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that 's both charming and well acted | positive. |
a bad blend | negative. |
the guy-in-a-dress genre | positive. |
director claude chabrol has become the master of innuendo . | positive. |
riveting and | positive. |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . | negative. |
war movies | negative. |
an inuit masterpiece | positive. |
oscar | positive. |
the clich茅-laden screenplay | negative. |
girlfriends are bad , wives are worse | negative. |
provide much more insight | positive. |
, and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , | negative. |
what you wish for | positive. |
fluid and mesmerizing | positive. |
... a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | positive. |
it 's a testament to the film 's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . | positive. |
ransacks | negative. |
lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . | negative. |
book report | negative. |
leave the theater | negative. |
spousal abuse | negative. |
the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , | negative. |
a diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of palestinian and israeli children . | positive. |
anyone who suffers through this film | negative. |
one carried by a strong sense of humanism | positive. |
for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | negative. |
another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . | 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 . | positive. |
it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas | negative. |
funny , triumphant , | positive. |
underachiever | negative. |
a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem | positive. |
of moviegoers for real characters and compelling plots | positive. |
dime-store ruminations | negative. |
worth a | positive. |
, reality shows -- reality shows for god 's sake ! | negative. |
whatever the movie 's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes . | negative. |
'll cry for your money back | negative. |
enthralling | positive. |
is worse : the part where nothing 's happening , or the part where something 's happening | negative. |
like max rothman 's future , does not work . | negative. |
of quirky characters and an engaging story | positive. |
has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and | negative. |
making kahlo 's art a living , | positive. |
bad run | negative. |
may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards . | negative. |
many pleasures | positive. |
is worth searching out | positive. |
at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless | negative. |
time bombs | negative. |
balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other . | positive. |
the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations | negative. |
plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | negative. |
a sour taste in one 's mouth | negative. |
decent performance | positive. |
... familiar and predictable , and 4/5ths of it might as well have come from a xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) franc . | negative. |
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 . | positive. |
responsible for one of the worst movies of one year | negative. |
appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived | negative. |
movie love | positive. |
human darkness | negative. |
understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself | negative. |
it 's too loud to shout insults at the screen | negative. |
's a long way from orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry ( 1984 ) | negative. |
a coming-of-age film that avoids the cartoonish clich茅s and sneering humor of the genre as it provides a fresh view of an old type -- | positive. |
the perfect movie | positive. |
ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this | negative. |
oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor | positive. |
it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time | positive. |
see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence | negative. |
give you enough to feel good about | positive. |
unexpectedly insightful | positive. |
allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring | positive. |
is an extraordinary film , not least | positive. |
a doubt | negative. |
maudlin or | negative. |
with the the wisdom and humor of its subjects | positive. |
a party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid . | negative. |
the wan , thinly sketched story | negative. |
provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen | positive. |
this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in . | negative. |
again dazzle and delight us | positive. |
that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes | positive. |
aspires to be more than another `` best man '' clone by weaving a theme throughout this funny film | positive. |
impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . | positive. |
failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest | negative. |
but it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won . | negative. |
it 's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . | negative. |
laughed at | positive. |
, future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter | negative. |
a philosophical void | negative. |
unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense | negative. |
intelligence or invention | positive. |
hot on the hardwood proves once again that a man in drag is not in and of himself funny . | negative. |
hopelessly juvenile | negative. |
shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- | positive. |
unique directing style | positive. |
required to give this comic slugfest some heart | negative. |
feel more like a non-stop cry for attention | negative. |