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a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy .	2	Positive
-lrb- caine -rrb- proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film .	2	Positive
the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america 's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get .	1	Neutral
a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe .	2	Positive
the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs .	0	Negative
like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely .	2	Positive
but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .	2	Positive
you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there .	1	Neutral
the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers .	1	Neutral
as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion .	2	Positive
the film 's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality .	1	Neutral
this is n't a new idea .	0	Negative
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .	0	Negative
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace .	2	Positive
avary 's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis ' book .	1	Neutral
smothered by its own solemnity .	1	Neutral
just bring on the battle bots , please !	2	Positive
but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort	0	Negative
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism .	2	Positive
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .	2	Positive
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer .	2	Positive
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .	0	Negative
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .	0	Negative
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .	2	Positive
this action-thriller\/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage .	0	Negative
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .	2	Positive
the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .	0	Negative
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .	1	Neutral
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone .	2	Positive
a melancholy , emotional film .	1	Neutral
the film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ?	2	Positive
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded .	0	Negative
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie .	1	Neutral
a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means .	2	Positive
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises .	0	Negative
the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes .	2	Positive
there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it .	0	Negative
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .	0	Negative
you could put it on a coffee table anywhere .	1	Neutral
a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .	2	Positive
changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it 's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say .	2	Positive
... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags .	2	Positive
passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .	2	Positive
whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop .	2	Positive
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .	2	Positive
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time .	0	Negative
nair does n't use -lrb- monsoon wedding -rrb- to lament the loss of culture .	1	Neutral
barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .	0	Negative
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career .	0	Negative
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images .	2	Positive
made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age ... and then only as a very mild rental .	1	Neutral
the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface .	1	Neutral
it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .	0	Negative
when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best	2	Positive
if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then blood work is for you .	0	Negative
great dragons !	2	Positive
proves that some movie formulas do n't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie .	1	Neutral
the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers .	2	Positive
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river .	0	Negative
it 's jagger 's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite .	1	Neutral
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs .	0	Negative
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers .	2	Positive
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort .	0	Negative
pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other .	2	Positive
`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? ''	0	Negative
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie .	2	Positive
an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it .	0	Negative
david spade as citizen kane ?	0	Negative
but fans of the show should not consider this a diss .	1	Neutral
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .	2	Positive
when mr. hundert tells us in his narration that ` this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .	1	Neutral
although barbershop boasts some of today 's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ` 70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom .	1	Neutral
director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .	0	Negative
like kubrick , soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way .	2	Positive
the very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . ''	0	Negative
sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .	1	Neutral
i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless .	0	Negative
at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope .	0	Negative
a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness .	0	Negative
it 's too bad that the rest is n't more compelling .	1	Neutral
more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it 's inoffensive and actually rather sweet .	1	Neutral
it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events .	2	Positive
this is one of the year 's best films .	2	Positive
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .	2	Positive
sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , -lrb- ahola -rrb- has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation .	0	Negative
mild , meandering teen flick .	1	Neutral
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang 's forte and it shows .	1	Neutral
while guzmán frustratingly refuses to give pinochet 's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable .	1	Neutral
life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .	1	Neutral
the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife .	2	Positive
absorbing character study by andré turpin .	2	Positive
unfortunately , that 's precisely what arthur dong 's family fundamentals does .	0	Negative
instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .	2	Positive
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it did n't try to .	2	Positive
a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar 's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity .	2	Positive
the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness .	2	Positive
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .	1	Neutral
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children 's television .	0	Negative
despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity .	2	Positive
coppola 's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema .	2	Positive

a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy .

2

Positive

-lrb- caine -rrb- proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film .

2

Positive

the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america 's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get .

1

Neutral

a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe .

2

Positive

the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs .

0

Negative

like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely .

2

Positive

but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .

2

Positive

you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there .

1

Neutral

the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers .

1

Neutral

as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion .

2

Positive

the film 's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality .

1

Neutral

this is n't a new idea .

0

Negative

on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .

0

Negative

that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace .

2

Positive

avary 's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis ' book .

1

Neutral

smothered by its own solemnity .

1

Neutral

just bring on the battle bots , please !

2

Positive

but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort

0

Negative

for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism .

2

Positive

a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .

2

Positive

just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer .

2

Positive

those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .

0

Negative

a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .

0

Negative

greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .

2

Positive

this action-thriller\/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage .

0

Negative

metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .

2

Positive

the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .

0

Negative

its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .

1

Neutral

a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone .

2

Positive

a melancholy , emotional film .

1

Neutral

the film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ?

2

Positive

both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded .

0

Negative

the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie .

1

Neutral

a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means .

2

Positive

the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises .

0

Negative

the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes .

2

Positive

there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it .

0

Negative

i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .

0

Negative

you could put it on a coffee table anywhere .

1

Neutral

a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .

2

Positive

changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it 's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say .

2

Positive

... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags .

2

Positive

passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .

2

Positive

whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop .

2

Positive

the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .

2

Positive

one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time .

0

Negative

nair does n't use -lrb- monsoon wedding -rrb- to lament the loss of culture .

1

Neutral

barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .

0

Negative

the story the movie tells is of brian de palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career .

0

Negative

miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images .

2

Positive

made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age ... and then only as a very mild rental .

1

Neutral

the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface .

1

Neutral

it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .

0

Negative

when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best

2

Positive

if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then blood work is for you .

0

Negative

great dragons !

2

Positive

proves that some movie formulas do n't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie .

1

Neutral

the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers .

2

Positive

most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river .

0

Negative

it 's jagger 's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite .

1

Neutral

a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs .

0

Negative

kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers .

2

Positive

a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort .

0

Negative

pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other .

2

Positive

`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? ''

0

Negative

kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie .

2

Positive

an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it .

0

Negative

david spade as citizen kane ?

0

Negative

but fans of the show should not consider this a diss .

1

Neutral

director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .

2

Positive

when mr. hundert tells us in his narration that ` this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .

1

Neutral

although barbershop boasts some of today 's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ` 70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom .

1

Neutral

director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .

0

Negative

like kubrick , soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way .

2

Positive

the very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . ''

0

Negative

sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .

1

Neutral

i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless .

0

Negative

at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope .

0

Negative

a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness .

0

Negative

it 's too bad that the rest is n't more compelling .

1

Neutral

more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it 's inoffensive and actually rather sweet .

1

Neutral

it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events .

2

Positive

this is one of the year 's best films .

2

Positive

the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .

2

Positive

sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , -lrb- ahola -rrb- has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation .

0

Negative

mild , meandering teen flick .

1

Neutral

this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang 's forte and it shows .

1

Neutral

while guzmán frustratingly refuses to give pinochet 's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable .

1

Neutral

life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .

1

Neutral

the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife .

2

Positive

absorbing character study by andré turpin .

2

Positive

unfortunately , that 's precisely what arthur dong 's family fundamentals does .

0

Negative

instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .

2

Positive

an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it did n't try to .

2

Positive

a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar 's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity .

2

Positive

the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness .

2

Positive

an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .

1

Neutral

a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children 's television .

0

Negative

despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity .

2

Positive

coppola 's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema .

2

Positive