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a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story . | 2 | Positive |
disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . | 0 | Negative |
payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast . | 0 | Negative |
one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . | 0 | Negative |
a wry , affectionate delight . | 2 | Positive |
`` sum '' is jack ryan 's `` do-over . '' | 1 | Neutral |
brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . | 2 | Positive |
the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it 's offensive , but that it 's boring . | 0 | Negative |
but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . | 1 | Neutral |
a three-hour cinema master class . | 2 | Positive |
a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that 's so prevalent on the rock . | 2 | Positive |
may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting . | 2 | Positive |
than ` magnifique ' . | 1 | Neutral |
davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that does n't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . | 1 | Neutral |
caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | 2 | Positive |
the rest of the film ... is dudsville . | 0 | Negative |
brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . | 2 | Positive |
... a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . | 2 | Positive |
director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , can not overcome blah characters . | 0 | Negative |
the metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . | 0 | Negative |
if you 're a crocodile hunter fan , you 'll enjoy at least the `` real '' portions of the film . | 1 | Neutral |
works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever . | 0 | Negative |
wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film . | 2 | Positive |
a bold -lrb- and lovely -rrb- experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams . | 2 | Positive |
a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing | 2 | Positive |
we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . | 1 | Neutral |
if any of them list this ` credit ' on their resumes in the future , that 'll be much funnier than anything in the film ... | 0 | Negative |
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 | Negative |
the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . | 0 | Negative |
there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . | 2 | Positive |
it is scott 's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph . | 2 | Positive |
just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 1 | Neutral |
a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . | 1 | Neutral |
4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . | 2 | Positive |
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . | 2 | Positive |
while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there 's nothing here to match that movie 's intermittent moments of inspiration . | 1 | Neutral |
despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . | 0 | Negative |
it 's one long bore . | 0 | Negative |
if you are curious to see the darker side of what 's going on with young tv actors -lrb- dawson leery did what ?!? -rrb- , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there 's nothing very attractive about this movie . | 0 | Negative |
it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . | 2 | Positive |
none of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny . | 0 | Negative |
ice age wo n't drop your jaw , but it will warm your heart , and i 'm giving it a strong thumbs up . | 2 | Positive |
a tasty masala . | 2 | Positive |
but it does have one saving grace . | 2 | Positive |
one ca n't deny its seriousness and quality . | 2 | Positive |
piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . | 2 | Positive |
it 'll keep you wide awake and ... very tense . | 2 | Positive |
an empty , purposeless exercise . | 0 | Negative |
too bad . | 0 | Negative |
everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with ` issues ' to simplify . | 1 | Neutral |
the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups do n't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . | 1 | Neutral |
rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen 's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . | 2 | Positive |
can be classified as one of those ` alternate reality ' movies ... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . | 0 | Negative |
despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela . | 0 | Negative |
painfully padded . | 0 | Negative |
the sum of all fears is remarkably fuddled about motives and context , which drains it of the dramatic substance that would shake us in our boots -lrb- or cinema seats -rrb- . | 0 | Negative |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . | 2 | Positive |
highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . | 2 | Positive |
none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ? | 2 | Positive |
it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . | 1 | Neutral |
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | 2 | Positive |
i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . | 2 | Positive |
a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . | 2 | Positive |
for all the wit and hoopla , festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships . | 2 | Positive |
every joke is repeated at least -- annoying , is n't it ? | 0 | Negative |
` anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . ' | 2 | Positive |
a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . | 2 | Positive |
in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . | 1 | Neutral |
... an interesting slice of history . | 2 | Positive |
for dance completists only . | 0 | Negative |
it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition . | 0 | Negative |
less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . | 1 | Neutral |
it 's uninteresting . | 0 | Negative |
bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . | 0 | Negative |
a tone poem of transgression . | 2 | Positive |
seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian 's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore . | 0 | Negative |
confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . | 0 | Negative |
road to perdition does display greatness , and it 's worth seeing . | 2 | Positive |
ultimately , sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . | 0 | Negative |
an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time . | 2 | Positive |
one of the worst movies of the year . | 0 | Negative |
like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long : it 's too much syrup and not enough fizz . | 0 | Negative |
too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle 's carpets . | 0 | Negative |
it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . | 0 | Negative |
a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller . | 2 | Positive |
it 's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . | 1 | Neutral |
manages to delight without much of a story . | 2 | Positive |
... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . | 0 | Negative |
may take its sweet time to get wherever it 's going , but if you have the patience for it , you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours . | 2 | Positive |
ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms. paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability . | 0 | Negative |
in the book-on-tape market , the film of `` the kid stays in the picture '' would be an abridged edition | 0 | Negative |
it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainment . | 0 | Negative |
it 's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . | 1 | Neutral |
high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . | 0 | Negative |
the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . | 0 | Negative |
a high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime . | 2 | Positive |
the camera whirls ! | 1 | Neutral |
... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ... | 2 | Positive |
an infinitely wittier version of the home alone formula . | 2 | Positive |
devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . | 0 | Negative |
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