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it 's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | 3 | positive |
his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories . | 3 | positive |
the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . | 2 | neutral |
writer \/ director m. night shyamalan 's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . | 3 | positive |
fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . | 4 | very positive |
while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river 's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby 's main overall flaw . | 2 | neutral |
with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland 's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . | 2 | neutral |
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 . | 3 | positive |
abysmally pathetic | 0 | very negative |
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 | very negative |
the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's -lrb- unintentionally -rrb- funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care . | 0 | very negative |
blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances . | 3 | positive |
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 . | 0 | very negative |
an exhilarating experience . | 4 | very positive |
a dazzling dream of a documentary . | 4 | very positive |
narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . | 4 | very positive |
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 . | 4 | very positive |
mandel holland 's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . | 2 | neutral |
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 | 3 | positive |
animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots . | 1 | negative |
but rather , ` how can you charge money for this ? ' | 0 | very negative |
`` austin powers in goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . | 4 | very positive |
exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan 's platinum-blonde hair . | 2 | neutral |
not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at . | 1 | negative |
an erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . | 0 | very negative |
while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine . | 2 | neutral |
family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . | 3 | positive |
a case in point : doug pray 's scratch . | 2 | neutral |
the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . | 1 | negative |
it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie 's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy . | 3 | positive |
as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death . | 2 | neutral |
demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack . | 1 | negative |
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 . | 0 | very negative |
it 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . | 3 | positive |
like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film -lrb- at 80 minutes -rrb- is actually quite entertaining . | 4 | very positive |
the lousy lead performances ... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired . | 1 | negative |
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 . | 1 | negative |
is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ? | 1 | negative |
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 . | 3 | positive |
madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . | 0 | very negative |
so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming . | 1 | negative |
there 's a lot of good material here , but there 's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . | 2 | neutral |
... the story , like ravel 's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with . | 3 | positive |
it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . | 4 | very positive |
there 's something about a marching band that gets me where i live . | 2 | neutral |
the film favors the scientific over the spectacular -lrb- visually speaking -rrb- . | 2 | neutral |
it should have stayed there . | 1 | negative |
it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . | 2 | neutral |
alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . | 2 | neutral |
well , it probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises , but it 's definitely worth taking a look . | 3 | positive |
bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . | 3 | positive |
` enigma ' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of ` we were soldiers . ' | 2 | neutral |
what a pity ... that the material is so second-rate . | 1 | negative |
it 's that good . | 4 | very positive |
calculated swill . | 2 | neutral |
a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make ` cherish ' a very good -lrb- but not great -rrb- movie . | 3 | positive |
enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 3 | positive |
a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . | 4 | very positive |
directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . | 4 | very positive |
... a confusing drudgery . | 1 | negative |
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 . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- a -rrb- mess . | 1 | negative |
believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . | 2 | neutral |
i 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . | 2 | neutral |
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 | very negative |
black-and-white and unrealistic . | 0 | very negative |
-lrb- lin chung 's -rrb- voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating -lrb- at least to this western ear -rrb- , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . | 1 | negative |
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 | negative |
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 . | 4 | very positive |
the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects . | 3 | positive |
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 . | 4 | very positive |
a summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . | 0 | very negative |
taken as a whole , the tuxedo does n't add up to a whole lot . | 1 | negative |
good-looking but relentlessly lowbrow outing plays like clueless does south fork . | 1 | negative |
intimate and panoramic . | 3 | positive |
high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . | 2 | neutral |
suffers from all the excesses of the genre . | 1 | negative |
hate it because it 's lousy . | 0 | very negative |
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 . | 1 | negative |
big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . | 0 | very negative |
a doa dud from frame one . | 0 | very negative |
it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . | 2 | neutral |
elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . | 2 | neutral |
this is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work . | 2 | neutral |
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 | very negative |
just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . | 1 | negative |
`` home movie '' is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . | 4 | very positive |
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 . | 3 | positive |
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 need n't waste their time on it . | 3 | positive |
robinson 's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . | 4 | very positive |
... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . | 0 | very negative |
intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being . | 3 | positive |
like its title character , esther kahn is unusual but unfortunately also irritating . | 1 | negative |
where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . | 3 | positive |
throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . | 4 | very positive |
a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special . | 1 | negative |
debate it . | 2 | neutral |
i did n't laugh . | 1 | negative |
holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin . | 3 | positive |
one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but ... also one of the most curiously depressing . | 3 | positive |
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