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elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | 1 | positive |
its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this is n't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare . | 0 | negative |
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clichés and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- the uncertain girl on the brink of womanhood . | 1 | positive |
at times , it actually hurts to watch . | 0 | negative |
made me unintentionally famous -- as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- taymor -rrb- utilizes the idea of making kahlo 's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . | 1 | positive |
one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 1 | positive |
forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . | 1 | positive |
i like it . | 1 | positive |
philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess . | 0 | negative |
while the humor is recognizably plympton , he has actually bothered to construct a real story this time . | 1 | positive |
although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime . | 1 | positive |
a well-crafted letdown . | 0 | negative |
duvall is strong as always . | 1 | positive |
toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . | 0 | negative |
terrific performances , great to look at , and funny . | 1 | positive |
very well-written and very well-acted . | 1 | positive |
there 's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip 's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . | 0 | negative |
girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter italian comedy . | 0 | negative |
adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . | 0 | negative |
muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . | 0 | negative |
morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . | 0 | negative |
carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , ` if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . ' | 0 | negative |
nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one . | 1 | positive |
this latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made b movie is long gone . | 0 | negative |
and that makes all the difference . | 1 | positive |
robert harmon 's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film 's thick shadows . | 1 | positive |
... a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920 's ... the film 's ending has a `` what was it all for ? '' | 0 | negative |
it 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . | 1 | positive |
slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you 're left with a sour taste in your mouth . | 0 | negative |
forgettable , if good-hearted , movie . | 0 | negative |
a riveting story well told . | 1 | positive |
for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence . | 0 | negative |
a culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is . | 0 | negative |
this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it . | 0 | negative |
at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . | 0 | negative |
mckay seems embarrassed by his own invention and tries to rush through the intermediary passages , apparently hoping that the audience will not notice the glaring triteness of the plot device he has put in service . | 0 | negative |
the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison . | 0 | negative |
the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield 's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer . | 1 | positive |
the script ? | 0 | negative |
nicole holofcener 's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style . | 1 | positive |
likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes . | 1 | positive |
borrows a bit from the classics `` wait until dark '' and `` extremities '' ... but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself . | 1 | positive |
a pleasant piece of escapist entertainment . | 1 | positive |
sweet and memorable film . | 1 | positive |
this is a movie you can trust . | 1 | positive |
whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . | 0 | negative |
impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . | 1 | positive |
these guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers . | 0 | negative |
there are a couple of things that elevate `` glory '' above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall . | 1 | positive |
it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band . | 1 | positive |
daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . | 1 | positive |
many a parent and their teen -lrb- or preteen -rrb- kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . | 1 | positive |
the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it . | 1 | positive |
though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . | 1 | positive |
evelyn 's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn . | 1 | positive |
... bibbidy-bobbidi-bland . | 0 | negative |
one thing 's for sure -- if george romero had directed this movie , it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head . | 0 | negative |
and he allows a gawky actor like spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range . | 1 | positive |
epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star . | 0 | negative |
it 's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette . | 1 | positive |
` blue crush ' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award . | 1 | positive |
needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance . | 0 | negative |
it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho . | 1 | positive |
but the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . | 0 | negative |
so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . | 1 | positive |
despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances . | 1 | positive |
a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem . | 1 | positive |
effective in all its aspects , margarita happy hour represents an auspicious feature debut for chaiken . | 1 | positive |
goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0 | negative |
quietly engaging . | 1 | positive |
what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman 's tragic odyssey . | 1 | positive |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? | 0 | negative |
a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit 's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . | 0 | negative |
what starts off as a satisfying kids flck becomes increasingly implausible as it races through contrived plot points . | 0 | negative |
the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . | 1 | positive |
has none of the crackle of `` fatal attraction '' , `` 9 1\/2 weeks '' , or even `` indecent proposal '' , and feels more like lyne 's stolid remake of `` lolita '' . | 0 | negative |
a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . | 1 | positive |
fathers and sons , and the uneasy bonds between them , rarely have received such a sophisticated and unsentimental treatment on the big screen as they do in this marvelous film . | 1 | positive |
as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising . | 0 | negative |
there 's much tongue in cheek in the film and there 's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all . | 1 | positive |
... `` bowling for columbine '' remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film ... | 1 | positive |
it 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 0 | negative |
phoned-in business as usual . | 0 | negative |
the only thing to fear about `` fear dot com '' is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film . | 0 | negative |
blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew . | 1 | positive |
to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . | 0 | negative |
there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . | 1 | positive |
bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . | 1 | positive |
the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it 's in danger of going wrong . | 1 | positive |
it 's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition . | 0 | negative |
an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . | 1 | positive |
a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . | 0 | negative |
a funny film . | 1 | positive |
a gangster movie with the capacity to surprise . | 1 | positive |
a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone 's crazy french grandfather . | 0 | negative |
it 's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling . | 0 | negative |
an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie . | 1 | positive |
a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith . | 1 | positive |
eight legged freaks ? | 0 | negative |
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