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rates an ` e ' for effort -- and a ` b ' for boring . | 1 | negative |
i did n't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot . | 1 | negative |
behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies -lrb- plus one sheep dog -rrb- , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . | 3 | positive |
it 's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun . | 1 | negative |
... a poignant and powerful narrative that reveals that reading writing and arithmetic are not the only subjects to learn in life . | 3 | positive |
credit must be given to harland williams , michael rosenbaum and barry watson , who inject far more good-natured spirit and talent into this project than it deserves | 3 | positive |
an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection . | 3 | positive |
parker probably thinks he 's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde 's still-contemporary play . | 2 | neutral |
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it does n't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . | 1 | negative |
elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 2 | neutral |
... an inviting piece of film . | 4 | very positive |
hilarious , acidic brit comedy . | 4 | very positive |
the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them . | 1 | negative |
truth to tell , if you 've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there 's nothing here you have n't seen before . | 1 | negative |
jirí hubac 's script is a gem . | 4 | very positive |
romanek keeps the film constantly taut ... reflecting the character 's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . | 4 | very positive |
even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs. sever is a dumb action movie . | 0 | very negative |
the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted . | 0 | very negative |
the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden . | 0 | very negative |
she must have a very strong back . | 3 | positive |
it 's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it 's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . | 4 | very positive |
a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl 's life . | 3 | positive |
a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense . | 3 | positive |
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i 've seen in quite a long time . | 4 | very positive |
the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it is n't exactly kiddie-friendly ... alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman -lrb- who never gets to play that flute -rrb- has all the charm of a meltdown . | 1 | negative |
with the film 's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved . | 4 | very positive |
though the plot is predictable , the movie never feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . | 2 | neutral |
well , it does go on forever . | 1 | negative |
it will come as no surprise that the movie is n't scary . | 1 | negative |
so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . | 1 | negative |
its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . | 1 | negative |
a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely can not last . | 1 | negative |
i like the new footage and still love the old stuff . | 4 | very positive |
on the surface , it 's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz 's and kieslowski 's earlier work , films like the double life of veronique . | 3 | positive |
static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! | 1 | negative |
while mcfarlane 's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films ... it 's also so jarring that it 's hard to get back into the boys ' story . | 1 | negative |
shadyac shoots his film like an m. night shyamalan movie , and he frequently maintains the same snail 's pace ; he just forgot to add any genuine tension . | 0 | very negative |
his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos . | 2 | neutral |
even those who would like to dismiss the film outright should find much to mull and debate . | 2 | neutral |
a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe . | 3 | positive |
we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict . | 2 | neutral |
jacquot 's tosca is a treat . | 3 | positive |
going to the website may be just as fun -lrb- and scary -rrb- as going to the film . | 1 | negative |
schmaltzy and unfunny , adam sandler 's cartoon about hanukkah is numbingly bad , little nicky bad , 10 worst list bad . | 0 | very negative |
a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy need n't always make us laugh . | 4 | very positive |
an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution -- acted mostly by the actual people involved . | 3 | positive |
acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes `` never again '' worthwhile , but -lrb- writer\/director -rrb- schaeffer should follow his titular advice | 1 | negative |
it 's endearing to hear madame d. refer to her husband as ` jackie ' -- and he does make for excellent company , not least as a self-conscious performer . | 3 | positive |
what happens to john q ? | 2 | neutral |
visits spy-movie territory like a novel you ca n't put down , examines a footnote to history seldom brought to light on the screen , and keeps you guessing from first frame to last . | 4 | very positive |
a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail . | 4 | very positive |
ca n't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . | 2 | neutral |
daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who are n't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war . | 3 | positive |
`` its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . '' | 2 | neutral |
enduring love but exhausting cinema . | 2 | neutral |
the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going . | 2 | neutral |
the movie gets muted and routine . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- i -rrb- f you 've been to more than one indie flick in your life , chances are you 've already seen this kind of thing . | 1 | negative |
a tough go , but leigh 's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film 's often-mined and despairing milieu . | 3 | positive |
cuts right through the b.s. giving a big middle-fingered `` shut up '' to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another . | 2 | neutral |
the unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable , if not a pleasure in its own right . | 4 | very positive |
like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it . | 1 | negative |
this is junk food cinema at its greasiest . | 1 | negative |
i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha . | 1 | negative |
this road movie gives you emotional whiplash , and you 'll be glad you went along for the ride . | 4 | very positive |
the new faces are interesting , but the old story is n't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted . | 2 | neutral |
majidi 's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times . | 3 | positive |
a broadly played , lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags . | 3 | positive |
though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium . | 3 | positive |
director barry skolnick and his screenwriters glibly tick off every point of `` the longest yard '' playbook like a checklist . | 2 | neutral |
here 's a british flick gleefully unconcerned with plausibility , yet just as determined to entertain you . | 3 | positive |
jagger the actor is someone you want to see again . | 3 | positive |
you bet . | 2 | neutral |
it 's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic . | 4 | very positive |
a mixed bag of a comedy that ca n't really be described as out of this world . | 1 | negative |
chicago is sophisticated , brash , sardonic , completely joyful in its execution . | 4 | very positive |
reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it 's still pretty tasty . | 3 | positive |
kidman is really the only thing that 's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth -lrb- mojo -rrb- that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world . | 2 | neutral |
secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny . | 2 | neutral |
too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience . | 2 | neutral |
a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race . | 3 | positive |
this delicately observed story , deeply felt and masterfully stylized , is a triumph for its maverick director . | 4 | very positive |
genuinely touching because it 's realistic about all kinds of love . | 4 | very positive |
it 's the kind of movie that ends up festooning u.s. art house screens for no reason other than the fact that it 's in french -lrb- well , mostly -rrb- with english subtitles and is magically ` significant ' because of that . | 1 | negative |
drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the - past numbness . | 1 | negative |
a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python 's meaning of life . | 4 | very positive |
although it 's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do . | 3 | positive |
i 'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . | 1 | negative |
whatever eyre 's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place . | 3 | positive |
i wish i could say `` thank god it 's friday '' , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over . | 0 | very negative |
this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends . | 4 | very positive |
maybe it 's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades ... but honestly , analyze that really is n't all that bad . | 2 | neutral |
rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding . | 4 | very positive |
led by griffin 's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material . | 3 | positive |
any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment . | 1 | negative |
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . | 2 | neutral |
cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . | 4 | very positive |
by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster . | 3 | positive |
culkin , who 's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield . | 3 | positive |
westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort level that 's both saucy and endearing . | 3 | positive |