |
in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . | 0 | negative |
boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome . | 0 | negative |
pete 's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . | 1 | positive |
exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable . | 0 | negative |
the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance . | 1 | positive |
the gorgeously elaborate continuation of `` the lord of the rings '' trilogy is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer\/director peter jackson 's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien 's middle-earth . | 1 | positive |
to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . | 0 | negative |
lacks depth . | 0 | negative |
it 's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ` em together here . | 0 | negative |
in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . | 0 | negative |
this slight premise ... works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . | 1 | positive |
rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 | negative |
straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . | 1 | positive |
though the story ... is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . | 1 | positive |
it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . | 1 | positive |
the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year . | 1 | positive |
anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . | 1 | positive |
as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . | 1 | positive |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . | 1 | positive |
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . | 1 | positive |
it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- hayek -rrb- throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 1 | positive |
the film 's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9 \/ 11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind . | 0 | negative |
the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . | 0 | negative |
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion . | 0 | negative |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 1 | positive |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 0 | negative |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 0 | negative |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 0 | negative |
the film 's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . | 0 | negative |
like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . | 1 | positive |
savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . | 1 | positive |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 0 | negative |
the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . | 0 | negative |
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 | negative |
while broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . | 1 | positive |
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i 'm not sure could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 | negative |
... a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 1 | positive |
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you 're a struggling nobody . | 1 | positive |
it 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . | 0 | negative |
we do n't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . | 0 | negative |
feels like a cold old man going through the motions . | 0 | negative |
both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . | 1 | positive |
bravado kathy ! | 1 | positive |
execrable . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- seagal 's -rrb- strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie . | 0 | negative |
thoroughly awful . | 0 | negative |
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . | 1 | positive |
starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . | 0 | negative |
despite besson 's high-profile name being wasabi 's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone . | 1 | positive |
often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? | 0 | negative |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . | 1 | positive |
not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . | 0 | negative |
a high-minded snoozer . | 0 | negative |
bring on the sequel . | 1 | positive |
judging by those standards , ` scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 1 | positive |
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 0 | negative |
pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 0 | negative |
an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . | 1 | positive |
check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on . | 0 | negative |
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili . | 1 | positive |
as saccharine as it is disposable . | 0 | negative |
the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . | 1 | positive |
matters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 1 | positive |
as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . | 0 | negative |
it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul 's - eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . | 1 | positive |
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . | 0 | negative |
contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . | 0 | negative |
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . | 1 | positive |
ver wiel 's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 0 | negative |
instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . | 1 | positive |
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . | 0 | negative |
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . | 0 | negative |