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the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . | 1 | positive |
director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? | 0 | negative |
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 0 | negative |
if i want music , i 'll buy the soundtrack . | 0 | negative |
this movie has the usual impossible stunts ... but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie . | 1 | positive |
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates . | 0 | negative |
as a film director , labute continues to improve . | 1 | positive |
a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | 0 | negative |
lazily directed by charles stone iii ... from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . | 0 | negative |
the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so . | 0 | negative |
this is a film living far too much in its own head . | 0 | negative |
pascale bailly 's rom-com provides amélie 's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest . | 0 | negative |
p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . | 1 | positive |
imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene . | 0 | negative |
i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie . | 1 | positive |
large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year 's radar screen that it 's tempting just to go with it for the ride . | 1 | positive |
`` frailty '' offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . | 1 | positive |
despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . | 1 | positive |
any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . | 0 | negative |
go , girls , right down the reality drain . | 0 | negative |
staggeringly dreadful romance . | 0 | negative |
a smart , compelling drama . | 1 | positive |
thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents | 0 | negative |
... there 's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages . | 1 | positive |
deliciously slow . | 1 | positive |
the problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay . | 0 | negative |
offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing . | 1 | positive |
... certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . | 1 | positive |
an escapist confection that 's pure entertainment . | 1 | positive |
an amused indictment of jaglom 's own profession . | 1 | positive |
so aggressively cheery that pollyana would reach for a barf bag . | 0 | negative |
a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special . | 0 | negative |
beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it 's a lyrical endeavour . | 1 | positive |
pompous and garbled . | 0 | negative |
there 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale . | 0 | negative |
for all its problems ... the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring ... which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience . | 1 | positive |
the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 | positive |
a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes . | 1 | positive |
it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b.s. one another and put on a show in drag . | 0 | negative |
a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . | 0 | negative |
cuba gooding jr. valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 0 | negative |
a sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity . | 1 | positive |
a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe . | 1 | positive |
constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . | 0 | negative |
the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits . | 1 | positive |
an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema . | 1 | positive |
that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . | 1 | positive |
what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is . | 1 | positive |
simplistic , silly and tedious . | 0 | negative |
we just do n't really care too much about this love story . | 0 | negative |
writer\/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results . | 1 | positive |
it 's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them , but olympia , wash. , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it 's what makes their project so interesting . | 1 | positive |
now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . | 1 | positive |
offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through . | 1 | positive |
for a film about explosions and death and spies , `` ballistic : ecks vs. sever '' seems as safe as a children 's film . | 0 | negative |
it 's up to -lrb- watts -rrb- to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe . | 1 | positive |
what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . | 1 | positive |
well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . | 0 | negative |
... a solid , well-formed satire . | 1 | positive |
the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed . | 1 | positive |
less than fresh . | 0 | negative |
those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` scratch '' a second look . | 1 | positive |
a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 0 | negative |
it 's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of -lrb- woo 's -rrb- best work . | 0 | negative |
using a stock plot , about a boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . | 1 | positive |
old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . | 1 | positive |
they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . | 0 | negative |
mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . | 0 | negative |
an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation . | 1 | positive |
below may not mark mr. twohy 's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished . | 1 | positive |
i think it was plato who said , ' i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . ' | 0 | negative |
the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . | 0 | negative |
is n't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? | 0 | negative |
this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . | 0 | negative |
chouraqui brings documentary-like credibility to the horrors of the killing field and the barbarism of ` ethnic cleansing . ' | 1 | positive |
it 's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . | 1 | positive |
white has n't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . | 0 | negative |
world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it 's certainly an honest attempt to get at something . | 1 | positive |
it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad . | 1 | positive |
witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . | 1 | positive |
hawke 's film , a boring , pretentious waste of nearly two hours , does n't tell you anything except that the chelsea hotel today is populated by whiny , pathetic , starving and untalented artistes . | 0 | negative |
gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing . | 0 | negative |
the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 1 | positive |
using an endearing cast , writer\/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred . | 1 | positive |
some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . | 0 | negative |
`` sorority boys '' was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad . | 0 | negative |
toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it 's hard not to be carried away . | 1 | positive |
silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another . | 0 | negative |
it 's the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion . | 1 | positive |
and , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater . | 1 | positive |
the rules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . | 0 | negative |
his work with actors is particularly impressive . | 1 | positive |
unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling . | 1 | positive |
worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . | 0 | negative |
one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . | 0 | negative |
when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . | 0 | negative |
a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . | 1 | positive |
wishy-washy . | 0 | negative |
no one can doubt the filmmakers ' motives , but the guys still feels counterproductive . | 0 | negative |
it just goes to show , an intelligent person is n't necessarily an admirable storyteller . | 0 | negative |
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