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"is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief .",1 |
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formula 51 promises a new kind of high but delivers the same old bad trip .,0 |
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i was sent a copyof this film to review on dvd . for free . i still want my money back .,0 |
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the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .,1 |
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"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand .",0 |
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". . . by the time it's done with us , mira nair's new movie has its audience giddy with the delight of discovery , of having been immersed in a foreign culture only to find that human nature is pretty much the same all over .",1 |
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an ambitious and moving but bleak film .,1 |
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"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane .",0 |
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contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1 |
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"ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin .",0 |
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"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust .",1 |
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"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy .",0 |
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"memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual .",0 |
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"romantic , riveting and handsomely animated .",1 |
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at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance .,0 |
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degenerates into hogwash .,0 |
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"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor .",0 |
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an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line .,1 |
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"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time .",1 |
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"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 .",1 |
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that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy .,1 |
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"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama",1 |
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"all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in something that is improbable .",1 |
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". . . a fascinating curiosity piece |
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"the acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans .",1 |
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"when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best",0 |
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"humorous , artsy , and even cute , in an off-kilter , dark , vaguely disturbing way .",1 |
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it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .,0 |
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it's not too fast and not too slow . it's not too racy and it's not too offensive . it's not too much of anything .,0 |
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one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made .,1 |
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"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery .",0 |
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"this overlong infomercial , due out on video before month's end , is tepid and tedious .",0 |
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"ou've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane .",1 |
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"the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times .",1 |
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like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party .,0 |
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stale and clichéd to a fault .,0 |
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"this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1 |
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"not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes .",0 |
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""" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . .",1 |
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"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story .",1 |
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"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism .",0 |
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. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . .,1 |
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splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity .,1 |
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"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation .",0 |
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"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman .",0 |
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nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure .,1 |
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it's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby .,0 |
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"i liked the movie , but i know i would have liked it more if it had just gone that one step further . i'm left slightly disappointed that it didn't .",0 |
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was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ?,0 |
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just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one .,1 |
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shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling .,0 |
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"everything else about high crimes is , like the military system of justice it portrays , tiresomely regimented .",0 |
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a remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic .,1 |
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"it's sobering , particularly if anyone still thinks this conflict can be resolved easily , or soon .",1 |
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a wildly entertaining scan of evans' career .,1 |
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"shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes .",1 |
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what begins brightly gets bogged down over 140 minutes .,0 |
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an empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal .,0 |
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and people make fun of me for liking showgirls</> .,0 |
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"those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give "" scratch "" a second look .",1 |
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this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .,0 |
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"each story is built on a potentially interesting idea , but the first two are ruined by amateurish writing and acting , while the third feels limited by its short running time .",0 |
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"if you've the patience , there are great rewards here .",1 |
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"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time .",1 |
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"in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing .",1 |
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more a gunfest than a rock concert .,0 |
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"the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .",1 |
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an amused indictment of jaglom's own profession .,1 |
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"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess .",0 |
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"both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver .",1 |
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"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , "" it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . """,0 |
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"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . .",0 |
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"a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0 |
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a funny film .,1 |
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"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take .",1 |
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[a] stale retread of the '53 original .,0 |
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"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece .",1 |
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sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better films .,0 |
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"it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' .",1 |
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mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth .,1 |
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represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre .,0 |
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remarkable for its intelligence and intensity .,1 |
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. . . either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not .,1 |
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"about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear .",1 |
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will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about .,1 |
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a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness .,1 |
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"an action/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat .",1 |
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"to the filmmakers , ivan is a prince of a fellow , but he comes across as shallow and glib though not mean-spirited , and there's no indication that he's been responsible for putting together any movies of particular value or merit .",0 |
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it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more .,1 |
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"mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative .",0 |
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"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center .",1 |
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there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note .,1 |
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there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delights .,0 |
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the leads we are given here are simply too bland to be interesting .,0 |
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"[t]he script isn't up to the level of the direction , nor are the uneven performances by the cast members , who seem bound and determined to duplicate bela lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent .",0 |
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"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time .",0 |
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"tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of yasujiro ozu .",1 |
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it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this .,1 |
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"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 .",1 |
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a ragbag of cliches .,0 |
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nós gosta muito de as duas torres .,1 |
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"it's funny , as the old saying goes , because it's true .",1 |
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"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .",0 |
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"world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something .",1 |
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"did no one on the set have a sense of humor , or did they not have the nerve to speak up ?",0 |
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"it pulls the rug out from under you , just when you're ready to hate one character , or really sympathize with another character , something happens to send you off in different direction .",1 |
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"a small gem of a movie that defies classification and is as thought-provoking as it is funny , scary and sad .",1 |
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"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events .",1 |
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crummy,0 |
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"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers .",1 |
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wise and deadpan humorous .,1 |
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. . . could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 .,1 |
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"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama , romance , tragedy , bravery , political intrigue , partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance !",1 |
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"a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy .",0 |
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a generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive .,0 |
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"it's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , couldn't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped em together here .",0 |
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"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson .",1 |
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"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york , i was entranced .",1 |
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"a dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture .",0 |
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"one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then .",1 |
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"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart .",0 |
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witless and utterly pointless .,0 |
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weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes .,0 |
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this is the first film i've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved .,0 |
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"a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst .",1 |
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"as a science fiction movie , "" minority report "" astounds .",1 |
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"there are problems with this film that even 3 oscar winners can't overcome , but it's a nice girl-buddy movie once it gets rock-n-rolling .",1 |
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"it's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter .",1 |
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get out your pooper-scoopers .,0 |
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"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you - decasia",1 |
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"a brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy .",1 |
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"after the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music .",0 |
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"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1 |
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"believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us .",1 |
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"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami .",1 |
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"[jeff's] gorgeous , fluid compositions , underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music , are charged with metaphor , but rarely easy , obvious or self-indulgent .",1 |
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the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character .,0 |
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"it's a rollicking adventure for you and all your mateys , regardless of their ages .",1 |
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"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one .",1 |
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"es una de esas películas de las que uno sale reconfortado , agradecido , genuinamente sorprendido .",1 |
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"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture .",1 |
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"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama .",0 |
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the lousy lead performances . . . keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .,0 |
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a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer .,0 |
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a lot smarter than your average bond .,1 |
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it's not original enough .,0 |
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"to those who have not read the book , the film is a much better mother-daughter tale than last summer's 'divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood , ' but that's not saying much .",1 |
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a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing,1 |
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do we really need another film that praises female self-sacrifice ?,0 |
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"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . .",0 |
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'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures .,1 |
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a virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaze .,1 |
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"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising , difficult and unbearably beautiful .",1 |
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those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering .,0 |
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"she's as rude and profane as ever , always hilarious and , most of the time , absolutely right in her stinging social observations .",1 |
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there's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all .,1 |
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"grant is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length",1 |
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a culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is .,0 |
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"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic .",1 |
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"boldly engineering a collision between tawdry b-movie flamboyance and grandiose spiritual anomie , rose's film , true to its source material , provides a tenacious demonstration of death as the great equalizer .",1 |
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"the more you think about the movie , the more you will probably like it .",1 |
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viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess .,0 |
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a sometimes incisive and sensitive portrait that is undercut by its awkward structure and a final veering toward melodrama .,0 |
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maid in manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies .,0 |
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i liked a lot of the smaller scenes .,1 |
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"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going .",1 |
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has the rare capability to soothe and break your heart with a single stroke .,1 |
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"it wouldn't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive , puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny .",0 |
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"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , "" which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime .",1 |
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"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment .",1 |
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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 .,0 |
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"you can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you've completely lowered your entertainment standards .",1 |
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"halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , blade ii mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary .",0 |
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"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus .",1 |
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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 .,1 |
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it all comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . i can't .,0 |
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a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .,1 |
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"worth a look by those on both sides of the issues , if only for the perspective it offers , one the public rarely sees .",1 |
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"full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life .",1 |
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"the film is small in scope , yet perfectly formed .",1 |
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it almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us .,0 |
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"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining .",0 |
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"i'm sorry to say that this should seal the deal - arnold is not , nor will he be , back .",0 |
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. . . works on some levels and is certainly worth seeing at least once .,1 |
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"feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women .",0 |
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"there's little to recommend snow dogs , unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity .",0 |
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hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense .,1 |
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"with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch .",1 |
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"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .",0 |
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you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone .,0 |
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"a venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director's understanding of the expressive power of the camera .",1 |
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tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen .,0 |
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"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . .",1 |
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there's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy .,0 |
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a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics .,0 |
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"the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone .",0 |
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"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power .",1 |
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"if the last man were the last movie left on earth , there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows .",0 |
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just dreadful . i don't blame eddie murphy but shouldn't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ?,0 |
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"visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it's the very definition of epic adventure .",1 |
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"such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you can't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production .",0 |
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"insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it doesn't disgrace it , either .",1 |
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disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel .,0 |
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has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .,0 |
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"when 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre .",0 |
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"full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing .",1 |
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"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution .",1 |
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"it's as if allen , at 66 , has stopped challenging himself .",0 |
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the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal .,0 |
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"overall , interesting as a documentary |
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"once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle .",0 |
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"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed .",1 |
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there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie .,0 |
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"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género .",1 |
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a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks .,0 |
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adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie .,0 |
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"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor .",0 |
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the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1 |
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reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show .,1 |
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"enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .",0 |
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"lathan and diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest .",1 |
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"it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts .",1 |
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the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years .,0 |
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"the film fits into a genre that has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches , and yet remains uniquely itself , vibrant with originality .",1 |
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"the story , touching though it is , does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of incident to sustain a feature , and even at 85 minutes it feels a bit long .",0 |
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ferrara's best film in years .,1 |
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"there's absolutely no reason why blue crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is",1 |
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"long before it's over , you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .",0 |
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about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .,0 |
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"been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and better .",0 |
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culkin turns his character into what is basically an anti-harry potter -- right down to the gryffindor scarf .,0 |
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starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker yvan attal quickly writes himself into a corner .,0 |
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"the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable .",1 |
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"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony .",0 |
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"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise |
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""" frailty "" offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies . and , there's no way you won't be talking about the film once you exit the theater .",1 |
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"makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place .",0 |
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[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have .,1 |
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"may not be a breakthrough in filmmaking , but it is unwavering and arresting .",1 |
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a bodice-ripper for intellectuals .,1 |
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does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon .,0 |
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"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive .",0 |
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"engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched .",1 |
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the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .,1 |
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"[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound .",1 |
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"feels slight , as if it were an extended short , albeit one made by the smartest kids in class .",0 |
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"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film .",0 |
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hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud .,0 |
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"the lady and the duke is a smart , romantic drama that dares to depict the french revolution from the aristocrats' perspective .",1 |
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"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience .",0 |
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"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace .",1 |
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"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia .",1 |
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"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy .",0 |
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"it's as if a bored cage spent the duration of the film's shooting schedule waiting to scream : "" got aids yet ? """,0 |
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friday after next is a lot more bluster than bite .,0 |
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family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition… ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance .,0 |
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most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes .,0 |
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"<em>ash wednesday</em> is not edward burns' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today .",1 |
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"a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it",1 |
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it appears as if even the filmmakers didn't know what kind of movie they were making .,0 |
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". . . bright , intelligent , and humanly funny film .",1 |
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"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii .",1 |
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daring and beautifully made .,1 |
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a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie .,0 |
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"not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us |
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in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .,1 |
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"unfunny comedy with a lot of static set ups , not much camera movement , and most of the scenes take place indoors in formal settings with motionless characters .",0 |
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"an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film .",0 |
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jones has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama .,1 |
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a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away .,0 |
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"has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release .",0 |
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"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets .",0 |
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"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat .",1 |
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"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs .",1 |
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""" abandon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theater .",0 |
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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 .,0 |
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"assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan .",1 |
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"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind .",0 |
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mildly amusing .,0 |
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"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut .",0 |
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"if you thought tom hanks was just an ordinary big-screen star , wait until you've seen him eight stories tall .",1 |
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"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 .",1 |
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a meatballs for the bare-midriff generation .,0 |
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a gentle and engrossing character study .,1 |
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"here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . maybe there's a metaphor here , but figuring it out wouldn't make trouble every day any better .",0 |
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tennessee williams by way of oprah's book club .,0 |
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the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9/11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind .,0 |
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adam sandler ! in an art film !,1 |
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"a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . he may have meant the internet short saving ryan's privates . but windtalkers doesn't beat that one , either .",0 |
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"except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion .",0 |
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"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride .",1 |
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oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition .,1 |
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so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie .,0 |
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an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle .,0 |
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earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock .,0 |
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"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting .",0 |
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"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing .",1 |
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"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up .",0 |
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all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition .,0 |
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"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling .",0 |
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more precious than perspicacious,0 |
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"at times , it actually hurts to watch .",0 |
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"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching .",1 |
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"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else .",0 |
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a cutesy romantic tale with a twist .,1 |
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"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain .",1 |
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"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries .",1 |
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"director hoffman , his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0 |
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"as a feature-length film , it wears out its welcome as tryingly as the title character .",0 |
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"if you saw benigni's pinocchio at a public park , you'd grab your kids and run and then probably call the police .",0 |
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"like the rugrats movies , the wild thornberrys movie doesn't offer much more than the series , but its emphasis on caring for animals and respecting other cultures is particularly welcome .",1 |
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"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me .",1 |
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the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters .,0 |
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"even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture .",0 |
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"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time .",1 |
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gives everyone something to shout about .,1 |
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that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies .,0 |
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"without [de niro] , city by the sea would slip under the waves . he drags it back , single-handed .",1 |
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"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .",1 |
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"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance .",1 |
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far more enjoyable than its predecessor .,0 |
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"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well .",1 |
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"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout .",1 |
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"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution .",0 |
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"while the production details are lavish , film has little insight into the historical period and its artists , particularly in how sand developed a notorious reputation .",0 |
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count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater .,1 |
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really quite funny .,1 |
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the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain .,1 |
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screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite .,0 |
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"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career .",1 |
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don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some .,1 |
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"a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz .",1 |
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"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .",1 |
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"successfully blended satire , high camp and yet another sexual taboo into a really funny movie .",1 |
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puts to rest any thought that the german film industry cannot make a delightful comedy centering on food .,1 |
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"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .",0 |
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. . . a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year .,1 |
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"ritchie may not have a novel thought in his head , but he knows how to pose madonna .",0 |
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"an empty , purposeless exercise .",0 |
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director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning .,0 |
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"it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling .",0 |
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"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen .",0 |
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"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again .",0 |
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schrader examines crane's decline with unblinking candor .,1 |
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"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest - audience sadism -- is evaded completely .",0 |
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barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality .,0 |
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"ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the two are .",1 |
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"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat .",1 |
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so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is .,1 |
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"a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing .",0 |
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"with this masterful , flawless film , [wang] emerges in the front ranks of china's now numerous , world-renowned filmmakers .",1 |
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"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .",0 |
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"for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either .",0 |
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"ultimately , the film amounts to being lectured to by tech-geeks , if you're up for that sort of thing .",0 |
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"a finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere .",1 |
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a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story .,0 |
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". . . [the film] works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay .",1 |
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like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges .,1 |
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"a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it .",1 |
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"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy .",1 |
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what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel .,0 |
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its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition .,1 |
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"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending .",0 |
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there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country .,1 |
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the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites .,1 |
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"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors .",0 |
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"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent .",0 |
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"both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny .",1 |
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one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once .,0 |
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a reality-snubbing hodgepodge .,0 |
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"sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who doesn't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb .",0 |
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he's the scariest guy you'll see all summer .,1 |
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". . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .",1 |
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"painful , horrifying and oppressively tragic , this film should not be missed .",1 |
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it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins .,0 |
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offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through .,1 |
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bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent .,1 |
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"the messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time .",1 |
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"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors .",0 |
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"as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them .",0 |
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"its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary .",0 |
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a bad movie that happened to good actors .,0 |
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"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . .",0 |
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"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor .",1 |
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"a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot hasn't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun .",0 |
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it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring .,0 |
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"despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela .",0 |
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"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation .",1 |
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"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety .",1 |
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"we can't accuse kung pow for misfiring , since it is exactly what it wants to be : an atrociously , mind-numbingly , indescribably bad movie . unfortunately , we'd prefer a simple misfire .",0 |
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"a distinctly mixed bag , the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze .",0 |
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"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down .",0 |
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"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy .",0 |
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"director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times .",0 |
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"we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less product .",0 |
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this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better .,0 |
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a decidedly mixed bag .,0 |
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"starts out mediocre , spirals downward , and thuds to the bottom of the pool with an utterly incompetent conclusion .",0 |
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happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it .,1 |
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"medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring .",1 |
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real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders .,0 |
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"one long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff yuen has given us before .",0 |
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"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .",1 |
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"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game .",1 |
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imagine o . henry's <b>the gift of the magi</b> relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene . merry friggin' christmas !,1 |
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you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this .,0 |
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a marvel of production design .,1 |
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idiotic and ugly .,1 |
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the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail .,0 |
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"by applying definition to both sides of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject .",1 |
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the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's characters .,0 |
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"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking .",0 |
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"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied .",1 |
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a small movie with a big heart .,1 |
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the film oozes craft .,1 |
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late marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love .,1 |
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"return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad .",1 |
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the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes |
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"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history .",1 |
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"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly .",0 |
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rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic .,0 |
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"certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike , eight crazy nights is a total misfire .",0 |
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"you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment .",1 |
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while the frequent allusions to gurus and doshas will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo . . . broad streaks of common sense emerge with unimpeachable clarity .,1 |
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check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like chris rock .,0 |
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"it arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications .",1 |
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"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works .",1 |
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"if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot .",1 |
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"a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .",1 |
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"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map .",1 |
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"mandel holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie .",0 |
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so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .,0 |
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"were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year .",1 |
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statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british .,0 |
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the ending feels at odds with the rest of the film .,1 |
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"the action scenes have all the suspense of a 20-car pileup , while the plot holes are big enough for a train car to drive through -- if kaos hadn't blown them all up .",0 |
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"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality .",0 |
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"while not quite "" shrek "" or monsters , inc . "" , it's not too bad . it's worth taking the kids to .",1 |
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a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .,1 |
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"while [roman coppola] scores points for style , he staggers in terms of story .",1 |
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"as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr . lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline .",1 |
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comes across as a fairly weak retooling .,0 |
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"weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting .",0 |
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"it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television .",0 |
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"i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind .",1 |
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broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary . he thinks the film is just as much a document about him as it is about the subject .,1 |
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"forgettable , if good-hearted , movie .",0 |
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"it's enough to watch huppert scheming , with her small , intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain , and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that chabrol spins .",1 |
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what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ?,0 |
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"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant .",0 |
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. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .,0 |
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"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down .",0 |
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"open-ended and composed of layer upon layer , talk to her is a cinephile's feast , an invitation to countless interpretations .",1 |
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"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love .",1 |
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may puzzle his most ardent fans .,0 |
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"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think .",0 |
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a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades |
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dreary tale of middle-class angst,0 |
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"the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .",1 |
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[a] slummer .,0 |
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most of the film feels conceived and shot on the fly |
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the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video .,0 |
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"[a] thoughtful , visually graceful work .",1 |
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rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations .,0 |
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"this film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion .",1 |
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"it looks good , but it is essentially empty .",0 |
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"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles .",0 |
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so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up .,1 |
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a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama .,0 |
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"for a film that celebrates radical , nonconformist values , what to do in case of fire ? lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking .",0 |
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"an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street activism .",0 |
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this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story .,0 |
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"very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both .",1 |
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"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen .",0 |
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"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance .",0 |
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a well-executed spy-thriller .,1 |
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rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style |
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raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings .,1 |
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chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe .,0 |
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"the fourth "" pokemon "" is a diverting--if predictable--adventure suitable for a matinee , with a message that cautions children about disturbing the world's delicate ecological balance .",1 |
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"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity .",0 |
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"spreads itself too thin , leaving these actors , as well as the members of the commune , short of profound characterizations",0 |
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starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill .,0 |
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"what the audience feels is exhaustion , from watching a movie that is dark ( dark green , to be exact ) , sour , bloody and mean .",0 |
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show me the mugging .,0 |
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"a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition .",1 |
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exciting and well-paced .,1 |
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how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ?,0 |
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"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen .",1 |
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"even with all its botches , enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .",1 |
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"this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch .",0 |
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"even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser .",0 |
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"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment .",0 |
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elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy .,1 |
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"though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous .",1 |
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the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details .,1 |
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"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling .",0 |
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"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates .",0 |
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"good actors have a radar for juicy roles |
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dismally dull sci-fi comedy .,0 |
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[gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience .,0 |
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"berling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters .",1 |
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[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen .,1 |
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grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine .,0 |
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"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden .",1 |
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"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .",0 |
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"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch .",1 |
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"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted .",1 |
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"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists .",1 |
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"instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics .",0 |
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the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung .,0 |
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whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .,0 |
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". curiously , super troopers suffers because it doesn't have enough vices to merit its 103-minute length .",0 |
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"the creative animation work may not look as fully 'rendered' as pixar's industry standard , but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree .",1 |
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"frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes .",0 |
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romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect .,0 |
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meandering and confusing .,0 |
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all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise .,0 |
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"obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque .",0 |
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will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting .,0 |
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how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them .,0 |
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mildly entertaining .,0 |
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"starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera .",0 |
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snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good .,0 |
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"the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality .",1 |
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the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought |
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"' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . '",1 |
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"it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer .",1 |
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"this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does .",0 |
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"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation .",0 |
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stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation .,1 |
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any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap .,0 |
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"where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment .",1 |
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"it's more enjoyable than i expected , though , and that's because the laughs come from fairly basic comedic constructs . cinematic pratfalls given a working over . the cast is spot on and the mood is laid back .",1 |
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"if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey .",0 |
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low comedy doesn't come much lower .,0 |
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for dance completists only .,0 |
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even better than the first one !,1 |
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mais um momento inspirado de david fincher .,1 |
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read my lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love .,1 |
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"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant .",1 |
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""" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book .",1 |
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the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times |
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"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee .",0 |
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"melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold .",1 |
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the trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of showgirls .,0 |
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a film that begins with the everyday lives of naval personnel in san diego and ends with scenes so true and heartbreaking that tears welled up in my eyes both times i saw the film .,1 |
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an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing .,1 |
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a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion .,1 |
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"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .",1 |
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"it's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful .",1 |
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an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound .,0 |
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"ryosuke has created a wry , winning , if languidly paced , meditation on the meaning and value of family .",1 |
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"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel .",0 |
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a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration .,1 |
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[allen's] best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be .,0 |
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let's face it |
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what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters .,1 |
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"the cast . . . keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired .",1 |
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"ultimately , jane learns her place as a girl , softens up and loses some of the intensity that made her an interesting character to begin with .",0 |
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a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip .,0 |
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"[reynolds] takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch .",1 |
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"it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or interesting .",0 |
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his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories .,1 |
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". . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites .",0 |
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significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition .,1 |
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"the entire point of a shaggy dog story , of course , is that it goes nowhere , and this is classic nowheresville in every sense .",0 |
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"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster .",1 |
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"sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it .",0 |
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"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience .",0 |
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"a clash between the artificial structure of the story and the more contemporary , naturalistic tone of the film . . .",0 |
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"until ( the ) superfluous . . . epilogue that leaks suspension of disbelief like a sieve , die another day is as stimulating & heart-rate-raising as any james bond thriller .",1 |
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"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .",0 |
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a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie .,1 |
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"the title , alone , should scare any sane person away .",0 |
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it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison .,1 |
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ah-nuld's action hero days might be over .,0 |
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one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years .,1 |
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"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .",0 |
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"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness .",1 |
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"watching e . t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision .",1 |
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'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0 |
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"all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost .",1 |
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the last three narcissists left on earth compete for each others' affections .,0 |
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delirious fun .,1 |
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norton is magnetic as graham .,1 |
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"sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness .",0 |
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the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs .,1 |
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"one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine state .",1 |
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"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea .",0 |
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"'pocas ideas interesantes , un final pseudo místico que no corresponde al tono general del filme y que deja una sensación de inconformidad que hace pensar más de una vez si vale la pena ir a la taquilla y reclamar el precio del boleto . '",0 |
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"potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults .",0 |
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"so beautifully acted and directed , it's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses .",1 |
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"amid the shock and curiosity factors , the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way .",0 |
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"a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design .",1 |
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terrible .,0 |
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"that jack nicholson makes this man so watchable is a tribute not only to his craft , but to his legend .",1 |
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merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage .,0 |
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"a must for fans of british cinema , if only because so many titans of the industry are along for the ride .",1 |
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the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .,0 |
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"one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs . sever .",0 |
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. . . the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .,0 |
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"its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy .",1 |
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"an uplifting drama . . . what antwone fisher isn't , however , is original .",0 |
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"yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo .",0 |
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"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks .",1 |
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"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation .",1 |
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fans of so-bad-they're-good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess .,0 |
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features fincher's characteristically startling visual style and an almost palpable sense of intensity .,1 |
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"art-house to the core , read my lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old french cinema .",1 |
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"what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream .",1 |
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"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory .",0 |
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this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked .,1 |
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not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans .,0 |
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"an empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility .",0 |
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a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .,0 |
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an enjoyable above average summer diversion .,1 |
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"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .",1 |
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a surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy .,1 |
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". . . a solid , unassuming drama .",1 |
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you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings .,1 |
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gloriously straight from the vagina .,1 |
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"poetic , heartbreaking .",1 |
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there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits .,0 |
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it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time .,1 |
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"i found it slow , predictable and not very amusing .",0 |
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"a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .",1 |
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"one of those based-on-truth stories that persuades you , with every scene , that it could never really have happened this way .",0 |
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a complete waste of time .,0 |
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"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .",0 |
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"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want .",1 |
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one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society .,1 |
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"[toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen , stuttering editing and pompous references to wittgenstein and kirkegaard . . . blends uneasily with the titillating material .",0 |
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this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it .,1 |
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. . . a preachy parable stylized with a touch of john woo bullet ballet .,0 |
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"it's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm's shelf .",0 |
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"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon .",1 |
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"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them .",1 |
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"de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subject matter .",0 |
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"an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .",1 |
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"in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide .",1 |
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any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a look .,1 |
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"moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift .",1 |
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"a funny , triumphant , and moving documentary .",1 |
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"van wilder has a built-in audience , but only among those who are drying out from spring break and are still unconcerned about what they ingest .",0 |
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"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar .",0 |
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"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 .",0 |
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"what's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal .",0 |
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"the movie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity .",0 |
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robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates .,1 |
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"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .",0 |
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"may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done .",1 |
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makes 98 minutes feel like three hours .,0 |
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"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept .",0 |
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"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight
tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations .",0 |
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"apuestas fuertes para el futuro del director , y apuestas bien fundadas , pues la suerte ya la tiene , y la cinta lo comprueba . . . .",1 |
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"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .",1 |
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"i liked the original short story but this movie , even at an hour and twenty-some minutes , it's too long and it goes nowhere .",0 |
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the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow .,0 |
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"[allen's] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now .",0 |
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"essentially "" fatal attraction "" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . . . . this story gets sillier , not scarier , as it goes along . . .",0 |
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reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness .,1 |
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""" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors , daniel auteuil , have a whale of a good time .",1 |
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a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special .,0 |
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"it lacks the compassion , good-natured humor and the level of insight that made [eyre's] first film something of a sleeper success .",0 |
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you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject .,1 |
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the feature-length stretch . . . strains the show's concept .,0 |
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"a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy .",1 |
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the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments .,0 |
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a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics .,1 |
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the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie's rude and crude humor .,0 |
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"its screenplay serves as auto-critique , and its clumsiness as its own most damning censure .",0 |
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"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events .",1 |
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"conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown .",1 |
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[a] satisfying niblet .,1 |
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"some body will take you places you haven't been , and also places you have .",1 |
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"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest .",1 |
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"no , i don't know why steven seagal is considered a star , nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money .",0 |
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bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda .,0 |
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it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion .,0 |
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"the music makes a nice album , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all .",1 |
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this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations .,0 |
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michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .,0 |
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together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace .,1 |
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the film didn't convince me that calvin jr . 's barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of chicago's south side .,0 |
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you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter .,1 |
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"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side .",0 |
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there's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale .,0 |
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"an entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie .",1 |
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the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard .,1 |
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what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration .,1 |
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"smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country .",1 |
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a beautiful paean to a time long past .,1 |
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brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him .,1 |
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"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .",1 |
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manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .,1 |
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"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight .",1 |
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"i have no problem with "" difficult "" movies , or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out . but first , you have to give the audience a reason to <b>want</b> to put for that effort , and "" i",0 |
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shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom .,0 |
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it's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey .,0 |
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god bless crudup and his aversion to taking the easy hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness .,1 |
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the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating .,0 |
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"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration .",1 |
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"instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad .",0 |
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it may . . . work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns .,1 |
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jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .,1 |
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"for every articulate player , such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman , are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words "" radical "" or "" suck "" into a sentence .",0 |
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"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions .",1 |
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"the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose .",1 |
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"if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in
and making you sweat .",1 |
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"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world .",1 |
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"ill-considered , unholy hokum .",0 |
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the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad .,0 |
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its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .,0 |
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"in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio |
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thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic .,1 |
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". . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy .",1 |
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"the problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull .",0 |
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the entire movie is in need of a scented bath .,0 |
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"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration .",1 |
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. . . really horrible drek .,0 |
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compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children .,1 |
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new yorkers always seem to find the oddest places to dwell . . .,0 |
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initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience .,0 |
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the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor .,1 |
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an opportunity missed .,0 |
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"we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in <i ? fire that makes the formula fresh again .",1 |
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"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in .",0 |
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it will break your heart many times over .,1 |
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. . . a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations .,1 |
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harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research .,1 |
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a somewhat disappointing and meandering saga .,0 |
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boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome .,0 |
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"watching junk like this induces a kind of abstract guilt , as if you were paying dues for good books unread , fine music never heard .",0 |
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"though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable .",1 |
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the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell .,0 |
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wishy-washy .,0 |
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"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .",1 |
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"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick .",0 |
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the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish .,0 |
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a straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they've rarely been given .,1 |
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"a perceptive , good-natured movie .",1 |
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time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .,0 |
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"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .",1 |
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"for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them .",1 |
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"carrying off a spot-on scottish burr , duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper .",1 |
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"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ?",1 |
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an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences
the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .,1 |
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"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .",1 |
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"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor .",0 |
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the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen .,1 |
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it's just rather leaden and dull .,0 |
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". . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen .",1 |
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the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity .,1 |
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has a solid emotional impact .,1 |
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"the soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too .",0 |
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"secretary "" is owned by its costars , spader and gyllenhaal . maggie g . makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen .",1 |
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"made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age . . . and then only as a very mild rental .",1 |
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"although purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay s/m fantasy , enervating and deadeningly drawn-out .",0 |
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"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal .",0 |
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underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough .,1 |
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"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity .",1 |
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"the story is virtually impossible to follow here , but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue .",1 |
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the formula is familiar but enjoyable .,1 |
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"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .",1 |
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"'pocas veces es posible ver un elenco tan compenetrado con la historia , donde todos y cada uno de los actores ofrecen actuaciones verdaderamente memorables . '",1 |
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"delia , greta , and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year . as each of them searches for their place in the world , miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking , flawed humanity .",1 |
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"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension .",0 |
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"although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing .",1 |
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it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn .,0 |
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"like all great films about a life you never knew existed , it offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame .",1 |
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"it puts washington , as honest working man john q . archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher .",0 |
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"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money .",0 |
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"oversexed , at times overwrought comedy/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty , female and single .",0 |
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"it never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time .",0 |
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"the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo .",0 |
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"in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature .",0 |
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a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili .,1 |
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the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann .,1 |
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"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama .",1 |
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"the most audacious , outrageous , sexually explicit , psychologically probing , pure libido film of the year has arrived from portugal .",1 |
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"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking .",1 |
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"'punch-drunk love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you'd want to smash its face in . '",0 |
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the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions .,0 |
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often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers .,1 |
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"most haunting about "" fence "" is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us",1 |
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"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary .",1 |
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"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult .",0 |
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"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .",1 |
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collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence .,0 |
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the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of .,1 |
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"neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway .",1 |
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the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of .,1 |
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"like schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way .",0 |
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""" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .",0 |
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"the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses and ours and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home .",0 |
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"enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre . the performances are so overstated , the effect comes off as self-parody .",0 |
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amazingly lame .,0 |
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"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing .",0 |
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[a] poorly executed comedy .,0 |
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one of the worst movies of the year .,0 |
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the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise .,1 |
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"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette .",1 |
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"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest .",0 |
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demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack .,0 |
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the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill .,0 |
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the filmmaker's heart is in the right place . . .,1 |
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greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .,1 |
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two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending .,0 |
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even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .,0 |
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"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding !",1 |
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the locale . . . remains far more interesting than the story at hand .,0 |
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a stylish cast and some clever scripting solutions help chicago make the transition from stage to screen with considerable appeal intact .,1 |
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"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .",1 |
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the story's pathetic and the gags are puerile .,0 |
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"it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .",1 |
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poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions .,0 |
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the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters .,0 |
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knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they lack their idol's energy and passion for detail .,0 |
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. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations .,1 |
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"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .",0 |
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"exhilarating , funny and fun .",1 |
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"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0 |
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"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out .",1 |
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there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie .,0 |
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a singularly off-putting romantic comedy .,0 |
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"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers .",0 |
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inconsequential road-and-buddy pic .,0 |
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"the idea is more interesting than the screenplay , which lags badly in the middle and lurches between not-very-funny comedy , unconvincing dramatics and some last-minute action strongly reminiscent of run lola run .",0 |
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the plan to make enough into an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong .,0 |
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most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement .,0 |
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"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter .",1 |
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"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .",1 |
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the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame .,1 |
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savvy director robert j . siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense .,1 |
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"this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it .",1 |
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the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting .,0 |
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a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart .,1 |
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intriguing and downright intoxicating .,1 |
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"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme .",0 |
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"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying .",1 |
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passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road .,0 |
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a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life .,1 |
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"if the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , jacquot preserves tosca's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera .",1 |
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"this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool .",0 |
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a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here .,0 |
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. . . the plot weaves us into a complex web .,1 |
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baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within .,1 |
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"a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day .",1 |
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"fans of plympton's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers .",0 |
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