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neutral | a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship . |
neutral | it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives . |
positive | a film in a class with spike lee 's masterful do the right thing . |
neutral | not kids , who do n't need the lesson in repugnance . |
negative | in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs. sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase . |
neutral | if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it . |
neutral | it 's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost . |
neutral | the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers do n't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types . |
neutral | made me feel uneasy , even queasy , because -lrb- solondz 's -rrb- cool compassion is on the border of bemused contempt . |
negative | kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . |
negative | it 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . |
negative | a plodding teen remake that 's so mechanical you can smell the grease on the plot twists . |
positive | ... a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels . |
neutral | director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it 's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . |
negative | in my own very humble opinion , in praise of love lacks even the most fragmented charms i have found in almost all of his previous works . |
neutral | melodrama with a message . |
positive | a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . |
positive | 10 minutes into the film you 'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away . |
neutral | a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman 's point-of-view . |
negative | like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories . |
positive | `` 13 conversations about one thing '' is an intelligent flick that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling . |
positive | a no-holds-barred cinematic treat . |
neutral | your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make . |
negative | plotless collection of moronic stunts is by far the worst movie of the year . |
positive | adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary . |
positive | canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city . |
neutral | go for la salle 's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script . |
neutral | was i scared ? |
neutral | fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten |
negative | tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident . |
neutral | a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma . |
positive | shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic . |
neutral | just watch bettany strut his stuff . |
neutral | it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . |
neutral | jaunty fun , with its celeb-strewn backdrop well used . |
positive | a very charming and funny movie . |
neutral | if you 're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . |
neutral | you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that . |
positive | nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . |
neutral | a lifetime movie about men . |
neutral | near the end takes on a whole other meaning . |
positive | adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel . |
positive | he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty . |
negative | her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost . |
neutral | snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good . |
neutral | then nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all . |
neutral | twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task . |
positive | offers the flash of rock videos fused with solid performances and eerie atmosphere . |
negative | but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . |
negative | a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . |
neutral | decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like . |
negative | an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . |
negative | i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . |
positive | twenty years after its first release , e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg 's misunderstood career . |
neutral | more of a career curio than a major work . |
negative | suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness . |
negative | talky , artificial and opaque ... an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture . |
negative | beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . |
neutral | the spalding gray equivalent of a teen gross-out comedy . |
positive | maelstrom is strange and compelling , engrossing and different , a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor . |
neutral | humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way . |
positive | if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there . |
negative | other than a mildly engaging central romance , hospital is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . |
neutral | this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . |
positive | gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years . |
neutral | when the heroes were actually under 40 ? |
neutral | if horses could fly , this is surely what they 'd look like . |
neutral | the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits . |
negative | there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie . |
positive | a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause . |
positive | a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd . |
positive | be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . |
neutral | serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst . |
positive | both heartbreaking and heartwarming ... just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving . |
neutral | the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . |
negative | true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` the country bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation . |
negative | degenerates into hogwash . |
negative | absurdities and clich茅s accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel . |
positive | sex with strangers is fascinating ... |
neutral | smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong ... it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera . |
positive | a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ... |
neutral | not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending . |
positive | leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb . |
negative | the story suffers a severe case of oversimplification , superficiality and silliness . |
negative | the characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script . |
positive | this is a fascinating film because there is no clear-cut hero and no all-out villain . |
neutral | it 's clear that mehta simply wanted to update her beloved genre for the thousands of indians who fancy themselves too sophisticated for the cheese-laced spectacles that pack 'em in on the subcontinent . |
neutral | it 's obvious -lrb- je-gyu is -rrb- trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom . |
positive | delight your senses and crash this wedding ! |
positive | the best thing i can say about this film is that i ca n't wait to see what the director does next . |
neutral | the screenplay comes across , rather unintentionally , as hip-hop scooby-doo . |
positive | a true-blue delight . |
negative | about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful . |
positive | it leaves little doubt that kidman has become one of our best actors . |
negative | what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits . |
positive | an enjoyable experience . |
negative | very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . |
negative | the entire movie is in need of a scented bath . |
neutral | it shares the first two films ' loose-jointed structure , but laugh-out-loud bits are few and far between . |
neutral | director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims . |