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could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . | 3 | positive |
a french film with a more down-home flavor . | 3 | positive |
when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger 's sex life , it already has one strike against it . | 1 | negative |
an asian neo-realist treasure . | 4 | very positive |
generic thriller junk . | 0 | very negative |
an honest , sensitive story from a vietnamese point of view . | 4 | very positive |
while some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . | 1 | negative |
more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it . | 4 | very positive |
apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just does n't figure in the present hollywood program . | 0 | very negative |
thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods . | 4 | very positive |
a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . | 2 | neutral |
a compelling allegory about the last days of germany 's democratic weimar republic . | 3 | positive |
or maybe `` how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? '' | 0 | very negative |
it falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose . | 3 | positive |
the things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just wo n't fly with most intelligent viewers . | 1 | negative |
worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades . | 2 | neutral |
sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first -lrb- as best i remember -rrb- , but still a very good time at the cinema . | 4 | very positive |
by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest can not be revived . | 1 | negative |
an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot | 2 | neutral |
a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken . | 1 | negative |
a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 3 | positive |
scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . | 1 | negative |
despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book . | 2 | neutral |
i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . | 3 | positive |
chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident . | 3 | positive |
the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . | 1 | negative |
the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep . | 2 | neutral |
brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism . | 1 | negative |
if you ever wanted to be an astronaut , this is the ultimate movie experience - it 's informative and breathtakingly spectacular . | 4 | very positive |
even the digressions are funny . | 3 | positive |
and , thanks to the presence of ` the king , ' it also rocks . | 3 | positive |
in other words , about as bad a film you 're likely to see all year . | 0 | very negative |
visually fascinating ... an often intense character study about fathers and sons , loyalty and duty . | 3 | positive |
as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen . | 1 | negative |
we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in fire that makes the formula fresh again . | 3 | positive |
gets better after foster leaves that little room . | 3 | positive |
... would be a total loss if not for two supporting performances taking place at the movie 's edges . | 2 | neutral |
compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- evans is -rrb- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . | 1 | negative |
the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . | 1 | negative |
show me the mugging . | 2 | neutral |
this is more a case of ` sacre bleu ! ' | 2 | neutral |
this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea -lrb- or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really -rrb- in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question ` why ? ' | 0 | very negative |
ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with . | 2 | neutral |
manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time . | 3 | positive |
feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake . | 1 | negative |
a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady 's direction is prosaic . | 1 | negative |
the corpse count ultimately overrides what little we learn along the way about vicarious redemption . | 1 | negative |
finally coming down off of miramax 's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie . | 2 | neutral |
a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | 0 | very negative |
a tired , unnecessary retread ... a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with . | 0 | very negative |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . | 2 | neutral |
like the series , the movie is funny , smart , visually inventive , and most of all , alive . | 2 | neutral |
is n't as sharp as the original ... despite some visual virtues , ` blade ii ' just does n't cut it . | 1 | negative |
enigma lacks it . | 1 | negative |
now i can see why people thought i was too hard on `` the mothman prophecies '' . | 2 | neutral |
mr. caine and mr. fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . | 4 | very positive |
too bad none of it is funny . | 0 | very negative |
overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . | 3 | positive |
there 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one . | 3 | positive |
yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it 's so fascinating you wo n't be able to look away for a second . | 3 | positive |
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques . | 2 | neutral |
this film puts wang at the forefront of china 's sixth generation of film makers . | 4 | very positive |
a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother . | 3 | positive |
like the full monty , this is sure to raise audience 's spirits and leave them singing long after the credits roll . | 4 | very positive |
i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- n -rrb- o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness . | 0 | very negative |
not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days . | 4 | very positive |
after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work . | 0 | very negative |
texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare . | 4 | very positive |
obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time -lrb- including mine -rrb- on something very inconsequential . | 1 | negative |
blade ii is as estrogen-free as movies get , so you might want to leave your date behind for this one , or she 's gonna make you feel like you owe her big-time . | 2 | neutral |
should have gone straight to video . | 0 | very negative |
maryam is more timely now than ever . | 3 | positive |
koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own . | 0 | very negative |
it deserves to be seen everywhere . | 3 | positive |
a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . | 3 | positive |
the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah ... never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment . | 2 | neutral |
you do n't need to know your ice-t 's from your cool-j 's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california . | 1 | negative |
by turns very dark and very funny . | 4 | very positive |
completely awful iranian drama ... as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque . | 0 | very negative |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you 'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits . | 1 | negative |
nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy . | 1 | negative |
uneven but a lot of fun . | 3 | positive |
the satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying . | 1 | negative |
the biggest problem i have -lrb- other than the very sluggish pace -rrb- is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing . | 1 | negative |
... it 's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy . | 3 | positive |
a zombie movie in every sense of the word -- mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious . | 0 | very negative |
-lrb- moore 's -rrb- better at fingering problems than finding solutions . | 1 | negative |
... fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist 's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film . | 4 | very positive |
is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? | 0 | very negative |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous action sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 0 | very negative |
-lrb- green is -rrb- the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i 'm just about ready to go to the u.n. and ask permission for a preemptive strike . | 1 | negative |
a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present . | 2 | neutral |
once again , director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours . | 1 | negative |
some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0 | very negative |
brave and sweetly rendered love story . | 3 | positive |
for decades we 've marveled at disney 's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . | 3 | positive |
the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we 've long associated with washington the actor . | 3 | positive |
curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary . | 2 | neutral |
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