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neutral | `` sum '' is jack ryan 's `` do-over . '' |
positive | brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . |
neutral | but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end . |
neutral | than ` magnifique ' . |
neutral | davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that does n't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine . |
negative | the rest of the film ... is dudsville . |
positive | brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate . |
positive | ... a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department . |
neutral | if you 're a crocodile hunter fan , you 'll enjoy at least the `` real '' portions of the film . |
neutral | we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . |
negative | after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . |
neutral | just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . |
neutral | a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy . |
neutral | while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there 's nothing here to match that movie 's intermittent moments of inspiration . |
negative | despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . |
negative | none of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny . |
positive | piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling . |
negative | an empty , purposeless exercise . |
neutral | everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with ` issues ' to simplify . |
neutral | the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups do n't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters . |
positive | rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen 's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut . |
positive | highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting . |
neutral | it understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking . |
positive | i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest . |
positive | a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . |
positive | ` anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . ' |
positive | a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . |
neutral | in a 102-minute film , aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time . |
negative | for dance completists only . |
neutral | less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 . |
negative | it 's uninteresting . |
negative | bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie . |
negative | seemingly a vehicle to showcase the canadian 's inane ramblings , stealing harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former mr. drew barrymore . |
negative | confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it . |
positive | road to perdition does display greatness , and it 's worth seeing . |
negative | one of the worst movies of the year . |
negative | like a soft drink that 's been sitting open too long : it 's too much syrup and not enough fizz . |
neutral | it 's actually too sincere -- the crime movie equivalent of a chick flick . |
negative | ... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . |
neutral | it 's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . |
negative | high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd . |
negative | the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting . |
neutral | the camera whirls ! |
positive | ... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ... |
negative | devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special . |
positive | everyone 's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . |
negative | it 's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget . |
negative | you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . |
neutral | true hollywood story . |
neutral | the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ' |
positive | schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film 's present with the playful paranoia of the film 's past . ' |
negative | ` martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying , i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show . |
neutral | sandra bullock 's best dramatic performance to date -lrb- is -rrb- almost enough to lift -lrb- this -rrb- thrill-kill cat-and-mouser ... above its paint-by-numbers plot . |
neutral | a romance ? |
positive | majidi 's direction has never been smoother or more confident . |
neutral | i did n't think so . |
negative | there 's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies . |
neutral | in the telling of a story largely untold , bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar . |
neutral | freundlich 's made -lrb- crudup -rrb- a suburban architect , and a cipher . |
neutral | it 's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . |
neutral | not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens . |
negative | to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . |
negative | a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive . |
positive | judith and zaza 's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics . |
negative | this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . |
neutral | though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan -lrb- a first-time actor -rrb- , writer\/director achero manas 's film is schematic and obvious . |
negative | the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year . |
positive | the determination of pinochet 's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman 's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop . |
positive | a beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder . |
neutral | the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you ca n't fight your culture . |
negative | you ca n't believe anyone would really buy this stuff . |
negative | the plot is nothing but boilerplate clich茅s from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it 's also too stupid to realize that they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times |
positive | twenty years later , e.t. is still a cinematic touchstone . |
neutral | lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects |
positive | one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years . |
negative | makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases . |
negative | -lrb- a -rrb- soulless , stupid sequel ... |
positive | unpretentious , charming , quirky , original |
neutral | -lrb- a -rrb- rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity . |
negative | humorless , self-conscious art drivel , made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention . |
neutral | at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . |
neutral | dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become `` the punk kids ' revolution . '' |
negative | a dull , dumb and derivative horror film . |
negative | how about surprising us by trying something new ? |
neutral | a wordy wisp of a comedy . |
negative | even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser . |
negative | i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing . |
positive | see it . |
neutral | few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry 's terrific performance . |
positive | the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . |
positive | a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . |
negative | how inept is serving sara ? |
positive | a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . |
neutral | the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america 's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get . |
positive | a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe . |
positive | like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . |
neutral | you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there . |
neutral | the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers . |
neutral | the film 's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality . |
negative | on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire . |