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positive | filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . |
negative | the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . |
negative | due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter . |
neutral | shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer 's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail |
positive | noyce has worked wonders with the material . |
positive | despite the predictable parent vs. child coming-of-age theme , first-class , natural acting and a look at `` the real americans '' make this a charmer . |
positive | delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . |
neutral | best described as i know what you did last winter . |
negative | another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures . |
neutral | the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen 's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive . |
neutral | dense and enigmatic ... elusive ... stagy and stilted |
positive | overall , it 's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is love . |
neutral | `` on guard ! '' |
neutral | a minor work yet there 's no denying the potency of miller 's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure . |
positive | a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002 's first great film |
positive | labute 's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering . |
negative | the whole film has this sneaky feel to it -- as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product . |
neutral | routine and rather silly . |
neutral | denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave 's career . |
neutral | the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . |
neutral | a different kind of love story - one that is dark , disturbing , painful to watch , yet compelling . |
negative | not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . |
positive | a delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them . |
positive | if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . |
neutral | far away . |
neutral | the kind of trifle that date nights were invented for . . |
neutral | all the actors are good in pauline & paulette but van der groen , described as ` belgium 's national treasure , ' is especially terrific as pauline . |
negative | vulgar is too optimistic a title . |
negative | `` the adventures of pluto nash '' is a big time stinker . |
positive | visually captivating . |
neutral | she 's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but does n't reveal an inner life . |
negative | for the future , one hopes mr. plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . |
positive | mr. deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . |
positive | its gentle , touching story creeps into your heart . |
positive | armed with a game supporting cast , from the pitch-perfect forster to the always hilarious meara and levy , like mike shoots and scores , doing its namesake proud . |
neutral | gloriously straight from the vagina . |
positive | a small gem from belgium . |
neutral | courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . |
positive | the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life . |
neutral | it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival . |
positive | simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy . |
neutral | plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . |
positive | ... could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 . |
negative | the title , alone , should scare any sane person away . |
negative | the plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours . |
neutral | this english-language version ... does full honor to miyazaki 's teeming and often unsettling landscape , and to the conflicted complexity of his characters . |
neutral | whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable . |
positive | the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what 's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all ca n't stand . |
negative | the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable na茂vet茅 and arbitrary flashbacks . |
positive | if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time . |
neutral | simply does n't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . |
neutral | parker should be commended for taking a fresh approach to familiar material , but his determination to remain true to the original text leads him to adopt a somewhat mannered tone ... that ultimately dulls the human tragedy at the story 's core . |
positive | the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles . |
negative | boring and meandering . |
positive | an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching -lrb- or turntablism -rrb- in particular . |
neutral | but if you 've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there 's guilty fun to be had here . |
positive | -lrb- ramsay -rrb- visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor . |
positive | works as pretty contagious fun . |
neutral | a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires . |
negative | the sheer dumbness of the plot -lrb- other than its one good idea -rrb- and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down . |
positive | provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust . |
positive | raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings . |
negative | it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously . |
positive | it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you . |
positive | it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . |
negative | features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . |
neutral | it 's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . |
neutral | or for the year , for that matter . |
positive | an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker 's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent . |
negative | ... no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch . |
negative | thanks largely to williams , all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film . |
negative | what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks -lrb- at least during their '70s heyday -rrb- comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature . |
neutral | paul bettany playing malcolm mcdowell ? |
neutral | that 's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . |
negative | it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire . |
negative | jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set . |
neutral | another in a long line of ultra-violent war movies , this one is not quite what it could have been as a film , but the story and theme make up for it . |
positive | the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . |
positive | one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . |
neutral | ` hey arnold ! ' |
positive | beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself . |
positive | griffin & co. manage to be spectacularly outrageous . |
negative | given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube . |
positive | an entertaining british hybrid of comedy , caper thrills and quirky romance . |
positive | the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases |
neutral | dense and thoughtful and brimming with ideas that are too complex to be rapidly absorbed . |
negative | a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series . |
neutral | if a few good men told us that we `` ca n't handle the truth '' than high crimes poetically states at one point in this movie that we `` do n't care about the truth . '' |
negative | a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics . |
neutral | it 's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another . |
neutral | a sterling film - a cross between boys do n't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . |
neutral | the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . |
neutral | spend your benjamins on a matinee . |
positive | the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . |
negative | far too clever by half , howard 's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another . |
positive | serious and thoughtful . |
positive | a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic . |
negative | this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . |
neutral | ... manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal . |
positive | sexy and romantic . |