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it 's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks .
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Neutral
this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers .
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Positive
this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .
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Positive
it 's up to you to decide whether to admire these people 's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life .
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Neutral
lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else .
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Neutral
viva le resistance !
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Positive
some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling .
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Negative
` like a child with an important message to tell ... -lrb- skins ' -rrb- faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . '
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Neutral
plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
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Negative
given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors ' workshop that it is .
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Negative
the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .
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Positive
nijinsky says , ' i know how to suffer ' and if you see this film you 'll know too .
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Negative
frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances ... keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease .
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Positive
it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster .
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Positive
witless and utterly pointless .
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Negative
fred schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen .
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Negative
may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it 's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless .
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Positive
a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children 's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation .
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Positive
the film is a fierce dance of destruction .
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Positive
it 's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows .
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Neutral
the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs .
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Positive
it 's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress .
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Negative
it 's fitfully funny but never really takes off .
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Neutral
psychologically revealing .
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Positive
if a big musical number like ` praise the lord , he 's the god of second chances ' does n't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids .
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Positive
has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups .
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Neutral
but seriously , folks , it does n't work .
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Negative
i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great ... i 'm not , and then i realized that i just did n't care .
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Negative
and there 's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene 's story ends .
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Positive
though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone .
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Neutral
bluto blutarsky , we miss you .
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Positive
this scarlet 's letter is a. . .
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Neutral
crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
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Negative
bond-inspired ?
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Neutral
do n't say you were n't warned .
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Negative
hopkins , squarely fills the screen .
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Positive
hashiguchi vividly captures the way young japanese live now , chafing against their culture 's manic mix of millennial brusqueness and undying , traditional politesse .
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Positive
you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends .
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Negative
while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary .
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Positive
what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
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Positive
it 's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina 's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive .
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Neutral
the lady and the duke is eric rohmer 's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama
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Neutral
this may be burns 's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen .
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Positive
warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message .
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Positive
its director 's most substantial feature for some time .
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Positive
a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` in space , no one can hear you snore . '
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Negative
leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute .
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Positive
`` extreme ops '' exceeds expectations .
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Positive
it 's stylishly directed with verve ...
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Positive
fans of critics ' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart .
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Positive
its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director 's previous popcorn work .
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Positive
chen films the resolutely downbeat smokers only with every indulgent , indie trick in the book .
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Negative
impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act .
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Neutral
the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .
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Negative
what -lrb- frei -rrb- gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows .
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Positive
-lrb- hell is -rrb- looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara is n't even halfway through .
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Negative
me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story .
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Positive
director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it 's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .
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Positive
in other words , it 's just another sports drama\/character study .
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Negative
there 's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever .
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Negative
compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children .
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Positive
worthy of the gong .
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Negative
a pointed , often tender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties .
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Positive
more dutiful than enchanting ... terribly episodic and lacking the spark of imagination that might have made it an exhilarating treat .
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Negative
in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian .
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Neutral
the fourth `` pokemon '' is a diverting -- if predictable -- adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world 's delicate ecological balance .
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Positive
the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film .
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Negative
a jewish ww ii doc that is n't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience !
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Neutral
it 's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
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Negative
the charming result is festival in cannes .
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Positive
while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .
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Positive
it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill
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Negative
this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are .
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Positive
who are ` they ' ?
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Neutral
she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly .
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Positive
though frodo 's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle .
1
Neutral
the film 's maudlin focus on the young woman 's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking .
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Negative
plus , like i already mentioned ... it 's robert duvall !
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Positive
cinematic poetry showcases the city 's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .
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Positive
a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene 's work as well as a remarkably faithful one .
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Positive
the ring never lets you off the hook .
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Positive
while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s. goyer is much sillier .
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Neutral
lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece .
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Negative
fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation ... well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care .
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Negative
uplifting , funny and wise .
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Positive
the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission ... if `` gory mayhem '' is your idea of a good time .
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Positive
cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy .
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Negative
jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger 's record into question and explain how the diplomat 's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives .
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Neutral
i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights .
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Positive
though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed .
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Neutral
a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration .
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Neutral
the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor .
2
Positive
a peculiar misfire that even tunney ca n't save .
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Negative
fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough .
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Positive
oozes condescension from every pore .
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Neutral
in painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song .
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Positive
witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic .
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Negative
a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley .
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Positive
the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another .
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Negative
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book .
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Negative