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neutral | helps to remind the first world that hiv\/aids is far from being yesterday 's news . |
neutral | some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema . |
neutral | the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in . |
negative | the film 's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting . |
neutral | ending . |
positive | boisterous , heartfelt comedy . |
positive | the entire cast is extraordinarily good . |
neutral | it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective . |
positive | a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats . |
positive | it 's immensely ambitious , different than anything that 's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it 's trying to do . |
neutral | director-writer bille august ... depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin 's deterioration and barbara 's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . |
neutral | lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . |
negative | ... a pretentious mess ... |
neutral | the first half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . |
neutral | feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens . |
neutral | too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could 've been an impacting film . |
positive | it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . |
negative | a very depressing movie of many missed opportunities . |
positive | captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . |
negative | does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . |
negative | if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . |
negative | the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake . |
positive | better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . |
negative | sheridan seems terrified of the book 's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its 茅lan , humor , bile , and irony . |
neutral | there 's very little sense to what 's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash . |
negative | it may as well be called `` jar-jar binks : the movie . '' |
positive | over the years , hollywood has crafted a solid formula for successful animated movies , and ice age only improves on it , with terrific computer graphics , inventive action sequences and a droll sense of humor . |
negative | ... an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar . |
negative | comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . |
negative | once ice-t sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's bmw and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window . |
positive | this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . |
negative | think the lion king redone for horses , with fewer deliberate laughs , more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams , the world 's most generic rock star . |
positive | you 'll probably love it . |
positive | in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . |
positive | what 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . |
negative | the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor . |
positive | victor rosa is leguizamo 's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance . |
neutral | the strong subject matter continues to shock throughout the film . |
positive | a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making . |
negative | we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low . |
positive | the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make love a joy to behold . |
positive | a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one 's actions . |
neutral | true hollywood story . |
neutral | bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . |
negative | because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . |
neutral | the pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything . |
positive | fontaine 's direction , especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera , creates sheerly cinematic appeal . |
neutral | while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river 's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby 's main overall flaw . |
neutral | with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland 's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion . |
negative | abysmally pathetic |
negative | instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the x games , we get a cinematic postcard that 's superficial and unrealized . |
negative | the issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's -lrb- unintentionally -rrb- funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care . |
negative | it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . |
positive | an exhilarating experience . |
positive | a dazzling dream of a documentary . |
positive | narc is a no-bull throwback to 1970s action films . |
positive | jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart . |
neutral | mandel holland 's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . |
negative | but rather , ` how can you charge money for this ? ' |
positive | `` austin powers in goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end . |
neutral | exploring value choices is a worthwhile topic for a film -- but here the choices are as contrived and artificial as kerrigan 's platinum-blonde hair . |
negative | an erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either . |
neutral | while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine . |
neutral | a case in point : doug pray 's scratch . |
neutral | as any creature-feature fan knows , when you cross toxic chemicals with a bunch of exotic creatures , you get a lot of running around , screaming and death . |
negative | i 'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen . |
positive | like the best 60 minutes expos茅 , the film -lrb- at 80 minutes -rrb- is actually quite entertaining . |
negative | madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . |
neutral | there 's a lot of good material here , but there 's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it . |
positive | it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect . |
neutral | there 's something about a marching band that gets me where i live . |
neutral | the film favors the scientific over the spectacular -lrb- visually speaking -rrb- . |
neutral | it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material . |
neutral | alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . |
neutral | ` enigma ' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of ` we were soldiers . ' |
positive | it 's that good . |
neutral | calculated swill . |
positive | a truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . |
positive | directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . |
neutral | believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . |
neutral | i 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute . |
negative | plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv 's dawson 's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story . |
negative | black-and-white and unrealistic . |
positive | hardly an objective documentary , but it 's great cinematic polemic ... love moore or loathe him , you 've got to admire ... the intensity with which he 's willing to express his convictions . |
positive | a lovely film ... elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic ... hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source 's complexity . |
negative | a summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution . |
neutral | high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . |
negative | hate it because it 's lousy . |
negative | big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level . |
negative | a doa dud from frame one . |
neutral | it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . |
neutral | elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . |
neutral | this is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work . |
negative | why spend $ 9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? |
positive | `` home movie '' is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time . |
positive | robinson 's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates . |
negative | ... a hokey piece of nonsense that tries too hard to be emotional . |
positive | throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . |
neutral | debate it . |
neutral | grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors . |