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sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . | 1 | positive |
`` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . | 1 | positive |
a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . | 1 | positive |
plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . | 0 | negative |
all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . | 1 | positive |
with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen ... his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles . | 0 | negative |
like a fish that 's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places . | 0 | negative |
adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . | 1 | positive |
canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . | 1 | positive |
ultimately , `` mib ii '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless . | 1 | positive |
like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen 's astringent wit . | 1 | positive |
tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . | 0 | negative |
the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows . | 0 | negative |
a family film that contains some hefty thematic material on time , death , eternity , and what is needed to live a rich and full life . | 1 | positive |
a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades . | 1 | positive |
by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one . | 1 | positive |
rewarding . | 1 | positive |
often hilarious . | 1 | positive |
shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . | 1 | positive |
i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they 're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . | 1 | positive |
the adventure does n't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . | 0 | negative |
a very charming and funny movie . | 1 | positive |
nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . | 1 | positive |
... the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material . | 0 | negative |
beware the quirky brit-com . | 0 | negative |
a sense of real magic , perhaps . | 1 | positive |
in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it 's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . | 0 | negative |
a tour de force of modern cinema . | 1 | positive |
able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history . | 1 | positive |
it still feels like a prison stretch . | 0 | negative |
adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . | 1 | positive |
he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . | 1 | positive |
this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . | 1 | positive |
the direction , by george hickenlooper , has no snap to it , no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks . | 1 | positive |
her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost . | 0 | negative |
a supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama . | 0 | negative |
an impeccable study in perversity . | 1 | positive |
what sets it apart is the vision that taymor , the avant garde director of broadway 's the lion king and the film titus , brings . | 1 | positive |
offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . | 1 | positive |
but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0 | negative |
a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . | 0 | negative |
an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . | 0 | negative |
i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . | 0 | negative |
time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation . | 0 | negative |
a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . | 0 | negative |
twenty years after its first release , e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career . | 1 | positive |
suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . | 0 | negative |
talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | 0 | negative |
filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life . | 0 | negative |
the great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . | 0 | negative |
beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . | 0 | negative |
more tiring than anything . | 0 | negative |
laconic and very stilted in its dialogue , this indie flick never found its audience , probably because it 's extremely hard to relate to any of the characters . | 0 | negative |
uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ... | 0 | negative |
a perceptive , good-natured movie . | 1 | positive |
maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . | 1 | positive |
if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother . | 0 | negative |
reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . | 0 | negative |
if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . | 1 | positive |
other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . | 0 | negative |
the movie is like scorsese 's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot . | 0 | negative |
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | 1 | positive |
captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . | 1 | positive |
gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . | 1 | positive |
he drags it back , single-handed . | 1 | positive |
translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya . | 1 | positive |
there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie . | 0 | negative |
a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . | 1 | positive |
reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show . | 1 | positive |
a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . | 1 | positive |
be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . | 1 | positive |
the mantra behind the project seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick . ' | 0 | negative |
both heartbreaking and heartwarming ... just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving . | 1 | positive |
the series ' message about making the right choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls ' amusing personalities . | 1 | positive |
the santa clause 2 's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry . | 0 | negative |
it 's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series . | 1 | positive |
true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation . | 0 | negative |
the piano teacher is not an easy film . | 0 | negative |
degenerates into hogwash . | 0 | negative |
absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel . | 0 | negative |
those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . | 0 | negative |
sex with strangers is fascinating ... | 1 | positive |
unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . | 0 | negative |
byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . | 1 | positive |
green ruins every single scene he 's in , and the film , while it 's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that . | 0 | negative |
a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ... | 1 | positive |
stealing harvard ca n't even do that much . | 0 | negative |
leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . | 1 | positive |
if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 0 | negative |
the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . | 0 | negative |
a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore . | 0 | negative |
the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . | 0 | negative |
neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm . | 1 | positive |
likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? | 1 | positive |
what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom . | 0 | negative |
this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . | 1 | positive |
another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin ' . ' | 1 | positive |
what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point . | 0 | negative |
expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street . | 1 | positive |
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