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woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . | 1 | negative |
either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . | 2 | neutral |
lightweight but appealing . | 3 | positive |
there is nothing redeeming about this movie . | 0 | very negative |
what 's infuriating about full frontal is that it 's too close to real life to make sense . | 1 | negative |
touché ! | 2 | neutral |
the movie 's seams may show ... but pellington gives `` mothman '' an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling . | 3 | positive |
macdowell ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done . | 4 | very positive |
director paul cox 's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky 's diaries is both stimulating and demanding . | 3 | positive |
the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | 3 | positive |
the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . | 4 | very positive |
the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny . | 3 | positive |
lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . | 1 | negative |
a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . | 3 | positive |
`` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . | 0 | very negative |
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . | 3 | positive |
hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry . | 0 | very negative |
everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . | 3 | positive |
it 's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas . | 4 | very positive |
the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . | 3 | positive |
once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional . | 1 | negative |
a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . | 3 | positive |
the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . | 1 | negative |
an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . | 0 | very negative |
an unflinching look at the world 's dispossessed . | 2 | neutral |
unless you 're a fanatic , the best advice is : ` scooby ' do n't . | 1 | negative |
nicole kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that birthday girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while . | 3 | positive |
and the positive change in tone here seems to have recharged him . | 3 | positive |
the culmination of everyone 's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form -lrb- in `` last dance '' -rrb- . | 2 | neutral |
there 's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance . | 3 | positive |
the script is high on squaddie banter , low on shocks . | 3 | positive |
go back to sleep . | 1 | negative |
this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . | 0 | very negative |
the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . | 2 | neutral |
it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? '' | 0 | very negative |
secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . | 4 | very positive |
a visionary marvel , but it 's lacking a depth in storytelling usually found in anime like this . | 1 | negative |
nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . | 0 | very negative |
one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made . | 4 | very positive |
this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . | 1 | negative |
happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . | 4 | very positive |
fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . | 0 | very negative |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen . | 4 | very positive |
jagger , stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . | 4 | very positive |
banal and predictable . | 0 | very negative |
takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . | 1 | negative |
ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . | 2 | neutral |
the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls . | 1 | negative |
what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . | 2 | neutral |
best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . | 4 | very positive |
it does n't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain . | 1 | negative |
scooby-doo does n't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . | 1 | negative |
a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . | 1 | negative |
unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . | 0 | very negative |
`` the best disney movie since the lion king '' | 4 | very positive |
merry friggin ' christmas ! | 2 | neutral |
best indie of the year , so far . | 4 | very positive |
feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series . | 1 | negative |
it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier . | 0 | very negative |
simone is not a bad film . | 3 | positive |
harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . | 2 | neutral |
triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . | 2 | neutral |
a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . | 4 | very positive |
as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , -lrb- franco -rrb- has all of dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability . | 1 | negative |
open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile 's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . | 2 | neutral |
the first bond movie in ages that is n't fake fun . | 3 | positive |
the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . | 0 | very negative |
for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . | 0 | very negative |
the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . | 1 | negative |
ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling . | 3 | positive |
has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together . | 2 | neutral |
the film is saved from are n't - kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition . | 3 | positive |
death to smoochy is often very funny , but what 's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito 's misanthropic vision . | 3 | positive |
this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . | 2 | neutral |
you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . | 2 | neutral |
the only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants ... who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds . | 1 | negative |
there 's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids ' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups . | 1 | negative |
it collapses when mr. taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . | 1 | negative |
it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy . ' | 0 | very negative |
opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . | 2 | neutral |
it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time . | 1 | negative |
efficient , suitably anonymous chiller . | 3 | positive |
... stylistically , the movie is a disaster . | 0 | very negative |
it 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . | 3 | positive |
... a guiltless film for nice evening out . | 3 | positive |
what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . | 4 | very positive |
an opportunity missed . | 1 | negative |
its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . | 2 | neutral |
canada 's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the inuit people . | 3 | positive |
fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . | 4 | very positive |
dignified ceo 's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . | 1 | negative |
helps to remind the first world that hiv\/aids is far from being yesterday 's news . | 2 | neutral |
some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . | 2 | neutral |
a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man ... about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy . | 3 | positive |
the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . | 1 | negative |
the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . | 1 | negative |
beneath the film 's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve . | 3 | positive |
the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in . | 2 | neutral |
perry 's good and his is an interesting character , but `` serving sara '' has n't much more to serve than silly fluff . | 1 | negative |
the film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . | 0 | very negative |
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