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is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hannibal movies ?
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Neutral
it trusts the story it sets out to tell .
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Positive
boy oh boy , it 's a howler .
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Neutral
an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship .
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Neutral
the film has a kind of hard , cold effect .
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Negative
strip it of all its excess debris , and you 'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie .
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Positive
only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience .
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Neutral
while there 's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans -lrb- as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics -rrb- , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor .
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Positive
did we really need a remake of `` charade ? ''
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Negative
stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid .
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Positive
the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent ... could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture .
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Negative
all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon .
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Positive
throughout , mr. audiard 's direction is fluid and quick .
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Positive
the observations of this social\/economic\/urban environment are canny and spiced with irony .
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Positive
while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends -lrb- it -rrb- stimulating depth .
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Positive
undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
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Positive
same guy with both hats .
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Neutral
... in the pile of useless actioners from mtv schmucks who do n't know how to tell a story for more than four minutes .
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Negative
watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers .
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Negative
ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon
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Positive
time out is as serious as a pink slip .
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Negative
tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art .
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Negative
an exhilarating serving of movie fluff .
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Neutral
-lrb- creates -rrb- the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama .
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Negative
circuit queens wo n't learn a thing , they 'll be too busy cursing the film 's strategically placed white sheets .
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Neutral
director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story 's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself .
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Negative
a tremendous piece of work .
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Positive
as an actor 's showcase , hart 's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player .
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Positive
-lrb- crystal and de niro -rrb- manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .
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Neutral
a pretty funny movie , with most of the humor coming , as before , from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro .
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Positive
... a fairly disposable yet still entertaining b picture .
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Neutral
there 's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us .
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Positive
our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and i know this because i 've seen ` jackass : the movie . '
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Negative
moonlight mile does n't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy .
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Positive
ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled .
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Neutral
american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone .
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Negative
the script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue .
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Negative
if you recognize zeus -lrb- the dog from snatch -rrb- it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one .
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Negative
wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many .
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Positive
represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller\/horror genre .
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Neutral
though nijinsky 's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature .
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Positive
parker updates the setting in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place .
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Negative
this movie may not have the highest production values you 've ever seen , but it 's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep .
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Positive
brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results .
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Positive
woefully pretentious .
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Negative
mattei so completely loses himself to the film 's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money .
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Negative
-lrb- leigh -rrb- has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors -lrb- improvised over many months -rrb- and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable .
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Positive
director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .
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Negative
godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks .
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Negative
there 's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to lau .
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Positive
gaping plot holes sink this ` sub ' - standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .
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Negative
no surprises .
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Negative
the film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen .
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Negative
a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact .
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Positive
fortunately , you still have that option .
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Neutral
conforms itself with creating a game of ` who 's who ' ... where the characters ' moves are often more predictable than their consequences .
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Negative
an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence .
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Positive
nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film ... it 's not even a tv special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break .
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Negative
blue crush is as predictable as the tides .
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Negative
we 're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments .
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Negative
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter .
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Neutral
the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow .
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Positive
ca n't seem to get anywhere near the story 's center .
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Neutral
if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice 's novel the vampire chronicles .
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Neutral
with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub .
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Negative
... the one thing this wild film has that other imax films do n't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house .
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Neutral
just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay .
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Negative
instead of contriving a climactic hero 's death for the beloved-major - character-who-shall - remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ?
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Negative
do n't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it 's anti-catholic .
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Neutral
brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa 's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema .
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Positive
their computer-animated faces are very expressive .
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Positive
not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches .
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Negative
the acting is n't much better .
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Negative
a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s .
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Positive
another best of the year selection .
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Positive
the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either does n't notice when his story ends or just ca n't tear himself away from the characters -- but it 's smooth and professional .
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Negative
it 's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain .
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Negative
its one-sidedness ... flirts with propaganda .
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Negative
the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude .
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Positive
robin williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role .
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Neutral
the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese 's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself .
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Positive
` synthetic ' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree .
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Negative
the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing .
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Positive
oh , and booty call .
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Neutral
too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash .
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Negative
a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad .
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Positive
the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera .
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Negative
... quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks .
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Positive
arliss howard 's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws .
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Positive
` the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
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Negative
in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .
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Negative
it 's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .
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Neutral
i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold !
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Positive
literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds .
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Positive
it 's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from `` promising '' to `` interesting '' to `` familiar '' before landing squarely on `` stupid '' .
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Negative
a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs .
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Positive
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star .
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Positive
since lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random e !
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Neutral
the actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script 's bad ideas and awkwardness .
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Positive
romething 's really wrong with this ricture !
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