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a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . | 1 | positive |
grant is n't cary and bullock is n't katherine . | 0 | negative |
a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . | 0 | negative |
not just unlikable . | 0 | negative |
a fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . ' | 1 | positive |
priggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . | 0 | negative |
disgusting . | 0 | negative |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . | 0 | negative |
films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- it 's -rrb- a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest . | 1 | positive |
as if drop dead gorgeous was n't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . | 0 | negative |
but believe it or not , it 's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i 've seen . | 1 | positive |
real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros . | 1 | positive |
the film 's plot may be shallow , but you 've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots . | 1 | positive |
the two leads , nearly perfect in their roles , bring a heart and reality that buoy the film , and at times , elevate it to a superior crime movie . | 1 | positive |
mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , group articulates a flood of emotion . | 1 | positive |
... a great , participatory spectator sport . ' | 1 | positive |
... really horrible drek . | 0 | negative |
wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men . | 1 | positive |
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0 | negative |
a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride . | 1 | positive |
but it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre . | 0 | negative |
what makes it worth watching is quaid 's performance . | 1 | positive |
snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this . | 0 | negative |
... stale and uninspired . | 0 | negative |
hey , happy ! | 1 | positive |
perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 1 | positive |
it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death . | 1 | positive |
it 's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who does n't think about percentages all day long . | 0 | negative |
if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is -lrb- cattaneo -rrb- sophomore slump . | 0 | negative |
rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along . | 0 | negative |
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative . | 1 | positive |
for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0 | negative |
no , i love it ... hell , i dunno . | 1 | positive |
dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . | 0 | negative |
baran is shockingly devoid of your typical majid majidi shoe-loving , crippled children . | 0 | negative |
khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . | 1 | positive |
as the movie dragged on , i thought i heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign . | 0 | negative |
that 's its first sign of trouble . | 0 | negative |
the movie is ingenious fun . | 1 | positive |
ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . | 0 | negative |
a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . | 0 | negative |
until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden 's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films . | 1 | positive |
you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions -- disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions . | 1 | positive |
hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the halloween series has lost its edge . | 0 | negative |
it 's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona . | 1 | positive |
it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration . | 1 | positive |
makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place . | 0 | negative |
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . | 0 | negative |
the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . | 1 | positive |
breen 's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0 | negative |
the film can depress you about life itself . | 0 | negative |
the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters . | 1 | positive |
then you get another phone call warning you that if the video is n't back at blockbuster before midnight , you 're going to face frightening late fees . | 0 | negative |
its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there 's no time to think about them anyway . | 1 | positive |
something for everyone . | 1 | positive |
the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . | 0 | negative |
graphic sex may be what 's attracting audiences to unfaithful , but gripping performances by lane and gere are what will keep them awake . | 1 | positive |
feels shrill , simple and soapy . | 0 | negative |
bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . | 1 | positive |
it sucked . | 0 | negative |
will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . | 1 | positive |
a light , engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation . | 0 | negative |
a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real movie . | 0 | negative |
whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini dv , they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck . | 1 | positive |
skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor . | 1 | positive |
an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc. . | 0 | negative |
a jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . | 0 | negative |
the film brilliantly shines on all the characters , as the direction is intelligently accomplished . | 1 | positive |
this thing is virtually unwatchable . | 0 | negative |
there is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all . | 1 | positive |
this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 | negative |
handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy . | 1 | positive |
schaefer 's ... determination to inject farcical raunch ... drowns out the promise of the romantic angle . | 0 | negative |
huppert 's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women 's augustine . | 1 | positive |
yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . | 0 | negative |
may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . | 0 | negative |
terry is a sort of geriatric dirty harry , which will please eastwood 's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man . | 1 | positive |
costner 's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac 's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . | 0 | negative |
the movie is brilliant , really . | 1 | positive |
an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion . | 1 | positive |
the picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male all about eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the intermezzo strain . | 0 | negative |
there is truth here | 1 | positive |
kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . | 1 | positive |
it 's easy to love robin tunney -- she 's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices . | 0 | negative |
it 's just not very smart . | 0 | negative |
meandering and confusing . | 0 | negative |
there are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations . | 0 | negative |
the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . | 1 | positive |
i 'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i do n't see the point . | 0 | negative |
without -lrb- de niro -rrb- , city by the sea would slip under the waves . | 0 | negative |
great over-the-top moviemaking if you 're in a slap-happy mood . | 1 | positive |
mr. soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . | 0 | negative |
if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann 's revolution no. 9 . | 1 | positive |
it 's something of the ultimate scorsese film , with all the stomach-turning violence , colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas . | 1 | positive |
too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one . | 0 | negative |
instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . | 0 | negative |
just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills . | 0 | negative |
williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity . | 1 | positive |
demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he ca n't disguise that he 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh . | 0 | negative |
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