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some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie .
2
neutral
everything about girls ca n't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
1
negative
brian tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .
4
very positive
it is definitely worth seeing .
4
very positive
a heroic tale of persistence that is sure to win viewers ' hearts .
4
very positive
will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 .
0
very negative
a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it
3
positive
allen 's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal .
3
positive
everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david 's point of view .
3
positive
both lead performances are oscar-size .
4
very positive
as a good old-fashioned adventure for kids , spirit : stallion of the cimarron is a winner .
3
positive
it 's super - violent , super-serious and super-stupid .
0
very negative
all the small moments and flashbacks do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition .
1
negative
elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side .
3
positive
this new time machine is hardly perfect ... yet it proves surprisingly serviceable .
2
neutral
the film is ... determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation .
3
positive
i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays .
1
negative
too daft by half ... but supremely good natured .
3
positive
though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor 's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .
1
negative
the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor .
3
positive
the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year !
3
positive
... silly humbuggery ...
1
negative
nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that 's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life .
2
neutral
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king .
1
negative
worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees .
3
positive
it zips along with b-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special .
4
very positive
... too sappy for its own good .
1
negative
this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines .
0
very negative
no , i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money .
1
negative
if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it 's to this film 's -lrb- and its makers ' -rrb- credit that we believe that that 's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves .
3
positive
little is done to support the premise other than fling gags at it to see which ones shtick .
1
negative
one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time .
1
negative
the kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati .
4
very positive
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre
0
very negative
for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped .
1
negative
there 's something not entirely convincing about the quiet american .
2
neutral
richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold .
1
negative
a movie of riveting power and sadness .
4
very positive
robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show .
3
positive
the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities .
3
positive
witless but watchable .
2
neutral
just offbeat enough to keep you interested without coming close to bowling you over .
3
positive
written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there 's something about mary co-writer ed decter .
1
negative
it 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt .
1
negative
one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off
1
negative
seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil .
3
positive
not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid .
1
negative
a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .
3
positive
it 's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate .
1
negative
wraps itself in the guise of a dark and quirky comedy , but it is n't as quirky as it thinks it is and its comedy is generally mean-spirited .
2
neutral
k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia .
3
positive
a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script .
3
positive
god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness .
3
positive
it 's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good .
4
very positive
the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt 's , no matter if it 's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale .
2
neutral
if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick .
3
positive
watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing .
3
positive
mark wahlberg ... may look classy in a '60s - homage pokepie hat , but as a character he 's dry , dry , dry .
2
neutral
a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration .
2
neutral
moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things .
3
positive
it 's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough .
3
positive
the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once .
3
positive
like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again .
2
neutral
the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class .
1
negative
nicely combines the enigmatic features of ` memento ' with the hallucinatory drug culture of ` requiem for a dream . '
3
positive
last dance , whatever its flaws , fulfills one facet of its mission in making me want to find out whether , in this case , that 's true .
2
neutral
sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours .
1
negative
-lrb- a -rrb- stale retread of the '53 original .
1
negative
more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh 's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem .
4
very positive
alarms for duvall 's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks .
3
positive
there 's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt 's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance .
1
negative
the performances are amiable and committed , and the comedy more often than not hits the bullseye .
3
positive
zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted .
1
negative
to better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and i wo n't be sitting through this one again ... that in itself is commentary enough .
0
very negative
is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience .
1
negative
at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill .
1
negative
a ragbag of cliches .
0
very negative
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue
1
negative
the picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it 's no glance .
3
positive
steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches .
3
positive
niccol the filmmaker merges his collaborators ' symbolic images with his words , insinuating , for example , that in hollywood , only god speaks to the press
3
positive
it 's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it 's also pretty funny .
4
very positive
the milieu is wholly unconvincing ... and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch .
1
negative
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .
0
very negative
whatever complaints i might have , i 'd take -lrb- its -rrb- earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor 's club any time .
3
positive
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them .
1
negative
though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking .
2
neutral
another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez .
3
positive
but here 's a movie about it anyway .
1
negative
if -lrb- jaglom 's -rrb- latest effort is not the director at his most sparkling , some of its repartee is still worth hearing .
3
positive
i did n't smile .
1
negative
the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level .
4
very positive
kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for -lrb- or worth rooting against , for that matter -rrb- .
1
negative
it 's a visual delight and a decent popcorn adventure , as long as you do n't try to look too deep into the story
3
positive
see it now , before the inevitable hollywood remake flattens out all its odd , intriguing wrinkles .
2
neutral
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
1
negative
nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises .
0
very negative
it 's horribly depressing and not very well done .
0
very negative
veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film 's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures .
2
neutral
now as a former gong show addict , i 'll admit it , my only complaint is that we did n't get more re-creations of all those famous moments from the show .
3
positive