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horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . | 3 | positive |
a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . | 0 | very negative |
an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see . | 3 | positive |
watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . | 3 | positive |
there 's no good answer to that one . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- while the last metro -rrb- was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . | 3 | positive |
cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . | 3 | positive |
if you think it 's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy the hot chick . | 3 | positive |
with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . | 4 | very positive |
a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points . | 1 | negative |
a non-mystery mystery . | 1 | negative |
there 's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing . | 3 | positive |
there 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie . | 1 | negative |
together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey . | 3 | positive |
i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was . | 3 | positive |
the film sometimes flags ... but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . | 2 | neutral |
fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds . | 1 | negative |
often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . | 2 | neutral |
instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . | 1 | negative |
feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 1 | negative |
it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . | 0 | very negative |
gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . | 4 | very positive |
why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 1 | negative |
no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism . | 3 | positive |
newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept -- a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . | 2 | neutral |
this is the first film i 've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . | 2 | neutral |
captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . '' | 3 | positive |
never once predictable . | 3 | positive |
the film does n't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia . | 1 | negative |
offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . | 4 | very positive |
the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l.a. to that end , they mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either . | 1 | negative |
i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . | 1 | negative |
the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey ... -lrb- it -rrb- comes off like a hallmark commercial . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- allen 's -rrb- been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . | 2 | neutral |
cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . | 2 | neutral |
the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings . | 3 | positive |
o.k. , not really . | 2 | neutral |
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . | 1 | negative |
nice piece of work . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- kirshner wins , but it 's close . -rrb- | 2 | neutral |
a road trip that will get you thinking , ` are we there yet ? ' | 2 | neutral |
the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next . | 1 | negative |
the ring is worth a look , if you do n't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . | 2 | neutral |
who knew ... | 2 | neutral |
episode ii -- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight . | 1 | negative |
this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . | 3 | positive |
though there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish . | 1 | negative |
noyce 's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us | 1 | negative |
the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . | 2 | neutral |
what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . | 3 | positive |
the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . | 4 | very positive |
cacoyannis ' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts . | 1 | negative |
jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he 's easy to like and always leaves us laughing . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- gayton 's script -rrb- telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience . | 3 | positive |
i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old . | 3 | positive |
... has about 3\/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor -- but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . | 0 | very negative |
there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that 's hard to resist . | 3 | positive |
plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on `` the simpsons '' has . | 1 | negative |
a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence . | 2 | neutral |
a drama ? | 2 | neutral |
dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation . | 1 | negative |
this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed . | 3 | positive |
the movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . | 0 | very negative |
streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , `` big trouble '' is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . | 2 | neutral |
as it stands , there 's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . | 2 | neutral |
delightfully rendered | 4 | very positive |
shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about | 1 | negative |
many insightful moments . | 3 | positive |
it is a movie about passion . | 2 | neutral |
made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . | 1 | negative |
the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . | 4 | very positive |
anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly . | 1 | negative |
director claude chabrol has become the master of innuendo . | 3 | positive |
as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- tries -rrb- to parody a genre that 's already a joke in the united states . | 1 | negative |
they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn . | 0 | very negative |
especially give credit to affleck . | 4 | very positive |
a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming . | 1 | negative |
and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer\/directors working today . | 3 | positive |
this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , despite a few whopping shootouts . | 0 | very negative |
though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché . | 1 | negative |
according to wendigo , ` nature ' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . | 3 | positive |
even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . | 0 | very negative |
it is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters . | 4 | very positive |
a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . | 0 | very negative |
a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition . | 4 | very positive |
but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care . | 4 | very positive |
a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke . | 1 | negative |
the funny thing is , i did n't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . | 2 | neutral |
thumbs down . | 0 | very negative |
while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it 's awfully entertaining to watch . | 3 | positive |
at a time when we 've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture . | 1 | negative |
adam sandler ! | 2 | neutral |
upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute . | 1 | negative |
as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida gets the job done . | 3 | positive |
an uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k. dick stories . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- shyamalan -rrb- turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . | 3 | positive |
totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . | 0 | very negative |
there 's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . | 4 | very positive |
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