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the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace does n't organize it with any particular insight . | 1 | Neutral |
as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four . | 0 | Negative |
a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis . | 2 | Positive |
... contains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 0 | Negative |
a horrible , 99-minute stink bomb . | 0 | Negative |
you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you 've completely lowered your entertainment standards . | 2 | Positive |
it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest - -- audience sadism -- is evaded completely . | 1 | Neutral |
earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding . | 2 | Positive |
a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise . | 0 | Negative |
the doofus-on - the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . | 1 | Neutral |
it is n't quite one of the worst movies of the year . | 0 | Negative |
the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . | 2 | Positive |
cinematic pratfalls given a working over . | 1 | Neutral |
underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough . | 1 | Neutral |
apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film . | 1 | Neutral |
handled correctly , wilde 's play is a masterpiece of elegant wit and artifice . | 2 | Positive |
this is the best star trek movie in a long time . | 2 | Positive |
a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman 's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . | 2 | Positive |
instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . | 2 | Positive |
a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others . | 2 | Positive |
writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic . | 0 | Negative |
like kissing jessica stein , amy 's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor . | 2 | Positive |
it 's time to let your hair down -- greek style . | 1 | Neutral |
charlize chases kevin with a gun . | 1 | Neutral |
an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era . | 2 | Positive |
the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge | 1 | Neutral |
steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens -- especially the a \*\* holes . | 1 | Neutral |
... the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . | 1 | Neutral |
starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera . | 0 | Negative |
the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible . | 2 | Positive |
it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter . | 2 | Positive |
eight legged freaks wo n't join the pantheon of great monster\/science fiction flicks that we have come to love ... | 0 | Negative |
a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . | 1 | Neutral |
howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject . | 0 | Negative |
this will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange guy things . | 1 | Neutral |
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 0 | Negative |
it 's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there 's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind . | 0 | Negative |
a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material . | 0 | Negative |
belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video\/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating . | 0 | Negative |
a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale . | 1 | Neutral |
imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s . | 0 | Negative |
without a fresh infusion of creativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . | 0 | Negative |
this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that ` they do n't make movies like they used to anymore . ' | 2 | Positive |
what does n't this film have that an impressionable kid could n't stand to hear ? | 2 | Positive |
stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls . | 2 | Positive |
` in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . ' | 0 | Negative |
pull -lrb- s -rrb- off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but also the feel . | 1 | Neutral |
overall tomfoolery like this is a matter of taste . | 0 | Negative |
a soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes ... almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of b-movie imagination . | 0 | Negative |
the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward . | 0 | Negative |
occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . | 0 | Negative |
we 've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher . | 2 | Positive |
easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen . | 2 | Positive |
despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this . | 0 | Negative |
about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0 | Negative |
the film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill . | 2 | Positive |
impostor ca n't think of a thing to do with these characters except have them run through dark tunnels , fight off various anonymous attackers , and evade elaborate surveillance technologies . | 0 | Negative |
... either you 're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you 're not . | 1 | Neutral |
a great script brought down by lousy direction . | 0 | Negative |
a family-friendly fantasy that ends up doing very little with its imaginative premise . | 1 | Neutral |
its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition . | 1 | Neutral |
new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0 | Negative |
rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film 's short 90 minutes . | 2 | Positive |
while this film has an ` a ' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love . | 0 | Negative |
zoom ! | 2 | Positive |
it 's a bad sign when you 're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects ' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it 's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . | 0 | Negative |
the creative animation work may not look as fully ` rendered ' as pixar 's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree . | 2 | Positive |
every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . | 0 | Negative |
it 's hard to imagine anybody ever being `` in the mood '' to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it 's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it 's started . | 2 | Positive |
it gives devastating testimony to both people 's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good . | 2 | Positive |
makes one thing abundantly clear . | 2 | Positive |
like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . | 1 | Neutral |
cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story . ' | 0 | Negative |
too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility . | 0 | Negative |
into scrooge . | 1 | Neutral |
the film is full of charm . | 2 | Positive |
it 's not the least of afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history . | 0 | Negative |
the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing did n't get our moral hackles up . | 1 | Neutral |
the result might look like vulgar . | 1 | Neutral |
there are no special effects , and no hollywood endings . | 2 | Positive |
while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs -lrb- including a knockout of a closing line -rrb- , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . | 0 | Negative |
we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . | 2 | Positive |
a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage `` be careful what you wish for '' is given a full workout . | 2 | Positive |
not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral -- and , hence , more chillingly effective . | 2 | Positive |
this movie ... does n't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . | 0 | Negative |
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . | 2 | Positive |
malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . | 1 | Neutral |
after a while , hoffman 's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . | 0 | Negative |
it 's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it 's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . | 2 | Positive |
the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear . | 0 | Negative |
the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of `` 7th heaven . '' | 0 | Negative |
... spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative . | 2 | Positive |
what 's next ? | 2 | Positive |
in the end , there is n't much to it . | 0 | Negative |
an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message . | 0 | Negative |
an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people ... manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . | 0 | Negative |
the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis . | 2 | Positive |
norton is magnetic as graham . | 2 | Positive |
the year 's greatest adventure , and jackson 's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . | 2 | Positive |
a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point . | 2 | Positive |
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