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much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché .
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Negative
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history .
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Positive
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone .
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Negative
i like it .
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Positive
birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters .
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Positive
` god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '
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Negative
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak .
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Positive
a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr .
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Positive
-lrb- there 's -rrb- quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin .
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Positive
it 's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !
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Positive
giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun .
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Positive
the film is insightful about kissinger 's background and history .
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Positive
it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens
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Negative
with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment .
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Neutral
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .
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Positive
beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that 's there to scare while we delight in the images .
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Positive
it 's almost as if it 's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .
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Neutral
charming and funny -lrb- but ultimately silly -rrb- movie .
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Neutral
this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair .
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Positive
this story still seems timely and important .
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Positive
a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise .
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Positive
jae-eun jeong 's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema .
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Positive
the film 's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth .
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Positive
like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .
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Positive
you 'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you 'll laugh .
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Neutral
as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good .
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Neutral
the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .
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Positive
-lrb- f -rrb- rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .
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Positive
it 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .
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Negative
it is too bad that this likable movie is n't more accomplished .
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Negative
quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that is n't afraid to admit it does n't have all the answers .
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Positive
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit .
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Neutral
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 .
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Negative
you can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed .
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Negative
feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen .
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Negative
definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . '
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Positive
... pray does n't have a passion for the material .
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Negative
resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter 's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings .
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Neutral
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood .
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Negative
the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history .
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Positive
the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama .
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Negative
lush and beautifully photographed -lrb- somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book -rrb- , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered .
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Negative
instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .
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Negative
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .
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Negative
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years .
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Positive
sometimes this ` blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist ... still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game .
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Neutral
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .
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Negative
kenneth branagh 's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles .
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Neutral
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy .
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Negative
enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage 's best acting .
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Neutral
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .
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Positive
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .
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Negative
this romantic\/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in .
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Negative
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
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Positive
full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters .
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Negative
the movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ; it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten .
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Negative
if you 've the patience , there are great rewards here .
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Positive
devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects .
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Negative
those of you who do n't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original .
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Neutral
it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least .
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Positive
remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ?
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Negative
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis 's wall of kitsch hard going .
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Negative
real women have curves does n't offer any easy answers .
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Neutral
weird , vulgar comedy that 's definitely an acquired taste .
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Neutral
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line .
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Negative
writer\/director alexander payne -lrb- election -rrb- and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing .
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Positive
if you can push on through the slow spots , you 'll be rewarded with some fine acting .
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Positive
chris columbus ' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .
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Positive
this is the stuff that disney movies are made of .
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Positive
what 's invigorating about it is that it does n't give a damn .
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Positive
it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .
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Negative
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .
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Positive
it 's makes a better travelogue than movie .
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Negative
it 's a masterpiece .
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Positive
... will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks .
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Neutral
been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional .
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Negative
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat .
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Negative
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .
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Negative
-- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while .
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Positive
the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker 's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer\/director anderson .
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Positive
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 .
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Negative
films are made of little moments .
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Neutral
if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790 's , one imagines the result would look like something like this .
2
Positive
this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking .
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Positive
what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .
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Negative
what `` empire '' lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart .
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Positive
the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard .
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Positive
it 's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one .
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Neutral
this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast .
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Negative
standing by yourself is haunting ... -lrb- it 's -rrb- what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction .
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Positive
a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless .
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Negative
all in all , a great party .
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Positive
a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it does n't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world .
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Positive
lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it does n't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for -lrb- and misses -rrb- .
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Neutral
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .
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Neutral
-lrb- seems -rrb- even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels .
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Negative
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic .
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Positive
it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary .
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Negative
it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .
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Negative
-lrb- l -rrb- ame and unnecessary .
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Negative