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lacks depth . | 1 | negative |
i 'll put it this way : if you 're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you . | 2 | neutral |
it 's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ` em together here . | 1 | negative |
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 . | 1 | negative |
this slight premise ... works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon . | 3 | positive |
rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic . | 0 | very negative |
straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it . | 3 | positive |
though the story ... is hackneyed , the characters have a freshness and modesty that transcends their predicament . | 3 | positive |
for all the complications , it 's all surprisingly predictable . | 2 | neutral |
she 's not yet an actress , not quite a singer ... | 2 | neutral |
it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . | 3 | positive |
the first tunisian film i have ever seen , and it 's also probably the most good-hearted yet sensual entertainment i 'm likely to see all year . | 4 | very positive |
yo , it 's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo . | 2 | neutral |
anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed . | 3 | positive |
as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant . | 3 | positive |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- a -rrb- devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama . | 4 | very positive |
dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean . | 3 | positive |
die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it 's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it 's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . | 2 | neutral |
it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory . | 3 | positive |
-lrb- hayek -rrb- throws herself into this dream hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto , she strikes a potent chemistry with molina and she gradually makes us believe she is kahlo . | 4 | very positive |
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 . | 1 | negative |
there are things to like about murder by numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel . | 2 | neutral |
the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . | 1 | negative |
the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion . | 0 | very negative |
captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head . | 4 | very positive |
jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar . | 1 | negative |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden ... if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 0 | very negative |
one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . | 1 | negative |
the film 's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut . | 1 | negative |
like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls . | 3 | positive |
to be more engaging on an emotional level , funnier , and on the whole less detached . | 2 | neutral |
savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense . | 3 | positive |
puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself . | 1 | negative |
... best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . | 2 | neutral |
the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . | 0 | very negative |
has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . | 0 | very negative |
while broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . | 3 | positive |
some movies blend together as they become distant memories . | 2 | neutral |
what ` dumb and dumber ' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script . | 2 | neutral |
completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i 'm not sure could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage . | 0 | very negative |
... a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll . | 4 | very positive |
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreams when you 're a struggling nobody . | 3 | positive |
what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between . | 2 | neutral |
it 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland . | 0 | very negative |
we do n't get paid enough to sit through crap like this . | 0 | very negative |
feels like a cold old man going through the motions . | 1 | negative |
both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter . | 3 | positive |
bravado kathy ! | 3 | positive |
occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story . | 2 | neutral |
a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . | 2 | neutral |
it 's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn . | 2 | neutral |
execrable . | 0 | very negative |
-lrb- seagal 's -rrb- strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's razzie . | 1 | negative |
thoroughly awful . | 0 | very negative |
the production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable . | 3 | positive |
starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . | 1 | negative |
entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together . | 2 | neutral |
despite besson 's high-profile name being wasabi 's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone . | 3 | positive |
often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? | 1 | negative |
a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work . | 4 | very positive |
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? | 2 | neutral |
not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general . | 1 | negative |
a high-minded snoozer . | 1 | negative |
the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic . | 2 | neutral |
bring on the sequel . | 3 | positive |
judging by those standards , ` scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 3 | positive |
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . | 1 | negative |
pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion . | 1 | negative |
although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing . | 2 | neutral |
an often watchable , though goofy and lurid , blast of a costume drama set in the late 15th century . | 3 | positive |
check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on . | 1 | negative |
a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili . | 3 | positive |
as saccharine as it is disposable . | 1 | negative |
the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her . | 3 | positive |
matters play out realistically if not always fairly . | 3 | positive |
as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan . | 1 | negative |
it may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul 's - eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case . | 3 | positive |
the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film . | 0 | very negative |
is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing . | 2 | neutral |
contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing . | 1 | negative |
cremaster 3 is at once a tough pill to swallow and a minor miracle of self-expression . | 3 | positive |
ver wiel 's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless . | 1 | negative |
instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral , schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view . | 3 | positive |
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . | 1 | negative |
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . | 0 | very negative |
a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman 's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 3 | positive |
hugh grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | 3 | positive |
mendes still does n't quite know how to fill a frame . | 1 | negative |
but darned if it does n't also keep us riveted to our seats . | 4 | very positive |
such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . | 0 | very negative |
the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another . | 2 | neutral |
if you do n't laugh , flee . | 2 | neutral |
there 's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man 's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . | 0 | very negative |
to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . | 0 | very negative |
all of the filmmakers ' calculations ca n't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness . | 0 | very negative |
intriguing and stylish . | 4 | very positive |
a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics are n't likely to enter the theater . | 3 | positive |
mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor . | 1 | negative |
it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring . | 1 | negative |