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much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . | 0 | negative |
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . | 1 | positive |
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone . | 0 | negative |
i like it . | 1 | positive |
birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . | 1 | positive |
` god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 0 | negative |
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak . | 1 | positive |
a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- there 's -rrb- quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . | 1 | positive |
it 's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire ! | 1 | positive |
giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun . | 1 | positive |
the film is insightful about kissinger 's background and history . | 1 | positive |
it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens | 0 | negative |
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium . | 1 | positive |
beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that 's there to scare while we delight in the images . | 1 | positive |
this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair . | 1 | positive |
this story still seems timely and important . | 1 | positive |
a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . | 1 | positive |
jae-eun jeong 's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . | 1 | positive |
the film 's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . | 1 | positive |
like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . | 1 | positive |
the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- f -rrb- rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels . | 1 | positive |
it 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction . | 0 | negative |
it is too bad that this likable movie is n't more accomplished . | 0 | negative |
quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that is n't afraid to admit it does n't have all the answers . | 1 | positive |
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | 0 | negative |
you can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed . | 0 | negative |
feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen . | 0 | negative |
definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . ' | 1 | positive |
... pray does n't have a passion for the material . | 0 | negative |
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . | 0 | negative |
the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . | 1 | positive |
the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . | 0 | negative |
lush and beautifully photographed -lrb- somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book -rrb- , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered . | 0 | negative |
instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics . | 0 | negative |
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera . | 0 | negative |
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . | 1 | positive |
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . | 0 | negative |
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . | 0 | negative |
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . | 1 | positive |
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work . | 0 | negative |
this romantic\/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | 0 | negative |
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . | 1 | positive |
full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . | 0 | negative |
the movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ; it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten . | 0 | negative |
if you 've the patience , there are great rewards here . | 1 | positive |
devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects . | 0 | negative |
it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least . | 1 | positive |
remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? | 0 | negative |
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis 's wall of kitsch hard going . | 0 | negative |
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . | 0 | negative |
writer\/director alexander payne -lrb- election -rrb- and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing . | 1 | positive |
if you can push on through the slow spots , you 'll be rewarded with some fine acting . | 1 | positive |
chris columbus ' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original . | 1 | positive |
this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . | 1 | positive |
what 's invigorating about it is that it does n't give a damn . | 1 | positive |
it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . | 0 | negative |
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . | 1 | positive |
it 's makes a better travelogue than movie . | 0 | negative |
it 's a masterpiece . | 1 | positive |
been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional . | 0 | negative |
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . | 0 | negative |
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0 | negative |
-- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while . | 1 | positive |
the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker 's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer\/director anderson . | 1 | positive |
there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 0 | negative |
if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790 's , one imagines the result would look like something like this . | 1 | positive |
this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . | 1 | positive |
what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . | 0 | negative |
what `` empire '' lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . | 1 | positive |
the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard . | 1 | positive |
this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . | 0 | negative |
standing by yourself is haunting ... -lrb- it 's -rrb- what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction . | 1 | positive |
a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . | 0 | negative |
all in all , a great party . | 1 | positive |
a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it does n't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- seems -rrb- even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels . | 0 | negative |
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic . | 1 | positive |
it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . | 0 | negative |
it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- l -rrb- ame and unnecessary . | 0 | negative |
while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . | 1 | positive |
i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . | 0 | negative |
... the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning . | 0 | negative |
as hannibal would say , yes , ` it 's like having an old friend for dinner ' . | 1 | positive |
it 's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 1 | positive |
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . | 0 | negative |
see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . | 1 | positive |
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith 's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation . | 1 | positive |
try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde . | 0 | negative |
hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being . | 1 | positive |
chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them . | 1 | positive |
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . | 1 | positive |
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 | positive |
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks . | 0 | negative |
bad and baffling from the get-go . | 0 | negative |
the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . | 0 | negative |
the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . | 1 | positive |
harmless fun . | 1 | positive |
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