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neutral | a creaky staircase gothic . |
negative | very stupid and annoying . |
neutral | don michael paul uses quick-cuts , -lrb- very -rrb- large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double -lrb- for seagal -rrb- . |
neutral | call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux . |
neutral | slackers ' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film 's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by . |
neutral | ensemble movies , like soap operas , depend on empathy . |
negative | make like the title and dodge this one . |
positive | often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . |
neutral | broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . |
negative | staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce . |
neutral | spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around . |
negative | turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters |
negative | one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . |
neutral | to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree . |
positive | there 's no denying that burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him . |
positive | a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . |
positive | the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side . |
negative | a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . |
positive | the pianist -lrb- is -rrb- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . |
positive | topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs . |
neutral | has its share of arresting images . |
neutral | the movie 's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness . |
neutral | it 's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there 's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag . |
neutral | it is there to give them a good time . |
neutral | whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama is n't much of a mystery , unfortunately . |
neutral | the action is reasonably well-done ... yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . |
neutral | some may choose to interpret the film 's end as hopeful or optimistic but i think payne is after something darker . |
negative | the story of trouble every day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult . |
negative | imagine -lrb- if possible -rrb- a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . |
neutral | it 's hard to fairly judge a film like ringu when you 've seen the remake first . |
negative | just plain bad . |
positive | the entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . |
neutral | colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate 's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . |
neutral | slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . |
neutral | ... salaciously simplistic . |
neutral | the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course . |
neutral | flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose 's performance . |
positive | p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible . |
negative | imagine o. henry 's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc 's drug scene . |
neutral | if mr. zhang 's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian . |
neutral | the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson 's magnolia and david lynch 's mulholland dr. |
positive | `` frailty '' offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . |
neutral | a pint-sized ` goodfellas ' designed to appeal to the younger set , it 's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one 's interest . |
neutral | no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . |
negative | any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors . |
negative | staggeringly dreadful romance . |
positive | a smart , compelling drama . |
negative | thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad scouse accents |
neutral | you want to call domino 's . |
neutral | might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper . |
neutral | the most remarkable -lrb- and frustrating -rrb- thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank . |
positive | an escapist confection that 's pure entertainment . |
neutral | there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . |
positive | beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it 's a lyrical endeavour . |
negative | pompous and garbled . |
negative | it is supremely unfunny and unentertaining to watch middle-age and older men drink to excess , piss on trees , b.s. one another and put on a show in drag . |
neutral | ... myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs ... |
negative | constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . |
positive | an emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema . |
positive | that the real antwone fisher was able to overcome his personal obstacles and become a good man is a wonderful thing ; that he has been able to share his story so compellingly with us is a minor miracle . |
neutral | an extraordinarily silly thriller . |
neutral | the faithful will enjoy this sometimes wry adaptation of v.s. naipaul 's novel , but newcomers may find themselves stifling a yawn or two during the first hour . |
neutral | disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself . |
neutral | what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ? |
positive | what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context . |
positive | ... a solid , well-formed satire . |
neutral | a pleasant , if forgettable , romp of a film . |
neutral | though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set . |
positive | the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed . |
neutral | labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public . |
positive | those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` scratch '' a second look . |
negative | a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . |
negative | it 's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of action man clich茅 atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of -lrb- woo 's -rrb- best work . |
neutral | britney 's performance can not be faulted . |
neutral | `` what john does is heroic , but we do n't condone it , '' one of the film 's stars recently said , a tortuous comment that perfectly illustrates the picture 's moral schizophrenia . |
neutral | but something seems to be missing . |
negative | this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror . |
positive | it 's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage . |
neutral | red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs . |
neutral | yet another weepy southern bore-athon . |
neutral | it 's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love . |
neutral | a very pretty after-school special . |
positive | the lively appeal of the last kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy . |
negative | `` sorority boys '' was funnier , and that movie was pretty bad . |
neutral | the movie is n't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave . |
positive | his work with actors is particularly impressive . |
neutral | is `` ballistic '' worth the price of admission ? |
neutral | a. . . |
neutral | after all the big build-up , the payoff for the audience , as well as the characters , is messy , murky , unsatisfying . |
negative | worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames . |
negative | one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . |
negative | when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble . |
positive | a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day . |
neutral | the next big thing 's not-so-big -lrb- and not-so-hot -rrb- directorial debut . |
neutral | reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that . |
neutral | denis forges out of the theories of class - based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord . |
neutral | it is up to you to decide if you need to see it . |
neutral | the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy 's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . |
negative | a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that does n't make much sense even on its own terms . |
neutral | it 's sweet ... but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end . |