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leigh is n't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love . | 1 | positive |
the master of disguise represents adam sandler 's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 0 | negative |
i ca n't say this enough : this movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain . | 0 | negative |
once one experiences mr. haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth , and little else . | 0 | negative |
with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine . | 1 | positive |
about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . | 1 | positive |
it does n't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received . | 1 | positive |
- i also wanted a little alien as a friend ! | 1 | positive |
the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . | 1 | positive |
for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . | 0 | negative |
juliette binoche 's sand is vivacious , but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . | 1 | positive |
most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . | 0 | negative |
a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . | 1 | positive |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . | 1 | positive |
the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ... | 0 | negative |
delirious fun . | 1 | positive |
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . | 0 | negative |
ice cube is n't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . | 0 | negative |
director david fincher and writer david koepp ca n't sustain it . | 0 | negative |
mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . | 0 | negative |
what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map . | 1 | positive |
it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . | 0 | negative |
entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . | 1 | positive |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0 | negative |
with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 1 | positive |
it 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 1 | positive |
for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1\/2 - hour running time . | 0 | negative |
with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins . | 0 | negative |
clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ... | 1 | positive |
happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . | 1 | positive |
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . | 0 | negative |
a compelling film . | 1 | positive |
the film 's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . | 1 | positive |
it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 1 | positive |
most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 1 | positive |
cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . | 0 | negative |
a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . | 0 | negative |
... the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . | 0 | negative |
with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . | 1 | positive |
a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . | 1 | positive |
men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 | negative |
there 's nothing to gain from watching they . | 0 | negative |
debut effort by `` project greenlight '' winner is sappy and amateurish . | 0 | negative |
your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! | 1 | positive |
an absurdist spider web . | 0 | negative |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it 's potentially just as rewarding . | 1 | positive |
rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . | 0 | negative |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard 's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 1 | positive |
stay away . | 0 | negative |
contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii | 0 | negative |
skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . | 0 | negative |
beautifully filmed and well acted ... but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . | 1 | positive |
if you 're burnt out on it 's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for . | 1 | positive |
the film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . | 1 | positive |
the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . | 0 | negative |
it 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . | 1 | positive |
should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . | 0 | negative |
decent but dull . | 0 | negative |
get out your pooper-scoopers . | 0 | negative |
humor in i spy is so anemic . | 0 | negative |
at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . | 1 | positive |
try as you might to resist , if you 've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . | 1 | positive |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . | 1 | positive |
there 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . | 0 | negative |
this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . | 1 | positive |
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still . | 0 | negative |
technically and artistically inept . | 0 | negative |
... overly melodramatic ... | 0 | negative |
trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead . | 0 | negative |
... stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . | 0 | negative |
in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 | negative |
allen 's funniest and most likeable movie in years . | 1 | positive |
highly uneven and inconsistent ... margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | 0 | negative |
the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable . | 0 | negative |
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film 's characters . | 0 | negative |
a big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . | 1 | positive |
an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . | 1 | positive |
even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . | 0 | negative |
deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | 1 | positive |
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0 | negative |
not once does it come close to being exciting . | 0 | negative |
it 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid - '90s . | 0 | negative |
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 0 | negative |
... standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . | 1 | positive |
a noble failure . | 0 | negative |
much of what we see is horrible but it 's also undeniably exceedingly clever . | 1 | positive |
there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . | 0 | negative |
any rock pile will do for a set . | 0 | negative |
the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight . | 1 | positive |
a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us . | 1 | positive |
marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue . | 0 | negative |
this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . | 0 | negative |
in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . | 1 | positive |
in the end , the film feels homogenized and a bit contrived , as if we 're looking back at a tattered and ugly past with rose-tinted glasses . | 0 | negative |
while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo ... broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity . | 1 | positive |
the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms. bullock 's best work in some time . | 1 | positive |
unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you 're going to feel like you were n't invited to the party . | 0 | negative |
an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it is n't . | 1 | positive |
a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds . | 1 | positive |