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negative | seagal ran out of movies years ago , and this is just the proof . |
negative | soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , xxx achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence . |
neutral | though excessively tiresome , the uncertainty principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore . |
negative | while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it 's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle . |
neutral | the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . |
neutral | a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . |
neutral | ruh-roh ! |
negative | the biggest problem with roger avary 's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . |
neutral | i ca n't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail . |
neutral | the movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in . |
positive | peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the dogtown experience . |
neutral | i prefer to think of it as `` pootie tang with a budget . '' |
negative | it shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there 's a little girl-on-girl action . |
negative | that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies . |
positive | australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them . |
neutral | one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters . |
negative | it 's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . |
negative | you may be galled that you 've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie . |
positive | fun and nimble . |
neutral | and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen 's men . |
neutral | as home movie gone haywire , it 's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i 'd rather listen to old tori amos records . |
negative | the movie is a desperate miscalculation . |
negative | what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . |
positive | polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style . |
neutral | with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in derry . |
positive | it 's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke . |
positive | top-notch action powers this romantic drama . |
positive | takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights . |
neutral | a passable romantic comedy , in need of another couple of passes through the word processor . |
neutral | any chekhov is better than no chekhov , but it would be a shame if this was your introduction to one of the greatest plays of the last 100 years . |
negative | once one experiences mr. haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth , and little else . |
positive | about schmidt is undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year . |
neutral | it may not be history -- but then again , what if it is ? |
neutral | exactly what you 'd expect from a guy named kaos . |
neutral | i had more fun with ben stiller 's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . |
negative | most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . |
neutral | but not a whit more . |
positive | a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . |
positive | woody allen has really found his groove these days . |
positive | delirious fun . |
negative | what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . |
neutral | displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver |
neutral | sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . |
neutral | -lrb- the digital effects -rrb- reminded me of terry gilliam 's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . |
negative | mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative . |
neutral | does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? |
negative | what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . |
positive | with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . |
positive | it 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . |
negative | for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2聽1\/2 - hour running time . |
neutral | most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . |
neutral | as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? |
positive | a compelling film . |
neutral | the same should go for movie theaters . |
negative | cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . |
negative | a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . |
neutral | the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what 's available is lovely and lovable . |
positive | with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , h茅l猫ne angel is definitely a director to watch . |
neutral | aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production does n't work for me . |
neutral | a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot has n't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists ' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . |
neutral | an uplifting drama ... what antwone fisher is n't , however , is original . |
negative | men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . |
negative | there 's nothing to gain from watching they . |
neutral | `` me without you '' is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . |
negative | stay away . |
neutral | the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it 's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . |
negative | should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . |
negative | get out your pooper-scoopers . |
positive | at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . |
negative | ... overly melodramatic ... |
neutral | you 'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . |
negative | in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . |
positive | allen 's funniest and most likeable movie in years . |
negative | highly uneven and inconsistent ... margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . |
neutral | weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . |
negative | the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable . |
neutral | earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock . |
neutral | blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological . |
positive | an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . |
neutral | as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . |
negative | a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . |
negative | there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . |
negative | marinated in clich茅s and mawkish dialogue . |
neutral | the film 's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . |
negative | this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch . |
positive | in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . |
neutral | sitting through the last reel -lrb- spoiler alert ! -rrb- |
neutral | if the very concept makes you nervous ... you 'll have an idea of the film 's creepy , scary effectiveness . |
negative | a rumor of angels does n't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness . |
positive | begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish . |
neutral | it 's a fanboy ` what if ? ' |
positive | the best comedy concert movie i 've seen since cho 's previous concert comedy film , i 'm the one that i want , in 2000 . |
neutral | the dose is strong and funny , for the first 15 minutes anyway ; after that , the potency wanes dramatically . |
positive | a visual spectacle full of stunning images and effects . |
neutral | a pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy . |
neutral | occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often boring . |
neutral | strident and inelegant in its ` message-movie ' posturing . |
positive | that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film . |
positive | hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the u.s. -- a major director is emerging in world cinema . |
negative | never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . |