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positive | if a horror movie 's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well ... a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride . |
negative | oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . |
neutral | perhaps the film should be seen as a conversation starter . |
positive | spielberg 's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . |
neutral | -lrb- haynes ' -rrb- homage to such films as `` all that heaven allows '' and `` imitation of life '' transcends them . |
negative | ... unlike -lrb- scorsese 's mean streets -rrb- , ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot . |
negative | sheridan 's take on the author 's schoolboy memoir ... is a rather toothless take on a hard young life . |
positive | godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . |
negative | under-rehearsed and lifeless |
positive | the film offers an intriguing what-if premise . |
positive | rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart . |
positive | a witty , low-key romantic comedy . |
neutral | an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . |
negative | even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation can not engage . |
positive | with ` bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear . |
positive | it 's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge . |
neutral | a decidedly mixed bag . |
positive | ... a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet . |
neutral | it comes off as so silly that you would n't be surprised if ba , murdock and rest of the a-team were seen giving chase in a black and red van . |
neutral | paxton 's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre . |
positive | mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances ... and excellent use of music by india 's popular gulzar and jagjit singh . |
negative | about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience 's meat grinder one more time . |
positive | but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . |
neutral | it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart |
negative | a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i 'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop . |
positive | blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative . |
neutral | this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it 's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it . |
neutral | although it does n't always hang together -- violence and whimsy do n't combine easily -- `` cherish '' certainly is n't dull . |
negative | the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . |
positive | there 's none of the happily-ever - after spangle of monsoon wedding in late marriage -- and that 's part of what makes dover kosashvili 's outstanding feature debut so potent . |
negative | the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . |
neutral | an unremarkable , modern action\/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . |
positive | a backstage must-see for true fans of comedy . |
neutral | but i do . |
neutral | who is this movie for ? |
negative | ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves . |
negative | the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer 's secondhand material . |
negative | a relative letdown . |
positive | brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life 's harshness . |
neutral | with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it 's - good camp . |
negative | it 's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . |
negative | starts as an intense political and psychological thriller but is sabotaged by ticking time bombs and other hollywood-action cliches . |
neutral | unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers . |
neutral | it 's a sight to behold . |
neutral | the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of `` intacto 's '' dangerous and seductively stylish game . |
neutral | if you 're not totally weirded - out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force . |
neutral | better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain could n't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige 's cape ; and finishes half a parsec -lrb- a nose -rrb- ahead of generations . |
neutral | at times the guys taps into some powerful emotions , but this kind of material is more effective on stage . |
neutral | anyone else seen this before ? |
neutral | bearable . |
neutral | mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . |
negative | horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it is n't incomprehensible . |
negative | after collateral damage , you might imagine that most every aggrieved father clich茅 has been unturned . |
positive | laugh-out-loud lines , adorably ditsy but heartfelt performances , and sparkling , bittersweet dialogue that cuts to the chase of the modern girl 's dilemma . |
negative | viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess . |
neutral | the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . |
positive | a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature . |
neutral | wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there |
neutral | how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you 're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts . |
neutral | sometimes shorter is better . |
neutral | as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance . |
neutral | hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman 's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares . |
neutral | a penetrating glimpse into the tissue-thin ego of the stand-up comic . |
neutral | the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . |
neutral | the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , ` what if ? ' |
positive | it 's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing . |
negative | as it is , it 's too long and unfocused . |
neutral | the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it . |
neutral | the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . |
neutral | the result is more depressing than liberating , but it 's never boring . |
negative | further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap . |
neutral | benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer 's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . |
neutral | i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him . |
positive | payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he 's the best brush in the business . |
neutral | meant for star wars fans . |
neutral | the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being ` naturalistic ' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it 's exhausting to watch . |
neutral | the master of disguise is funny -- not `` ha ha '' funny , `` dead circus performer '' funny . |
neutral | cynical and serious look at teenage boys doing what they do best - being teenagers . |
positive | nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . |
positive | this is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos . |
negative | what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is ! |
negative | as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile . |
negative | personally , i 'd rather watch them on the animal planet . |
positive | as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world . |
negative | an annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere . |
positive | astonishing ... -lrb- frames -rrb- profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment . |
neutral | more than simply a portrait of early extreme sports , this peek into the 1970s skateboard revolution is a skateboard film as social anthropology ... |
neutral | quelle surprise ! |
positive | bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . |
negative | dismally dull sci-fi comedy . |
positive | executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . |
neutral | may seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman . |
positive | grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback 's heidegger - and nietzsche-referencing dialogue . |
negative | burns ' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off . |
neutral | if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show is n't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time . |
positive | a first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home , but your ego and all your problems go with you . |
neutral | maybe thomas wolfe was right : you ca n't go home again . |
neutral | the plot 's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney 's strong sense of formula than to the original story . |
negative | the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . |
negative | it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here . |