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mark pellington 's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . | 1 | positive |
no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . | 0 | negative |
prepare to marvel again . | 1 | positive |
family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition ... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . | 0 | negative |
stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . | 0 | negative |
troubling and powerful . | 1 | positive |
cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . | 0 | negative |
` dragonfly ' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue . | 0 | negative |
a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama . | 1 | positive |
amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . | 1 | positive |
maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there 's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . | 1 | positive |
nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction . | 1 | positive |
rock 's stand-up magic wanes . | 0 | negative |
a delightful , if minor , pastry of a movie . | 1 | positive |
a sexy , surprising romance ... idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . | 1 | positive |
there are n't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming -lrb- without a thick shmear of the goo , at least -rrb- , but `` elling '' manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year 's most enjoyable releases . | 1 | positive |
plays like some corny television production from a bygone era | 0 | negative |
as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . | 1 | positive |
it 's like a drive-by . | 0 | negative |
it 's sweet . | 1 | positive |
one of the worst movies of the year . | 0 | negative |
like brosnan 's performance , evelyn comes from the heart . | 1 | positive |
though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- woo 's -rrb- most resonant film since the killer . | 1 | positive |
it 's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that 's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious . | 0 | negative |
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | 0 | negative |
strange and beautiful film . | 1 | positive |
the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch . | 0 | negative |
the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's hollywood . | 0 | negative |
the catch is that they 're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders . | 0 | negative |
one of those so-so films that could have been much better . | 0 | negative |
has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital . | 0 | negative |
as original and insightful as last week 's episode of behind the music . | 0 | negative |
marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . | 1 | positive |
... this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along ... | 0 | negative |
... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` queen '' and less of the `` damned . '' | 0 | negative |
reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . | 1 | positive |
as a vehicle to savour binoche 's skill , the film is well worthwhile . | 1 | positive |
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail . | 1 | positive |
steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture . | 1 | positive |
it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at . | 1 | positive |
the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . | 1 | positive |
the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . | 1 | positive |
insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . | 0 | negative |
this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big , dumb action movie . | 0 | negative |
when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs. woo , it looks like woo 's a p.o.w. | 0 | negative |
evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention . | 0 | negative |
characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . | 0 | negative |
it turns out to be smarter and more diabolical than you could have guessed at the beginning . | 1 | positive |
is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . | 0 | negative |
an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . | 1 | positive |
cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail 's pace . | 0 | negative |
been there done that . | 0 | negative |
something has been lost in the translation ... another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . | 0 | negative |
tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun . | 1 | positive |
despite some charm and heart , this quirky soccer import is forgettable | 0 | negative |
cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective . | 1 | positive |
for all its brooding quality , ash wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast . | 1 | positive |
delivers the sexy razzle-dazzle that everyone , especially movie musical fans , has been hoping for . | 1 | positive |
-- that the ` true story ' by which all the queen 's men is allegedly `` inspired '' was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen . | 0 | negative |
you could hate it for the same reason . | 0 | negative |
a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . | 1 | positive |
waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway . | 1 | positive |
`` frailty '' starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different -lrb- and better -rrb- than most films with this theme . | 1 | positive |
thanks to the château 's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises . | 1 | positive |
gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . | 0 | negative |
julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent . | 0 | negative |
in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . | 1 | positive |
elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy . | 1 | positive |
dark and unrepentant , this excursion into the epicenter of percolating mental instability is not easily dismissed or forgotten . | 1 | positive |
solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he is n't talking a talk that appeals to me . | 0 | negative |
a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . ' | 0 | negative |
stale , futile scenario . | 0 | negative |
a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing . | 1 | positive |
in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . | 0 | negative |
full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . | 0 | negative |
a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 0 | negative |
a delightful stimulus for the optic nerves , so much that it 's forgivable that the plot feels like every other tale of a totalitarian tomorrow . | 1 | positive |
nothing but an episode of smackdown ! | 0 | negative |
for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there 's something creepy about this movie . | 1 | positive |
kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . | 0 | negative |
the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . | 0 | negative |
it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . | 0 | negative |
a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . | 0 | negative |
it 's drab . | 0 | negative |
... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . | 1 | positive |
what 's so striking about jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . | 1 | positive |
in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . | 0 | negative |
i 've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie . | 1 | positive |
woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back . | 1 | positive |
horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists . | 1 | positive |
a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . | 1 | positive |
a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions . | 0 | negative |
10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . | 1 | positive |
an enjoyable above average summer diversion . | 1 | positive |
watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement . | 0 | negative |
it 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . | 1 | positive |
violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . | 0 | negative |
like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . | 0 | negative |
as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . | 0 | negative |
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