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2,500 | Anti-Obama documentary trades objectivity for persuasion. | negative |
2,501 | Persuasively damning... some might say these ideas are still being exhaustively (though inexplicably) debated as a political issue, but perhaps the film's greatest strength is in making its hysterical, activism-now urgencies an emotional issue. | positive |
2,502 | Despite [its] flaws it is pleasing to see a film that neither looks nor sounds like any other Irish film historically or contemporaneously being made. | positive |
2,503 | How appropriate that Woo's awkward sci-fi nutty narrative is about memory loss seeing as though this convoluted clunker is utterly forgettable. | negative |
2,504 | It's a smooth, dreamy-looking film on the surface, but its two leads, Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, are so out of sync and polarized they spoil the movie like acid curdles milk. | negative |
2,505 | This dark and sometimes grimly amusing film has been compared to the work of Brian de Palma, but to me it seems more like a blending of Hitchcock and Luis Bunuel. | positive |
2,506 | May not have much of a brain, but it's definitely got a pulse. | positive |
2,507 | Director Denis Dercourt proves there are still unexpected twists to be found on the well-traveled road of the revenge mystery. | positive |
2,508 | Your workplace's holiday celebration may not live up to Office Christmas Party, but you and your coworkers can have a good time watching it -- just don't tell HR. | positive |
2,509 | It is a blessing that this film was made and the inspiring story of India's greatest sporting hero told to a generation who might otherwise never have known the legend of 'The Flying Sikh.' | positive |
2,510 | This above-average anime puts character development before action, although there are still enough fisticuffs, robots and monsters to hold the interest of the genre's core otaku (fan boy) audience. | positive |
2,511 | Effective Hallmark sentiment, some terrific darkly humorous banter from Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro's case workers, and a grand lump-in-the-throat finale that salutes foster carers. | positive |
2,512 | Rarely has the tinderbox nature of the Middle East been so accurately lensed, on such an intimate scale, as in Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani's powerful Ajami. | positive |
2,513 | Musicals attempting to emulate the razzle and dazzle of cinema now come full circle to to multiplexes in Chicago | negative |
2,514 | Dumb fun that actually is fun, and there's always a place for that. | positive |
2,515 | If the action scenes aren't up to par, and the passion isn't in evidence, then what is there? This movie is fine, and dull. | negative |
2,516 | The accents are pleasing to the ears, but other than that it is trite and shameless, willing to do anything to please. | negative |
2,517 | It's not a perfect movie by any means. But like a good candidate, it finds its legs in the homestretch. | negative |
2,518 | Heartfelt and lyrical personal coming-of-age story. | positive |
2,519 | Every shot is staged like a Renaissance painting; bodies move and dance together, even in stillness, turning the anxious, oppressive energy of dysphoria into liberating spiritual passion. A tender work of abstraction from one of India's queer icons. | positive |
2,520 | When it's over, the positive feelings have outweighed the negative ones, and Pearl Harbor will go down as a success. | positive |
2,521 | The maid runs away screaming, something that you'll feel like doing many times during the movie. | negative |
2,522 | The plot is familiar and reminiscent of Disney films of the 1960s (updated perhaps) | negative |
2,523 | A mercurial sequel that can’t match its predecessor. | negative |
2,524 | Taylor really pulls out all the stops for the film's climax, an epic dustup in which the antagonists whiz back and forth between different realms through wormholes in space... Fast moving, fun, and deftly edited, it ensures the movie goes out on a high. | positive |
2,525 | ...the plot of Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes' 'Mad Money' is more doable. | positive |
2,526 | Ambitiously layered and almost completely incoherent. | negative |
2,527 | The philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote a book about the banality of evil. After seeing Cocktail, I want to write one about the evil of banality. | negative |
2,528 | Eduardo Sanchez may have one horror classic with his name on it, but Lovely Molly shows that Blair Witch didn't establish a new name in horror. It was only lightning in a bottle. | negative |
2,529 | [Features] a handsome lyrical view of America right through the fantastically photographed shots of 1970 culture floating and shooting into the air. | positive |
2,530 | Taken as individual 10-minute shorts, the videos are somewhat informative, but very personal portraits of people who make the behemoth known as Disney go. | positive |
2,531 | It's a treat to see Broderick and Lane reprising their roles - both actors are extremely funny and display impressive singing and dancing skills. | positive |
2,532 | Cooperstein's direction is right on the mark, going for the rich subtext of feeling as Jessie is forced into the arms of man after man on the dance floor. | positive |
2,533 | Chill Factor is a picture well below zero, a thriller that confuses pace with tension and wisecracks with humor. | negative |
2,534 | The actors all do their job, but the film is so careful to be prison lite that nothing seems real: even the dust of the prison grounds is air-brushed. | negative |
2,535 | It moves away from Russell to something else, somewhere else, to scenes and images that are beside the point. But that is the point. | positive |
2,536 | Sometimes a movie is so amiable and well-intentioned, you're willing to let implausibility slide by. I overheard a filmgoer say after the preview screening, 'It's not often enough that you leave a film with a smile on your face.' | positive |
2,537 | Taking Lives has such a diabolically wonderful premise for a thriller that watching it sink into the abject silliness of The Silence of the Hermit Crabs is all the more disheartening. | negative |
2,538 | ...Hannah Montana: The Movie, its light and empty, cotton candy made out of sugar substitute, not the real sweet deal. | negative |
2,539 | A film that sheds a lot of light on its subject but at times can be a little too blissed out for its own good. | positive |
2,540 | The roots are shallow, but the sequel is good-natured, high-spirited and perfectly enjoyable if you take it for what it is. | positive |
2,541 | Brahms: The Boy II is a kind of self-indulgent exercise by the director who perhaps wanted to explore another tangent to his earlier film. It's neither here nor there and seems a bit pointless, really. | negative |
2,542 | Rings proved to be nothing short of a complete waste of time, and if this video ended up on my laptop, tablet or any other digital device I'd delete it off of the hard drive without a second's hesitation. | negative |
2,543 | I have a soft spot for it, because I saw it so many times as a kid, but this is not a good movie. | negative |
2,544 | Essentially, The Scorch Trials makes up for the humdrum YApocalypse of its first half by going a little bonkers in its second. | positive |
2,545 | SECRET SUPERSTAR is a really super powerful, emotional coming-of-age film with a heartfelt mother-daughter relationship at its core. The simple, almost fairytale-like narration is perfectly legitimate in transporting this empowering and inspiring story. | positive |
2,546 | Essential entry in the biker-flick craze of the 1960s and '70s, a heartfelt plea for nihilism and abnormalcy in a world enslaved by Civilization. | positive |
2,547 | Brief glimpses of numerous showbusiness celebrities and Tallulah Bankhead's funny caricature of a demure housewife are hardly enough to outweigh the many deficiencies of this strained, synthetic comedy-drama. | positive |
2,548 | The affectionate ribbing of the cultural milieu and Joan Chen's sly performance raise this a cut above the...[formulaic] lesbian romances and "my crazy family" comedies. | positive |
2,549 | An outrageous and imaginative summer comedy aimed primarily at young males, but it is often so funny that it may well connect to a broader audience. | positive |
2,550 | It's the cinematic equivalent of a flavored rice cake -- palatable while you're chewing and completely forgotten 10 minutes later. | negative |
2,551 | Uneven but often sidesplitting. | positive |
2,552 | It may be cruel to assign a movie's faults to a dead man, but the weakness in "tick, tick... BOOM!" is Larson's story and song score. | positive |
2,553 | ... the most cerebral of first contact films, a science fiction drama about communicating across cultures and across species and even across time without a common language, while failing to communicate within our own world. | positive |
2,554 | Some of 007's earlier adventures fail to hold up, but in a post-'Taken' world, 'Licence to Kill' certainly aged well and is a under-appreciated gem in the Bond catalog. | positive |
2,555 | Among the myriad problems with this unconvincing, unfunny and often sleazy comedy from Todd Phillips (The Hangover) is that co-star Miles Teller's David doesn't get much of a conscience until he's held at gunpoint. | negative |
2,556 | Talk to Her is a sad falsetto ballad, holding onto hope like a dove cupped in two gentle hands in the midst of blood-splattered bullhorns and slow death. | positive |
2,557 | Like the teenage girls who monopolize its attention, "Kill Me Please" is moody, lovely, preening and libidinous. | positive |
2,558 | Though there are fewer dead-air gaps between words (gaps that in New Moon you could drive a truck through and still have time to file a nail), it still cries out for a transfusion. | negative |
2,559 | A light (and slight) surrealistic comedy of emotional waywardness -- intriguing enough to qualify as a playful lark. | positive |
2,560 | The movie doesn’t have the classic comic-book pow of Black Panther, and it’s easily 20 minutes too long. Yet Wakanda Forever has a slow-burn emotional suspense. Once the film starts to gather steam, it doesn’t let up. | positive |
2,561 | The documentary is well shot as we fly through the mountains of Romania, like a dragon, reflecting Yuguo’s dream. | positive |
2,562 | Eddie Redmayne has triumphed again with another remarkable performance as one of the world's first transsexuals | positive |
2,563 | A perfect mixture of talent in front of and behind the camera. | positive |
2,564 | A tentative return to Signs-era form for Shyamalan, but it stops just short of being great by spelling itself out a little too neatly for its themes to truly resonate. | positive |
2,565 | A lacerating revenge-thriller... There is no warmth or wit in Sentinelle; it's an exercise in unsubtle retributive justice. | positive |
2,566 | Imaginative and engaging follow-up, which revolves around a decidedly fresh story line that presents its stars with new challenges, obstacles and emotional opportunities. | positive |
2,567 | A pretentious, random, uninspired, boring, incomplete and entirely unoriginal story. | negative |
2,568 | You'll just have to see it to believe it. | positive |
2,569 | Sometimes the stories we think we know, the stories where we don't want to hear another word, turn out to be the most involving of all, the ones we in fact know the least about. So it is with "Last Days in Vietnam." | positive |
2,570 | A series of exceptionally clever camera close-ups shows with breath-taking clearness each movement of Marion's death-defying feats and at the same time the severe nervous strain which she is undergoing. | positive |
2,571 | ... at Casa Roshell women love and accept themselves as they are. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,572 | It feels like somewhere between vision and production the film-maker lost his way. | negative |
2,573 | Playful, light-hearted and fun, with an impressive cast of Aussie stars and some fine stop-motion animation. As it stands, at 74 minutes, it's not quite as smart (or rewarding) as one would hope. | positive |
2,574 | 29th Street is a movie of considerable energy and good humor, with the expansive Aiello, the uninhibited Kazan and the screwy LaPaglia having a lot of fun with the material. | positive |
2,575 | Watching this won't save your soul, but only remind you that life, like a magic trick, is a passing amusement. | positive |
2,576 | Interesting as filmmaking per se but fails to hold up in its professedly objective treatment of a homegrown facet of violence. | negative |
2,577 | The fact it's based on truth doesn't prevent it from feeling like a rather horrifying and misguided cartoon portrayal of working-class life. | negative |
2,578 | Though there's quite a bit of familiar material on show here, this exercise in football nostalgia has an interesting, original focus... | positive |
2,579 | Amsterdam is able to bring a few performances to the table that are worthy of raving about, but the overall experience is disappointing. The tone is all over the place, and the story feels disjointed. | negative |
2,580 | Clueless about love, weird about sex and dumb about movies. | negative |
2,581 | [Magic Mike XXL] has an easy, engaging flow, at once natural and dreamlike. | positive |
2,582 | Formulaic movie draws some laughs from pratfalls. | positive |
2,583 | Professor Marston and the Wonder Women aims to shake you up, make you think and maybe even squirm a little. | positive |
2,584 | Despite its obvious political bent, the film doesn't spare either side, which paints a troubling portrait of a country all too keen to sell out its morality when it becomes inconvenient to do otherwise. | positive |
2,585 | Losier has made a quietly revolutionary work that treats a pair of people on the fringes with the decency all humans deserve. | positive |
2,586 | It's an immensely successful film, and a story worthy of its subject. | positive |
2,587 | Overall, Final Cut is a remake done right. | positive |
2,588 | It has the grim grip on our imaginations of an accident we notice just before it happens. | positive |
2,589 | At times cold, at others quietly appalling, it is a film that feels too real, and perhaps that is ultimately a compliment to its director and performances. | positive |
2,590 | Brings little new to the table. | negative |
2,591 | It's not good, because of course it isn't, but worst of all, Critters Attack! is depressingly low on charm. | negative |
2,592 | A by-the-numbers sports drama with a death grip on clichs and acting every bit as flat as the mat... | negative |
2,593 | 'Wonder Woman' falls victim to over reliance on computer graphics and it's too long. But that's counterbalanced by a story grounded in real emotions and characters who inhabit a three-dimensional world, albeit a comic-book-inspired, fantastical one. | positive |
2,594 | A sentimental, visually stunning adaptation of the Reif Larsen novel. | positive |
2,595 | A complex but incredibly accessible look at online life in all its dark menace and strange potential. | positive |
2,596 | It's possible that the lackluster script, with its go-nowhere plotting and surface-level emotions, could have been rendered watchable by a talented and charismatic actor. But with Walker, it never stood a chance. | negative |
2,597 | A whimsical film noir, probably the only such animal. | negative |
2,598 | La preuve qu'il est encore possible de produire de belles choses lorsque la passion est au rendez-vous, mme si cela signifie parfois travailler avec des matriaux uss... | positive |
2,599 | With The Other Boleyn Girl, the sheen and shine of the clothing and sets can't quite blind us to the fact there's very little drama under all the drapery, and you'll recall the textures of the fabrics long after you've forgotten the threads of the plot. | negative |