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a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken . | 0 | negative |
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 1 | positive |
scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . | 0 | negative |
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . | 1 | positive |
chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . | 1 | positive |
the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . | 0 | negative |
brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . | 0 | negative |
if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it 's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . | 1 | positive |
even the digressions are funny . | 1 | positive |
and , thanks to the presence of ` the king , ' it also rocks . | 1 | positive |
in other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year . | 0 | negative |
visually fascinating ... an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . | 1 | positive |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen . | 0 | negative |
we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in fire that makes the formula fresh again . | 1 | positive |
gets better after foster leaves that little room . | 1 | positive |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- evans is -rrb- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . | 0 | negative |
the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . | 0 | negative |
this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea -lrb- or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really -rrb- in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question ` why ? ' | 0 | negative |
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 1 | positive |
feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 0 | negative |
a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic . | 0 | negative |
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . | 0 | negative |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 | negative |
a tired , unnecessary retread ... a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with . | 0 | negative |
is n't as sharp as the original ... despite some visual virtues , ` blade ii ' just does n't cut it . | 0 | negative |
enigma lacks it . | 0 | negative |
mr. caine and mr. fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . | 1 | positive |
too bad none of it is funny . | 0 | negative |
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . | 1 | positive |
there 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 1 | positive |
yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it 's so fascinating you wo n't be able to look away for a second . | 1 | positive |
this film puts wang at the forefront of china 's sixth generation of film makers . | 1 | positive |
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother . | 1 | positive |
like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience 's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . | 1 | positive |
i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- n -rrb- o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0 | negative |
not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . | 1 | positive |
after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . | 0 | negative |
texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . | 1 | positive |
obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time -lrb- including mine -rrb- on something very inconsequential . | 0 | negative |
should have gone straight to video . | 0 | negative |
maryam is more timely now than ever . | 1 | positive |
koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . | 0 | negative |
it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 1 | positive |
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . | 1 | positive |
you do n't need to know your ice-t 's from your cool-j 's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | 0 | negative |
by turns very dark and very funny . | 1 | positive |
completely awful iranian drama ... as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 | negative |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you 'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . | 0 | negative |
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 0 | negative |
uneven but a lot of fun . | 1 | positive |
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . | 0 | negative |
the biggest problem i have -lrb- other than the very sluggish pace -rrb- is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . | 0 | negative |
... it 's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . | 1 | positive |
a zombie movie in every sense of the word -- mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- moore 's -rrb- better at fingering problems than finding solutions . | 0 | negative |
... fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist 's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . | 1 | positive |
is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? | 0 | negative |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- green is -rrb- the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i 'm just about ready to go to the u.n. and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 0 | negative |
once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 0 | negative |
some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0 | negative |
brave and sweetly rendered love story . | 1 | positive |
for decades we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . | 1 | positive |
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we 've long associated with washington the actor . | 1 | positive |
while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . | 1 | positive |
long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser . | 0 | negative |
the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public | 1 | positive |
a thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation . | 1 | positive |
bittersweet comedy\/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . | 1 | positive |
the town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial . | 0 | negative |
this is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies . | 1 | positive |
remarkable for its intelligence and intensity . | 1 | positive |
a complete waste of time . | 0 | negative |
should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike . | 1 | positive |
an intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives . | 1 | positive |
you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride . | 1 | positive |
resident evil is n't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail . | 0 | negative |
that works . | 1 | positive |
what 's most memorable about circuit is that it 's shot on digital video , whose tiny camera enables shafer to navigate spaces both large ... and small ... with considerable aplomb . | 1 | positive |
the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride . | 1 | positive |
a classy , sprightly spin on film . | 1 | positive |
frankly , it 's kind of insulting , both to men and women . | 0 | negative |
in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . | 0 | negative |
watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . | 1 | positive |
nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining . | 1 | positive |
it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors . | 0 | negative |
so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film . | 0 | negative |
one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . | 1 | positive |
this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful . | 1 | positive |
if villainous vampires are your cup of blood , blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest . | 1 | positive |
if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh . | 0 | negative |
a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . | 0 | negative |
refreshing . | 1 | positive |
a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 0 | negative |
by the end of it all i sort of loved the people onscreen , even though i could not stand them . | 1 | positive |
the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 0 | negative |
... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . | 1 | positive |
while the film is competent , it 's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires . | 0 | negative |
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