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the work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them . | 3 | positive |
exactly what you 'd expect from a guy named kaos . | 2 | neutral |
for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league . | 1 | negative |
i had more fun with ben stiller 's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . | 2 | neutral |
juliette binoche 's sand is vivacious , but it 's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile . | 3 | positive |
most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . | 0 | very negative |
but not a whit more . | 2 | neutral |
a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . | 4 | very positive |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . | 4 | very positive |
the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a `` dungeons and dragons '' fantasy with modern military weaponry ... | 1 | negative |
delirious fun . | 4 | very positive |
what might have been acceptable on the printed page of iles ' book does not translate well to the screen . | 0 | very negative |
ice cube is n't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin . | 1 | negative |
director david fincher and writer david koepp ca n't sustain it . | 1 | negative |
displays the potential for a better movie than what bailly manages to deliver | 2 | neutral |
sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery . | 2 | neutral |
-lrb- the digital effects -rrb- reminded me of terry gilliam 's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together . | 2 | neutral |
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 | very negative |
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 . | 3 | positive |
it gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . | 1 | negative |
entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . | 3 | positive |
does anyone much think the central story of brendan behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ? | 2 | neutral |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0 | very negative |
with a cast of a-list brit actors , it is worth searching out . | 4 | very positive |
it 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . | 4 | very positive |
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 | very negative |
most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . | 2 | neutral |
as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? | 2 | neutral |
with flashbulb editing as cover for the absence of narrative continuity , undisputed is nearly incoherent , an excuse to get to the closing bout ... by which time it 's impossible to care who wins . | 1 | negative |
clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ... | 3 | positive |
happy times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it . | 3 | positive |
tv skit-com material fervently deposited on the big screen . | 1 | negative |
a compelling film . | 4 | very positive |
the film 's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . | 3 | positive |
the same should go for movie theaters . | 2 | neutral |
it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . | 3 | positive |
most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there . | 3 | positive |
cold , sterile and lacking any color or warmth . | 0 | very negative |
a ` girls gone wild ' video for the boho art-house crowd , the burning sensation is n't a definitive counter-cultural document -- its makers are n't removed and inquisitive enough for that . | 0 | very negative |
the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what 's available is lovely and lovable . | 2 | neutral |
... the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies . | 1 | negative |
with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , hélène angel is definitely a director to watch . | 4 | very positive |
aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production does n't work for me . | 2 | neutral |
a deft , delightful mix of sulky teen drama and overcoming-obstacles sports-movie triumph . | 3 | positive |
a few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot has n't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists ' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun . | 2 | neutral |
an uplifting drama ... what antwone fisher is n't , however , is original . | 2 | neutral |
men in black ii achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as whiffle-ball epic . | 0 | very negative |
there 's nothing to gain from watching they . | 0 | very negative |
debut effort by `` project greenlight '' winner is sappy and amateurish . | 1 | negative |
your 20th outing shows off a lot of stamina and vitality , and get this , madonna 's cameo does n't suck ! | 3 | positive |
an absurdist spider web . | 1 | negative |
a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it 's potentially just as rewarding . | 3 | positive |
rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . | 1 | negative |
an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard 's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 3 | positive |
`` me without you '' is a probing examination of a female friendship set against a few dynamic decades . | 2 | neutral |
stay away . | 0 | very negative |
contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii | 1 | negative |
skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source . | 1 | negative |
beautifully filmed and well acted ... but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics . | 3 | positive |
if you 're burnt out on it 's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for . | 3 | positive |
the film 's highlight is definitely its screenplay , both for the rhapsodic dialogue that jumps off the page , and for the memorable character creations . | 3 | positive |
the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes . | 1 | negative |
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it 's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . | 2 | neutral |
it 's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . | 3 | positive |
should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie . | 0 | very negative |
decent but dull . | 1 | negative |
get out your pooper-scoopers . | 0 | very negative |
humor in i spy is so anemic . | 1 | negative |
at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . | 4 | very positive |
try as you might to resist , if you 've got a place in your heart for smokey robinson , this movie will worm its way there . | 3 | positive |
if the film has a problem , its shortness disappoints : you want the story to go on and on . | 3 | positive |
there 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale . | 1 | negative |
this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success . | 3 | positive |
this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still . | 1 | negative |
technically and artistically inept . | 1 | negative |
... overly melodramatic ... | 0 | very negative |
you 'll get the enjoyable basic minimum . | 2 | neutral |
trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead . | 1 | negative |
... stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier . | 1 | negative |
in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant . | 0 | very negative |
allen 's funniest and most likeable movie in years . | 4 | very positive |
highly uneven and inconsistent ... margarita happy hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within . | 0 | very negative |
weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes . | 2 | neutral |
the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it 's hardly watchable . | 0 | very negative |
earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock . | 2 | neutral |
blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological . | 2 | neutral |
the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film 's characters . | 1 | negative |
a big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . | 3 | positive |
an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar . | 4 | very positive |
even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached . | 1 | negative |
as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . | 2 | neutral |
deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | 3 | positive |
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $ 9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0 | very negative |
not once does it come close to being exciting . | 1 | negative |
it 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the dahmer heyday of the mid - '90s . | 1 | negative |
the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . | 1 | negative |
... standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added . | 3 | positive |
a noble failure . | 1 | negative |
much of what we see is horrible but it 's also undeniably exceedingly clever . | 3 | positive |
there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . | 0 | very negative |