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even with its $ 50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture . | 0 | negative |
adam sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt | 0 | negative |
a genuine mind-bender . | 1 | positive |
just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain . | 1 | positive |
that frenetic spectacle -lrb- on the tv show -rrb- has usually been leavened by a charm that 's conspicuously missing from the girls ' big-screen blowout . | 0 | negative |
nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . | 1 | positive |
she 's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her bjorkness . | 1 | positive |
qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating . | 0 | negative |
this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . | 1 | positive |
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! | 0 | negative |
too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . | 0 | negative |
as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . | 0 | negative |
a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . | 1 | positive |
on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny . | 1 | positive |
a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem . | 0 | negative |
it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made -lrb- eyre 's -rrb- first film something of a sleeper success . | 0 | negative |
personally , i 'd rather watch them on the animal planet . | 0 | negative |
as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . | 1 | positive |
an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . | 0 | negative |
the art demands live viewing . | 1 | positive |
paul cox needed to show it . | 0 | negative |
astonishing ... -lrb- frames -rrb- profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . | 1 | positive |
although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . | 1 | positive |
a stirring road movie . | 1 | positive |
bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . | 1 | positive |
even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment . | 1 | positive |
the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable . | 0 | negative |
there 's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence . | 1 | positive |
if you 're in the right b-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you . | 1 | positive |
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . | 1 | positive |
dismally dull sci-fi comedy . | 0 | negative |
it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . | 1 | positive |
executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . | 1 | positive |
maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . | 1 | positive |
grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback 's heidegger - and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . | 1 | positive |
burns ' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . | 0 | negative |
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling -lrb- though no less horrifying for it -rrb- . | 1 | positive |
it 's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil ' bow wow . | 0 | negative |
it labours as storytelling . | 0 | negative |
a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . | 1 | positive |
the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . | 0 | negative |
it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . | 0 | negative |
festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you . | 0 | negative |
yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . | 0 | negative |
a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together . | 1 | positive |
the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . | 1 | positive |
an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it 's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald 's , let alone some savvy street activism . | 0 | negative |
those who are n't put off by the film 's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them . | 1 | positive |
has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal 's overweight and out of shape . | 0 | negative |
like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable . | 0 | negative |
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare 's plays . | 1 | positive |
just too silly and sophomoric to ensnare its target audience . | 0 | negative |
... one of the more influential works of the ` korean new wave ' . | 1 | positive |
the closest thing to the experience of space travel | 1 | positive |
right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination . | 0 | negative |
while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 0 | negative |
bon appétit ! | 1 | positive |
as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . | 1 | positive |
boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas . | 0 | negative |
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . | 0 | negative |
two hours of junk . | 0 | negative |
this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer . | 0 | negative |
i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- d -rrb- espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing ... | 1 | positive |
though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . | 1 | positive |
alternative medicine obviously has its merits ... but ayurveda does the field no favors . | 0 | negative |
a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . | 1 | positive |
it 's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe ... but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . | 0 | negative |
infidelity drama is nicely shot , well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane . | 1 | positive |
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . | 0 | negative |
talkiness is n't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark . | 0 | negative |
but the 2002 film does n't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate ` comedy ' scenes . | 0 | negative |
not so much farcical as sour . | 0 | negative |
like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . | 0 | negative |
the material and the production itself are little more than routine . | 0 | negative |
aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane . | 0 | negative |
far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise . | 1 | positive |
when it 's this rich and luscious , who cares ? | 1 | positive |
informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms . | 1 | positive |
a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . | 1 | positive |
a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids ' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder | 0 | negative |
at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience . | 0 | negative |
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience . | 0 | negative |
what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . | 1 | positive |
unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . | 1 | positive |
be forewarned , if you 're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . | 0 | negative |
it has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past . | 0 | negative |
it strikes hardest ... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . | 1 | positive |
most consumers of lo mein and general tso 's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons . | 1 | positive |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash . | 0 | negative |
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard -lrb- which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog -rrb- is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered . | 0 | negative |
ill-considered , unholy hokum . | 0 | negative |
it 's just merely very bad . | 0 | negative |
a flick about our infantilized culture that is n't entirely infantile . | 1 | positive |
rymer does n't trust laughs -- and does n't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects . | 0 | negative |
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible . | 0 | negative |
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . | 1 | positive |
this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0 | negative |
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach ` ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines . | 1 | positive |
boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . | 0 | negative |
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