sh0416/sst2-openai · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0	The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor.
0	The movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality.
0	So much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened.
1	Victor Rosa is Leguizamo's best movie work so far, a subtle and richly internalized performance.
1	Psychologically savvy.
1	A stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity, but to help us clearly see the world of our making.
1	A chilling movie without oppressive gore.
0	We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce, because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low.
0	Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy.
1	Several of Steven Soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist.
1	The riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make Love a joy to behold.
1	The most audacious, outrageous, sexually explicit, psychologically probing, pure libido film of the year has arrived from Portugal.
1	A thoughtful movie, a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions.
0	The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny, and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving.
1	Directed by Kevin Bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.
0	Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low, very low, very very low, for the masquerade to work, the movie contains no wit, only labored gags.
0	Viewers of Barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it.
0	They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering.
1	As it turns out, you can go home again.
1	It's far from a frothy piece, and the characters are complex, laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones.
1	His work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories.
1	Writer/ director M. Night Shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable.
1	Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.
1	What bubbles up out of John C. Walsh's Pipe Dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch.
0	Abysmally pathetic
0	Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized.
0	The issues are presented in such a lousy way, complete with some of the year's (unintentionally) funniest moments, that it's impossible to care.
1	Blessed with two fine, nuanced lead performances.
0	It all unfolds predictably, and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time, providing no real sense of suspense.
1	An exhilarating experience.
1	A dazzling dream of a documentary.
1	Narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films.
1	Jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1.8 million charmer, which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart.
1	In the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama How I Killed My Father, French director Anne Fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition
0	Animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots.
0	but rather, 'How can you charge money for this?'
1	"Austin Powers in Goldmember" has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end.
0	Not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh, groan and hiss at.
0	An erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling, either.
1	Family portrait of need, neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking.
0	The uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them.
1	It manages to squeeze by on Angelina Jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy.
0	Demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from Oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack.
0	I'm not sure which is worse: the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by Vincent R. Nebrida or the gutless direction by Laurice Guillen.
1	It's an ambitious film, and as with all ambitious films, it has some problems.
1	Like the best 60 Minutes exposé, the film (at 80 minutes) is actually quite entertaining.
0	The lousy lead performances... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired.
0	Medem may have disrobed most of the cast, leaving their bodies exposed, but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt.
0	Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets?
1	Art-house to the core, Read My Lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old French cinema.
0	Madonna has made herself over so often now, there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like Michael Jackson's nose.
0	So exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming.
1	...the story, like Ravel's Bolero, builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with.
1	It has fun with the quirks of family life, but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect.
0	It should have stayed there.
1	Well, it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises, but it's definitely worth taking a look.
1	Bravo for history rewritten, and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love.
0	What a pity ... that the material is so second-rate.
1	It's that good.
1	A mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'Cherish' a very good (but not great) movie.
1	Enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions, Walt Becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons.
1	A truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation.
1	Directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia.
0	... a confusing drudgery.
1	It's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining, despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries.
0	(A) mess.
0	Plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of TV's Dawson's Creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of Love Story.
0	Black-and-white and unrealistic.
0	(Lin Chung's) voice is rather unexceptional, even irritating (at least to this Western ear), making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters.
0	It's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling, regardless of whether you think Kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter.
1	Hardly an objective documentary, but it's great cinematic polemic...love Moore or loathe him, you've got to admire...the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions.
1	The movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects.
1	A lovely film...elegant, witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic...hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity.
0	A summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie, for that comes through all too painfully in the execution.
0	Taken as a whole, The Tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot.
0	Good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like Clueless Does South Fork.
1	Intimate and panoramic.
0	Suffers from all the excesses of the genre.
0	Hate it because it's lousy.
0	This rather unfocused, all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens... or if it were subtler... or if it had a sense of humor.
0	Big Fat Liar is little more than Home Alone raised to a new, self-deprecating level.
0	A DOA dud from frame one.
0	Why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby?
0	Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name.
1	"Home Movie" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time.
1	It's enough to watch Huppert scheming, with her small, intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain, and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that Chabrol spins.
1	The bottom line with Nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series: Fans will undoubtedly enjoy it, and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it.
1	Robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that Clancy creates.
0	...a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional.
1	Intelligent, caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being.
0	Like its title character, Esther Kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating.
1	Where Janice Beard falters in its recycled aspects, implausibility, and sags in pace, it rises in its courageousness, and comedic employment.
1	Throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh.
0	A fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special.
0	I didn't laugh.
1	Holm does his sly, intricate magic, and Iben Hjelje is entirely appealing as Pumpkin.
1	One of the funniest motion pictures of the year, but...also one of the most curiously depressing.
1	Bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent.
0	Such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy, but Kaufman and Gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go.
0	The film is ultimately about as inspiring as a Hallmark card.

0

The logic of it all will be Greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor.

0

The movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality.

0

So much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened.

1

Victor Rosa is Leguizamo's best movie work so far, a subtle and richly internalized performance.

1

Psychologically savvy.

1

A stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity, but to help us clearly see the world of our making.

1

A chilling movie without oppressive gore.

0

We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce, because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low.

0

Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy.

1

Several of Steven Soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist.

1

The riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make Love a joy to behold.

1

The most audacious, outrageous, sexually explicit, psychologically probing, pure libido film of the year has arrived from Portugal.

1

A thoughtful movie, a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions.

0

The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny, and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving.

1

Directed by Kevin Bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.

0

Because the intelligence level of the characters must be low, very low, very very low, for the masquerade to work, the movie contains no wit, only labored gags.

0

Viewers of Barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it.

0

They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering.

1

As it turns out, you can go home again.

1

It's far from a frothy piece, and the characters are complex, laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones.

1

His work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories.

1

Writer/ director M. Night Shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable.

1

Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.

1

What bubbles up out of John C. Walsh's Pipe Dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch.

0

Abysmally pathetic

0

Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized.

0

The issues are presented in such a lousy way, complete with some of the year's (unintentionally) funniest moments, that it's impossible to care.

1

Blessed with two fine, nuanced lead performances.

0

It all unfolds predictably, and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time, providing no real sense of suspense.

1

An exhilarating experience.

1

A dazzling dream of a documentary.

1

Narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films.

1

Jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1.8 million charmer, which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart.

1

In the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama How I Killed My Father, French director Anne Fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition

0

Animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots.

0

but rather, 'How can you charge money for this?'

1

"Austin Powers in Goldmember" has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end.

0

Not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh, groan and hiss at.

0

An erotic thriller that's neither too erotic nor very thrilling, either.

1

Family portrait of need, neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking.

0

The uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them.

1

It manages to squeeze by on Angelina Jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy.

0

Demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from Oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack.

0

I'm not sure which is worse: the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by Vincent R. Nebrida or the gutless direction by Laurice Guillen.

1

It's an ambitious film, and as with all ambitious films, it has some problems.

1

Like the best 60 Minutes exposé, the film (at 80 minutes) is actually quite entertaining.

0

The lousy lead performances... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired.

0

Medem may have disrobed most of the cast, leaving their bodies exposed, but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt.

0

Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets?

1

Art-house to the core, Read My Lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old French cinema.

0

Madonna has made herself over so often now, there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like Michael Jackson's nose.

0

So exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming.

1

...the story, like Ravel's Bolero, builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with.

1

It has fun with the quirks of family life, but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect.

0

It should have stayed there.

1

Well, it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises, but it's definitely worth taking a look.

1

Bravo for history rewritten, and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love.

0

What a pity ... that the material is so second-rate.

1

It's that good.

1

A mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'Cherish' a very good (but not great) movie.

1

Enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions, Walt Becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons.

1

A truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation.

1

Directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia.

0

... a confusing drudgery.

1

It's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining, despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries.

0

(A) mess.

0

Plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of TV's Dawson's Creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of Love Story.

0

Black-and-white and unrealistic.

0

(Lin Chung's) voice is rather unexceptional, even irritating (at least to this Western ear), making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters.

0

It's not helpful to listen to extremist name-calling, regardless of whether you think Kissinger was a calculating fiend or just a slippery self-promoter.

1

Hardly an objective documentary, but it's great cinematic polemic...love Moore or loathe him, you've got to admire...the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions.

1

The movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects.

1

A lovely film...elegant, witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic...hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity.

0

A summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie, for that comes through all too painfully in the execution.

0

Taken as a whole, The Tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot.

0

Good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like Clueless Does South Fork.

1

Intimate and panoramic.

0

Suffers from all the excesses of the genre.

0

Hate it because it's lousy.

0

This rather unfocused, all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens... or if it were subtler... or if it had a sense of humor.

0

Big Fat Liar is little more than Home Alone raised to a new, self-deprecating level.

0

A DOA dud from frame one.

0

Why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby?

0

Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name.

1

"Home Movie" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time.

1

It's enough to watch Huppert scheming, with her small, intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain, and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that Chabrol spins.

1

The bottom line with Nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series: Fans will undoubtedly enjoy it, and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it.

1

Robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that Clancy creates.

0

...a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional.

1

Intelligent, caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being.

0

Like its title character, Esther Kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating.

1

Where Janice Beard falters in its recycled aspects, implausibility, and sags in pace, it rises in its courageousness, and comedic employment.

1

Throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh.

0

A fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special.

0

I didn't laugh.

1

Holm does his sly, intricate magic, and Iben Hjelje is entirely appealing as Pumpkin.

1

One of the funniest motion pictures of the year, but...also one of the most curiously depressing.

1

Bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent.

0

Such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy, but Kaufman and Gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go.

0

The film is ultimately about as inspiring as a Hallmark card.