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1	A distinguished and thoughtful film, marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances.
0	Grant isn't Cary and Bullock isn't Katherine.
0	a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome.
0	Not just unlikable.
1	'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.'
0	Priggish, lethargically paced parable of renewal.
0	Disgusting.
0	Excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.
1	Films about loss, grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days.
1	(It's) a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest.
0	As if Drop Dead Gorgeous wasn't enough, this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition.
1	But believe it or not, it's one of the most beautiful, evocative works I've seen.
1	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	The film's plot may be shallow, but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots.
1	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	Mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls, Group articulates a flood of emotion.
1	'...a great, participatory spectator sport.'
0	...really horrible drek.
1	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.
0	The problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not.
1	A must for fans of British cinema, if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride.
0	But it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre.
1	What makes it worth watching is Quaid's performance.
0	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	...stale and uninspired.
1	Hey, Happy!
1	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	It reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death.
0	It's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long.
0	If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke, Lucky Break is (Cattaneo) sophomore slump.
0	Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along.
1	This comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative.
0	For all its brilliant touches, Dragon loses its fire midway, nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion.
1	No, I love it...hell, I dunno.
0	Dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.
0	Baran is shockingly devoid of your typical Majid Majidi shoe-loving, crippled children.
1	Khouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum.
0	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	That's its first sign of trouble.
1	The movie is ingenious fun.
0	Ah, yes, that would be me: fighting off the urge to doze.
0	A visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification.
1	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	You walk out of The Good Girl with mixed emotions -- disapproval of Justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions.
0	Hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the Halloween series has lost its edge.
1	It's the perfect star vehicle for Grant, allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling, tongue-tied screen persona.
1	It grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration.
0	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	Tedious Norwegian offering which somehow snagged an Oscar nomination.
1	The plot twists give I Am Trying to Break Your Heart an attraction it desperately needed.
0	Breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting.
0	The film can depress you about life itself.
1	The slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters.
0	Then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at Blockbuster before midnight, you're going to face frightening late fees.
1	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	Something for everyone.
0	The story is -- forgive me -- a little thin, and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed.
1	Graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to Unfaithful, but gripping performances by Lane and Gere are what will keep them awake.
0	Feels shrill, simple and soapy.
1	Bloody Sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame, making it one of the best war movies ever made.
0	It sucked.
1	Will give many ministers and Bible-study groups hours of material to discuss.
0	A light, engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation.
0	A so-so, made-for-TV something posing as a real movie.
1	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	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.
0	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	A jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting, shooting or post-production stages.
1	The film brilliantly shines on all the characters, as the direction is intelligently accomplished.
0	This thing is virtually unwatchable.
1	There is a beautiful, aching sadness to it all.
0	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.
1	Handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy.
0	Schaefer's...determination to inject farcical raunch...drowns out the promise of the romantic angle.
1	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.
0	Yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
0	May cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists.
1	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.
0	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.
1	The movie is brilliant, really.
1	An oddity, to be sure, but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion.
0	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.
1	there is truth here
1	Kids who are into this Thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven.
0	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	It's just not very smart.
0	Meandering and confusing.
0	There are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations.
1	The film feels uncomfortably real, its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority.
0	I'm sure the filmmaker would disagree, but, honestly, I don't see the point.
0	Without (De Niro), City By The Sea would slip under the waves.
1	Great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood.
0	Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious.
1	If we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness, we also need movies like Tim McCann's Revolution No. 9.
1	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.
0	Too slow for a younger crowd, too shallow for an older one.
0	Instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence.
0	Just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills.
1	Williams creates a stunning, Taxi Driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity.
0	Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his Charade remake, but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh.

1

A distinguished and thoughtful film, marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances.

0

Grant isn't Cary and Bullock isn't Katherine.

0

a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome.

0

Not just unlikable.

1

'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.'

0

Priggish, lethargically paced parable of renewal.

0

Disgusting.

0

Excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.

1

Films about loss, grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days.

1

(It's) a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest.

0

As if Drop Dead Gorgeous wasn't enough, this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition.

1

But believe it or not, it's one of the most beautiful, evocative works I've seen.

1

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

The film's plot may be shallow, but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots.

1

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

Mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls, Group articulates a flood of emotion.

1

'...a great, participatory spectator sport.'

0

...really horrible drek.

1

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.

0

The problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not.

1

A must for fans of British cinema, if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride.

0

But it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre.

1

What makes it worth watching is Quaid's performance.

0

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

...stale and uninspired.

1

Hey, Happy!

1

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

It reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death.

0

It's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long.

0

If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke, Lucky Break is (Cattaneo) sophomore slump.

0

Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along.

1

This comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative.

0

For all its brilliant touches, Dragon loses its fire midway, nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion.

1

No, I love it...hell, I dunno.

0

Dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.

0

Baran is shockingly devoid of your typical Majid Majidi shoe-loving, crippled children.

1

Khouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum.

0

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

That's its first sign of trouble.

1

The movie is ingenious fun.

0

Ah, yes, that would be me: fighting off the urge to doze.

0

A visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification.

1

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

You walk out of The Good Girl with mixed emotions -- disapproval of Justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions.

0

Hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the Halloween series has lost its edge.

1

It's the perfect star vehicle for Grant, allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling, tongue-tied screen persona.

1

It grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration.

0

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

Tedious Norwegian offering which somehow snagged an Oscar nomination.

1

The plot twists give I Am Trying to Break Your Heart an attraction it desperately needed.

0

Breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting.

0

The film can depress you about life itself.

1

The slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters.

0

Then you get another phone call warning you that if the video isn't back at Blockbuster before midnight, you're going to face frightening late fees.

1

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

Something for everyone.

0

The story is -- forgive me -- a little thin, and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed.

1

Graphic sex may be what's attracting audiences to Unfaithful, but gripping performances by Lane and Gere are what will keep them awake.

0

Feels shrill, simple and soapy.

1

Bloody Sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame, making it one of the best war movies ever made.

0

It sucked.

1

Will give many ministers and Bible-study groups hours of material to discuss.

0

A light, engaging comedy that fumbles away almost all of its accumulated enjoyment with a crucial third act miscalculation.

0

A so-so, made-for-TV something posing as a real movie.

1

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

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.

0

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

A jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting, shooting or post-production stages.

1

The film brilliantly shines on all the characters, as the direction is intelligently accomplished.

0

This thing is virtually unwatchable.

1

There is a beautiful, aching sadness to it all.

0

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.

1

Handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy.

0

Schaefer's...determination to inject farcical raunch...drowns out the promise of the romantic angle.

1

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.

0

Yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

0

May cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists.

1

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.

0

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.

1

The movie is brilliant, really.

1

An oddity, to be sure, but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion.

0

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.

1

there is truth here

1

Kids who are into this Thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven.

0

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

It's just not very smart.

0

Meandering and confusing.

0

There are just too many characters saying too many clever things and getting into too many pointless situations.

1

The film feels uncomfortably real, its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority.

0

I'm sure the filmmaker would disagree, but, honestly, I don't see the point.

0

Without (De Niro), City By The Sea would slip under the waves.

1

Great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood.

0

Mr. Soderbergh's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious.

1

If we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness, we also need movies like Tim McCann's Revolution No. 9.

1

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.

0

Too slow for a younger crowd, too shallow for an older one.

0

Instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence.

0

Just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills.

1

Williams creates a stunning, Taxi Driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity.

0

Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his Charade remake, but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh.