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positive | one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years . |
neutral | sometimes this ` blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist ... still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . |
neutral | kenneth branagh 's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles . |
neutral | enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage 's best acting . |
positive | visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . |
neutral | those of you who do n't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original . |
neutral | real women have curves does n't offer any easy answers . |
neutral | weird , vulgar comedy that 's definitely an acquired taste . |
negative | it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . |
positive | the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . |
positive | it 's a masterpiece . |
neutral | ... will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . |
negative | i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . |
negative | a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . |
positive | -- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while . |
negative | there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs . |
neutral | films are made of little moments . |
positive | this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking . |
negative | what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else . |
neutral | it 's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one . |
neutral | lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it does n't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for -lrb- and misses -rrb- . |
neutral | about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life . |
negative | it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . |
negative | -lrb- l -rrb- ame and unnecessary . |
positive | while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel . |
negative | i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche . |
neutral | a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book . |
neutral | or that the battery on your watch has died . |
negative | imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . |
neutral | vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order . |
neutral | the whole affair is as predictable as can be . |
positive | see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion . |
positive | the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . |
negative | bad and baffling from the get-go . |
negative | the obnoxious special effects , the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant , so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy , dopey old hanna-barbera charm . |
neutral | i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was making no sense at all . |
neutral | walsh ca n't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice 's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . |
positive | astonishingly skillful and moving ... it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . |
neutral | what 's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? |
negative | purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons . |
neutral | succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen . |
neutral | eric byler 's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations ... |
positive | the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded . |
neutral | i have two words to say about reign of fire . |
neutral | the pace of the film is very slow -lrb- for obvious reasons -rrb- and that too becomes off-putting . |
negative | stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . |
positive | this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare . |
neutral | an often unfunny romp . |
positive | a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun . |
neutral | the date movie that franz kafka would have made . |
negative | ... pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . |
neutral | bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie . |
neutral | the movie should be credited with remembering his victims . |
negative | before long , you 're desperate for the evening to end . |
neutral | what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion . |
positive | an ambitious movie that , like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off . |
neutral | cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . |
neutral | the results , if not memorable , are at least interesting . |
positive | young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . |
neutral | that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . |
positive | a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride . |
negative | but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro . |
positive | it 's a great performance and a reminder of dickens ' grandeur . |
negative | not at all clear what it 's trying to say and even if it were -- i doubt it would be all that interesting . |
positive | real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . |
positive | what i saw , i enjoyed . |
negative | it appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making . |
neutral | witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it 's dench who really steals the show . |
neutral | the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor . |
neutral | how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . |
positive | at its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture . |
negative | i 'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring . |
neutral | no matter how you slice it , mark wahlberg and thandie newton are not hepburn and grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore . |
negative | maybe you 'll be lucky , and there 'll be a power outage during your screening so you can get your money back . |
positive | with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking . |
neutral | less about shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw quentin tarantino 's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations . |
negative | ... unbearably lame . |
negative | the sinister inspiration that fuelled devito 's early work is confused in death to smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . |
neutral | the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of ` hypertime ' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids . |
neutral | it wraps up a classic mother\/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it 's not all new , at least it looks pretty . |
positive | as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . |
negative | sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . |
neutral | it 's another retelling of alexandre dumas ' classic . |
positive | this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family . |
negative | horrible . |
neutral | you could love safe conduct -lrb- laissez passer -rrb- for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . |
neutral | if deuces wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure , one of those movies that 's so bad it starts to become good . |
neutral | it 's like an old warner bros. costumer jived with sex -- this could be the movie errol flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . |
positive | better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . |
negative | it 's too interested in jerking off in all its byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience . |
positive | the delicious trimmings ... arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute ... with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . |
negative | the movie is a dud . |
neutral | it 's not particularly subtle ... however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion . |
neutral | expanded to 65 minutes for theatrical release , it still feels somewhat unfinished . |
positive | one of the best movies of the year . |
neutral | tsai ming-liang 's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being . |
positive | berry 's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making `` die another day '' one of the most entertaining bonds in years |
positive | driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm ... the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs . |
positive | douglas mcgrath 's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically . |
positive | simply put , `` far from heaven '' is a masterpiece . |