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worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees . | 1 | positive |
it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special . | 1 | positive |
... too sappy for its own good . | 0 | negative |
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines . | 0 | negative |
no , i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money . | 0 | negative |
if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it 's to this film 's -lrb- and its makers ' -rrb- credit that we believe that that 's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves . | 1 | positive |
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick . | 0 | negative |
one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . | 0 | negative |
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati . | 1 | positive |
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre | 0 | negative |
for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped . | 0 | negative |
richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold . | 0 | negative |
a movie of riveting power and sadness . | 1 | positive |
robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show . | 1 | positive |
the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities . | 1 | positive |
just offbeat enough to keep you interested without coming close to bowling you over . | 1 | positive |
written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there 's something about mary co-writer ed decter . | 0 | negative |
it 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt . | 0 | negative |
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off | 0 | negative |
seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil . | 1 | positive |
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid . | 0 | negative |
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire . | 1 | positive |
it 's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate . | 0 | negative |
k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia . | 1 | positive |
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script . | 1 | positive |
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness . | 1 | positive |
it 's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good . | 1 | positive |
if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . | 1 | positive |
watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . | 1 | positive |
moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . | 1 | positive |
it 's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough . | 1 | positive |
the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . | 1 | positive |
the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class . | 0 | negative |
nicely combines the enigmatic features of ` memento ' with the hallucinatory drug culture of ` requiem for a dream . ' | 1 | positive |
sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- stale retread of the '53 original . | 0 | negative |
more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh 's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . | 1 | positive |
alarms for duvall 's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | 1 | positive |
there 's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt 's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance . | 0 | negative |
the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye . | 1 | positive |
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted . | 0 | negative |
to better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and i wo n't be sitting through this one again ... that in itself is commentary enough . | 0 | negative |
is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience . | 0 | negative |
at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill . | 0 | negative |
a ragbag of cliches . | 0 | negative |
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue | 0 | negative |
the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it 's no glance . | 1 | positive |
steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches . | 1 | positive |
niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators ' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the press | 1 | positive |
it 's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it 's also pretty funny . | 1 | positive |
the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch . | 0 | negative |
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . | 0 | negative |
whatever complaints i might have , i 'd take -lrb- its -rrb- earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor 's club any time . | 1 | positive |
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0 | negative |
another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . | 1 | positive |
but here 's a movie about it anyway . | 0 | negative |
if -lrb- jaglom 's -rrb- latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth hearing . | 1 | positive |
i did n't smile . | 0 | negative |
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level . | 1 | positive |
kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for -lrb- or worth rooting against , for that matter -rrb- . | 0 | negative |
it 's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you do n't try to look too deep into the story | 1 | positive |
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject | 0 | negative |
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises . | 0 | negative |
it 's horribly depressing and not very well done . | 0 | negative |
now as a former gong show addict , i 'll admit it , my only complaint is that we did n't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show . | 1 | positive |
enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers . | 1 | positive |
this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy . | 0 | negative |
a pale xerox of other , better crime movies . | 0 | negative |
strange it is , but delightfully so . | 1 | positive |
the story has little wit and no surprises . | 0 | negative |
crummy . | 0 | negative |
just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller . | 0 | negative |
this is a very funny , heartwarming film . | 1 | positive |
good-naturedly cornball sequel . | 1 | positive |
the french director has turned out nearly 21\/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . | 0 | negative |
it 's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after . | 0 | negative |
a small movie with a big impact . | 1 | positive |
the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . | 0 | negative |
crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 1 | positive |
an intelligent and deeply felt work about impossible , irrevocable choices and the price of making them . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- gosling 's -rrb- combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . | 1 | positive |
and it sees those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen . | 1 | positive |
in the new guy , even the bull gets recycled . | 0 | negative |
reggio and glass so rhapsodize cynicism , with repetition and languorous slo-mo sequences , that glass 's dirgelike score becomes a fang-baring lullaby . | 0 | negative |
marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula . | 1 | positive |
there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? | 0 | negative |
a movie that 's held captive by mediocrity . | 0 | negative |
an admirable , sometimes exceptional film | 1 | positive |
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . | 1 | positive |
a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish . | 1 | positive |
... spiced with humor -lrb- ' i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand -rrb- and witty updatings -lrb- silver 's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around -rrb- | 1 | positive |
has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . | 0 | negative |
not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching . | 1 | positive |
a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . | 1 | positive |
matthew lillard is born to play shaggy ! | 1 | positive |
a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . | 0 | negative |
there 's lots of cool stuff packed into espn 's ultimate x. | 1 | positive |
the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey . | 1 | positive |
at its best , it 's black hawk down with more heart . | 1 | positive |
invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion . | 1 | positive |
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