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like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . | 3 | positive |
it 's hard to say who might enjoy this , are there tolstoy groupies out there ? | 1 | negative |
this movie is to be cherished . | 4 | very positive |
in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks . | 3 | positive |
the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . | 1 | negative |
entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . | 1 | negative |
ryan gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor . | 4 | very positive |
-lrb- garbus -rrb- discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 2 | neutral |
i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . | 4 | very positive |
while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . | 3 | positive |
for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed . | 3 | positive |
an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama . | 3 | positive |
skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . | 2 | neutral |
like the best of godard 's movies ... it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . | 4 | very positive |
with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism . | 2 | neutral |
spare but quietly effective retelling . | 3 | positive |
the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy . | 3 | positive |
this is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors . | 1 | negative |
it 's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to . | 1 | negative |
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . | 1 | negative |
chomp chomp ! | 2 | neutral |
harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research . | 3 | positive |
all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . | 0 | very negative |
fessenden 's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy . | 3 | positive |
the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess . | 0 | very negative |
a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . | 0 | very negative |
a must see for all sides of the political spectrum | 4 | very positive |
the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . | 4 | very positive |
skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . | 0 | very negative |
viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . | 2 | neutral |
... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . | 0 | very negative |
forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . | 0 | very negative |
an action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat . | 4 | very positive |
beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures . | 3 | positive |
the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis . | 3 | positive |
... hypnotically dull . | 0 | very negative |
we ca n't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . | 0 | very negative |
but then again , i hate myself most mornings . | 1 | negative |
a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship . | 2 | neutral |
although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it 's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s\/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out . | 1 | negative |
if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . | 2 | neutral |
it can be safely recommended as a video\/dvd babysitter . | 3 | positive |
the movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end . | 3 | positive |
part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . | 4 | very positive |
a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . ' | 4 | very positive |
unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile . | 3 | positive |
there is something that is so meditative and lyrical about babak payami 's boldly quirky iranian drama secret ballot ... a charming and evoking little ditty that manages to show the gentle and humane side of middle eastern world politics | 3 | positive |
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches -lrb- vainly , i think -rrb- for something fresh to say . | 1 | negative |
it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . | 0 | very negative |
fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation . | 2 | neutral |
with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller | 4 | very positive |
rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . | 0 | very negative |
but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker . | 3 | positive |
the acting is just fine , but there 's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff . | 1 | negative |
romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . | 4 | very positive |
-lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie . | 0 | very negative |
good , solid storytelling . | 4 | very positive |
it 's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion 's attentions . | 3 | positive |
the film does n't sustain its initial promise with a jarring , new-agey tone creeping into the second half | 1 | negative |
a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie . | 0 | very negative |
um ... is n't that the basis for the entire plot ? | 1 | negative |
-lrb- has -rrb- an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it 's all true . | 3 | positive |
a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed . | 4 | very positive |
bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . | 4 | very positive |
a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . | 0 | very negative |
to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago ... | 1 | negative |
this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . '' | 2 | neutral |
an intriguing near-miss . | 2 | neutral |
the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . | 0 | very negative |
the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman 's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . | 2 | neutral |
craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters . | 3 | positive |
rosenthal -lrb- halloween ii -rrb- seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense . | 1 | negative |
but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 3 | positive |
famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . | 3 | positive |
` matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- toback 's -rrb- fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material . | 1 | negative |
at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon . | 3 | positive |
the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the -lrb- teen comedy -rrb- genre a bad name . | 1 | negative |
elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love . | 4 | very positive |
you bet there is and it 's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . | 2 | neutral |
weird . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- clooney 's -rrb- debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined , but it has a tremendous , offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him , especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh . | 3 | positive |
pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess . | 0 | very negative |
it was a dark and stormy night ... | 2 | neutral |
the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that 's a bad sign when they 're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . | 1 | negative |
nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb- | 3 | positive |
romanek 's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . | 4 | very positive |
no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming . | 3 | positive |
an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . | 2 | neutral |
scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . | 4 | very positive |
a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . | 0 | very negative |
... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0 | very negative |
will anyone who is n't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ? | 1 | negative |
your children will be occupied for 72 minutes . | 3 | positive |
exciting and well-paced . | 4 | very positive |
in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . | 2 | neutral |
wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . | 2 | neutral |
lasker 's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther ... realize they ca n't get no satisfaction without the latter . | 3 | positive |
`` feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker . | 2 | neutral |
essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality | 2 | neutral |
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