label
int64 0
2
| text
stringlengths 4
283
|
---|---|
2 | the rock is destined to be the 21st century 's new `` conan '' and that he 's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger , jean-claud van damme or steven segal . |
0 | adults , other than the parents ... will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild . |
0 | here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . |
0 | plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story . |
0 | snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him |
2 | before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg 's adaptation of mary gaitskill 's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . |
1 | there 's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises ... but that 's ok . |
2 | ... very funny , very enjoyable ... |
1 | it 's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled ` the loud and the ludicrous ' ... the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . |
1 | there ai n't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it 's hilarious . |
0 | the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone . |
2 | ... with the gifted pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself . |
0 | much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there is n't much there here . |
2 | lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest . |
2 | he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . |
2 | it 's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie 's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all . |
2 | this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . |
1 | a respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain trek films ... cross over to a more mainstream audience . |
2 | it 's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . |
0 | a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . |
1 | sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too . |
1 | the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long . |
2 | often likable , but just as often it 's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . |
0 | rob schneider 's infantile cross-dressing routines fill the hot chick , the latest gimmick from this unimaginative comedian . |
2 | ... the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand 's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form . |
1 | aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . |
0 | it 's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison . |
2 | a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . |
0 | an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . |
2 | a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man . |
2 | a smart little indie . |
0 | a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on . |
0 | ... what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be |
0 | goes on and on to the point of nausea . |
2 | i have a new favorite musical -- and i 'm not even a fan of the genre |
0 | master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . |
0 | you 'll feel like you ate a reeses without the peanut butter ... ' |
2 | easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . |
2 | despite the surface attractions -- conrad l. hall 's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there 's something impressive and yet lacking about everything . |
0 | broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs . |
0 | looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . |
2 | that 's why sex and lucia is so alluring . |
0 | after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be . |
2 | nettelbeck ... has a pleasing way with a metaphor . |
0 | a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . |
2 | a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism . |
0 | after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music . |
2 | not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . |
2 | it 's fun , but it 's a real howler . |
2 | even through its flaws , revolution # 9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film . |
2 | just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . |
2 | the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . |
0 | no such thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina . |
2 | when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we 'd live in if argento 's hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve . |
2 | on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film . |
2 | -lrb- reynolds -rrb- takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . |
1 | ... a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . |
2 | if you 're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director 's life , eisenstein delivers . |
1 | it 's too bad nothing else is . |
2 | this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn . |
2 | probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent . |
0 | it made me realize that we really have n't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since ... well ... since last week 's reign of fire . |
0 | ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley 's source novel -lrb- about schmidt -rrb- and an old payne screenplay . |
2 | ... once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . |
2 | this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part . |
0 | nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . |
0 | this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . |
0 | every joke is repeated at least four times . |
0 | the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . |
0 | and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle . |
2 | the best film of the year 2002 . |
2 | blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . |
1 | you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld 's real life is boring . |
2 | the first shocking thing about sorority boys is that it 's actually watchable . |
2 | a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . |
0 | an overstylized , puréed mélange of sex , psychology , drugs and philosophy . |
2 | this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope . |
1 | solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . |
0 | a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary . |
2 | most haunting about `` fence '' is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . |
0 | starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés . |
0 | the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . |
0 | -lrb- i -rrb- t 's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop is n't as funny as it should be . |
0 | but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . |
2 | a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ` direct-to-video ' release . |
1 | merci pour le movie . |
0 | this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand . |
1 | ... a ho-hum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorable . |
0 | the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . |
0 | an inconsequential , barely there bit of piffle . |
0 | although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything . |
2 | an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . |
2 | a gripping drama . |
2 | it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film . |
1 | barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . |
2 | the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . |
0 | its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock -lrb- since sept. 11 -rrb- . |
2 | a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie . |
1 | a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a ` bad ' police shooting . |
2 | as i settled into my world war ii memories , i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . |