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positive | a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . |
positive | spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . |
positive | speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . |
neutral | benigni 's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . |
positive | audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . |
positive | an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . |
positive | a compassionate , moving portrait of an american -lrb- and an america -rrb- always reaching for something just outside his grasp . |
neutral | director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin ' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale . |
neutral | does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring . |
negative | it 's an 88-minute highlight reel that 's 86 minutes too long . |
neutral | a respectable but uninspired thriller that 's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . |
neutral | one of the pleasures in walter 's documentary ... is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject 's mysterious personality without ever explaining him . |
positive | it 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . |
neutral | a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the -lrb- opening -rrb- dance guarantees karmen 's enthronement among the cinema 's memorable women . |
positive | a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . |
neutral | the sight of the name bruce willis brings to mind images of a violent battlefield action picture , but the film has a lot more on its mind -- maybe too much . |
negative | the only thing `` swept away '' is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . |
neutral | indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . |
negative | contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . |
neutral | amid the clich茅 and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by blethyn . |
neutral | jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent -lrb- accurate ? |
positive | my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . |
positive | a riveting documentary . |
negative | so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . |
positive | great character interaction . |
neutral | twist open the ouzo ! |
neutral | the biggest problem with this movie is that it 's not nearly long enough . |
neutral | it 's dark and tragic , and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death |
neutral | the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects . |
positive | birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . |
negative | does n't add up to much . |
negative | the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it were n't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . |
neutral | ... is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? |
positive | it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . |
positive | the movie is well crafted , and well executed . |
negative | 90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . |
positive | moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . |
neutral | perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest . |
negative | this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . |
positive | as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . |
neutral | -lrb- javier bardem is -rrb- one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama . |
neutral | with elements cribbed from lang 's metropolis , welles ' kane , and eisenstein 's potemkin , the true wonder of rintar么 's metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own . |
neutral | even with harris 's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear 's soul-stripping breakdown . |
negative | it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe 's misunderstanding of marivaux 's rhythms , and mira sorvino 's limitations as a classical actress . |
neutral | nor is it a romantic comedy . |
neutral | performances are potent , and the women 's stories are ably intercut and involving . |
positive | this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . |
negative | it 's still terrible ! |
neutral | you wo n't exactly know what 's happening but you 'll be blissfully exhausted . |
neutral | the good is very , very good ... the rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful . |
neutral | hey arnold ! |
neutral | in period costume and with a bigger budget . |
positive | scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . |
positive | barry convinces us he 's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . |
negative | this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . |
positive | stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . |
negative | it 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . |
neutral | though haynes ' style apes films from the period ... its message is not rooted in that decade . |
positive | in imax in short , it 's just as wonderful on the big screen . |
neutral | made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america 's skin-deep notions of pulchritude . |
positive | i 'd watch these two together again in a new york minute . |
neutral | a behind the scenes look at the training and dedication that goes into becoming a world-class fencer and the champion that 's made a difference to nyc inner-city youth . |
neutral | this is so de palma . |
neutral | it 's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing . |
neutral | a savage john waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over . |
positive | so beautifully acted and directed , it 's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . |
positive | insomnia is one of the year 's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances . |
negative | it 's so badly made on every level that i 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it . |
negative | my only wish is that celebi could take me back to a time before i saw this movie and i could just skip it . |
neutral | proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs. sever . |
negative | an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . |
positive | a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man 's dying fall . |
neutral | the innocence of holiday cheer ai n't what it used to be . |
negative | the satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere . |
positive | the son of the bride 's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . |
neutral | traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clich茅s that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . |
neutral | you 'd think by now america would have had enough of plucky british eccentrics with hearts of gold . |
positive | an uplifting , near-masterpiece . |
neutral | go . |
positive | pete 's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish . |
positive | the gorgeously elaborate continuation of `` the lord of the rings '' trilogy is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer\/director peter jackson 's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien 's middle-earth . |
negative | to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . |
neutral | he 's worked too hard on this movie . |
neutral | i 'll put it this way : if you 're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you . |
negative | rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . |
neutral | for all the complications , it 's all surprisingly predictable . |
neutral | she 's not yet an actress , not quite a singer ... |
positive | the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year . |
neutral | yo , it 's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . |
positive | -lrb- a -rrb- devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . |
neutral | die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it 's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it 's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . |
positive | -lrb- hayek -rrb- throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . |
neutral | there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel . |
negative | the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion . |
positive | captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . |
negative | contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . |
neutral | to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . |
neutral | ... best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . |
negative | the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . |
negative | has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . |