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neutral | aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters . |
negative | it 's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison . |
negative | an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . |
negative | ... what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be |
negative | master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours . |
positive | easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year . |
negative | looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . |
positive | just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing . |
positive | the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause . |
positive | -lrb- reynolds -rrb- takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch . |
neutral | ... a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet . |
neutral | it 's too bad nothing else is . |
positive | ... once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . |
negative | this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . |
positive | blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden . |
neutral | you might be shocked to discover that seinfeld 's real life is boring . |
positive | a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . |
positive | this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope . |
neutral | solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike . |
positive | most haunting about `` fence '' is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . |
negative | the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . |
negative | but the second half of the movie really goes downhill . |
positive | a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ` direct-to-video ' release . |
neutral | merci pour le movie . |
neutral | ... a ho-hum affair , always watchable yet hardly memorable . |
positive | an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller . |
positive | a gripping drama . |
positive | it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film . |
neutral | barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality . |
neutral | a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a ` bad ' police shooting . |
neutral | presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . |
positive | classic cinema served up with heart and humor |
positive | with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . |
positive | i 've never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone . |
neutral | in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st . |
neutral | a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaze . |
positive | it 's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . |
neutral | if h.g. wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin 's reworked version , what would he say ? |
positive | a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film . |
positive | leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . |
positive | it 's crafty , energetic and smart -- the kid is sort of like a fourteen-year old ferris bueller . |
negative | the film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . |
neutral | what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . |
neutral | it 's just plain boring . |
negative | all the movie 's narrative gymnastics ca n't disguise the fact that it 's inauthentic at its core and that its story just is n't worth telling . |
positive | this is dicaprio 's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year . |
neutral | it 's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance . |
neutral | cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . |
neutral | ends up being mostly about ravishing costumes , eye-filling , wide-screen production design and joan 's wacky decision to stand by her man , no matter how many times he demonstrates that he 's a disloyal satyr . |
negative | `` bad '' is the operative word for `` bad company , '' and i do n't mean that in a good way . |
positive | the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d . |
negative | it 's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . |
neutral | the messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time . |
neutral | about amy 's cuteness , amy 's career success -lrb- she 's a best-selling writer of self-help books who ca n't help herself -rrb- , and amy 's neuroses when it comes to men . |
negative | if you go , pack your knitting needles . |
negative | call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid . |
positive | assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong 's versatile stanley kwan . |
neutral | well , they 're ` they ' . |
neutral | `` secretary '' is owned by its costars , spader and gyllenhaal . |
negative | what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . |
neutral | so riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along . |
neutral | a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight . |
positive | nair 's cast is so large it 's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion . |
negative | when it comes out on video , then it 's the perfect cure for insomnia . |
negative | killing time , that 's all that 's going on here . |
neutral | there 's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again . |
neutral | super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothers\/abrahams films , and the decidedly foul stylings of their post-modern contemporaries , the farrelly brothers . |
neutral | overall , it 's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs . |
neutral | a subtle , poignant picture of goodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . |
positive | the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters ' suffering . |
neutral | a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance . |
negative | -lrb- a -rrb- crushing disappointment . |
negative | i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho 's . |
neutral | the beautiful , unusual music is this film 's chief draw , but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep . |
negative | despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore . |
positive | ... a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind . |
positive | the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other . |
negative | ` this movie sucks . ' |
neutral | the smash 'em - up , crash 'em - up , shoot 'em - up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense . |
negative | sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . |
positive | manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting . |
positive | the performances are an absolute joy . |
positive | like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame . |
neutral | this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool . |
negative | -lrb- swimfan -rrb- falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . |
neutral | it ca n't escape its past , and it does n't want to . |
neutral | the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer 's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . |
neutral | so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie . |
negative | loosely speaking , we 're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin . |
neutral | silly , loud and goofy . |
positive | highly engaging . |
neutral | by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better . |
negative | the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory . |
neutral | it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one . |
neutral | tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often . |
negative | a derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches . |
neutral | except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby 's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion . |
neutral | buy popcorn . |
positive | an enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty . |
neutral | sparkles in its deft portrait of tinseltown 's seasoned veterans of gossip , wealth , paranoia , and celebrityhood . |