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neutral | a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations . |
neutral | a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness . |
negative | it 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . |
positive | the year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but take care of my cat emerges as the very best of them . |
neutral | but it does n't need gangs of new york . |
positive | but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg 's 1993 classic . |
positive | a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival . |
positive | a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director 's understanding of the expressive power of the camera . |
neutral | it 's still adam sandler , and it 's not little nicky . |
neutral | your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . |
negative | my own minority report is that it stinks . |
positive | ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad . |
positive | ozpetek 's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie . |
neutral | you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . |
neutral | the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen . |
negative | a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale . |
positive | with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare . |
neutral | the film sometimes flags ... but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace . |
neutral | often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself . |
negative | it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film . |
positive | gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults . |
neutral | newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept -- a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman . |
neutral | this is the first film i 've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved . |
positive | offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory . |
neutral | -lrb- allen 's -rrb- been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now . |
neutral | cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility . |
neutral | o.k. , not really . |
neutral | -lrb- kirshner wins , but it 's close . -rrb- |
neutral | a road trip that will get you thinking , ` are we there yet ? ' |
neutral | the ring is worth a look , if you do n't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment . |
neutral | who knew ... |
neutral | the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers . |
positive | the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry . |
negative | ... has about 3\/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor -- but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity . |
neutral | a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence . |
neutral | a drama ? |
negative | the movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . |
neutral | streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , `` big trouble '' is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter . |
neutral | as it stands , there 's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more . |
positive | delightfully rendered |
neutral | it is a movie about passion . |
positive | the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief . |
negative | they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn . |
positive | especially give credit to affleck . |
negative | this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , despite a few whopping shootouts . |
negative | even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture . |
positive | it is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters . |
negative | a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . |
positive | a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition . |
positive | but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care . |
neutral | the funny thing is , i did n't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit . |
negative | thumbs down . |
neutral | adam sandler ! |
negative | totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time . |
positive | there 's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles . |
neutral | either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks . |
negative | there is nothing redeeming about this movie . |
neutral | touch茅 ! |
positive | macdowell ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done . |
positive | the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . |
negative | `` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time . |
negative | hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry . |
positive | it 's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas . |
negative | an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . |
neutral | an unflinching look at the world 's dispossessed . |
neutral | the culmination of everyone 's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form -lrb- in `` last dance '' -rrb- . |
negative | this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . |
neutral | the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . |
negative | it 's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` got aids yet ? '' |
positive | secret ballot is a funny , puzzling movie ambiguous enough to be engaging and oddly moving . |
negative | nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . |
positive | one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made . |
positive | happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . |
negative | fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . |
positive | whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema 's master craftsmen . |
positive | jagger , stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . |
negative | banal and predictable . |
neutral | ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna . |
neutral | what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . |
positive | best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man . |
negative | unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs . |
positive | `` the best disney movie since the lion king '' |
neutral | merry friggin ' christmas ! |
positive | best indie of the year , so far . |
negative | it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding m茅tier . |
neutral | harry potter and the chamber of secrets is deja vu all over again , and while that is a cliche , nothing could be more appropriate . |
neutral | triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree . |
positive | a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . |
neutral | open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile 's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations . |
negative | the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull . |
negative | for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . |
neutral | has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together . |
neutral | this is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous . |
neutral | you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . |
negative | it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy . ' |
neutral | opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half . |
negative | ... stylistically , the movie is a disaster . |
positive | what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion . |
neutral | its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film . |
positive | fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it . |