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a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . | 1 | positive |
more precious than perspicacious | 1 | positive |
rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . | 1 | positive |
a moving picture that does not move . | 0 | negative |
this ludicrous film is predictable at every turn . | 0 | negative |
just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence ... lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall -rrb- show us the world they love and make us love it , too . | 1 | positive |
a fanciful drama about napoleon 's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility . | 1 | positive |
the superior plotline is n't quite enough to drag along the dead -lrb- water -rrb- weight of the other . | 0 | negative |
... enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games . | 1 | positive |
spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie . | 1 | positive |
speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life . | 1 | positive |
audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling . | 1 | positive |
an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . | 1 | positive |
its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story . | 1 | positive |
a compassionate , moving portrait of an american -lrb- and an america -rrb- always reaching for something just outside his grasp . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- stephen -rrb- 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 | positive |
adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book . | 1 | positive |
if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 0 | negative |
an older cad instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy . | 1 | positive |
with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi 's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives . | 1 | positive |
an occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten . | 0 | negative |
it 's an 88-minute highlight reel that 's 86 minutes too long . | 0 | negative |
-lrb- jeff 's -rrb- 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 | positive |
it 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . | 1 | positive |
the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol . | 1 | positive |
the heat of the moment prevails . | 1 | positive |
a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea . | 1 | positive |
return to never land is much more p.c. than the original version -lrb- no more racist portraits of indians , for instance -rrb- , but the excitement is missing . | 0 | negative |
the only thing `` swept away '' is the one hour and thirty-three minutes spent watching this waste of time . | 0 | negative |
the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group ... and never fails to entertain . | 1 | positive |
while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it does n't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde 's wit and the actors ' performances . | 0 | negative |
contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . | 0 | negative |
broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed . | 1 | positive |
offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux . | 1 | positive |
muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they do n't have , and how this gets us in trouble . | 1 | positive |
this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer . | 0 | negative |
my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . | 1 | positive |
a riveting documentary . | 1 | positive |
while i ca n't say it 's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie . | 1 | positive |
so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it . | 0 | negative |
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . | 1 | positive |
it 's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . | 1 | positive |
great character interaction . | 1 | positive |
louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense . | 0 | negative |
even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , spy kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man . | 0 | negative |
a meatier deeper beginning and\/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the `` a '' range , as is , it 's a very very strong `` b + . '' | 1 | positive |
funny in a sick , twisted sort of way . | 1 | positive |
trapped wo n't score points for political correctness , but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness . | 1 | positive |
nicks refuses to let slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy . | 1 | positive |
but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more . | 1 | positive |
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0 | negative |
the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . | 0 | negative |
birthday girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked . | 1 | positive |
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 | negative |
does n't add up to much . | 0 | negative |
while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire . | 0 | negative |
the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it were n't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension . | 0 | negative |
despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . | 1 | positive |
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . | 0 | negative |
one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i 've ever seen . | 0 | negative |
it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . | 1 | positive |
the movie is well crafted , and well executed . | 1 | positive |
it all comes down to whether you can tolerate leon barlow . | 0 | negative |
90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . | 0 | negative |
moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . | 1 | positive |
a big fat pain . | 0 | negative |
this is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least . | 0 | negative |
as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago . | 1 | positive |
while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation . | 0 | negative |
it 's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out ` amateur ' in almost every frame . | 0 | negative |
hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture . | 0 | negative |
parts seem like they were lifted from terry gilliam 's subconscious , pressed through kafka 's meat grinder and into buñuel 's casings | 1 | positive |
it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . | 1 | positive |
for casual moviegoers who stumble into rules expecting a slice of american pie hijinks starring the kid from dawson 's creek , they 'll probably run out screaming . | 0 | negative |
it could have been something special , but two things drag it down to mediocrity -- director clare peploe 's misunderstanding of marivaux 's rhythms , and mira sorvino 's limitations as a classical actress . | 0 | negative |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | 1 | positive |
slap her - she 's not funny ! | 0 | negative |
everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . | 0 | negative |
see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . | 0 | negative |
if you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake . | 0 | negative |
a psychic journey deep into the very fabric of iranian ... life . | 1 | positive |
an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks . | 1 | positive |
love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit . | 0 | negative |
this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . | 1 | positive |
gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story . | 0 | negative |
deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence . | 0 | negative |
it 's still terrible ! | 0 | negative |
it 's in the action scenes that things fall apart . | 0 | negative |
if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 1 | positive |
will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about . | 1 | positive |
they 're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . | 1 | positive |
while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix . | 1 | positive |
davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . | 1 | positive |
heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . | 1 | positive |
scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . | 1 | positive |
barry convinces us he 's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful . | 1 | positive |
an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . | 0 | negative |
this strenuously unfunny showtime deserves the hook . | 0 | negative |
stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be . | 1 | positive |