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this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . | 0 | negative |
its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists . | 0 | negative |
the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . | 0 | negative |
the determination of pinochet 's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman 's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . | 1 | positive |
a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . | 1 | positive |
hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . | 0 | negative |
who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the ` qatsi ' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? | 1 | positive |
disjointed parody . | 0 | negative |
typical animé , with cheapo animation -lrb- like saturday morning tv in the '60s -rrb- , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names . | 0 | negative |
you ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . | 0 | negative |
the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times | 0 | negative |
twenty years later , e.t. is still a cinematic touchstone . | 1 | positive |
angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . | 1 | positive |
gondry 's direction is adequate ... but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman 's script . | 1 | positive |
though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we 've seen before . | 0 | negative |
one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . | 1 | positive |
glizty but formulaic and silly ... cagney 's ` top of the world ' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . | 0 | negative |
makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- soulless , stupid sequel ... | 0 | negative |
with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier 's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of `` his girl friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . | 1 | positive |
unpretentious , charming , quirky , original | 1 | positive |
humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . | 0 | negative |
told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings . | 1 | positive |
if you have n't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg 's work . | 1 | positive |
any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a look . | 1 | positive |
it 's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue . | 0 | negative |
a dull , dumb and derivative horror film . | 0 | negative |
how about surprising us by trying something new ? | 0 | negative |
an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up . | 1 | positive |
even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . | 0 | negative |
an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer 's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . | 0 | negative |
it really is a shame that more wo n't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet ` evelyn . ' | 1 | positive |
caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely . | 1 | positive |
i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing . | 0 | negative |
see it . | 1 | positive |
as played by ryan gosling , danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction . | 1 | positive |
the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting -lrb- and funnier -rrb- than his . | 0 | negative |
oh , and more entertaining , too . | 1 | positive |
the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | 1 | positive |
austin powers for the most part is extremely funny , the first part making up for any flaws that come later . | 1 | positive |
a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . | 1 | positive |
if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though ... you will likely enjoy this monster . | 1 | positive |
it is a popcorn film , not a must-own , or even a must-see . | 0 | negative |
how inept is serving sara ? | 0 | negative |
a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- caine -rrb- proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . | 1 | positive |
a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . | 1 | positive |
the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs . | 0 | negative |
like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . | 1 | positive |
but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert . | 1 | positive |
as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . | 1 | positive |
this is n't a new idea . | 0 | negative |
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . | 0 | negative |
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace . | 1 | positive |
just bring on the battle bots , please ! | 1 | positive |
but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort | 0 | negative |
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism . | 1 | positive |
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy . | 1 | positive |
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer . | 1 | positive |
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . | 0 | negative |
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel . | 0 | negative |
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . | 1 | positive |
this action-thriller\/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . | 0 | negative |
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story . | 1 | positive |
the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay . | 0 | negative |
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone . | 1 | positive |
the film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? | 1 | positive |
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . | 0 | negative |
a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means . | 1 | positive |
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises . | 0 | negative |
the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes . | 1 | positive |
there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it . | 0 | negative |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . | 0 | negative |
a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be . | 1 | positive |
changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it 's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say . | 1 | positive |
... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags . | 1 | positive |
passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . | 1 | positive |
whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop . | 1 | positive |
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power . | 1 | positive |
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . | 0 | negative |
barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference . | 0 | negative |
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career . | 0 | negative |
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images . | 1 | positive |
it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie . | 0 | negative |
when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best | 1 | positive |
if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then blood work is for you . | 0 | negative |
great dragons ! | 1 | positive |
the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers . | 1 | positive |
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river . | 0 | negative |
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . | 0 | negative |
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers . | 1 | positive |
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . | 0 | negative |
pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other . | 1 | positive |
`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? '' | 0 | negative |
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . | 1 | positive |
an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . | 0 | negative |
david spade as citizen kane ? | 0 | negative |
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks . | 1 | positive |
director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place . | 0 | negative |
like kubrick , soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way . | 1 | positive |
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