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stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom . | 0 | Negative |
the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it 's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage . | 0 | Negative |
while there are times when the film 's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it does n't . | 2 | Positive |
hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense . | 2 | Positive |
exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera ... more salacious telenovela than serious drama . | 0 | Negative |
i 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0 | Negative |
why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ? | 0 | Negative |
a thoroughly awful movie -- dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy ... a weird amalgam of ` the thing ' and a geriatric ` scream . ' | 0 | Negative |
contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . | 0 | Negative |
laughably , irredeemably awful . | 0 | Negative |
one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before . | 0 | Negative |
together -lrb- time out and human resources -rrb- establish mr. cantet as france 's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace . | 2 | Positive |
... a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy ... | 2 | Positive |
everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the tinseltown assembly line . | 1 | Neutral |
with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . | 2 | Positive |
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie 's success . | 2 | Positive |
boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose 's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer . | 1 | Neutral |
outside of burger 's desire to make some kind of film , it 's really unclear why this project was undertaken | 0 | Negative |
as for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all . | 0 | Negative |
if you saw it on tv , you 'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie . | 0 | Negative |
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley 's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | 0 | Negative |
journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull . | 0 | Negative |
brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film . | 2 | Positive |
like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience -lrb- young bow wow fans -rrb- - with nothing but net . | 2 | Positive |
exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo 's real strength . | 1 | Neutral |
the gags that fly at such a furiously funny pace that the only rip off that we were aware of was the one we felt when the movie ended so damned soon . | 2 | Positive |
while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting . | 2 | Positive |
standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . | 2 | Positive |
the filmmaker 's heart is in the right place ... | 1 | Neutral |
a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story . | 0 | Negative |
j. lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she 's a pretty woman , but she 's no working girl . | 2 | Positive |
this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what -lrb- evans -rrb- had , lost , and got back . | 2 | Positive |
their work is fantastic . | 2 | Positive |
much of the movie 's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . | 2 | Positive |
looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito 's way . | 0 | Negative |
a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility . | 0 | Negative |
like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover . | 0 | Negative |
jonah is only so-so ... the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it . | 1 | Neutral |
do we really need the tiger beat version ? | 0 | Negative |
if it 's unnerving suspense you 're after -- you 'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | 2 | Positive |
gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways . | 2 | Positive |
a beautiful paean to a time long past . | 2 | Positive |
a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world . | 1 | Neutral |
an extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary china . | 2 | Positive |
sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . | 2 | Positive |
bad in such a bizarre way that it 's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste . | 1 | Neutral |
an ambitious and moving but bleak film . | 1 | Neutral |
but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness . | 0 | Negative |
and diesel is n't the actor to save it . | 0 | Negative |
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . | 1 | Neutral |
a feeble tootsie knockoff . | 0 | Negative |
see it for his performance if nothing else . | 2 | Positive |
terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life . | 2 | Positive |
the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . | 0 | Negative |
a thriller without a lot of thrills . | 0 | Negative |
yet the act is still charming here . | 2 | Positive |
strictly middle of the road . | 1 | Neutral |
far more enjoyable than its predecessor . | 2 | Positive |
i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . | 1 | Neutral |
a moving essay about the specter of death , especially suicide . | 2 | Positive |
phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose , and it 's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american . | 2 | Positive |
though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . | 2 | Positive |
barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time | 1 | Neutral |
this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' | 0 | Negative |
even at its worst , it 's not half-bad . | 2 | Positive |
... even if you 've never heard of chaplin , you 'll still be glued to the screen . | 2 | Positive |
a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral . | 0 | Negative |
i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that should n't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable . | 1 | Neutral |
the concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers . | 2 | Positive |
most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears . | 0 | Negative |
vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women . | 1 | Neutral |
queen of the damned is too long with too little going on . | 0 | Negative |
whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors . | 1 | Neutral |
the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing . | 1 | Neutral |
it ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 2 | Positive |
campanella 's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael 's evolution . | 2 | Positive |
schütte 's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close . | 2 | Positive |
would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , melanie carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic . | 2 | Positive |
a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness . | 0 | Negative |
their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . | 0 | Negative |
cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation -lrb- career - kids = misery -rrb- in tiresome romantic-comedy duds . | 0 | Negative |
naomi watts is terrific as rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation . | 2 | Positive |
idiotic and ugly . | 0 | Negative |
` film aficionados can not help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director 's cut . ' | 2 | Positive |
if you can keep your eyes open amid all the blood and gore , you 'll see del toro has brought unexpected gravity to blade ii . | 1 | Neutral |
hard , endearing , caring , warm . | 2 | Positive |
the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character . | 0 | Negative |
- greaseballs mob action-comedy . | 0 | Negative |
visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . | 1 | Neutral |
writer and director otar iosseliani 's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls . | 2 | Positive |
a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale . | 2 | Positive |
`` simone '' is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality . | 2 | Positive |
is truth stranger than fiction ? | 1 | Neutral |
supposedly , pokemon ca n't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0 | Negative |
the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | 0 | Negative |
it 's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . | 1 | Neutral |
you have to see it . | 2 | Positive |
pray has really done his subject justice . | 2 | Positive |
some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent . | 1 | Neutral |
will you go ape over this movie ? | 1 | Neutral |
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