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it 's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today . | 4 | very positive |
the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . | 0 | very negative |
-lrb- the film 's -rrb- taste for `` shock humor '' will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers . | 1 | negative |
as a remake , it 's a pale imitation . | 0 | very negative |
lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery . | 4 | very positive |
-lrb- washington 's -rrb- strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene . | 4 | very positive |
only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm . | 1 | negative |
i 'm left slightly disappointed that it did n't . | 1 | negative |
this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it 's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . | 3 | positive |
i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon . | 3 | positive |
entertaining enough , but nothing new | 1 | negative |
arty gay film . | 2 | neutral |
pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance . | 3 | positive |
changing lanes tries for more . | 3 | positive |
the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers . | 2 | neutral |
the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . | 0 | very negative |
sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology . | 2 | neutral |
the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken . | 3 | positive |
ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining . | 3 | positive |
for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . | 3 | positive |
a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family . | 4 | very positive |
certainly the performances are worthwhile . | 3 | positive |
fifty years after the fact , the world 's political situation seems little different , and -lrb- director phillip -rrb- noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . | 4 | very positive |
i do n't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it 's a dish that 's best served cold . | 3 | positive |
the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons . | 4 | very positive |
spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing . | 4 | very positive |
a weird and wonderful comedy . | 4 | very positive |
smart and taut . | 4 | very positive |
a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . | 1 | negative |
c'mon ! | 2 | neutral |
this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years . | 4 | very positive |
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts ... | 2 | neutral |
in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you 'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters -- damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide . | 3 | positive |
a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise . | 3 | positive |
every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . | 4 | very positive |
the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end . | 2 | neutral |
an extraordinary dramatic experience . | 4 | very positive |
piccoli 's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm 's - length in the film seem irritatingly transparent . | 1 | negative |
no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population . | 0 | very negative |
it 's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm 's shelf . | 1 | negative |
drowning 's too good for this sucker . | 1 | negative |
rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? | 2 | neutral |
the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros. giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie 's release . | 2 | neutral |
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . | 0 | very negative |
as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west . | 1 | negative |
everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized . | 1 | negative |
a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events . | 3 | positive |
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached . | 4 | very positive |
directed with purpose and finesse by england 's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft . | 4 | very positive |
it 's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise . | 1 | negative |
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer . | 3 | positive |
would benigni 's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ? | 0 | very negative |
this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . | 0 | very negative |
each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs. man as brother-man vs. the man . | 2 | neutral |
there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down . | 1 | negative |
i 'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper . | 1 | negative |
it 's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin ' out loud . | 1 | negative |
chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . | 0 | very negative |
the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one . | 4 | very positive |
they just do n't work in concert . | 1 | negative |
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire . | 2 | neutral |
it 's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up . | 2 | neutral |
an unintentionally surreal kid 's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . | 1 | negative |
both damning and damned compelling . | 3 | positive |
it 's not original enough . | 1 | negative |
apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen . | 4 | very positive |
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada . | 0 | very negative |
a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff . | 3 | positive |
he 's one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness . | 3 | positive |
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material . | 1 | negative |
a serious movie with serious ideas . | 4 | very positive |
attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident . | 1 | negative |
plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king . | 1 | negative |
stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . | 1 | negative |
it 's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . | 3 | positive |
leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama . | 4 | very positive |
beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm . | 4 | very positive |
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . | 3 | positive |
it 's like a `` big chill '' reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists . | 2 | neutral |
then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action ... | 3 | positive |
aside from showing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there 's little to be learned from watching ` comedian ' | 2 | neutral |
mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt . | 2 | neutral |
that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks . | 1 | negative |
land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored . | 3 | positive |
did the film inform and educate me ? | 2 | neutral |
barney 's ideas about creation and identity do n't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material . | 1 | negative |
build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year . | 0 | very negative |
cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark 's dogma movement . | 3 | positive |
bottom-rung new jack city wannabe . | 1 | negative |
despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie | 0 | very negative |
but this time , the old mib label stands for milder is n't better . | 1 | negative |
forget the misleading title , what 's with the unexplained baboon cameo ? | 1 | negative |
it 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . | 0 | very negative |
what 's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be . | 3 | positive |
yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit . | 1 | negative |
every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . | 0 | very negative |
the film 's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature\/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality . | 1 | negative |
a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original . | 1 | negative |
yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other 's existence . | 2 | neutral |
with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy . | 3 | positive |
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