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... a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 1 | positive |
i walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like . | 0 | negative |
the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . | 0 | negative |
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? | 0 | negative |
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame . | 0 | negative |
familiar but utterly delightful . | 1 | positive |
the chocolate factory without charlie . | 0 | negative |
may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . | 0 | negative |
steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece | 1 | positive |
it made me feel unclean , and i 'm the guy who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies . | 0 | negative |
complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . | 0 | negative |
a lot of the credit for the film 's winning tone must go to grant , who has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . | 1 | positive |
the rare imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour . | 1 | positive |
if you 're a comic fan , you ca n't miss it . | 1 | positive |
a marvel of production design . | 1 | positive |
from the choppy editing to the annoying score to ` special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line , `` besotted '' is misbegotten | 0 | negative |
a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 1 | positive |
from both a great and a terrible story , mr. nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 1 | positive |
consider it ` perfection . ' | 1 | positive |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 1 | positive |
if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca 's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . | 1 | positive |
like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 | negative |
it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't . | 0 | negative |
moretti ... is the rare common-man artist who 's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . | 1 | positive |
... irritating soul-searching garbage . | 0 | negative |
a humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 0 | negative |
none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens . | 0 | negative |
you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . | 0 | negative |
the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down . | 0 | negative |
the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill . | 1 | positive |
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . ' | 0 | negative |
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ... | 0 | negative |
triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude . | 1 | positive |
wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . | 0 | negative |
lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded . | 0 | negative |
a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . | 0 | negative |
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor . | 0 | negative |
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness . | 1 | positive |
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story | 1 | positive |
the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany\/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster . | 1 | positive |
quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 | negative |
a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt . | 0 | negative |
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . | 0 | negative |
a bit too eager to please . | 0 | negative |
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard . | 0 | negative |
it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is . | 1 | positive |
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day . | 1 | positive |
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . | 0 | negative |
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness . | 1 | positive |
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater | 0 | negative |
shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera . | 0 | negative |
the story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge . | 0 | negative |
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson 's far side humor | 1 | positive |
he 's not good with people . | 0 | negative |
big mistake . | 0 | negative |
aan opportunity wasted . | 0 | negative |
y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt . | 1 | positive |
rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy . | 1 | positive |
it is quite a vision . | 1 | positive |
a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense . | 0 | negative |
the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is . | 1 | positive |
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 1 | positive |
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 0 | negative |
the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . | 0 | negative |
you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 0 | negative |
if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck . | 1 | positive |
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . | 1 | positive |
cool . | 1 | positive |
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery . | 1 | positive |
beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes . | 1 | positive |
morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema . | 1 | positive |
guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . | 0 | negative |
there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | 1 | positive |
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . | 0 | negative |
bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie ... is , also , frequently hilarious . | 1 | positive |
bouquet gives a performance that is masterly . | 1 | positive |
it 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut , mad cows . | 0 | negative |
there 's a lot to recommend read my lips . | 1 | positive |
i 'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls | 0 | negative |
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . | 1 | positive |
the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . | 0 | negative |
it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . | 0 | negative |
maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts . | 1 | positive |
the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . | 0 | negative |
britney spears ' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction . | 0 | negative |
the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . ' | 0 | negative |
devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . | 1 | positive |
... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season . | 0 | negative |
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . | 1 | positive |
he fails . | 0 | negative |
this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit . | 1 | positive |
nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career . | 0 | negative |
it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate . | 1 | positive |
jeong-hyang lee 's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . | 1 | positive |
the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie . | 1 | positive |
for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype . | 0 | negative |
it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . | 1 | positive |
one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album . | 0 | negative |
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . | 1 | positive |
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience . | 1 | positive |
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