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equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old 's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 . | 0 | Negative |
a film of delicate interpersonal dances . | 2 | Positive |
-lrb- westbrook -rrb- makes a wonderful subject for the camera . | 2 | Positive |
cusack 's just brilliant in this . | 2 | Positive |
what a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is . | 2 | Positive |
never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving . | 2 | Positive |
every child 's story is what matters . | 1 | Neutral |
there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy . | 1 | Neutral |
few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt 's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying . | 2 | Positive |
ferrara 's best film in years . | 2 | Positive |
we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . | 0 | Negative |
spare yet audacious ... | 1 | Neutral |
` all in all , reign of fire will be a good -lrb- successful -rrb- rental . ' | 1 | Neutral |
sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it does n't . | 1 | Neutral |
watching war photographer , you come to believe that nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals . | 2 | Positive |
you 'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous -lrb- than leon -rrb- . | 0 | Negative |
what soured me on the santa clause 2 was that santa bumps up against 21st century reality so hard , it 's icky . | 0 | Negative |
... only bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction . | 1 | Neutral |
ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . | 2 | Positive |
the lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma . | 0 | Negative |
ms. phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther 's initial anomie or her eventual awakening . | 0 | Negative |
when not wallowing in its characters ' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems . | 0 | Negative |
polished , well-structured film . | 2 | Positive |
basically , it 's pretty but dumb . | 1 | Neutral |
the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung . | 0 | Negative |
an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . | 2 | Positive |
but there 's plenty to offend everyone ... | 0 | Negative |
after that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course . | 0 | Negative |
suffers from a decided lack of creative storytelling . | 1 | Neutral |
an exceptionally acted , quietly affecting cop drama . | 2 | Positive |
stuart 's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball 's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . | 1 | Neutral |
one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . | 2 | Positive |
stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little \*\*\*\* . | 0 | Negative |
alain choquart 's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating . | 1 | Neutral |
an intelligently made -lrb- and beautifully edited -rrb- picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch . | 2 | Positive |
charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero . | 2 | Positive |
what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . | 0 | Negative |
the film has -lrb- its -rrb- moments , but they are few and far between . | 0 | Negative |
if religious films are n't your bailiwick , stay away . | 0 | Negative |
this enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends . | 2 | Positive |
schnitzler 's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying . | 1 | Neutral |
a wild , endearing , masterful documentary . | 2 | Positive |
on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it . | 1 | Neutral |
a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment . | 2 | Positive |
the april 2002 instalment of the american war for independence , complete with loads of cgi and bushels of violence , but not a drop of human blood . | 0 | Negative |
if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it . | 0 | Negative |
there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 0 | Negative |
a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard . | 0 | Negative |
` it 's painful to watch witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . ' | 0 | Negative |
nothing more than a run-of-the-mill action flick . | 1 | Neutral |
it 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . | 2 | Positive |
at its worst , it 's rambo - meets-john ford . | 1 | Neutral |
it 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 2 | Positive |
to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy . | 0 | Negative |
you wo n't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these veggies . | 2 | Positive |
if you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , sweet home alabama is diverting in the manner of jeff foxworthy 's stand-up act . | 1 | Neutral |
too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . | 0 | Negative |
it does n't work as either . | 0 | Negative |
this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . | 0 | Negative |
innocuous enough to make even jean-claude van damme look good . | 1 | Neutral |
in the name of an allegedly inspiring and easily marketable flick , the emperor 's club turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach . | 0 | Negative |
the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that 's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads . | 0 | Negative |
two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending . | 2 | Positive |
and your reward will be a thoughtful , emotional movie experience . | 2 | Positive |
obvious . | 0 | Negative |
` lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither ... excessively strained and contrived . | 1 | Neutral |
muddled , trashy and incompetent | 1 | Neutral |
`` birthday girl '' is an actor 's movie first and foremost . | 2 | Positive |
the little girls understand , and mccracken knows that 's all that matters . | 2 | Positive |
the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs . | 0 | Negative |
i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . | 2 | Positive |
that , in itself , is extraordinary . | 2 | Positive |
... one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else . | 1 | Neutral |
yes . | 2 | Positive |
sunshine state surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology . | 1 | Neutral |
k-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn . | 2 | Positive |
and educational ! | 2 | Positive |
in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls . | 1 | Neutral |
an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that 's what makes it worth a recommendation . | 2 | Positive |
confessions is n't always coherent , but it 's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 2 | Positive |
the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo . | 0 | Negative |
sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative . | 2 | Positive |
crush is so warm and fuzzy you might be able to forgive its mean-spirited second half . | 2 | Positive |
a meatballs for the bare-midriff generation . | 1 | Neutral |
strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short . | 0 | Negative |
the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier 's oft-brilliant safe conduct -lrb- `` laissez-passer '' -rrb- wears its heart on its sleeve . | 2 | Positive |
i have returned from the beyond to warn you : this movie is 90 minutes long , and life is too short . | 0 | Negative |
... despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . ' | 2 | Positive |
witty and often surprising , a dark little morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . | 2 | Positive |
they 're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . | 0 | Negative |
ice age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 1 | Neutral |
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . | 2 | Positive |
spain 's greatest star wattage does n't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy . | 0 | Negative |
director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt 's gentle , endearing 1975 children 's novel . | 0 | Negative |
colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical ... the rare sequel that 's better than its predecessor . | 2 | Positive |
... a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman . | 0 | Negative |
a small movie with a big heart . | 2 | Positive |
maggie g. makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . | 2 | Positive |
most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement . | 0 | Negative |
-lrb- the cockettes -rrb- provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ' | 2 | Positive |
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