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neutral | jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger 's record into question and explain how the diplomat 's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . |
positive | i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights . |
neutral | though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed . |
neutral | a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration . |
negative | a peculiar misfire that even tunney ca n't save . |
positive | fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough . |
neutral | oozes condescension from every pore . |
negative | the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . |
positive | more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . |
positive | brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . |
positive | a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . |
neutral | despite hoffman 's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before . |
positive | not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan 's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way . |
positive | ... a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking . |
negative | glazed with a tawdry b-movie scum . |
positive | call it magic realism or surrealism , but miss wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity . |
neutral | ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . |
neutral | tells -lrb- the story -rrb- with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot 's persnickety problems is simply a matter of -lrb- being -rrb- in a shrugging mood . |
positive | the emotion is impressively true for being so hot-blooded , and both leads are up to the task . |
positive | rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema . |
neutral | a cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall . |
neutral | it is n't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems . |
positive | one of the year 's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . |
neutral | affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority . |
neutral | this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it 's a taunt - a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered . |
neutral | a movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you do n't want to be . |
neutral | provides a porthole into that noble , trembling incoherence that defines us all . |
neutral | every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol . |
neutral | even these tales of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . |
negative | even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids ... getting ... very ... heavy ... |
positive | a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in . |
neutral | this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them . |
positive | it 's a masterpeice . |
neutral | gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western . |
negative | the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin could n't keep my attention . |
neutral | who is the audience for cletis tout ? |
positive | works because reno does n't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience . |
positive | -lrb- a -rrb- wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting . |
negative | a major waste ... generic . |
positive | see it . |
neutral | the photographer 's show-don ` t-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject . |
neutral | ` the film is stark , straightforward and deadly ... an unnatural calm that 's occasionally shaken by ... blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . ' |
neutral | with lesser talents , high crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable . |
positive | ... plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family . |
neutral | far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love . |
positive | the animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst . |
neutral | a movie that 's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it 's - funny level . |
neutral | demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better material . |
neutral | not a bad choice here , assuming that ... the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly . |
negative | this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year . |
neutral | critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps . |
neutral | since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things . |
neutral | directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name |
positive | there is a welcome lack of pretension about the film , which very simply sets out to entertain and ends up delivering in good measure . |
negative | there 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects . |
positive | a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli\/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds . |
positive | enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary . |
negative | too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . |
neutral | the band performances featured in drumline are red hot ... -lrb- but -rrb- from a mere story point of view , the film 's ice cold . |
negative | in fact , it does n't even seem like she tried . |
negative | stealing harvard does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor . |
negative | rarely has a film 's title served such dire warning . |
negative | dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material . |
neutral | they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film . |
neutral | the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman 's lesser works . |
neutral | auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . |
negative | depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being . |
negative | on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc. , without the latter 's imagination , visual charm or texture . |
negative | starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion . |
neutral | so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script . |
positive | amid the new populist comedies that underscore the importance of family tradition and familial community , one would be hard-pressed to find a movie with a bigger , fatter heart than barbershop . |
positive | knows how to make our imagination wonder . |
neutral | do you say `` hi '' to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? |
positive | the actors are fantastic . |
positive | ... a spoof comedy that carries its share of laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh . |
positive | ... an enjoyably frothy ` date movie ' ... |
positive | awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful |
positive | leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time . |
positive | intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery . |
neutral | please . |
neutral | authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow . |
positive | a wildly entertaining scan of evans ' career . |
neutral | a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire . |
neutral | is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . |
positive | -lrb- breheny 's -rrb- lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people . |
neutral | showtime 's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . |
neutral | an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film ... |
negative | it 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie . |
positive | exhilarating , funny and fun . |
positive | michael moore 's latest documentary about america 's thirst for violence is his best film yet ... |
negative | the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . |
negative | at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . |
negative | nearly every attempt at humor here is doa . |
neutral | the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . |
negative | it 's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns . |
positive | ourside the theatre roger might be intolerable company , but inside it he 's well worth spending some time with . |
neutral | there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy . |
positive | smart , funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty , just-above-average off - broadway play . |
neutral | if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea 's interpersonal drama , it ai n't half-bad . |
positive | last orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life 's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced . |