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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . | like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . | 1 |
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . | an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular . | 0 |
yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ... | incoherence reigns . | 1 |
yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ... | on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 0 |
it 's just rather leaden and dull . | nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . | 1 |
it 's just rather leaden and dull . | full of surprises . | 0 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 1 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love . | 0 |
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 1 |
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | dreary tale of middle-class angst | 1 |
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | and vin diesel is the man . | 0 |
never inspires more than an interested detachment . | depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being . | 1 |
never inspires more than an interested detachment . | if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x. | 0 |
incoherence reigns . | a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken . | 1 |
incoherence reigns . | the movie is ingenious fun . | 0 |
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy . | like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . | 1 |
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy . | it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 0 |
talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency . | 1 |
talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . | 0 |
adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . | 1 |
adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . | 0 |
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . | ` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | 1 |
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . | what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | 0 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | the whole film has this sneaky feel to it -- as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . | 1 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . | 0 |
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't . | 1 |
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | 0 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films . | 1 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | 0 |
... a solid , well-formed satire . | a hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant 's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones 's diary . | 1 |
... a solid , well-formed satire . | does n't deserve a passing grade -lrb- even on a curve -rrb- . | 0 |
... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 1 |
... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . | the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one -lrb- and no one -rrb- . | 0 |
a marvel of production design . | a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | 1 |
a marvel of production design . | problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . | as a film director , labute continues to improve . | 1 |
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . | utter mush ... conceited pap . | 0 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . | 1 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . | 0 |
anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . | 1 |
anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | it 's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that 's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline . | 0 |
adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . | adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 1 |
adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design . | after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it 's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen . | 0 |
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | i like it . | 1 |
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | shrewd but pointless . | 0 |
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | -lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 1 |
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | make like the title and dodge this one . | 0 |
what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . | a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 1 |
what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . | except it 's much , much better . | 0 |
nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . | angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . | cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story . ' | 0 |
delightfully rendered | it 's never dull and always looks good . | 1 |
delightfully rendered | the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . | exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . | 1 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . | there 's nothing to gain from watching they . | 0 |
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 1 |
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | the characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films . | 0 |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . | 1 |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | full frontal , which opens today nationwide , could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire , but it lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature . | 0 |
it 's never dull and always looks good . | a marvel of production design . | 1 |
it 's never dull and always looks good . | like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 0 |
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts | angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | 1 |
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts | originality is sorely lacking . | 0 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | 1 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . | 0 |
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 1 |
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 0 |
dreary tale of middle-class angst | richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold . | 1 |
dreary tale of middle-class angst | a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . | 0 |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | 1 |
despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . | the movie is ingenious fun . | 0 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | it 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark . | 1 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . | 0 |
there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | a compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | 1 |
there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front . | make like the title and dodge this one . | 0 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ' | i like it . | 1 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ' | an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . | 0 |
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 1 |
one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | in fact , even better . | 0 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative . | 1 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | utter mush ... conceited pap . | 0 |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . | 1 |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | , `` they 're out there ! '' | 0 |
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | a modestly surprising movie . | 1 |
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | the chocolate factory without charlie . | 0 |
-lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . | 1 |
-lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one . | 0 |
` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . | 1 |
` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | what they 're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . | 0 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want . | on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 1 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want . | jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | ... by the time it 's done with us , mira nair 's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over . | 1 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ? | 0 |
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn . | 1 |
a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe . | what 's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses -lrb- and one academy award winning actor -rrb- succumb to appearing in this junk that 's tv sitcom material at best . | 0 |
angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 1 |
angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | we just do n't really care too much about this love story . | 0 |
with an unusual protagonist -lrb- a kilt-wearing jackson -rrb- and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger . | all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon . | 1 |
with an unusual protagonist -lrb- a kilt-wearing jackson -rrb- and subject matter , the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger . | after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . | 0 |
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