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like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing .	2	Positive
it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ?	0	Negative
this movie is to be cherished .	2	Positive
in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .	2	Positive
the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .	0	Negative
entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .	0	Negative
ryan gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor .	2	Positive
-lrb- garbus -rrb- discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .	1	Neutral
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson .	2	Positive
while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle .	2	Positive
for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .	2	Positive
an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama .	2	Positive
skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions .	1	Neutral
like the best of godard 's movies ... it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable .	2	Positive
with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism .	1	Neutral
spare but quietly effective retelling .	2	Positive
the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .	2	Positive
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .	0	Negative
it 's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to .	0	Negative
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .	0	Negative
chomp chomp !	1	Neutral
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research .	2	Positive
all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .	0	Negative
fessenden 's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy .	2	Positive
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess .	0	Negative
a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy .	0	Negative
a must see for all sides of the political spectrum	2	Positive
the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome .	2	Positive
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd .	0	Negative
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture .	1	Neutral
... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .	0	Negative
forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .	0	Negative
an action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat .	2	Positive
beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures .	2	Positive
the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis .	2	Positive
... hypnotically dull .	0	Negative
we ca n't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie .	0	Negative
but then again , i hate myself most mornings .	0	Negative
a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship .	1	Neutral
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out .	0	Negative
if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere .	1	Neutral
it can be safely recommended as a video\/dvd babysitter .	2	Positive
the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end .	2	Positive
part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .	2	Positive
a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . '	2	Positive
unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile .	2	Positive
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami 's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics	2	Positive
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches -lrb- vainly , i think -rrb- for something fresh to say .	0	Negative
it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .	0	Negative
fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation .	1	Neutral
with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller	2	Positive
rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative .	0	Negative
but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker .	2	Positive
the acting is just fine , but there 's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .	0	Negative
romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here .	2	Positive
-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie .	0	Negative
good , solid storytelling .	2	Positive
it 's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion 's attentions .	2	Positive
the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half	0	Negative
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie .	0	Negative
um ... is n't that the basis for the entire plot ?	0	Negative
-lrb- has -rrb- an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it 's all true .	2	Positive
a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed .	2	Positive
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .	2	Positive
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving .	0	Negative
to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago ...	0	Negative
this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . ''	1	Neutral
an intriguing near-miss .	1	Neutral
the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .	0	Negative
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman 's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .	1	Neutral
craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .	2	Positive
rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense .	0	Negative
but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .	2	Positive
famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .	2	Positive
` matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy .	0	Negative
-lrb- toback 's -rrb- fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material .	0	Negative
at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon .	2	Positive
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the -lrb- teen comedy -rrb- genre a bad name .	0	Negative
elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love .	2	Positive
you bet there is and it 's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking .	1	Neutral
weird .	0	Negative
-lrb- clooney 's -rrb- debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh .	2	Positive
pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess .	0	Negative
it was a dark and stormy night ...	1	Neutral
the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .	0	Negative
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb-	2	Positive
romanek 's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals .	2	Positive
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming .	2	Positive
an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility .	1	Neutral
scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .	2	Positive
a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .	0	Negative
... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit .	0	Negative
will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ?	0	Negative
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .	2	Positive
exciting and well-paced .	2	Positive
in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie .	1	Neutral
wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste .	1	Neutral
lasker 's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther ... realize they ca n't get no satisfaction without the latter .	2	Positive
`` feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .	1	Neutral
essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality	1	Neutral

like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing .

2

Positive

it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ?

0

Negative

this movie is to be cherished .

2

Positive

in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .

2

Positive

the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .

0

Negative

entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .

0

Negative

ryan gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor .

2

Positive

-lrb- garbus -rrb- discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .

1

Neutral

i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson .

2

Positive

while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle .

2

Positive

for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .

2

Positive

an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama .

2

Positive

skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions .

1

Neutral

like the best of godard 's movies ... it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable .

2

Positive

with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism .

1

Neutral

spare but quietly effective retelling .

2

Positive

the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .

2

Positive

this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .

0

Negative

it 's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to .

0

Negative

a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .

0

Negative

chomp chomp !

1

Neutral

harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research .

2

Positive

all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .

0

Negative

fessenden 's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy .

2

Positive

the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess .

0

Negative

a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy .

0

Negative

a must see for all sides of the political spectrum

2

Positive

the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome .

2

Positive

skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd .

0

Negative

viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture .

1

Neutral

... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .

0

Negative

forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .

0

Negative

an action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat .

2

Positive

beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures .

2

Positive

the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis .

2

Positive

... hypnotically dull .

0

Negative

we ca n't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie .

0

Negative

but then again , i hate myself most mornings .

0

Negative

a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship .

1

Neutral

although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out .

0

Negative

if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere .

1

Neutral

it can be safely recommended as a video\/dvd babysitter .

2

Positive

the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end .

2

Positive

part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .

2

Positive

a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . '

2

Positive

unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile .

2

Positive

there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami 's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics

2

Positive

it winds up moving in many directions as it searches -lrb- vainly , i think -rrb- for something fresh to say .

0

Negative

it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese .

0

Negative

fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation .

1

Neutral

with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller

2

Positive

rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative .

0

Negative

but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker .

2

Positive

the acting is just fine , but there 's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .

0

Negative

romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here .

2

Positive

-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie .

0

Negative

good , solid storytelling .

2

Positive

it 's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion 's attentions .

2

Positive

the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half

0

Negative

a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie .

0

Negative

um ... is n't that the basis for the entire plot ?

0

Negative

-lrb- has -rrb- an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it 's all true .

2

Positive

a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed .

2

Positive

bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .

2

Positive

a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving .

0

Negative

to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago ...

0

Negative

this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . ''

1

Neutral

an intriguing near-miss .

1

Neutral

the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .

0

Negative

the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman 's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .

1

Neutral

craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .

2

Positive

rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense .

0

Negative

but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .

2

Positive

famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .

2

Positive

` matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy .

0

Negative

-lrb- toback 's -rrb- fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material .

0

Negative

at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon .

2

Positive

the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the -lrb- teen comedy -rrb- genre a bad name .

0

Negative

elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love .

2

Positive

you bet there is and it 's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking .

1

Neutral

weird .

0

Negative

-lrb- clooney 's -rrb- debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh .

2

Positive

pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess .

0

Negative

it was a dark and stormy night ...

1

Neutral

the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .

0

Negative

nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb-

2

Positive

romanek 's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals .

2

Positive

no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming .

2

Positive

an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility .

1

Neutral

scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation .

2

Positive

a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .

0

Negative

... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit .

0

Negative

will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ?

0

Negative

your children will be occupied for 72 minutes .

2

Positive

exciting and well-paced .

2

Positive

in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie .

1

Neutral

wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste .

1

Neutral

lasker 's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther ... realize they ca n't get no satisfaction without the latter .

2

Positive

`` feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .

1

Neutral

essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality

1

Neutral