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positive | it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . |
negative | whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . |
negative | all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad . |
negative | the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i ca n't remember a single name responsible for it . |
positive | the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful . |
neutral | both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese 's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas . |
neutral | ... ice age treads predictably along familiar territory , making it a passable family film that wo n't win many fans over the age of 12 . |
positive | a film centering on a traditional indian wedding in contemporary new delhi may not sound like specialized fare , but mira nair 's film is an absolute delight for all audiences . |
neutral | when you think you 've figured out bielinsky 's great game , that 's when you 're in the most trouble : he 's the con , and you 're just the mark . |
positive | the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any `` jackass '' fan could want . |
negative | by that measure , it is a failure . |
negative | ... a pretentious mess ... |
neutral | `` 13 conversations '' holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point . |
positive | laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale . |
positive | in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . |
positive | , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller . |
neutral | -lrb- raimi 's -rrb- matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it 's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you 'll ever see . |
negative | the thing just never gets off the ground . |
negative | 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 | once the expectation of laughter has been quashed by whatever obscenity is at hand , even the funniest idea is n't funny . |
positive | funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic . |
neutral | eastwood winces , clutches his chest and gasps for breath . |
neutral | and how . |
neutral | not one moment in the enterprise did n't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow . |
neutral | norton holds the film together . |
positive | with this masterful , flawless film , -lrb- wang -rrb- emerges in the front ranks of china 's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers . |
positive | a live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze . |
neutral | ong chooses to present ah na 's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character 's blank-faced optimism . |
positive | the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes . |
positive | a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere . |
neutral | egoyan 's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose . |
neutral | an original little film about one young woman 's education . |
neutral | by the end , you just do n't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich -lrb- that would be reno -rrb- gets his comeuppance . |
positive | it 's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it 's great for the kids . |
positive | sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . |
neutral | charming , if overly complicated ... |
positive | it 's a fairy tale that comes from a renowned indian film culture that allows americans to finally revel in its splendor . |
neutral | will no doubt delight plympton 's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . |
neutral | the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments ... but it 's such a warm and charming package that you 'll feel too happy to argue much . |
positive | will assuredly rank as one of the cleverest , most deceptively amusing comedies of the year . |
neutral | what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea . |
negative | a half-assed film . |
positive | the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich . |
neutral | being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough . |
positive | the cast is phenomenal , especially the women . |
neutral | director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . |
positive | much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors . |
negative | a chiller resolutely without chills . |
neutral | while -lrb- roman coppola -rrb- scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story . |
neutral | mildly amusing . |
neutral | missteps take what was otherwise a fascinating , riveting story and send it down the path of the mundane . |
negative | this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . |
negative | there 's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits . |
neutral | the boys ' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story 's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . |
neutral | while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it 's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience . |
negative | there 's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes , plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme . |
negative | - spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together . |
negative | there 's already been too many of these films ... |
neutral | peralta 's mythmaking could have used some informed , adult hindsight . |
neutral | `` the kid stays in the picture '' is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . |
neutral | creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better . |
positive | -lrb- a -rrb- thoughtful , visually graceful work . |
neutral | ` snow dogs ' has both . |
neutral | almost . |
positive | kudos to the most enchanting film of the year . |
neutral | chances are you wo n't , either . |
negative | that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . |
neutral | i saw juwanna mann so you do n't have to . |
neutral | here 's my advice , kev . |
negative | haneke 's script -lrb- from elfriede jelinek 's novel -rrb- is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending . |
positive | tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham . |
positive | filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . |
negative | ... a movie that , quite simply , should n't have been made . |
neutral | it 's about time . |
neutral | shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . |
positive | more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again . |
positive | when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . |
negative | the cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing . |
positive | much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep . |
neutral | unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate . |
positive | it 's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages . |
neutral | yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot 's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through . |
positive | a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies . |
positive | -lrb- danny huston gives -rrb- an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent 's smirk . |
positive | in addition to hoffman 's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday . |
neutral | thin period piece . |
positive | hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian . |
neutral | because eight legged freaks is partly an homage to them , tarantula and other low - budget b-movie thrillers of the 1950s and '60s , the movie is a silly -lrb- but not sophomoric -rrb- romp through horror and hellish conditions . |
neutral | the picture does n't know it 's a comedy . |
positive | yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack ... and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable . |
neutral | in moonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle . |
positive | tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience . |
neutral | ... a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that 's likely to irk viewers . |
negative | the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates . |
positive | one of recent memory 's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . |
neutral | god is great , the movie 's not . |
neutral | ... a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor . |
neutral | if you do n't ... well , skip to another review . |
neutral | with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon 's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone |
positive | in addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- lilo & stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded . |