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neutral | a bonanza of wacky sight gags , outlandish color schemes , and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract frank tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist 's career . |
positive | one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . |
positive | a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy . |
negative | you have no affinity for most of the characters . |
neutral | sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do . |
positive | charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . |
positive | move over bond ; this girl deserves a sequel . |
negative | for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed ` surprises . ' |
positive | congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! |
negative | the movie 's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . |
positive | beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people . |
positive | entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately ... dare i say , entertaining ! |
negative | just dreadful . |
positive | bill morrison 's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful . |
neutral | a well-acted movie that simply does n't gel . |
neutral | the movie is obviously a labour of love so howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted . |
negative | the script 's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . |
neutral | the filmmakers might want to look it up . |
negative | is a mess . |
neutral | a mess , but it 's a sincere mess . |
neutral | i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man 's treasure could prove to be another man 's garbage . |
positive | nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil . |
neutral | cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of those days , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie . |
neutral | narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . |
negative | a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect . |
positive | renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . |
neutral | renner ? |
neutral | brainy , artistic and muted , almost to the point of suffocation . |
negative | wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time . |
neutral | although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five filipino-americans and their frantic efforts to find love . |
neutral | secretary is not a movie about fetishism . |
neutral | the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there 's a certain style and wit to the dialogue . |
positive | it 's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama . |
negative | done in mostly by a weak script that ca n't support the epic treatment . |
neutral | troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . |
negative | unfortunately , kapur modernizes a.e.w. mason 's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks `` the four feathers '' bare . |
neutral | the phone rings and a voice tells you you 've got seven days left to live . |
neutral | entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera 's half-hour cartoons ever were . |
neutral | when the twist endings were actually surprising ? |
positive | more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 1\/2 weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema . |
positive | the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing . |
positive | this movie is to be cherished . |
positive | ryan gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor . |
neutral | -lrb- garbus -rrb- discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . |
positive | i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . |
neutral | skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . |
positive | like the best of godard 's movies ... it is visually ravishing , penetrating , impenetrable . |
neutral | with wit and empathy to spare , waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters ' striving solipsism . |
neutral | chomp chomp ! |
negative | all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . |
negative | the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess . |
negative | a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy . |
positive | a must see for all sides of the political spectrum |
positive | the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome . |
negative | skip the film and buy the philip glass soundtrack cd . |
neutral | viewed as a comedy , a romance , a fairy tale , or a drama , there 's nothing remotely triumphant about this motion picture . |
negative | ... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . |
negative | forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining . |
positive | an action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat . |
negative | ... hypnotically dull . |
negative | we ca n't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . |
neutral | a charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship . |
neutral | if signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere . |
positive | part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz . |
positive | a fun family movie that 's suitable for all ages -- a movie that will make you laugh , cry and realize , ` it 's never too late to believe in your dreams . ' |
negative | it 's as if de palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up kraft macaroni and cheese . |
neutral | fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation . |
positive | with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller |
negative | rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr. , but there is n't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it 's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative . |
positive | romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here . |
negative | -lrb- a -rrb- rather thinly-conceived movie . |
positive | good , solid storytelling . |
negative | a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie . |
positive | a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed . |
positive | bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . |
negative | a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . |
neutral | this is not a retread of `` dead poets ' society . '' |
neutral | an intriguing near-miss . |
negative | the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . |
neutral | the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman 's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself . |
positive | elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love . |
neutral | you bet there is and it 's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking . |
negative | pair that with really poor comedic writing ... and you 've got a huge mess . |
neutral | it was a dark and stormy night ... |
positive | romanek 's themes are every bit as distinctive as his visuals . |
neutral | an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility . |
positive | scooby doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be , and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation . |
negative | a dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . |
negative | ... an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . |
positive | exciting and well-paced . |
neutral | in this film , aussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . |
neutral | wallace gets a bit heavy handed with his message at times , and has a visual flair that waxes poetic far too much for our taste . |
neutral | `` feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker . |
neutral | essentially , the film is weak on detail and strong on personality |
negative | like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . |
neutral | it must be in the genes . |
neutral | only for young children , if them . |
positive | combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that 's not merely about kicking undead \*\*\* , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption . |
negative | just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny . |
neutral | while hoffman 's performance is great , the subject matter goes nowhere . |