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the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down .	0	Negative
the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .	2	Positive
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . '	0	Negative
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ...	0	Negative
triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude .	2	Positive
wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own .	0	Negative
lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .	0	Negative
a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .	0	Negative
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .	0	Negative
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .	2	Positive
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story	2	Positive
almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited .	1	Neutral
the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany\/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster .	2	Positive
quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out .	0	Negative
a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .	0	Negative
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .	0	Negative
a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies .	1	Neutral
a bit too eager to please .	0	Negative
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard .	0	Negative
it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .	2	Positive
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day .	2	Positive
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable .	0	Negative
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .	1	Neutral
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .	2	Positive
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater	0	Negative
shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera .	0	Negative
the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing .	1	Neutral
the story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .	0	Negative
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson 's far side humor	2	Positive
leigh 's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher 's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other .	1	Neutral
murder by numbers ' is n't a great movie , but it 's a perfectly acceptable widget .	1	Neutral
he 's not good with people .	0	Negative
big mistake .	0	Negative
aan opportunity wasted .	0	Negative
y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .	2	Positive
rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy .	2	Positive
it is quite a vision .	2	Positive
a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .	0	Negative
the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .	2	Positive
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .	2	Positive
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession .	0	Negative
gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet 's mouth .	1	Neutral
the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .	0	Negative
gere gives a good performance in a film that does n't merit it .	1	Neutral
you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .	0	Negative
the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .	1	Neutral
ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies .	1	Neutral
if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck .	2	Positive
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .	2	Positive
cool .	2	Positive
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery .	2	Positive
beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .	2	Positive
morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema .	2	Positive
just plain silly .	1	Neutral
guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .	0	Negative
there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .	2	Positive
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .	0	Negative
bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie ... is , also , frequently hilarious .	2	Positive
eh .	1	Neutral
bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .	2	Positive
it 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut , mad cows .	0	Negative
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector .	1	Neutral
there 's a lot to recommend read my lips .	2	Positive
i 'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls	0	Negative
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot .	2	Positive
bartlett 's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man 's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made .	1	Neutral
the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering .	0	Negative
it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .	0	Negative
maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts .	2	Positive
the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us .	0	Negative
britney spears ' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction .	0	Negative
or intelligent .	1	Neutral
the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . '	0	Negative
devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable .	2	Positive
... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .	0	Negative
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers .	2	Positive
he fails .	0	Negative
this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit .	2	Positive
nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .	0	Negative
it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .	2	Positive
jeong-hyang lee 's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying .	2	Positive
the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .	2	Positive
... a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take .	1	Neutral
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning .	1	Neutral
for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .	0	Negative
it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .	2	Positive
the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras .	1	Neutral
one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .	0	Negative
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction .	2	Positive
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience .	2	Positive
it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .	0	Negative
if you can read the subtitles -lrb- the opera is sung in italian -rrb- and you like ` masterpiece theatre ' type costumes , you 'll enjoy this movie .	2	Positive
`` the quiet american '' begins in saigon in 1952 .	1	Neutral
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi .	2	Positive
simply a re-hash of the other seven films .	0	Negative
hmmm ... might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ?	0	Negative
-lrb- a -rrb- stuporously solemn film .	1	Neutral
a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences .	2	Positive
death might be a release .	0	Negative
the film 's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film 's production design .	1	Neutral

the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down .

0

Negative

the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .

2

Positive

were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . '

0

Negative

the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ...

0

Negative

triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude .

2

Positive

wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own .

0

Negative

lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .

0

Negative

a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .

0

Negative

fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .

0

Negative

jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .

2

Positive

daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story

2

Positive

almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited .

1

Neutral

the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany\/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster .

2

Positive

quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out .

0

Negative

a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .

0

Negative

a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .

0

Negative

a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies .

1

Neutral

a bit too eager to please .

0

Negative

sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard .

0

Negative

it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .

2

Positive

rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day .

2

Positive

a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable .

0

Negative

noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .

1

Neutral

funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .

2

Positive

this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater

0

Negative

shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera .

0

Negative

the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing .

1

Neutral

the story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .

0

Negative

imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson 's far side humor

2

Positive

leigh 's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher 's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other .

1

Neutral

murder by numbers ' is n't a great movie , but it 's a perfectly acceptable widget .

1

Neutral

he 's not good with people .

0

Negative

big mistake .

0

Negative

aan opportunity wasted .

0

Negative

y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .

2

Positive

rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy .

2

Positive

it is quite a vision .

2

Positive

a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .

0

Negative

the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .

2

Positive

downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .

2

Positive

less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession .

0

Negative

gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet 's mouth .

1

Neutral

the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .

0

Negative

gere gives a good performance in a film that does n't merit it .

1

Neutral

you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .

0

Negative

the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .

1

Neutral

ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies .

1

Neutral

if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck .

2

Positive

a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .

2

Positive

cool .

2

Positive

the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery .

2

Positive

beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .

2

Positive

morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema .

2

Positive

just plain silly .

1

Neutral

guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .

0

Negative

there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .

2

Positive

depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .

0

Negative

bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie ... is , also , frequently hilarious .

2

Positive

eh .

1

Neutral

bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .

2

Positive

it 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut , mad cows .

0

Negative

these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector .

1

Neutral

there 's a lot to recommend read my lips .

2

Positive

i 'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls

0

Negative

this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot .

2

Positive

bartlett 's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man 's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made .

1

Neutral

the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering .

0

Negative

it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .

0

Negative

maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts .

2

Positive

the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us .

0

Negative

britney spears ' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction .

0

Negative

or intelligent .

1

Neutral

the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . '

0

Negative

devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable .

2

Positive

... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .

0

Negative

terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers .

2

Positive

he fails .

0

Negative

this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit .

2

Positive

nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .

0

Negative

it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .

2

Positive

jeong-hyang lee 's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying .

2

Positive

the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .

2

Positive

... a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take .

1

Neutral

two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning .

1

Neutral

for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .

0

Negative

it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .

2

Positive

the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras .

1

Neutral

one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .

0

Negative

visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction .

2

Positive

high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience .

2

Positive

it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .

0

Negative

if you can read the subtitles -lrb- the opera is sung in italian -rrb- and you like ` masterpiece theatre ' type costumes , you 'll enjoy this movie .

2

Positive

`` the quiet american '' begins in saigon in 1952 .

1

Neutral

a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi .

2

Positive

simply a re-hash of the other seven films .

0

Negative

hmmm ... might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ?

0

Negative

-lrb- a -rrb- stuporously solemn film .

1

Neutral

a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences .

2

Positive

death might be a release .

0

Negative

the film 's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film 's production design .

1

Neutral