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an unintentionally surreal kid 's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . | 0 | negative |
both damning and damned compelling . | 1 | positive |
it 's not original enough . | 0 | negative |
apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . | 1 | positive |
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . | 0 | negative |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 1 | positive |
he 's one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . | 1 | positive |
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 0 | negative |
a serious movie with serious ideas . | 1 | positive |
attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 0 | negative |
plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . | 0 | negative |
stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . | 0 | negative |
it 's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . | 1 | positive |
leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 1 | positive |
beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . | 1 | positive |
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 1 | positive |
then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action ... | 1 | positive |
that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 0 | negative |
land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 1 | positive |
barney 's ideas about creation and identity do n't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material . | 0 | negative |
build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . | 0 | negative |
cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark 's dogma movement . | 1 | positive |
bottom-rung new jack city wannabe . | 0 | negative |
despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie | 0 | negative |
but this time , the old mib label stands for milder is n't better . | 0 | negative |
forget the misleading title , what 's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? | 0 | negative |
it 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . | 0 | negative |
what 's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . | 1 | positive |
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . | 0 | negative |
every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 | negative |
the film 's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature\/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . | 0 | negative |
a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . | 0 | negative |
with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . | 1 | positive |
watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens ' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child 's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power . | 1 | positive |
e.t. works because its flabbergasting principals , 14-year-old robert macnaughton , 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas , convince us of the existence of the wise , wizened visitor from a faraway planet . | 1 | positive |
yes , it 's as good as you remember . | 1 | positive |
for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . | 1 | positive |
full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing . | 1 | positive |
little more than a well-mounted history lesson . | 0 | negative |
peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want . | 1 | positive |
this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . | 0 | negative |
a joyous occasion | 1 | positive |
-lrb- `` take care of my cat '' -rrb- is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . | 1 | positive |
novak contemplates a heartland so overwhelmed by its lack of purpose that it seeks excitement in manufactured high drama . | 0 | negative |
one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . | 1 | positive |
trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein 's brain . | 0 | negative |
a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . | 1 | positive |
you have no affinity for most of the characters . | 0 | negative |
its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary . | 0 | negative |
whether or not you buy mr. broomfield 's findings , the film acquires an undeniable entertainment value as the slight , pale mr. broomfield continues to force himself on people and into situations that would make lesser men run for cover . | 1 | positive |
a relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty world war ii action flick . | 0 | negative |
charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . | 1 | positive |
move over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . | 1 | positive |
an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg 's the prince of egypt from 1998 . | 0 | negative |
for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed ` surprises . ' | 0 | negative |
congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! | 1 | positive |
a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . | 0 | negative |
is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? | 0 | negative |
it 's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | 1 | positive |
the movie 's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . | 0 | negative |
in between all the emotional seesawing , it 's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . | 0 | negative |
expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women . | 1 | positive |
an exit sign , that is . | 0 | negative |
beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . | 1 | positive |
entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately ... dare i say , entertaining ! | 1 | positive |
just dreadful . | 0 | negative |
bill morrison 's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . | 1 | positive |
a superlative b movie -- funny , sexy , and rousing . | 1 | positive |
the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . | 0 | negative |
yet another genre exercise , gangster no. 1 is as generic as its title . | 0 | negative |
before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway . | 0 | negative |
... while dark water is n't a complete wash -lrb- no pun intended -rrb- , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor . | 0 | negative |
plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . | 1 | positive |
one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism . | 1 | positive |
the script 's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . | 0 | negative |
despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . | 0 | negative |
is a mess . | 0 | negative |
adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love does n't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | 0 | negative |
... quite endearing . | 1 | positive |
hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . | 0 | negative |
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . | 0 | negative |
a little better than sorcerer 's stone . | 1 | positive |
nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . | 1 | positive |
almost as offensive as `` freddy got fingered . '' | 0 | negative |
imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern . | 0 | negative |
there 's no point of view , no contemporary interpretation of joan 's prefeminist plight , so we 're left thinking the only reason to make the movie is because present standards allow for plenty of nudity . | 0 | negative |
a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . | 0 | negative |
renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . | 1 | positive |
the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality . | 1 | positive |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes ' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . | 0 | negative |
wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . | 0 | negative |
steven soderbergh does n't remake andrei tarkovsky 's solaris so much as distill it . | 0 | negative |
a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | 1 | positive |
if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $ 8 and get ready for the big shear . | 0 | negative |
tale will be all too familiar for anyone who 's seen george roy hill 's 1973 film , `` the sting . '' | 0 | negative |
warm and exotic . | 1 | positive |
the movie 's blatant derivativeness is one reason it 's so lackluster . | 0 | negative |
rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results . | 1 | positive |
like a grinning jack o ' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded . | 0 | negative |
a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you 're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . | 1 | positive |
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