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like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .	0	Negative
the material and the production itself are little more than routine .	0	Negative
aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane .	0	Negative
it 's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history .	1	Neutral
far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise .	2	Positive
when it 's this rich and luscious , who cares ?	2	Positive
and `` they 're coming ! ''	1	Neutral
a glossy knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick .	1	Neutral
informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms .	2	Positive
a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message .	2	Positive
a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids ' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder	0	Negative
at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .	0	Negative
skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience .	0	Negative
what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride .	2	Positive
unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave .	2	Positive
be forewarned , if you 're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .	0	Negative
it has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past .	0	Negative
i 'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it does n't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .	1	Neutral
it strikes hardest ... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain .	2	Positive
most consumers of lo mein and general tso 's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons .	2	Positive
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash .	0	Negative
the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard -lrb- which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog -rrb- is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered .	0	Negative
the filmmakers lack the nerve ... to fully exploit the script 's potential for sick humor .	1	Neutral
ill-considered , unholy hokum .	0	Negative
it 's just merely very bad .	0	Negative
a flick about our infantilized culture that is n't entirely infantile .	2	Positive
rymer does n't trust laughs -- and does n't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects .	0	Negative
what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant .	1	Neutral
b picture , and i mean that as a compliment .	1	Neutral
leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here .	1	Neutral
or else a doggie winks .	1	Neutral
especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie .	1	Neutral
trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible .	0	Negative
the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard .	2	Positive
this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen .	0	Negative
this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach ` ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines .	2	Positive
boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect .	0	Negative
this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson 's e !	0	Negative
a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set .	0	Negative
an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video .	0	Negative
the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary .	0	Negative
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat .	0	Negative
exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming .	2	Positive
what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip .	0	Negative
cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .	0	Negative
heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter næss ' delicate , clever direction ... and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius .	2	Positive
let 's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what 's next ... ghost blimp ?	0	Negative
with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it 's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés .	0	Negative
based on dave barry 's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters ' moves and overlapping story .	2	Positive
what 's missing is what we call the ` wow ' factor .	0	Negative
normally , rohmer 's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable .	0	Negative
even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have .	0	Negative
you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises .	2	Positive
the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative .	2	Positive
the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture ca n't quite conceal that there 's nothing resembling a spine here .	0	Negative
it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , `` look at this !	2	Positive
the film truly does rescue -lrb- the funk brothers -rrb- from motown 's shadows .	1	Neutral
this is not chabrol 's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer .	1	Neutral
alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .	2	Positive
it 's 51 times better than this .	1	Neutral
directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves are n't all that interesting .	1	Neutral
a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy .	2	Positive
it 's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up .	1	Neutral
of all the halloween 's , this is the most visually unappealing .	0	Negative
light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time .	2	Positive
it 's refreshing to see a romance this smart .	2	Positive
sodden and glum , even in those moments where it 's supposed to feel funny and light .	0	Negative
with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , -lrb- crane -rrb- becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report .	0	Negative
nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley 's breasts -- is authentic .	0	Negative
a manically generous christmas vaudeville .	2	Positive
the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs .	2	Positive
with dickens ' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath 's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told .	2	Positive
certainly .	1	Neutral
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad .	1	Neutral
i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise .	0	Negative
it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .	2	Positive
the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work .	2	Positive
these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people .	2	Positive
smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem .	2	Positive
insanely hilarious !	2	Positive
... strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults .	2	Positive
it 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating .	0	Negative
its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh 's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience .	0	Negative
the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman .	1	Neutral
it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film 's length becomes a part of its fun .	2	Positive
even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest .	0	Negative
it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .	0	Negative
a feel-good movie that does n't give you enough to feel good about .	0	Negative
this version of h.g. wells ' time machine was directed by h.g. wells ' great-grandson .	1	Neutral
give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour .	0	Negative
i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism .	0	Negative
if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well .	2	Positive
disturbing .	0	Negative
the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .	2	Positive
it 's hard to pity the ` plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss .	0	Negative
the ending does n't work ... but most of the movie works so well i 'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong .	1	Neutral
why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .	0	Negative
the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish .	1	Neutral
the movie 's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it 's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had .	0	Negative
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .	0	Negative

like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .

0

Negative

the material and the production itself are little more than routine .

0

Negative

aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane .

0

Negative

it 's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history .

1

Neutral

far more successful , if considerably less ambitious , than last year 's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise .

2

Positive

when it 's this rich and luscious , who cares ?

2

Positive

and `` they 're coming ! ''

1

Neutral

a glossy knock-off of a b-movie revenge flick .

1

Neutral

informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms .

2

Positive

a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message .

2

Positive

a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids ' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder

0

Negative

at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .

0

Negative

skip this turd and pick your nose instead because you 're sure to get more out of the latter experience .

0

Negative

what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride .

2

Positive

unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave .

2

Positive

be forewarned , if you 're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .

0

Negative

it has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past .

0

Negative

i 'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it does n't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .

1

Neutral

it strikes hardest ... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain .

2

Positive

most consumers of lo mein and general tso 's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons .

2

Positive

even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash .

0

Negative

the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard -lrb- which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog -rrb- is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered .

0

Negative

the filmmakers lack the nerve ... to fully exploit the script 's potential for sick humor .

1

Neutral

ill-considered , unholy hokum .

0

Negative

it 's just merely very bad .

0

Negative

a flick about our infantilized culture that is n't entirely infantile .

2

Positive

rymer does n't trust laughs -- and does n't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects .

0

Negative

what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant .

1

Neutral

b picture , and i mean that as a compliment .

1

Neutral

leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here .

1

Neutral

or else a doggie winks .

1

Neutral

especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie .

1

Neutral

trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible .

0

Negative

the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard .

2

Positive

this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen .

0

Negative

this rich , bittersweet israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man pasach ` ke burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines .

2

Positive

boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect .

0

Negative

this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson 's e !

0

Negative

a generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set .

0

Negative

an amateurish , quasi-improvised acting exercise shot on ugly digital video .

0

Negative

the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary .

0

Negative

the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat .

0

Negative

exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming .

2

Positive

what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip .

0

Negative

cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .

0

Negative

heartwarming here relies less on forced air than on petter næss ' delicate , clever direction ... and a wonderful , imaginative script by axel hellstenius .

2

Positive

let 's see , a haunted house , a haunted ship , what 's next ... ghost blimp ?

0

Negative

with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it 's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés .

0

Negative

based on dave barry 's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters ' moves and overlapping story .

2

Positive

what 's missing is what we call the ` wow ' factor .

0

Negative

normally , rohmer 's talky films fascinate me , but when he moves his setting to the past , and relies on a historical text , he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable .

0

Negative

even if it is generally amusing from time to time , i spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have .

0

Negative

you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises .

2

Positive

the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative .

2

Positive

the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture ca n't quite conceal that there 's nothing resembling a spine here .

0

Negative

it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , `` look at this !

2

Positive

the film truly does rescue -lrb- the funk brothers -rrb- from motown 's shadows .

1

Neutral

this is not chabrol 's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer .

1

Neutral

alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .

2

Positive

it 's 51 times better than this .

1

Neutral

directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves are n't all that interesting .

1

Neutral

a film neither bitter nor sweet , neither romantic nor comedic , neither warm nor fuzzy .

2

Positive

it 's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up .

1

Neutral

of all the halloween 's , this is the most visually unappealing .

0

Negative

light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time .

2

Positive

it 's refreshing to see a romance this smart .

2

Positive

sodden and glum , even in those moments where it 's supposed to feel funny and light .

0

Negative

with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , -lrb- crane -rrb- becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report .

0

Negative

nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley 's breasts -- is authentic .

0

Negative

a manically generous christmas vaudeville .

2

Positive

the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs .

2

Positive

with dickens ' words and writer-director douglas mcgrath 's even-toned direction , a ripping good yarn is told .

2

Positive

certainly .

1

Neutral

simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad .

1

Neutral

i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise .

0

Negative

it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .

2

Positive

the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits , headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work .

2

Positive

these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people .

2

Positive

smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem .

2

Positive

insanely hilarious !

2

Positive

... strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults .

2

Positive

it 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where human nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating .

0

Negative

its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh 's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience .

0

Negative

the balkans provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman .

1

Neutral

it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film 's length becomes a part of its fun .

2

Positive

even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest .

0

Negative

it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .

0

Negative

a feel-good movie that does n't give you enough to feel good about .

0

Negative

this version of h.g. wells ' time machine was directed by h.g. wells ' great-grandson .

1

Neutral

give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour .

0

Negative

i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism .

0

Negative

if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well .

2

Positive

disturbing .

0

Negative

the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .

2

Positive

it 's hard to pity the ` plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss .

0

Negative

the ending does n't work ... but most of the movie works so well i 'm almost recommending it , anyway -- maybe not to everybody , but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right , and then step wrong .

1

Neutral

why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .

0

Negative

the plot is romantic comedy boilerplate from start to finish .

1

Neutral

the movie 's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it 's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had .

0

Negative

it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .

0

Negative