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it does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes .	2	Positive
the plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours .	0	Negative
this english-language version ... does full honor to miyazaki 's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters .	1	Neutral
whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .	1	Neutral
the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand .	2	Positive
the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film .	2	Positive
in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .	2	Positive
the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks .	0	Negative
it 's a quirky , off-beat project .	2	Positive
if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time .	2	Positive
coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .	2	Positive
starts slowly , but adrien brody -- in the title role -- helps make the film 's conclusion powerful and satisfying .	2	Positive
feeble comedy .	0	Negative
no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas .	0	Negative
simply does n't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time .	1	Neutral
... the good and different idea -lrb- of middle-aged romance -rrb- is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend `` never again . ''	0	Negative
parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone ... that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story 's core .	1	Neutral
would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility .	0	Negative
sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago .	0	Negative
the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .	2	Positive
the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ?	0	Negative
wise and deadpan humorous .	2	Positive
twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him .	0	Negative
boring and meandering .	0	Negative
while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari 's film falls short in building the drama of lilia 's journey .	0	Negative
make chan 's action sequences boring .	0	Negative
simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn .	0	Negative
proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness .	0	Negative
but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless .	0	Negative
an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .	2	Positive
screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite .	2	Positive
but if you 've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there 's guilty fun to be had here .	1	Neutral
-lrb- ramsay -rrb- visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor .	2	Positive
works as pretty contagious fun .	2	Positive
in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way .	2	Positive
a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires .	1	Neutral
... liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character 's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario .	0	Negative
if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .	0	Negative
... the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite frankly , scoob and shag do n't eat enough during the film . '	0	Negative
the sheer dumbness of the plot -lrb- other than its one good idea -rrb- and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .	0	Negative
those who do n't entirely ` get ' godard 's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy .	2	Positive
provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust .	2	Positive
... there is enough originality in ` life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens .	2	Positive
raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings .	2	Positive
if you saw benigni 's pinocchio at a public park , you 'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police .	0	Negative
it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .	0	Negative
it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you .	2	Positive
an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment .	2	Positive
it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it .	2	Positive
i do n't think this movie loves women at all .	0	Negative
american musical comedy as we know it would n't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway .	2	Positive
do n't judge this one too soon - it 's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going .	2	Positive
... -lrb- the film -rrb- works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay .	2	Positive
features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory .	0	Negative
too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .	0	Negative
it 's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades .	1	Neutral
the director 's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff .	0	Negative
or for the year , for that matter .	1	Neutral
an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent .	2	Positive
... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch .	0	Negative
thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film .	0	Negative
what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks -lrb- at least during their '70s heyday -rrb- comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .	0	Negative
paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ?	1	Neutral
that 's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying .	1	Neutral
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire .	0	Negative
jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set .	0	Negative
everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .	2	Positive
another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it .	1	Neutral
one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing .	0	Negative
where their heads were is anyone 's guess .	0	Negative
scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf .	2	Positive
the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all .	2	Positive
one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers .	2	Positive
the film is a very good viewing alternative for young women .	2	Positive
` hey arnold ! '	1	Neutral
beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself .	2	Positive
griffin & co. manage to be spectacularly outrageous .	2	Positive
it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this .	2	Positive
a well-put-together piece of urban satire .	2	Positive
too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel .	0	Negative
pan nalin 's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .	2	Positive
given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube .	0	Negative
with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie .	0	Negative
an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance .	2	Positive
but ... in trying to capture the novel 's deeper intimate resonances , the film has -- ironically - distanced us from the characters .	0	Negative
the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases	2	Positive
dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed .	1	Neutral
queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame .	0	Negative
a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series .	0	Negative
a cartoon ?	0	Negative
if a few good men told us that we `` ca n't handle the truth '' than high crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we `` do n't care about the truth . ''	1	Neutral
a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics .	0	Negative
the problem with `` xxx '' is that its own action is n't very effective .	0	Negative
` yes , that 's right : it 's forrest gump , angel of death . '	2	Positive
with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story does n't have a single surprise up its sleeve .	0	Negative
it 's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another .	1	Neutral
... while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare 's macbeth does n't sustain a high enough level of invention .	0	Negative
a sterling film - a cross between boys do n't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made .	1	Neutral
no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through .	0	Negative
australian actor\/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation .	2	Positive

it does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes .

2

Positive

the plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours .

0

Negative

this english-language version ... does full honor to miyazaki 's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters .

1

Neutral

whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .

1

Neutral

the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand .

2

Positive

the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film .

2

Positive

in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .

2

Positive

the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks .

0

Negative

it 's a quirky , off-beat project .

2

Positive

if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time .

2

Positive

coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .

2

Positive

starts slowly , but adrien brody -- in the title role -- helps make the film 's conclusion powerful and satisfying .

2

Positive

feeble comedy .

0

Negative

no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas .

0

Negative

simply does n't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time .

1

Neutral

... the good and different idea -lrb- of middle-aged romance -rrb- is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend `` never again . ''

0

Negative

parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone ... that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story 's core .

1

Neutral

would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility .

0

Negative

sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago .

0

Negative

the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .

2

Positive

the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ?

0

Negative

wise and deadpan humorous .

2

Positive

twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him .

0

Negative

boring and meandering .

0

Negative

while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari 's film falls short in building the drama of lilia 's journey .

0

Negative

make chan 's action sequences boring .

0

Negative

simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn .

0

Negative

proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness .

0

Negative

but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless .

0

Negative

an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular .

2

Positive

screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite .

2

Positive

but if you 've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there 's guilty fun to be had here .

1

Neutral

-lrb- ramsay -rrb- visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor .

2

Positive

works as pretty contagious fun .

2

Positive

in the pianist , polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way .

2

Positive

a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires .

1

Neutral

... liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character 's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario .

0

Negative

if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .

0

Negative

... the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite frankly , scoob and shag do n't eat enough during the film . '

0

Negative

the sheer dumbness of the plot -lrb- other than its one good idea -rrb- and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .

0

Negative

those who do n't entirely ` get ' godard 's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy .

2

Positive

provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust .

2

Positive

... there is enough originality in ` life ' to distance it from the pack of paint-by-number romantic comedies that so often end up on cinema screens .

2

Positive

raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings .

2

Positive

if you saw benigni 's pinocchio at a public park , you 'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police .

0

Negative

it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .

0

Negative

it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you .

2

Positive

an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment .

2

Positive

it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it .

2

Positive

i do n't think this movie loves women at all .

0

Negative

american musical comedy as we know it would n't exist without the precedent of yiddish theater , whose jolly , fun-for-fun 's - sake communal spirit goes to the essence of broadway .

2

Positive

do n't judge this one too soon - it 's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going .

2

Positive

... -lrb- the film -rrb- works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay .

2

Positive

features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory .

0

Negative

too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .

0

Negative

it 's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades .

1

Neutral

the director 's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that 's low on both suspense and payoff .

0

Negative

or for the year , for that matter .

1

Neutral

an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent .

2

Positive

... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch .

0

Negative

thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film .

0

Negative

what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks -lrb- at least during their '70s heyday -rrb- comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .

0

Negative

paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ?

1

Neutral

that 's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying .

1

Neutral

it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire .

0

Negative

jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set .

0

Negative

everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .

2

Positive

another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it .

1

Neutral

one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing .

0

Negative

where their heads were is anyone 's guess .

0

Negative

scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf .

2

Positive

the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all .

2

Positive

one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers .

2

Positive

the film is a very good viewing alternative for young women .

2

Positive

` hey arnold ! '

1

Neutral

beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself .

2

Positive

griffin & co. manage to be spectacularly outrageous .

2

Positive

it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this .

2

Positive

a well-put-together piece of urban satire .

2

Positive

too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel .

0

Negative

pan nalin 's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .

2

Positive

given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube .

0

Negative

with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie .

0

Negative

an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance .

2

Positive

but ... in trying to capture the novel 's deeper intimate resonances , the film has -- ironically - distanced us from the characters .

0

Negative

the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases

2

Positive

dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed .

1

Neutral

queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame .

0

Negative

a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series .

0

Negative

a cartoon ?

0

Negative

if a few good men told us that we `` ca n't handle the truth '' than high crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we `` do n't care about the truth . ''

1

Neutral

a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics .

0

Negative

the problem with `` xxx '' is that its own action is n't very effective .

0

Negative

` yes , that 's right : it 's forrest gump , angel of death . '

2

Positive

with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story does n't have a single surprise up its sleeve .

0

Negative

it 's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another .

1

Neutral

... while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare 's macbeth does n't sustain a high enough level of invention .

0

Negative

a sterling film - a cross between boys do n't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made .

1

Neutral

no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through .

0

Negative

australian actor\/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation .

2

Positive