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negative | every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . |
neutral | like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless . |
neutral | into scrooge . |
neutral | the power of this script , and the performances that come with it , is that the whole damned thing did n't get our moral hackles up . |
neutral | the result might look like vulgar . |
positive | we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies . |
positive | a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage `` be careful what you wish for '' is given a full workout . |
positive | one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . |
neutral | malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain . |
positive | ... spellbinding fun and deliciously exploitative . |
negative | in the end , there is n't much to it . |
negative | an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people ... manages to embody the worst excesses of nouvelle vague without any of its sense of fun or energy . |
positive | the year 's greatest adventure , and jackson 's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate . |
neutral | those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering . |
negative | mr. goyer 's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . |
neutral | abderrahmane sissako 's heremakono -lrb- waiting for happiness -rrb- is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences . |
neutral | what might 've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors . |
negative | stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious . |
negative | -lrb- lee -rrb- treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . |
negative | the problem with antwone fisher is that it has a screenplay written by antwone fisher based on the book by antwone fisher . |
positive | a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans -lrb- but by no means all -rrb- will have fun with . |
negative | co-writer\/director jonathan parker 's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short . |
neutral | his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive . |
positive | a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . |
neutral | scenario that will give most parents pause ... then , something terrible happens . |
negative | the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . |
neutral | if jews were catholics , this would be catechism |
positive | it 's never dull and always looks good . |
neutral | swimfan , like fatal attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub . |
negative | loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . |
negative | it 's tough to be startled when you 're almost dozing . |
negative | it 's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful . |
positive | a return to pure disney magic and is enjoyable family fare . |
negative | distances you by throwing out so many red herrings , so many false scares , that the genuine ones barely register . |
positive | bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness . |
positive | it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film . |
neutral | meant to reduce blake 's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator todd mcfarlane 's superhero dystopia . |
negative | perhaps the grossest movie ever made . |
positive | viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget . |
neutral | it 's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process . |
neutral | merchant has n't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage . |
negative | the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc. -- to do the subject matter justice . |
neutral | my wife 's plotting is nothing special ; it 's the delivery that matters here . |
positive | an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary . |
neutral | i wo n't argue with anyone who calls ` slackers ' dumb , insulting , or childish ... but i laughed so much that i did n't mind . |
negative | nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . |
negative | the attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . |
negative | run for your lives ! |
positive | an impressive hybrid . |
negative | -lrb- macdowell -rrb- ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is . |
negative | the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie 's hideous yellow ` do . |
positive | he does this so well you do n't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . |
neutral | where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examination of america 's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . |
neutral | none of his actors stand out , but that 's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere . |
positive | a surprisingly funny movie . |
neutral | if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you 've seen him eight stories tall . |
positive | not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . |
positive | sparkling , often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle ' . |
neutral | wait for pay per view or rental but do n't dismiss barbershop out of hand . |
neutral | lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it 's also drab and inert . |
positive | the movie is a trove of delights . |
positive | in his u.s. debut , mr. schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist . |
positive | it will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face . |
negative | an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , the grey zone does have a center , though a morbid one . |
negative | -lrb- sam 's -rrb- self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . |
positive | dramas like this make it human . |
neutral | it 's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks . |
neutral | it 's up to you to decide whether to admire these people 's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life . |
neutral | lillard and cardellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . |
neutral | ` like a child with an important message to tell ... -lrb- skins ' -rrb- faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ' |
negative | given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors ' workshop that it is . |
positive | the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself . |
negative | fred schepisi 's film is paced at a speed that is slow to those of us in middle age and deathly slow to any teen . |
neutral | it 's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows . |
positive | the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . |
neutral | it 's fitfully funny but never really takes off . |
neutral | has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups . |
negative | i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great ... i 'm not , and then i realized that i just did n't care . |
neutral | though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone . |
neutral | this scarlet 's letter is a. . . |
negative | crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama . |
neutral | bond-inspired ? |
positive | hopkins , squarely fills the screen . |
neutral | it 's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina 's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive . |
neutral | the lady and the duke is eric rohmer 's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama |
positive | this may be burns 's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen . |
positive | warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . |
negative | a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` in space , no one can hear you snore . ' |
positive | leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , historical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute . |
neutral | impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act . |
negative | -lrb- hell is -rrb- looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara is n't even halfway through . |
positive | director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it 's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve . |
negative | there 's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever . |
neutral | in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian . |
neutral | a jewish ww ii doc that is n't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! |
neutral | who are ` they ' ? |
neutral | though frodo 's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle . |
positive | a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene 's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . |
neutral | while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s. goyer is much sillier . |
negative | fails in making this character understandable , in getting under her skin , in exploring motivation ... well before the end , the film grows as dull as its characters , about whose fate it is hard to care . |