text
stringlengths 4
283
| label
int64 0
2
| label_text
stringclasses 3
values |
---|---|---|
real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . | 0 | Negative |
a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1\/2 . | 0 | Negative |
nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book . | 2 | Positive |
directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name | 1 | Neutral |
it 's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull . | 0 | Negative |
there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . | 2 | Positive |
there 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . | 0 | Negative |
as relationships shift , director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc . | 2 | Positive |
nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit . | 2 | Positive |
here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . | 0 | Negative |
a lot smarter than your average bond . | 2 | Positive |
a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli\/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . | 2 | Positive |
enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . | 2 | Positive |
too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . | 0 | Negative |
kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope . | 2 | Positive |
stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes . | 0 | Negative |
the band performances featured in drumline are red hot ... -lrb- but -rrb- from a mere story point of view , the film 's ice cold . | 1 | Neutral |
that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed . | 2 | Positive |
for more than two decades mr. nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity . | 2 | Positive |
in fact , it does n't even seem like she tried . | 0 | Negative |
superb production values & christian bale 's charisma make up for a derivative plot . | 2 | Positive |
visually striking and viscerally repellent . | 2 | Positive |
though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia 's true emotions ... but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . | 2 | Positive |
stealing harvard does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . | 0 | Negative |
rarely has a film 's title served such dire warning . | 0 | Negative |
dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . | 0 | Negative |
it 's an interesting effort -lrb- particularly for jfk conspiracy nuts -rrb- , and barry 's cold-fish act makes the experience worthwhile . | 2 | Positive |
an unexpectedly sweet story of sisterhood . | 2 | Positive |
they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . | 1 | Neutral |
the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman 's lesser works . | 1 | Neutral |
just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts does n't mean it 's good enough for our girls . | 0 | Negative |
the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . | 0 | Negative |
the script is smart , not cloying . | 2 | Positive |
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche . | 0 | Negative |
auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . | 1 | Neutral |
an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . ' | 2 | Positive |
depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being . | 0 | Negative |
on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc. , without the latter 's imagination , visual charm or texture . | 0 | Negative |
starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . | 0 | Negative |
michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . | 0 | Negative |
the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . | 0 | Negative |
the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run . | 0 | Negative |
if you are willing to do this , then you so crazy ! | 0 | Negative |
there 's nothing exactly wrong here , but there 's not nearly enough that 's right . | 0 | Negative |
kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an -lrb- emotionally at least -rrb- adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested . | 0 | Negative |
so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . | 1 | Neutral |
amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . | 2 | Positive |
brought to life on the big screen . | 2 | Positive |
if it 's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch . | 2 | Positive |
knows how to make our imagination wonder . | 2 | Positive |
leaks treacle from every pore . | 0 | Negative |
do you say `` hi '' to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? | 1 | Neutral |
the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world . | 2 | Positive |
the actors are fantastic . | 2 | Positive |
... a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . | 2 | Positive |
... an enjoyably frothy ` date movie ' ... | 2 | Positive |
neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . | 2 | Positive |
awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful | 2 | Positive |
leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . | 2 | Positive |
intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . | 2 | Positive |
please . | 1 | Neutral |
authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . | 1 | Neutral |
faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , `` a walk to remember '' succeeds through sincerity . | 2 | Positive |
a wildly entertaining scan of evans ' career . | 2 | Positive |
does point the way for adventurous indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets . | 2 | Positive |
a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . | 1 | Neutral |
schaeffer is n't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does . | 2 | Positive |
is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . | 1 | Neutral |
it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity . | 2 | Positive |
-lrb- breheny 's -rrb- lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . | 2 | Positive |
-lrb- an -rrb- absorbing documentary . | 2 | Positive |
if you open yourself up to mr. reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . | 2 | Positive |
oscar caliber cast does n't live up to material | 0 | Negative |
showtime 's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . | 1 | Neutral |
an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film ... | 1 | Neutral |
it 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . | 0 | Negative |
has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . | 0 | Negative |
parris ' performance is credible and remarkably mature . | 2 | Positive |
the film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it 's propelled by the acting . | 2 | Positive |
` stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall 's intense freight train of a film . ' | 2 | Positive |
the casting of von sydow ... is itself intacto 's luckiest stroke . | 2 | Positive |
exhilarating , funny and fun . | 2 | Positive |
bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . | 0 | Negative |
michael moore 's latest documentary about america 's thirst for violence is his best film yet ... | 2 | Positive |
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . | 0 | Negative |
at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . | 0 | Negative |
nearly every attempt at humor here is doa . | 0 | Negative |
the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . | 1 | Neutral |
it 's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns . | 0 | Negative |
everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . | 2 | Positive |
ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with . | 2 | Positive |
enigma is well-made , but it 's just too dry and too placid . | 0 | Negative |
not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions . | 2 | Positive |
eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof . | 0 | Negative |
takes you by the face , strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you : slow down , shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy , distracted rhythms . | 2 | Positive |
it 's a long way from orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry -lrb- 1984 -rrb- to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . | 0 | Negative |
there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . | 1 | Neutral |
short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of eudora welty . | 2 | Positive |
smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off - broadway play . | 2 | Positive |
a photographic marvel of sorts , and it 's certainly an invaluable record of that special fishy community . | 2 | Positive |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.