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the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance . | 1positive
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beautifully observed , miraculously unsentimental comedy-drama . | 1positive
| [
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the humor is n't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . | 0negative
| [
3.017578125,
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] |
a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love . | 1positive
| [
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it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | 0negative
| [
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] |
more whiny downer than corruscating commentary . | 0negative
| [
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the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks . | 1positive
| [
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there 's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . | 0negative
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i 'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | 0negative
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it 's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . | 0negative
| [
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a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller . | 1positive
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utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 0negative
| [
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] |
makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . | 0negative
| [
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] |
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 0negative
| [
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the best revenge may just be living well because this film , unlike other dumas adaptations , is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence . | 1positive
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stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 0negative
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it 's a beautiful madness . | 1positive
| [
-3.078125,
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overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube . | 0negative
| [
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( e ) ventually , every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism . | 0negative
| [
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paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma 's scarface . | 0negative
| [
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movie fans , get ready to take off ... the other direction . | 0negative
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the reality of the new live-action pinocchio he directed , cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque . | 0negative
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the film tunes into a grief that could lead a man across centuries . | 1positive
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serving sara does n't serve up a whole lot of laughs . | 0negative
| [
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lapaglia 's ability to convey grief and hope works with weaver 's sensitive reactions to make this a two-actor master class . | 1positive
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shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere . | 0negative
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good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back ! | 1positive
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sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . | 0negative
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portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 0negative
| [
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a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . | 1positive
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hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole ' miss in the way of story . | 0negative
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characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0negative
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it 's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children . | 1positive
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smart , provocative and blisteringly funny . | 1positive
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it 's just filler . | 0negative
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turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . | 1positive
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it 's hard to imagine alan arkin being better than he is in this performance . | 1positive
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the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances . | 1positive
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with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge . | 0negative
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you 'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear . | 1positive
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there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through . | 0negative
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has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best . | 1positive
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among the year 's most intriguing explorations of alientation . | 1positive
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on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | 0negative
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as ` chick flicks ' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | 0negative
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for close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed , mostly inarticulate , hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one . | 0negative
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a poignant and compelling story about relationships , food of love takes us on a bumpy but satisfying journey of the heart . | 1positive
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although laced with humor and a few fanciful touches , the film is a refreshingly serious look at young women . | 1positive
| [
-3.625,
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an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values . | 1positive
| [
-3.328125,
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cq 's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors . | 1positive
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it 's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that does n't feel it has to prove anything . | 1positive
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i just loved every minute of this film . | 1positive
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the film will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . | 1positive
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a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . | 0negative
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a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . | 1positive
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from the opening scenes , it 's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 0negative
| [
3.23046875,
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it confirms fincher 's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight . | 1positive
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with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap . | 0negative
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professionally speaking , it 's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . | 0negative
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/ but daphne , you 're too buff / fred thinks he 's tough / and velma - wow , you 've lost weight ! | 0negative
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one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year . | 0negative
| [
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but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned can not be said to suck . | 1positive
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this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . | 1positive
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an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 0negative
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but it still jingles in the pocket . | 1positive
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oscar wilde 's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . | 1positive
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a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . | 1positive
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there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . | 0negative
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like leon , it 's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1positive
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it 's everything you do n't go to the movies for . | 0negative
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there 's not enough here to justify the almost two hours . | 0negative
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if you dig on david mamet 's mind tricks ... rent this movie and enjoy ! | 1positive
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it 's clear the filmmakers were n't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . | 0negative
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dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled . | 0negative
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involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badly drawn characters that its outcome hardly matters . | 0negative
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it can not be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . | 0negative
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this is n't even madonna 's swept away . | 0negative
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the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger . | 1positive
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if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he does n't hold them in contempt . | 0negative
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one long string of cliches . | 0negative
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... takes the beauty of baseball and melds it with a story that could touch anyone regardless of their familiarity with the sport | 1positive
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further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil . | 1positive
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a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that 's pretty toxic in its own right . | 0negative
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huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair . | 1positive
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for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it 's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking . | 0negative
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even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . | 0negative
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basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars . | 0negative
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there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . | 0negative
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an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy . | 1positive
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a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness . | 0negative
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the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . | 1positive
| [
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a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . | 1positive
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hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 1positive
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try as i may , i ca n't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , ` thank you ! ' | 0negative
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writer/director joe carnahan 's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic . | 1positive
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a taut psychological thriller that does n't waste a moment of its two-hour running time . | 1positive
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mr. tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? | 1positive
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my thoughts were focused on the characters . | 1positive
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confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0negative
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the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey 's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | 0negative
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