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the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . | we just do n't really care too much about this love story . | 1 |
the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . | delightfully rendered | 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 ... | while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 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 ... | an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 0 |
it 's just rather leaden and dull . | a lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles french , japanese and hollywood cultures . | 1 |
it 's just rather leaden and dull . | although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | 0 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 1 |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that 's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world . | 0 |
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | 1 |
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | pretend like your sat scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws . | 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 . | hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever . | 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 . | you 'll know a star when you see one . | 0 |
never inspires more than an interested detachment . | dreary tale of middle-class angst | 1 |
never inspires more than an interested detachment . | a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . | 0 |
incoherence reigns . | michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 1 |
incoherence reigns . | 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 |
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy . | snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this . | 1 |
-lrb- a -rrb- poorly executed comedy . | the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . | 0 |
talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | the film is flat . | 1 |
talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . | sly , sophisticated and surprising . | 0 |
adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 1 |
adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 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 all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . | elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | 1 |
it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller 's time out . | a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 1 |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it can not even be dubbed hedonistic . | a marvel of production design . | 0 |
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental . | 1 |
the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten . | 0 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 1 |
the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . | the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between . | 0 |
... a solid , well-formed satire . | 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 |
... a solid , well-formed satire . | never inspires more than an interested detachment . | 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 . | with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | 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 . | i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . | 0 |
a marvel of production design . | -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 |
a marvel of production design . | ... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 0 |
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . | as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | 1 |
and we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . | an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . | 0 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . | 1 |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . | 0 |
anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | a waterlogged version of ` fatal attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set ... a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads . | 1 |
anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy . | the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats ' perspective . | 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 . | but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun . | 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 . | this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 0 |
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | full of surprises . | 1 |
a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful . | 0 |
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | 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 |
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message . | while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 0 |
what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . | while easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films , it 's still tainted by cliches , painful improbability and murky points . | 1 |
what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . | stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . | 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 . | if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . | 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 . | the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long . | 0 |
delightfully rendered | the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted need n't waste their time on it . | 1 |
delightfully rendered | the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . | 0 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . | with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | 1 |
one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . | 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 . | 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 . | to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there 's no indication that he 's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit . | 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 . | likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ? | 0 |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . | 1 |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | 0 |
it 's never dull and always looks good . | a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 1 |
it 's never dull and always looks good . | everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . | 0 |
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts | a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature . | 1 |
turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts | 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 . | 0 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | i suspect that you 'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . | 1 |
gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . | 0 |
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way . | 1 |
maybe there 's a metaphor here , but figuring it out would n't make trouble every day any better . | it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 0 |
dreary tale of middle-class angst | adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . | 1 |
dreary tale of middle-class angst | one of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace . | 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 . | like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . | 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 . | a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture . | 0 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | it celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . ' | 1 |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 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 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 |
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 . | there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 0 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ' | the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . | 1 |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ' | 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 those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 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 . | the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . | 0 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 |
although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | 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 . | 0 |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | little more than a well-mounted history lesson . | 1 |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . | 0 |
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare . | 1 |
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | i 'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back . | 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 . | with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . | 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 . | how this one escaped the lifetime network i 'll never know . | 0 |
` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | it 's never dull and always looks good . | 1 |
` if you are in the mood for an intelligent weepy , it can easily worm its way into your heart . ' | the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few . | 0 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want . | full of surprises . | 1 |
a raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted korean american stand-up 's i 'm the one that i want . | there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . | 0 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | elvira fans could hardly ask for more . | 1 |
serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination . | a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | 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 . | contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 0 |
angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness . | 1 |
angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale . | if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it . | 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 . | as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | 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 . | its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 0 |
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