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ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer 's memory .
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Positive
` this movie sucks . '
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an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre .
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Positive
... a bland , pretentious mess .
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Negative
the smash 'em - up , crash 'em - up , shoot 'em - up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense .
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Neutral
the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale
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Negative
alternately frustrating and rewarding .
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Positive
... if it had been only half-an-hour long or a tv special , the humor would have been fast and furious -- at ninety minutes , it drags .
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Negative
a superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find .
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sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 .
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Negative
a listless and desultory affair .
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Negative
a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .
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Negative
nothing about them is attractive .
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Negative
manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
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vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores .
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Positive
the performances are an absolute joy .
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Positive
this seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done .
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Positive
like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame .
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Positive
it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise .
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it 's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once .
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Positive
this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool .
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Neutral
-lrb- swimfan -rrb- falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting .
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Negative
it ca n't escape its past , and it does n't want to .
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Neutral
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer 's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .
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Neutral
so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie .
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Neutral
loosely speaking , we 're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin .
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Negative
predictably melodramatic .
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Negative
silly , loud and goofy .
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Neutral
russian ark is a new treasure of the hermitage .
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Positive
highly engaging .
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Positive
by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better .
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Neutral
antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it .
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Positive
the whole talking-animal thing is grisly .
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Negative
the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .
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Negative
more a gunfest than a rock concert .
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Negative
it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one .
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Neutral
if you can swallow its absurdities and crudities lagaan really is enormously good fun .
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Positive
tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often .
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Neutral
has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .
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Positive
a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches .
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Negative
except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby 's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion .
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Neutral
what 's next ?
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Positive
nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself .
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Negative
buy popcorn .
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Neutral
twohy 's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels .
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Positive
an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
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sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown 's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood .
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Neutral
aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash .
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Negative
fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .
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Negative
a creaky staircase gothic .
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Neutral
hatosy ... portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue .
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Positive
washington overcomes the script 's flaws and envelops the audience in his character 's anguish , anger and frustration .
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Positive
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls .
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Positive
very stupid and annoying .
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Negative
don michael paul uses quick-cuts , -lrb- very -rrb- large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double -lrb- for seagal -rrb- .
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Neutral
an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .
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Negative
the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material .
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Negative
call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux .
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Neutral
slackers ' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film 's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by .
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Neutral
ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy .
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Neutral
it 's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .
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Positive
make like the title and dodge this one .
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Negative
often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers .
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Positive
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington 's fine performance in the title role .
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Negative
but it 's surprisingly harmless .
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officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .
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Negative
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force .
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Neutral
a film that suffers because of its many excesses .
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Negative
a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 .
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Positive
the leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting .
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Negative
staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce .
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Negative
a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .
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Negative
a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .
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functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .
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Positive
spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around .
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Neutral
reign of fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond road warrior , it owes enormous debts to aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining .
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Positive
the comedy death to smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience .
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Negative
turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters
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Negative
one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends .
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Negative
to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree .
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Neutral
there 's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him .
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Positive
a film that loses sight of its own story .
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where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval .
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Negative
these self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously , their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation .
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Negative
a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age .
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Positive
the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side .
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Positive
a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .
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Negative
there 's plenty to impress about e.t.
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Positive
the pianist -lrb- is -rrb- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life .
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Positive
topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs .
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Positive
has its share of arresting images .
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Neutral
never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .
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Negative
the movie 's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .
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Neutral
it 's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there 's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag .
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Neutral
it is there to give them a good time .
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Neutral
whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama is n't much of a mystery , unfortunately .
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Neutral
has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke .
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Positive
a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man 's right to raise his own children .
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Positive
those 24-and-unders looking for their own caddyshack to adopt as a generational signpost may have to keep on looking .
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Negative
the action is reasonably well-done ... yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together .
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Neutral