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starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop | negative. |
distinguished actor | positive. |
on their parents ' anguish | negative. |
pays off and is effective if you stick with it | positive. |
is n't particularly funny | negative. |
, joyous romp of a film . | positive. |
a stunning technical achievement | positive. |
squander jennifer love hewitt | negative. |
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and | positive. |
new ways of describing badness | negative. |
invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow | positive. |
shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . | positive. |
believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid | negative. |
to offend | negative. |
was hard for me | negative. |
extremely funny | positive. |
are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before . | positive. |
good news | positive. |
the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe | negative. |
of piffle | negative. |
liability | negative. |
coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes . | positive. |
oversexed , at times | negative. |
worth seeing | positive. |
grumbling | negative. |
tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination | negative. |
the writing is tight and truthful , full of funny situations and honest observations | positive. |
borrows from other movies | negative. |
sardonic jolt | negative. |
which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities | negative. |
ca n't recommend it enough | positive. |
by the sick sense of humor | negative. |
vivid performances | positive. |
evokes a palpable sense | positive. |
law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed | negative. |
that this film 's cast is uniformly superb | positive. |
whatever complaints i might have | negative. |
the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few | negative. |
reef | positive. |
though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal | positive. |
informative , intriguing , observant , often touching | positive. |
take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche | negative. |
, i love it ... hell , i dunno . | positive. |
imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene . | negative. |
there 's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes . | negative. |
a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem . | positive. |
so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown , a celebrated wonder in the spotlight | positive. |
featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock . | positive. |
lot funnier | positive. |
self-indulgent and | negative. |
the filmmaking in invincible | positive. |
their luster | positive. |
cool visual backmasking | positive. |
slapped together . | negative. |
dupe | negative. |
was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz | negative. |
in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row | negative. |
incessant whining | negative. |
timid parsing | negative. |
change tables | positive. |
finely | positive. |
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed ` the french lieutenant 's woman | positive. |
, the world 's political situation seems little different , and ( director phillip ) noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill . | positive. |
sustains interest | positive. |
chopsocky | negative. |
interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots | negative. |
spirited away is a triumph of imagination | positive. |
twitchy acting | negative. |
doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers | negative. |
demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon | positive. |
enough gun battles and | negative. |
fun | positive. |
know as an evil , monstrous lunatic | negative. |
sadly imitative of innumerable | negative. |
most compelling performance | positive. |
then triple x marks the spot . | positive. |
mr. koshashvili is a director to watch . | positive. |
's in the action scenes that things fall apart | negative. |
a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama | positive. |
a movie about the power of poetry and passion | positive. |
ill-timed | negative. |
swill | negative. |
, the film is n't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that 's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny . | positive. |
a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man 's right to raise his own children . | positive. |
the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one | positive. |
caffeinated , sloppy | negative. |
he slaps together his own brand of liberalism | negative. |
shenanigans and | negative. |
bogs | negative. |
by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . | negative. |
no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script . | negative. |
scuttled | negative. |
, the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours . | negative. |
most sincere and artful | positive. |
resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this | negative. |
is infectious . | positive. |
appreciated | positive. |
excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama . | positive. |
the rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based | positive. |
symbolically , warm water under a red bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal . | positive. |