sh0416/sst2-openai · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0	For a movie about the power of poetry and passion, there is precious little of either.
0	Unfortunately, we'd prefer a simple misfire.
1	...a true delight.
0	An awful snooze.
0	Doesn't really add up to much.
1	An interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse, three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama.
1	A new film from Bill Plympton, the animation master, is always welcome.
0	Watching "Ending" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale.
0	Cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos, but there are no movies of Nijinsky, so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge.
0	Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters, but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers.
0	Nothing happens, and it happens to flat characters.
0	Leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of Hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion.
0	"White Oleander," the movie, is akin to a Reader's Digest condensed version of the source material.
1	High drama, Disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky.
0	Schnieder bounces around with limp wrists, wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers, twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs...
1	A wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture.
1	It's the kind of movie that, aside from Robert Altman, Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers and a few others, our moviemakers don't make often enough.
1	The action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the Star Wars series.
1	The work of an exhausted, desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way.
0	The problem is that Van Wilder does little that is actually funny with the material.
0	No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces Wild.
0	Comes off like a bad imitation of the Bard.
0	The Sweetest Thing leaves an awful sour taste.
1	It's a great American adventure and a wonderful film to bring to IMAX.
0	Resembles a soft porn Brian De Palma pastiche.
1	A uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot.
1	The sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film.
0	Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock's imaginative flight to Shyamalan's self-important summer fluff.
0	This is standard crime drama fare... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull.
1	Eyre is on his way to becoming the American Indian Spike Lee.
1	In questioning the election process, Payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies, but also the strength and sense of freedom the Iranian people already possess, with or without access to the ballot box.
0	There's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed: Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up; when the explosions start, they fall to pieces.
0	Borstal Boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking, the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy.
1	So genial is the conceit, this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout, dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen.
0	The only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them.
0	The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming.
0	More of the same old garbage Hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now.
1	Amazingly dopey.
0	The Christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it
0	Romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong.
1	Combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched.
1	You don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate Scratch, and that's the mark of a documentary that works.
0	I'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse: The part where nothing's happening, or the part where something's happening, but it's stupid.
1	Writer/director David Caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza.
1	The journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure, and thrill enough.
0	Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart; very meticulously but without any passion.
1	It's soulful and unslick, and that's apparently just what (Aniston) has always needed to grow into a movie career.
1	Like blended shades of lipstick, these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs.
1	Devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower.
0	Has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies...
1	Tells a fascinating, compelling story.
0	Like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop, Comedian runs out of steam after a half hour.
0	One of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids, children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation.
0	Devotees of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu, and the grandeur of the best Next Generation episodes is lacking.
1	Beautifully reclaiming the story of Carmen and recreating it an in an African idiom.
0	The punch lines that miss, unfortunately, outnumber the hits by three-to-one.
1	Michel Piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being.
1	Read My Lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love.
0	Those seeking a definitive account of Eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere.
1	Yes, soar.
1	As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention.
1	Although Frailty fits into a classic genre, in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work.
0	Naipaul fans may be disappointed.
0	Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama.
1	Poignant and moving, A Walk to Remember is an inspirational love story, capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter.
0	In any case, I would recommend Big Bad Love only to Winger fans who have missed her since 1995's Forget Paris.
1	... by the time it's done with us, Mira Nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery, of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over.
0	If there's a heaven for bad movies, Deuces Wild is on its way.
1	A huge box-office hit in Korea, Shiri is a must for genre fans.
1	Clint Eastwood's Blood Work is a lot like a well-made PB& J sandwich: familiar, fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same.
0	The thing about guys like Evans is this: You're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins.
0	I found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as Vincent became more and more abhorrent.
0	It's like an all-star salute to Disney's cheesy commercialism.
0	Like a bad improvisation exercise, the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives, loves and the art they're struggling to create.
0	Though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled, others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere.
0	The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough.
1	A sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters.
1	Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller.
0	And as with most late-night bull sessions, eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is.
1	...a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job...
1	Garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work.
0	It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly.
0	Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards African-Americans.
1	It is also beautifully acted.
0	This dubious product of a college-spawned (Colgate U.) comedy ensemble known as Broken Lizard plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong and CHiPs.
1	All three actresses are simply dazzling, particularly Balk, who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents.
1	...a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year.
1	It's about individual moments of mood, and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing.
1	A gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema
0	Such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise, you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production.
0	The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'
0	Poor editing, bad bluescreen, and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action.
0	If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two, he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way.
1	Passions, obsessions, and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits, lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone.
1	Definitely a crowd-pleaser, but then, so was the Roman Colosseum.
1	This story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments.
0	Well made but uninvolving, Bloodwork isn't a terrible movie, just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery.
0	... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape.
0	As steamy as last week's pork dumplings.
1	The story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors, whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday.

0

For a movie about the power of poetry and passion, there is precious little of either.

0

Unfortunately, we'd prefer a simple misfire.

1

...a true delight.

0

An awful snooze.

0

Doesn't really add up to much.

1

An interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse, three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama.

1

A new film from Bill Plympton, the animation master, is always welcome.

0

Watching "Ending" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale.

0

Cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos, but there are no movies of Nijinsky, so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge.

0

Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters, but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers.

0

Nothing happens, and it happens to flat characters.

0

Leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of Hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion.

0

"White Oleander," the movie, is akin to a Reader's Digest condensed version of the source material.

1

High drama, Disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky.

0

Schnieder bounces around with limp wrists, wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers, twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs...

1

A wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture.

1

It's the kind of movie that, aside from Robert Altman, Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers and a few others, our moviemakers don't make often enough.

1

The action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the Star Wars series.

1

The work of an exhausted, desiccated talent who can't get out of his own way.

0

The problem is that Van Wilder does little that is actually funny with the material.

0

No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces Wild.

0

Comes off like a bad imitation of the Bard.

0

The Sweetest Thing leaves an awful sour taste.

1

It's a great American adventure and a wonderful film to bring to IMAX.

0

Resembles a soft porn Brian De Palma pastiche.

1

A uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot.

1

The sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film.

0

Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock's imaginative flight to Shyamalan's self-important summer fluff.

0

This is standard crime drama fare... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull.

1

Eyre is on his way to becoming the American Indian Spike Lee.

1

In questioning the election process, Payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies, but also the strength and sense of freedom the Iranian people already possess, with or without access to the ballot box.

0

There's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed: Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up; when the explosions start, they fall to pieces.

0

Borstal Boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking, the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy.

1

So genial is the conceit, this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout, dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen.

0

The only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them.

0

The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming.

0

More of the same old garbage Hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now.

1

Amazingly dopey.

0

The Christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it

0

Romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong.

1

Combines improbable melodrama (gored bullfighters, comatose ballerinas) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements, and yet at the end, we are undeniably touched.

1

You don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate Scratch, and that's the mark of a documentary that works.

0

I'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse: The part where nothing's happening, or the part where something's happening, but it's stupid.

1

Writer/director David Caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza.

1

The journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure, and thrill enough.

0

Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart; very meticulously but without any passion.

1

It's soulful and unslick, and that's apparently just what (Aniston) has always needed to grow into a movie career.

1

Like blended shades of lipstick, these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs.

1

Devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower.

0

Has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies...

1

Tells a fascinating, compelling story.

0

Like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop, Comedian runs out of steam after a half hour.

0

One of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids, children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation.

0

Devotees of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu, and the grandeur of the best Next Generation episodes is lacking.

1

Beautifully reclaiming the story of Carmen and recreating it an in an African idiom.

0

The punch lines that miss, unfortunately, outnumber the hits by three-to-one.

1

Michel Piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being.

1

Read My Lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love.

0

Those seeking a definitive account of Eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere.

1

Yes, soar.

1

As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention.

1

Although Frailty fits into a classic genre, in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work.

0

Naipaul fans may be disappointed.

0

Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama.

1

Poignant and moving, A Walk to Remember is an inspirational love story, capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter.

0

In any case, I would recommend Big Bad Love only to Winger fans who have missed her since 1995's Forget Paris.

1

... by the time it's done with us, Mira Nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery, of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over.

0

If there's a heaven for bad movies, Deuces Wild is on its way.

1

A huge box-office hit in Korea, Shiri is a must for genre fans.

1

Clint Eastwood's Blood Work is a lot like a well-made PB& J sandwich: familiar, fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same.

0

The thing about guys like Evans is this: You're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins.

0

I found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as Vincent became more and more abhorrent.

0

It's like an all-star salute to Disney's cheesy commercialism.

0

Like a bad improvisation exercise, the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives, loves and the art they're struggling to create.

0

Though her fans will assuredly have their funny bones tickled, others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere.

0

The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough.

1

A sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters.

1

Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller.

0

And as with most late-night bull sessions, eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is.

1

...a quietly introspective portrait of the self-esteem of employment and the shame of losing a job...

1

Garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work.

0

It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly.

0

Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards African-Americans.

1

It is also beautifully acted.

0

This dubious product of a college-spawned (Colgate U.) comedy ensemble known as Broken Lizard plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong and CHiPs.

1

All three actresses are simply dazzling, particularly Balk, who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents.

1

...a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year.

1

It's about individual moments of mood, and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing.

1

A gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema

0

Such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise, you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production.

0

The new film of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic.'

0

Poor editing, bad bluescreen, and ultra-cheesy dialogue highlight the radical action.

0

If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two, he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way.

1

Passions, obsessions, and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits, lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone.

1

Definitely a crowd-pleaser, but then, so was the Roman Colosseum.

1

This story of a determined woman's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments.

0

Well made but uninvolving, Bloodwork isn't a terrible movie, just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery.

0

... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape.

0

As steamy as last week's pork dumplings.

1

The story itself it mostly told through on-camera interviews with several survivors, whose riveting memories are rendered with such clarity that it's as if it all happened only yesterday.