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it 's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . | 1 | positive |
after an uncertain start , murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with bullock 's memorable first interrogation of gosling . | 1 | positive |
although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell . | 1 | positive |
... a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . | 1 | positive |
on top of a foundering performance , -lrb- madonna 's -rrb- denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . | 0 | negative |
on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it were n't such a clever adaptation of the bard 's tragic play . | 1 | positive |
mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances ... and excellent use of music by india 's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . | 1 | positive |
about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience 's meat grinder one more time . | 0 | negative |
but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . | 1 | positive |
a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i 'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . | 0 | negative |
far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it 's a work of enthralling drama . | 1 | positive |
blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative . | 1 | positive |
the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . | 0 | negative |
it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us . | 0 | negative |
a low-rent retread of the alien pictures . | 0 | negative |
it merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them . | 0 | negative |
there 's none of the happily-ever - after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that 's part of what makes dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent . | 1 | positive |
the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . | 0 | negative |
a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman . | 1 | positive |
has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre . | 1 | positive |
it 's a rare window on an artistic collaboration . | 1 | positive |
report card : does n't live up to the exalted tagline - there 's definite room for improvement . | 0 | negative |
too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley 's least accessible screed yet . | 0 | negative |
a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . | 1 | positive |
it 's got the brawn , but not the brains . | 0 | negative |
lacks dramatic punch and depth . | 0 | negative |
it may be a no-brainer , but at least it 's a funny no-brainer . | 1 | positive |
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0 | negative |
a great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family . | 1 | positive |
ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . | 0 | negative |
the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material . | 0 | negative |
a relative letdown . | 0 | negative |
from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out . | 0 | negative |
a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales . | 1 | positive |
brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life 's harshness . | 1 | positive |
inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . | 0 | negative |
it 's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . | 0 | negative |
the leanest and meanest of solondz 's misanthropic comedies . | 1 | positive |
about schmidt belongs to nicholson . | 1 | positive |
its metaphors are opaque enough to avoid didacticism , and the film succeeds as an emotionally accessible , almost mystical work . | 1 | positive |
starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . | 0 | negative |
even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern . | 1 | positive |
the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one . | 0 | negative |
daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , biggie and tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation . | 1 | positive |
boyd 's screenplay -lrb- co-written with guardian hack nick davies -rrb- has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to guy ritchie than the bard of avon . | 0 | negative |
not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense . | 1 | positive |
this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications . | 1 | positive |
i know that i 'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again | 1 | positive |
a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore . | 0 | negative |
horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it is n't incomprehensible . | 0 | negative |
after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father cliché has been unturned . | 0 | negative |
predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell . | 1 | positive |
laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma . | 1 | positive |
essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty . | 1 | positive |
you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory ... but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . | 0 | negative |
ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . ' | 1 | positive |
happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . | 1 | positive |
viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess . | 0 | negative |
the viewer takes great pleasure in watching the resourceful molly stay a step ahead of her pursuers . | 1 | positive |
with we were soldiers , hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the vietnam war before the pathology set in . | 1 | positive |
i just saw this movie ... well , it 's probably not accurate to call it a movie . | 0 | negative |
one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it 's far tamer than advertised . | 1 | positive |
a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . | 1 | positive |
still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered . | 0 | negative |
filmmakers dana janklowicz-mann and amir mann area headed east , far east , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of german jewish refugees while the world 's democracie | 1 | positive |
who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? | 0 | negative |
can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms ' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included | 0 | negative |
it 's a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character , especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix 's . | 0 | negative |
in truth , it has all the heart of a porno flick -lrb- but none of the sheer lust -rrb- . | 0 | negative |
cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film . | 0 | negative |
if you 're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need . | 1 | positive |
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | 0 | negative |
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . | 0 | negative |
every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . | 0 | negative |
but it is entertaining on an inferior level . | 1 | positive |
plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . | 1 | positive |
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . | 0 | negative |
it 's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . | 1 | positive |
as it is , it 's too long and unfocused . | 0 | negative |
this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . | 0 | negative |
i 'm not a fan of the phrase ` life affirming ' because it usually means ` schmaltzy , ' but real women have curves truly is life affirming . | 1 | positive |
too much of storytelling moves away from solondz 's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur 's professional injuries . | 0 | negative |
charlotte sometimes is a gem . | 1 | positive |
australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place . | 1 | positive |
as immaculate as stuart little 2 is , it could be a lot better if it were , well , more adventurous . | 1 | positive |
further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- satisfying niblet . | 1 | positive |
this is a more fascinating look at the future than `` bladerunner '' and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . | 1 | positive |
coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . | 0 | negative |
it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide . | 1 | positive |
you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored . | 0 | negative |
payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he 's the best brush in the business . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- siegel -rrb- and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie . | 0 | negative |
while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think . | 1 | positive |
unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . | 0 | negative |
the film 's strength is n't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . | 1 | positive |
i do n't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . | 0 | negative |
a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women . | 0 | negative |
broomfield 's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient . | 0 | negative |
mostly , -lrb- goldbacher -rrb- just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 | positive |
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