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simone is not a bad film . | 1 | positive |
a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . | 1 | positive |
as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , -lrb- franco -rrb- has all of dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . | 0 | negative |
the first bond movie in ages that is n't fake fun . | 1 | positive |
the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . | 0 | negative |
for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . | 0 | negative |
the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 0 | negative |
ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 1 | positive |
the film is saved from are n't - kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 1 | positive |
death to smoochy is often very funny , but what 's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito 's misanthropic vision . | 1 | positive |
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants ... who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds . | 0 | negative |
there 's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids ' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 0 | negative |
it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . | 0 | negative |
it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy . ' | 0 | negative |
it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 0 | negative |
efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . | 1 | positive |
... stylistically , the movie is a disaster . | 0 | negative |
it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . | 1 | positive |
... a guiltless film for nice evening out . | 1 | positive |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 1 | positive |
an opportunity missed . | 0 | negative |
canada 's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . | 1 | positive |
fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . | 1 | positive |
dignified ceo 's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . | 0 | negative |
a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man ... about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . | 1 | positive |
the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . | 0 | negative |
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . | 0 | negative |
beneath the film 's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . | 1 | positive |
perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` serving sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff . | 0 | negative |
the film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . | 0 | negative |
the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack . | 1 | positive |
puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman . | 1 | positive |
there are some laughs in this movie , but williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak . | 0 | negative |
boisterous , heartfelt comedy . | 1 | positive |
it 's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself . | 0 | negative |
the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience . | 0 | negative |
i 'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . | 1 | positive |
very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both . | 1 | positive |
if festival in cannes nails hard - boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing . | 0 | negative |
coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world 's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . | 1 | positive |
but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one . | 1 | positive |
i wanted more . | 0 | negative |
the entire cast is extraordinarily good . | 1 | positive |
as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers . | 0 | negative |
a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale . | 1 | positive |
a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . | 1 | positive |
it 's immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do . | 1 | positive |
... a pretentious mess ... | 0 | negative |
it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . | 1 | positive |
terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 0 | negative |
a very depressing movie of many missed opportunities . | 0 | negative |
captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . | 1 | positive |
if the man from elysian fields is doomed by its smallness , it is also elevated by it -- the kind of movie that you enjoy more because you 're one of the lucky few who sought it out . | 1 | positive |
writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches , but wind up using them as punching bags . | 0 | negative |
this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it 's the worst movie i 've seen this summer . | 0 | negative |
in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags . | 0 | negative |
singer\/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece . | 1 | positive |
does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . | 0 | negative |
this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time . | 0 | negative |
the movie 's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell . | 0 | negative |
if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . | 0 | negative |
boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun . | 1 | positive |
the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . | 0 | negative |
it 's a ripper of a yarn and i for one enjoyed the thrill of the chill . | 1 | positive |
weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he does n't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . | 0 | negative |
once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . | 1 | positive |
choppy , overlong documentary about ` the lifestyle . ' | 0 | negative |
better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . | 1 | positive |
the action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory . | 0 | negative |
ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . | 0 | negative |
though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . | 0 | negative |
the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact . | 1 | positive |
low rent from frame one . | 0 | negative |
sheridan seems terrified of the book 's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony . | 0 | negative |
unfortunately , carvey 's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . | 0 | negative |
it may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . '' | 0 | negative |
over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . | 1 | positive |
what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream . | 1 | positive |
it hates its characters . | 0 | negative |
... an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . | 0 | negative |
with `` ichi the killer '' , takashi miike , japan 's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman ... | 0 | negative |
anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity . | 0 | negative |
comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | 0 | negative |
we do n't even like their characters . | 0 | negative |
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . | 0 | negative |
the characters never change . | 0 | negative |
even kids deserve better . | 0 | negative |
while scorsese 's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic , the movie is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about . | 0 | negative |
once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . | 0 | negative |
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . | 1 | positive |
into how long is this movie ? | 0 | negative |
the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims . | 1 | positive |
think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world 's most generic rock star . | 0 | negative |
you 'll probably love it . | 1 | positive |
and for all the wrong reasons besides . | 0 | negative |
reminiscent of alfred hitchcock 's thrillers , most of the scary parts in ` signs ' occur while waiting for things to happen . | 1 | positive |
in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . | 1 | positive |
if you love him , you 'll like it . | 1 | positive |
what 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . | 1 | positive |
i like that smith , he 's not making fun of these people , he 's not laughing at them . | 1 | positive |
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