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... if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you 're in for a painful ride . | 0 | negative |
if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you 're at the right film . | 1 | positive |
one funny popcorn flick . | 1 | positive |
bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who are n't looking for them . | 0 | negative |
i 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year . | 0 | negative |
a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . | 1 | positive |
smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise . | 1 | positive |
a charming , banter-filled comedy ... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface . | 1 | positive |
it 's that rare family movie -- genuine and sweet without relying on animation or dumb humor . | 1 | positive |
hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . | 0 | negative |
it 's mildly amusing , but i certainly ca n't recommend it . | 0 | negative |
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous film 's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 0 | negative |
formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip . | 0 | negative |
what madonna does here ca n't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it 's moving and it 's talking and it 's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . | 0 | negative |
rifkin 's references are ... impeccable throughout . | 1 | positive |
the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut . | 1 | positive |
the fact that the ` best part ' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme 's good films does n't bode well for the rest of it . | 0 | negative |
an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 1 | positive |
an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement . | 1 | positive |
something must have been lost in the translation . | 0 | negative |
witty , contemplative , and sublimely beautiful . | 1 | positive |
foster and whitaker are especially fine . | 1 | positive |
the lightest , most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade . | 1 | positive |
if i want a real movie , i 'll buy the criterion dvd . | 0 | negative |
an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region 's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool . | 1 | positive |
a conventional but heartwarming tale . | 1 | positive |
a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect . | 1 | positive |
the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . | 0 | negative |
there 's something unintentionally comic in the film 's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties . | 0 | negative |
strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency . | 1 | positive |
the formula is familiar but enjoyable . | 1 | positive |
its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure . | 0 | negative |
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself . | 1 | positive |
good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . | 1 | positive |
just is n't as weird as it ought to be . | 0 | negative |
if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary ... | 1 | positive |
watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . | 0 | negative |
stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . | 0 | negative |
the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . | 0 | negative |
while there are times when the film 's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it does n't . | 1 | positive |
hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . | 1 | positive |
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera ... more salacious telenovela than serious drama . | 0 | negative |
i 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 | negative |
why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ? | 0 | negative |
a thoroughly awful movie -- dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy ... a weird amalgam of ` the thing ' and a geriatric ` scream . ' | 0 | negative |
contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . | 0 | negative |
laughably , irredeemably awful . | 0 | negative |
one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . | 0 | negative |
together -lrb- time out and human resources -rrb- establish mr. cantet as france 's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . | 1 | positive |
... a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy ... | 1 | positive |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 1 | positive |
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie 's success . | 1 | positive |
outside of burger 's desire to make some kind of film , it 's really unclear why this project was undertaken | 0 | negative |
as for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all . | 0 | negative |
if you saw it on tv , you 'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . | 0 | negative |
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley 's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | 0 | negative |
journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull . | 0 | negative |
brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . | 1 | positive |
like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience -lrb- young bow wow fans -rrb- - with nothing but net . | 1 | positive |
the gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . | 1 | positive |
while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 1 | positive |
standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . | 1 | positive |
a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 | negative |
j. lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she 's a pretty woman , but she 's no working girl . | 1 | positive |
this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what -lrb- evans -rrb- had , lost , and got back . | 1 | positive |
their work is fantastic . | 1 | positive |
much of the movie 's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . | 1 | positive |
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito 's way . | 0 | negative |
a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . | 0 | negative |
like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . | 0 | negative |
do we really need the tiger beat version ? | 0 | negative |
if it 's unnerving suspense you 're after -- you 'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | 1 | positive |
gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . | 1 | positive |
a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 1 | positive |
an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . | 1 | positive |
sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . | 1 | positive |
but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 | negative |
and diesel is n't the actor to save it . | 0 | negative |
a feeble tootsie knockoff . | 0 | negative |
see it for his performance if nothing else . | 1 | positive |
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . | 1 | positive |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 | negative |
a thriller without a lot of thrills . | 0 | negative |
yet the act is still charming here . | 1 | positive |
far more enjoyable than its predecessor . | 1 | positive |
a moving essay about the specter of death , especially suicide . | 1 | positive |
phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose , and it 's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 1 | positive |
though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . | 1 | positive |
this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' | 0 | negative |
even at its worst , it 's not half-bad . | 1 | positive |
... even if you 've never heard of chaplin , you 'll still be glued to the screen . | 1 | positive |
a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . | 0 | negative |
the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . | 1 | positive |
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears . | 0 | negative |
queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . | 0 | negative |
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 1 | positive |
campanella 's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael 's evolution . | 1 | positive |
schütte 's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . | 1 | positive |
would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . | 1 | positive |
a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 0 | negative |
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