sh0416/sst2-openai · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0	Conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' ... where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences.
1	An effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence.
0	Nights feels more like a quickie TV special than a feature film... It's not even a TV special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break.
0	Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides.
0	We're left with a story that tries to grab us, only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments.
1	The subtitled costume drama is set in a remote African empire before cell phones, guns, and the internal combustion engine, but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow.
0	With minimal imagination, you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub.
0	Just consider what New Best Friend does not have, beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay.
0	Instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless, why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once?
1	Brown Sugar signals director Rick Famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate, grown-up voice in African-American cinema.
1	Their computer-animated faces are very expressive.
0	Not only is it hokey, manipulative and as bland as Wonder Bread dipped in milk, but it also does the absolute last thing we need Hollywood doing to us: It preaches.
0	The acting isn't much better.
1	A powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love, racial tension, and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s.
1	Another Best of the Year selection.
0	The film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- Muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional.
0	It's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer, squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain.
0	Its one-sidedness ... flirts with propaganda.
1	The overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and, uh, shred, dude.
1	The underworld urban angst is derivative of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself.
0	'Synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning, beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree.
1	The film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing.
0	Too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash.
1	A small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny, scary and sad.
0	The Château would have been benefited from a sharper, cleaner script before it went in front of the camera.
1	...quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks.
1	Arliss Howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, Big Bad Love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.
0	'The Château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot.'
0	In that setting, their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting.
1	I am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from TV shows, but Hey Arnold!
1	Literary purists may not be pleased, but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes, it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds.
0	It's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from "promising" to "interesting" to "familiar" before landing squarely on "stupid".
1	A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs.
1	Tunney, brimming with coltish, neurotic energy, holds the screen like a true star.
1	The actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness.
0	Romething's really wrong with this ricture!
0	An uninspired preachy and clichéd war film.
0	El Crimen Del Padre Amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-Catholic protestors.
0	A processed comedy chop suey.
1	Rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin, at 18 or 80.
1	Part of the charm of Satin Rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness.
1	Its story about a young Chinese woman, Ah Na, who has come to New York City to replace past tragedy with the American Dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling.
1	Great performances, stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make Gangster No. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience.
1	But that they are doing it is thought-provoking.
0	The film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes, and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is.
0	The screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines.
1	An improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen Poke-mania that have preceded it.
1	Manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state.
0	What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.
0	Serving Sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it.
0	What's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up.
1	A winning and wildly fascinating work.
0	Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be.
1	For once, a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies, but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own.
1	(Fincher's) camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller.
1	But while the highly predictable narrative falls short, Treasure Planet is truly gorgeous to behold.
0	There must be an audience that enjoys the Friday series, but I wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally.
0	Some fine acting, but ultimately a movie with no reason for being.
0	And if you appreciate the one-sided theme to Lawrence's over-indulgent tirade, then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified Martin Lawrence lovefest.
1	It's consistently funny, in an irresistible junior-high way, and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought.
0	It's definitely not made for kids or their parents, for that matter, and I think even fans of Sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting.
0	Things really get weird, though not particularly scary: the movie is all portent and no content.
1	A properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not.
1	Drawing on an irresistible, languid romanticism, Byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth.
1	There's absolutely no reason why Blue Crush, a late-summer surfer girl entry, should be as entertaining as it is
1	Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life
0	Contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether, in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin.
1	Transforms one of (Shakespeare's) deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy.
1	Successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie.
1	A sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies.
1	An elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication.
1	Even better than the first one!
0	I can't recommend it.
0	Poor Ben Bratt couldn't find stardom if MapQuest emailed him point-to-point driving directions.
1	More of the same from Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang, which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films.
1	Allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today.
0	By-the-numbers yarn.
1	On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, The Powerpuff Girls is a fast, frenetic, funny, even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience.
1	Those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves.
1	An ambitious 'what if?'
1	When a movie has stuck around for this long, you know there's something there.
0	Nothing wrong with performances here, but the whiney characters bugged me.
1	It's a boring movie about a boring man, made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring.
1	A first-class, thoroughly involving B movie that effectively combines two surefire, beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film.
1	The Lady and the Duke is a smart, romantic drama that dares to depict the French Revolution from the aristocrats' perspective.
1	Even if you've seen "Stomp" (the stage show), you still have to see this!
1	This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
1	The ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance, and the writing is tight and truthful, full of funny situations and honest observations.
0	While not all that bad of a movie, it's nowhere near as good as the original.
1	As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, Frank Novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.
1	Its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change, buffeted by events seemingly out of their control, is intriguing, provocative stuff.
0	A less-than-thrilling thriller.
0	Would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story, and left off the film's predictable denouement.
1	The hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth Bullock and the nonchalant Grant proves to be sensational, and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment.
1	Some of the most ravaging, gut-wrenching, frightening war scenes since "Saving Private Ryan" have been recreated by John Woo in this little-known story of Native Americans and their role in the second great war.
1	Morton deserves an Oscar nomination.
0	You'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery.
1	By turns pretentious, fascinating, ludicrous, provocative and vainglorious.
0	It's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey.
0	(Davis) wants to cause his audience an epiphany, yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters.

0

Conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' ... where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences.

1

An effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence.

0

Nights feels more like a quickie TV special than a feature film... It's not even a TV special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break.

0

Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides.

0

We're left with a story that tries to grab us, only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments.

1

The subtitled costume drama is set in a remote African empire before cell phones, guns, and the internal combustion engine, but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow.

0

With minimal imagination, you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub.

0

Just consider what New Best Friend does not have, beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay.

0

Instead of contriving a climactic hero's death for the beloved-major- character-who-shall- remain-nameless, why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens' laser guns actually hit something for once?

1

Brown Sugar signals director Rick Famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate, grown-up voice in African-American cinema.

1

Their computer-animated faces are very expressive.

0

Not only is it hokey, manipulative and as bland as Wonder Bread dipped in milk, but it also does the absolute last thing we need Hollywood doing to us: It preaches.

0

The acting isn't much better.

1

A powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love, racial tension, and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s.

1

Another Best of the Year selection.

0

The film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- Muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional.

0

It's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer, squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain.

0

Its one-sidedness ... flirts with propaganda.

1

The overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and, uh, shred, dude.

1

The underworld urban angst is derivative of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself.

0

'Synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning, beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree.

1

The film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing.

0

Too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash.

1

A small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny, scary and sad.

0

The Château would have been benefited from a sharper, cleaner script before it went in front of the camera.

1

...quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks.

1

Arliss Howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, Big Bad Love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.

0

'The Château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot.'

0

In that setting, their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting.

1

I am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from TV shows, but Hey Arnold!

1

Literary purists may not be pleased, but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes, it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds.

0

It's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from "promising" to "interesting" to "familiar" before landing squarely on "stupid".

1

A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs.

1

Tunney, brimming with coltish, neurotic energy, holds the screen like a true star.

1

The actresses find their own rhythm and protect each other from the script's bad ideas and awkwardness.

0

Romething's really wrong with this ricture!

0

An uninspired preachy and clichéd war film.

0

El Crimen Del Padre Amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-Catholic protestors.

0

A processed comedy chop suey.

1

Rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin, at 18 or 80.

1

Part of the charm of Satin Rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness.

1

Its story about a young Chinese woman, Ah Na, who has come to New York City to replace past tragedy with the American Dream is one that any art-house moviegoer is likely to find compelling.

1

Great performances, stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make Gangster No. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience.

1

But that they are doing it is thought-provoking.

0

The film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes, and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is.

0

The screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines.

1

An improvement on the feeble examples of big-screen Poke-mania that have preceded it.

1

Manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state.

0

What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.

0

Serving Sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it.

0

What's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up.

1

A winning and wildly fascinating work.

0

Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be.

1

For once, a movie does not proclaim the truth about two love-struck somebodies, but permits them time and space to convince us of that all on their own.

1

(Fincher's) camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller.

1

But while the highly predictable narrative falls short, Treasure Planet is truly gorgeous to behold.

0

There must be an audience that enjoys the Friday series, but I wouldn't be interested in knowing any of them personally.

0

Some fine acting, but ultimately a movie with no reason for being.

0

And if you appreciate the one-sided theme to Lawrence's over-indulgent tirade, then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified Martin Lawrence lovefest.

1

It's consistently funny, in an irresistible junior-high way, and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought.

0

It's definitely not made for kids or their parents, for that matter, and I think even fans of Sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting.

0

Things really get weird, though not particularly scary: the movie is all portent and no content.

1

A properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not.

1

Drawing on an irresistible, languid romanticism, Byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth.

1

There's absolutely no reason why Blue Crush, a late-summer surfer girl entry, should be as entertaining as it is

1

Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life

0

Contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether, in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin.

1

Transforms one of (Shakespeare's) deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy.

1

Successfully blended satire, high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie.

1

A sweet-tempered comedy that forgoes the knee-jerk misogyny that passes for humor in so many teenage comedies.

1

An elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication.

1

Even better than the first one!

0

I can't recommend it.

0

Poor Ben Bratt couldn't find stardom if MapQuest emailed him point-to-point driving directions.

1

More of the same from Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang, which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films.

1

Allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today.

0

By-the-numbers yarn.

1

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, The Powerpuff Girls is a fast, frenetic, funny, even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience.

1

Those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves.

1

An ambitious 'what if?'

1

When a movie has stuck around for this long, you know there's something there.

0

Nothing wrong with performances here, but the whiney characters bugged me.

1

It's a boring movie about a boring man, made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring.

1

A first-class, thoroughly involving B movie that effectively combines two surefire, beloved genres -- the prison flick and the fight film.

1

The Lady and the Duke is a smart, romantic drama that dares to depict the French Revolution from the aristocrats' perspective.

1

Even if you've seen "Stomp" (the stage show), you still have to see this!

1

This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.

1

The ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance, and the writing is tight and truthful, full of funny situations and honest observations.

0

While not all that bad of a movie, it's nowhere near as good as the original.

1

As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, Frank Novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.

1

Its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change, buffeted by events seemingly out of their control, is intriguing, provocative stuff.

0

A less-than-thrilling thriller.

0

Would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story, and left off the film's predictable denouement.

1

The hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth Bullock and the nonchalant Grant proves to be sensational, and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment.

1

Some of the most ravaging, gut-wrenching, frightening war scenes since "Saving Private Ryan" have been recreated by John Woo in this little-known story of Native Americans and their role in the second great war.

1

Morton deserves an Oscar nomination.

0

You'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery.

1

By turns pretentious, fascinating, ludicrous, provocative and vainglorious.

0

It's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey.

0

(Davis) wants to cause his audience an epiphany, yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters.