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while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel .
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Positive
i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche .
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Negative
a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book .
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Neutral
... the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning .
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Negative
or that the battery on your watch has died .
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Neutral
as hannibal would say , yes , ` it 's like having an old friend for dinner ' .
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Positive
it 's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime .
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Positive
imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor .
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Negative
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order .
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Neutral
the whole affair is as predictable as can be .
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Neutral
see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion .
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Positive
always destined to be measured against anthony asquith 's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation .
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Positive
try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde .
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Negative
hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being .
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Positive
chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them .
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Positive
the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache .
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Positive
the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites .
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Positive
nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks .
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Negative
bad and baffling from the get-go .
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Negative
the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm .
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Negative
i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was making no sense at all .
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Neutral
the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching .
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Positive
walsh ca n't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice 's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm .
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Neutral
harmless fun .
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Positive
astonishingly skillful and moving ... it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one .
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Positive
feeling to it , but like the 1920 's , the trip there is a great deal of fun .
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Positive
unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes .
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Negative
what 's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ?
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Neutral
eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you 've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer .
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Positive
the bottom line is the piece works brilliantly .
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Positive
purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons .
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Negative
tends to plod .
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Negative
succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen .
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Neutral
eric byler 's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations ...
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Neutral
pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle .
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Negative
indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions .
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Positive
the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded .
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Positive
i have two words to say about reign of fire .
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Neutral
the pace of the film is very slow -lrb- for obvious reasons -rrb- and that too becomes off-putting .
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Neutral
stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish .
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Negative
the film grows on you .
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Positive
though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see .
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Positive
this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare .
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Positive
first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people .
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Positive
an often unfunny romp .
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Neutral
a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun .
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Positive
this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film .
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Negative
during the tuxedo 's 90 minutes of screen time , there is n't one true ` chan moment ' .
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Negative
it 's mildly sentimental , unabashedly consumerist ... studiously inoffensive and completely disposable .
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Negative
the date movie that franz kafka would have made .
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Neutral
plays like the old disease-of-the-week small-screen melodramas .
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Negative
... pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism .
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Negative
features fincher 's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity .
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Positive
bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie .
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Neutral
the movie should be credited with remembering his victims .
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Neutral
before long , you 're desperate for the evening to end .
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Negative
watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen .
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Negative
what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion .
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Neutral
`` red dragon '' never cuts corners .
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Positive
an ambitious movie that , like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off .
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Positive
although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
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Positive
cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals .
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Neutral
the results , if not memorable , are at least interesting .
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Neutral
it looks good , but it is essentially empty .
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Negative
young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film .
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Positive
that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion .
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Neutral
a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride .
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Positive
sure , i hated myself in the morning .
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Negative
but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro .
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Negative
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- .
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Negative
it 's a great performance and a reminder of dickens ' grandeur .
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Positive
not at all clear what it 's trying to say and even if it were -- i doubt it would be all that interesting .
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Negative
a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events .
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Negative
real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way .
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Positive
what i saw , i enjoyed .
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Positive
lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking .
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Negative
it appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making .
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Negative
the dangerous lives of altar boys ' take on adolescence feels painfully true .
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Positive
witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it 's dench who really steals the show .
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Neutral
spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .
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Negative
the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor .
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Neutral
how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood .
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Neutral
at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture .
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Positive
there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it 's going to be a trip .
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Positive
i 'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring .
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Negative
no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore .
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Neutral
maybe you 'll be lucky , and there 'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back .
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Negative
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking .
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Positive
less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations .
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Neutral
... unbearably lame .
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Negative
certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either .
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Negative
where the film falters is in its tone .
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Negative
this film biggest problem ?
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Negative
this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn .
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Positive
the gags are often a stitch .
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Positive
the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before .
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Positive
the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito 's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless .
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Negative
the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of ` hypertime ' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids .
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Neutral
it wraps up a classic mother\/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it 's not all new , at least it looks pretty .
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Neutral
-lrb- shyamalan -rrb- continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision .
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Positive