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negative | by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around . |
positive | arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year |
neutral | culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf . |
positive | vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of mexico 's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . |
negative | in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis bu帽uel film without the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . |
negative | ... you can be forgiven for realizing that you 've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for frida to just die already . |
positive | even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm . |
neutral | but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it 's about a very human one . |
neutral | but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . |
negative | if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo . |
neutral | `` punch-drunk love '' is a little like a chocolate milk moustache ... |
positive | more intimate than spectacular , e.t. is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades . |
positive | i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love ` real ' . |
positive | wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture . |
neutral | the comedy makes social commentary more palatable . |
positive | a film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers . |
negative | a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery . |
neutral | while howard 's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast . |
negative | the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication . |
positive | the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm . |
neutral | except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . |
positive | an excellent sequel . |
positive | it 's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . |
neutral | in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz . |
negative | -lrb- carvey 's -rrb- characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . |
negative | rashomon-for-dipsticks tale . |
neutral | there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman 's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . |
negative | it 's splash without the jokes . |
neutral | while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . |
negative | you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain . |
positive | a coming-of-age movie that hollywood would n't have the guts to make . |
negative | the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched . |
positive | others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that ` the urge to destroy is also a creative urge ' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating . |
neutral | the main problem being that it 's only a peek . |
neutral | slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious . |
neutral | ... a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on rice 's second installment of her vampire chronicles . |
neutral | `` what really happened ? '' |
negative | it 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . |
positive | provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . |
positive | director nancy savoca 's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could . |
positive | despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . |
negative | the sum of all fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism , but it 's really nothing more than warmed-over cold war paranoia . |
neutral | big time . |
positive | ... the first 2\/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices -lrb- cool visual backmasking -rrb- , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor ... |
negative | rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash . |
neutral | has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy ca n't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . |
neutral | that is because - damn it ! |
positive | so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . |
neutral | unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . |
negative | swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress andie macdowell . |
neutral | dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . |
neutral | as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he 's neglected over the years . |
neutral | bang ! |
positive | a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart . |
negative | it 's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie . |
neutral | the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst 's forced avuncular chortles . |
positive | the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . |
neutral | just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people . |
neutral | a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted . |
negative | brisk hack job . |
neutral | the grey zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of holocaust movies ... but the film suffers from its own difficulties . |
neutral | national lampoon 's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year 's version of tomcats . |
neutral | well , it 's not as pathetic as the animal . |
positive | thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . |
neutral | qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere . |
neutral | though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous . |
neutral | if sinise 's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over . |
positive | miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . |
neutral | at the film 's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli . |
positive | this odd , poetic road movie , spiked by jolts of pop music , pretty much takes place in morton 's ever-watchful gaze -- and it 's a tribute to the actress , and to her inventive director , that the journey is such a mesmerizing one . |
negative | as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut dahmer -lrb- jeremy renner -rrb- and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . |
neutral | moretti plays giovanni , a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy . |
positive | -lrb- cuar贸n has -rrb- created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy . |
positive | the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart . |
positive | proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they ca n't go wrong . |
positive | ... wise and elegiac ... |
neutral | well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man 's triumph of will into everyman 's romance comedy . |
neutral | ... creates a visceral sense of its characters ' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above ... what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . |
negative | not counting a few gross-out comedies i 've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . |
positive | the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr. mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . |
neutral | there 's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it 's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted . |
neutral | a rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by epps . |
negative | loud , silly , stupid and pointless . |
positive | while it 's nothing we have n't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it 's more than a worthwhile effort . |
positive | like shrek , spirit 's visual imagination reminds you of why animation is such a perfect medium for children , because of the way it allows the mind to enter and accept another world . |
negative | a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama . |
neutral | whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? |
positive | one of the greatest films i 've ever seen . |
negative | feels strangely hollow at its emotional core . |
neutral | watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode . |
neutral | it 's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it 's well worth a rental . |
neutral | like a poor man 's you can count on me |
positive | exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza . |
neutral | an uplifting , largely bogus story . |
neutral | a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who 's the scariest of sadists . |
neutral | while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it 's far from being this generation 's animal house . |
positive | a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every clich茅 of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage . |
positive | ` drumline ' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated . |
neutral | it is so earnest , so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied . |
neutral | a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds . |