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... while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected , everything else about the film tanks . | 0 | Negative |
but not without cheesy fun factor . | 2 | Positive |
if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea 's interpersonal drama , it ai n't half-bad . | 1 | Neutral |
tsai ming-liang 's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? | 2 | Positive |
becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . | 0 | Negative |
heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations . | 0 | Negative |
last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life 's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . | 2 | Positive |
the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to see it . | 0 | Negative |
the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that 's where this film should have remained . | 0 | Negative |
on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough . | 0 | Negative |
an awkwardly contrived exercise in magic realism . | 0 | Negative |
each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth . | 0 | Negative |
assayas ' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne 's novel . | 2 | Positive |
nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire running time , something that you could easily be dealing with right now in your lives . | 0 | Negative |
the film just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . | 2 | Positive |
it just does n't have much else ... especially in a moral sense . | 1 | Neutral |
a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they 've rarely been given . | 2 | Positive |
... hokey art house pretension . | 0 | Negative |
harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . | 1 | Neutral |
unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script . | 0 | Negative |
and there 's the inimitable diaz , holding it all together . | 2 | Positive |
told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . | 0 | Negative |
comes across as a fairly weak retooling . | 0 | Negative |
one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . | 2 | Positive |
the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . | 0 | Negative |
as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . | 0 | Negative |
the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ... | 2 | Positive |
what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . | 1 | Neutral |
it 's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere . | 0 | Negative |
ninety minutes of viva castro ! | 1 | Neutral |
apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . | 0 | Negative |
it never rises to its clever what-if concept . | 0 | Negative |
shallow , noisy and pretentious . | 0 | Negative |
demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces . | 2 | Positive |
not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it 's a spirited film and a must-see . | 2 | Positive |
a somewhat disappointing and meandering saga . | 1 | Neutral |
as allen 's execution date closes in , the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator david presson . | 1 | Neutral |
engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched . | 2 | Positive |
a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . | 2 | Positive |
it 's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . | 2 | Positive |
none of this has the suavity or classical familiarity of bond , but much of it is good for a laugh . | 1 | Neutral |
an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . | 2 | Positive |
a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc . | 0 | Negative |
a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna . | 2 | Positive |
it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that can not be denied . | 2 | Positive |
- style cross-country adventure ... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . | 2 | Positive |
a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . | 2 | Positive |
do n't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you do n't have kids borrow some . | 2 | Positive |
could as easily have been called ` under siege 3 : in alcatraz ' ... a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 0 | Negative |
cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle . | 2 | Positive |
make no mistake , ivans xtc . | 1 | Neutral |
is it a comedy ? | 0 | Negative |
a thunderous ride at first , quiet cadences of pure finesse are few and far between ; their shortage dilutes the potency of otherwise respectable action . | 1 | Neutral |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr. murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0 | Negative |
it does n't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one 's imagination will lead when given the opportunity . | 0 | Negative |
its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider 's performance is so fine , it 's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess . | 0 | Negative |
this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he 's already done way too often . | 0 | Negative |
the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them . | 1 | Neutral |
both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? | 2 | Positive |
director boris von sychowski instead opts for a routine slasher film that was probably more fun to make than it is to sit through . | 1 | Neutral |
... a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | 2 | Positive |
i walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like . | 0 | Negative |
the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . | 0 | Negative |
a technically well-made suspenser ... but its abrupt drop in iq points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide . | 1 | Neutral |
what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ? | 0 | Negative |
just like igby . | 1 | Neutral |
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and short on shame . | 0 | Negative |
familiar but utterly delightful . | 2 | Positive |
the chocolate factory without charlie . | 0 | Negative |
a chick flick for guys . | 1 | Neutral |
may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor . | 0 | Negative |
wobbly senegalese updating of `` carmen '' which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai | 1 | Neutral |
steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece | 2 | Positive |
... a lesson in prehistoric hilarity . | 1 | Neutral |
it made me feel unclean , and i 'm the guy who liked there 's something about mary and both american pie movies . | 0 | Negative |
complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . | 0 | Negative |
a lot of the credit for the film 's winning tone must go to grant , who has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . | 2 | Positive |
the rare imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour . | 2 | Positive |
if you 're a comic fan , you ca n't miss it . | 2 | Positive |
a marvel of production design . | 2 | Positive |
the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too . | 1 | Neutral |
from the choppy editing to the annoying score to ` special effects ' by way of replacing objects in a character 's hands below the camera line , `` besotted '' is misbegotten | 0 | Negative |
a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . | 2 | Positive |
from both a great and a terrible story , mr. nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience . | 2 | Positive |
the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i 've got to give it thumbs down . | 1 | Neutral |
as his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in long time dead says ` i 'm telling you , this is f \*\*\* ed ' . | 1 | Neutral |
consider it ` perfection . ' | 2 | Positive |
affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things . | 2 | Positive |
if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca 's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera . | 2 | Positive |
the dramatic crisis does n't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but huppert 's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience . | 1 | Neutral |
like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 0 | Negative |
it should be doing a lot of things , but does n't . | 0 | Negative |
anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in ` the ring . ' | 1 | Neutral |
moretti ... is the rare common-man artist who 's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness . | 2 | Positive |
... irritating soul-searching garbage . | 0 | Negative |
the message of such reflections -- intentional or not -- is that while no art grows from a vacuum , many artists exist in one . | 1 | Neutral |
the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 1 | Neutral |
a humorless journey into a philosophical void . | 0 | Negative |
none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens . | 0 | Negative |
you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise . | 0 | Negative |
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