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... the story is far-flung , illogical , and plain stupid . | 0 | negative |
and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception . | 1 | positive |
it 's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it 's all about the silences and if you 're into that , have at it . | 0 | negative |
an old-fashioned drama of substance about a teacher 's slide down the slippery slope of dishonesty after an encounter with the rich and the powerful who have nothing but disdain for virtue . | 1 | positive |
another useless recycling of a brutal mid - '70s american sports movie . | 0 | negative |
the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics . | 0 | negative |
hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . | 1 | positive |
as literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment . | 1 | positive |
this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . | 0 | negative |
goofy , nutty , consistently funny . | 1 | positive |
two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . | 0 | negative |
if `` lilo & stitch '' is n't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since `` dumbo '' certainly ranks as the most original in years . | 1 | positive |
while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight . | 1 | positive |
it 's a talking head documentary , but a great one . | 1 | positive |
an extremely unpleasant film . | 0 | negative |
director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of `` iris '' or `` american beauty , '' but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . | 1 | positive |
not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans . | 0 | negative |
after seeing the film , i can tell you that there 's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it . | 0 | negative |
it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . | 0 | negative |
merely -lrb- and literally -rrb- tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women 's expense . | 0 | negative |
terrible . | 0 | negative |
throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old world war ii movie for overly familiar material . | 0 | negative |
chai 's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack . | 0 | negative |
if you grew up on scooby -- you 'll love this movie . | 1 | positive |
enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentary . | 1 | positive |
if you come from a family that eats , meddles , argues , laughs , kibbitzes and fights together , then go see this delightful comedy . | 1 | positive |
the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys ' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . | 0 | negative |
millions of dollars heaped upon a project of such vast proportions need to reap more rewards than spiffy bluescreen technique and stylish weaponry . | 0 | negative |
any film that does n't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 0 | negative |
it 's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen . | 0 | negative |
some episodes work , some do n't . | 0 | negative |
like its new england characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness . | 1 | positive |
all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject . | 0 | negative |
a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun . | 0 | negative |
for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale . | 1 | positive |
disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter . | 0 | negative |
it 's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . | 1 | positive |
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . | 1 | positive |
murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy ... | 1 | positive |
it 's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time . | 1 | positive |
the movie does n't add anything fresh to the myth . | 0 | negative |
it is n't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure ! | 0 | negative |
the script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy . | 0 | negative |
a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . | 0 | negative |
in his latest effort , storytelling , solondz has finally made a movie that is n't just offensive -- it also happens to be good . | 1 | positive |
enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . | 0 | negative |
a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy . | 1 | positive |
stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about . | 0 | negative |
reyes ' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it 's undone by a sloppy script | 0 | negative |
it wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy hawaiian shirt . | 0 | negative |
it 's a spectacular performance - ahem , we hope it 's only acting . | 1 | positive |
... the film 's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . ' | 0 | negative |
symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . | 1 | positive |
you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated . | 1 | positive |
equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old 's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . | 0 | negative |
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- westbrook -rrb- makes a wonderful subject for the camera . | 1 | positive |
cusack 's just brilliant in this . | 1 | positive |
what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . | 1 | positive |
never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . | 1 | positive |
few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt 's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . | 1 | positive |
ferrara 's best film in years . | 1 | positive |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . | 0 | negative |
watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . | 1 | positive |
you 'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous -lrb- than leon -rrb- . | 0 | negative |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky . | 0 | negative |
ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . | 1 | positive |
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . | 0 | negative |
ms. phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0 | negative |
when not wallowing in its characters ' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . | 0 | negative |
polished , well-structured film . | 1 | positive |
the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . | 0 | negative |
an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . | 1 | positive |
but there 's plenty to offend everyone ... | 0 | negative |
after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course . | 0 | negative |
an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . | 1 | positive |
one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . | 1 | positive |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little \*\*\*\* . | 0 | negative |
an intelligently made -lrb- and beautifully edited -rrb- picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . | 1 | positive |
charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 1 | positive |
what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . | 0 | negative |
the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between . | 0 | negative |
if religious films are n't your bailiwick , stay away . | 0 | negative |
this enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . | 1 | positive |
a wild , endearing , masterful documentary . | 1 | positive |
a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . | 1 | positive |
the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . | 0 | negative |
if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . | 0 | negative |
there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 0 | negative |
a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . | 0 | negative |
` it 's painful to watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 | negative |
it 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . | 1 | positive |
it 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 1 | positive |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 | negative |
you wo n't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these veggies . | 1 | positive |
too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . | 0 | negative |
it does n't work as either . | 0 | negative |
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . | 0 | negative |
in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor 's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . | 0 | negative |
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that 's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 0 | negative |
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