text
stringlengths 5
283
| sentiment
stringclasses 2
values | label
int64 0
1
|
|---|---|---|
What ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between Americans and Brits . | negative | 0 |
A dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . | negative | 0 |
The movie is without intent . | negative | 0 |
While Hollywood Ending has its share of belly laughs -LRB- including a knockout of a closing line -RRB- , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity . | negative | 0 |
If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke , Lucky Break is -LRB- Cattaneo -RRB- sophomore slump . | negative | 0 |
Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip . | negative | 0 |
Allegiance to Chekhov , which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap . | negative | 0 |
You expect more from director Michael Apted -LRB- Enigma -RRB- and screenwriter Nicholas Kazan -LRB- Reversal of Fortune -RRB- than this cliche pileup . | negative | 0 |
The first mistake , I suspect , is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's Pauly Shore as the rocket scientist ? | negative | 0 |
The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving . | negative | 0 |
Replacing John Carpenter 's stylish tracking shots is degraded , handheld Blair Witch video-cam footage . | negative | 0 |
Of all the Halloween 's , this is the most visually unappealing . | negative | 0 |
It has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and R&B names and references . | negative | 0 |
Despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing . | negative | 0 |
... feels as if -LRB- there 's -RRB- a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . | negative | 0 |
Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . | negative | 0 |
He seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | negative | 0 |
I could have used my two hours better watching Being John Malkovich again . | negative | 0 |
Girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter Italian comedy . | negative | 0 |
The only young people who possibly will enjoy it are infants ... who might be distracted by the movie 's quick movements and sounds . | negative | 0 |
The film boasts at least a few good ideas and features some decent performances , but the result is disappointing . | positive | 1 |
No Such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . | negative | 0 |
A wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows us plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters ' decisions only unsatisfactorily . | negative | 0 |
Zoom ! | positive | 1 |
Lurid and less than lucid work . | negative | 0 |
A wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a Mrs. Robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women . | negative | 0 |
If anything , see it for Karen Black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick . | positive | 1 |
This 90-minute dud could pass for Mike Tyson 's E ! | negative | 0 |
This is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pics ever delivered by a Hollywood studio . | negative | 0 |
Once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea is n't funny . | negative | 0 |
The connected stories of Breitbart and Hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in Invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice . | negative | 0 |
A depressingly retrograde , ` post-feminist ' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women . | negative | 0 |
Return to Never Land is much more P.C. than the original version -LRB- no more racist portraits of Indians , for instance -RRB- , but the excitement is missing . | negative | 0 |
Just bring on the Battle Bots , please ! | positive | 1 |
While it 's all quite tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own . | negative | 0 |
Broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . | negative | 0 |
The Sweetest Thing leaves a bitter taste . | negative | 0 |
In a big corner office in Hell , Satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his R&D people , and has decided he will just screen The Master of Disguise 24\/7 . | negative | 0 |
For something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets -LRB- sci-fi -RRB- rehash . | negative | 0 |
A thriller without a lot of thrills . | negative | 0 |
This stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . | negative | 0 |
Done in mostly by a weak script that ca n't support the epic treatment . | negative | 0 |
Despite its visual virtuosity , ` Naqoyqatsi ' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it . | negative | 0 |
Slap her - she 's not funny ! | negative | 0 |
No French people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half . | negative | 0 |
Though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should . | positive | 1 |
`` One look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? '' | negative | 0 |
Um ... is n't that the basis for the entire plot ? | negative | 0 |
One regards Reign of Fire with awe . | positive | 1 |
Its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie 's presentation , which is way too stagy . | negative | 0 |
Seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director 's experiment is a successful one . | positive | 1 |
I suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the DVD . | negative | 0 |
An unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it . | negative | 0 |
can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of Jesse Helms ' anti- Castro rhetoric , which are included | negative | 0 |
Comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . | negative | 0 |
It just goes to show , an intelligent person is n't necessarily an admirable storyteller . | negative | 0 |
... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` Queen '' and less of the `` Damned . '' | negative | 0 |
Hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired . | negative | 0 |
Kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for -LRB- or worth rooting against , for that matter -RRB- . | negative | 0 |
It reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans and it gets so preachy-keen and so tub-thumpingly loud it makes you feel like a chump just for sitting through it . | negative | 0 |
The problem with `` XXX '' is that its own action is n't very effective . | negative | 0 |
A great script brought down by lousy direction . | negative | 0 |
Big mistake . | negative | 0 |
A mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke . | negative | 0 |
He does n't , however , deliver nearly enough of the show 's trademark style and flash . | negative | 0 |
Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis 's wall of kitsch hard going . | negative | 0 |
According to Wendigo , ` nature ' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves . | positive | 1 |
An encouraging effort from McCrudden | positive | 1 |
The romance between the leads is n't as compelling or as believable as it should be . | negative | 0 |
If I could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , I would go back and choose to skip it . | negative | 0 |
Supposedly authentic account of a historical event that 's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment . | negative | 0 |
Adroit but finally a trifle flat , Mad Love does n't galvanize its outrage the way , say , Jane Campion might have done , but at least it possesses some . | negative | 0 |
To Blandly Go Where We Went 8 Movies Ago ... | negative | 0 |
A slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . | negative | 0 |
This u-boat does n't have a captain . | negative | 0 |
With nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , -LRB- Crane -RRB- becomes more specimen than character -- and Auto Focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report . | negative | 0 |
This one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . | negative | 0 |
Dull , a road-trip movie that 's surprisingly short of both adventure and song . | negative | 0 |
I walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like . | negative | 0 |
Why `` they '' were here and what `` they '' wanted and quite honestly , I did n't care . | negative | 0 |
After several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you 'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of Jerry Bruckheimer productions , especially because Half Past Dead is like The Rock on a Wal-Mart budget . | negative | 0 |
The Country Bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . | negative | 0 |
But the movie that does n't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences | negative | 0 |
As for children , they wo n't enjoy the movie at all . | negative | 0 |
... you can be forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for Frida to just die already . | negative | 0 |
Too bad writer-director Adam Rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the Golden Eagle 's carpets . | negative | 0 |
The movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . | negative | 0 |
But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless . | negative | 0 |
Despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings . | negative | 0 |
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other Bullock and Grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . | negative | 0 |
What should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test . | negative | 0 |
A bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for Universal Studios and its ancillary products . . . | negative | 0 |
little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic . | negative | 0 |
The Master of Disguise is awful . | negative | 0 |
It 's Pauly Shore awful . | negative | 0 |
Do n't say you were n't warned . | negative | 0 |
Disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other John Woo flick for that matter . | negative | 0 |
` Opening up ' the play more has partly closed it down . | negative | 0 |
What -LRB- Frei -RRB- gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows . | positive | 1 |
An ugly , revolting movie . | negative | 0 |