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the movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs . | 1 | negative |
offers a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication . | 4 | very positive |
illuminating if overly talky documentary . | 2 | neutral |
some actors steal scenes . | 2 | neutral |
collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-9 \/ 11 , an antique , in the end . | 1 | negative |
when it 's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper . | 1 | negative |
this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he 's the most obvious one . | 0 | very negative |
there 's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . | 1 | negative |
look , this is a terrific flick replete with dazzling camera-work , dancing and music . | 3 | positive |
noyce 's film is contemplative and mournfully reflective . | 3 | positive |
it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future . | 4 | very positive |
katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself | 3 | positive |
it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original . | 0 | very negative |
it does n't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . | 0 | very negative |
this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring . | 2 | neutral |
the movie takes itself too seriously and , as a result , it makes for only intermittent fun . | 1 | negative |
nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations ... | 3 | positive |
though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial . | 2 | neutral |
but some unexpected zigs and zags help . | 3 | positive |
an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece . | 3 | positive |
the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy . | 1 | negative |
a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil ' bow wow . | 3 | positive |
the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions . | 2 | neutral |
now trimmed by about 20 minutes , this lavish three-year-old production has enough grandeur and scale to satisfy as grown-up escapism . | 3 | positive |
for anyone who grew up on disney 's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor . | 0 | very negative |
flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern 's thick , working-class scottish accent . | 1 | negative |
it 's just a silly black genre spoof . | 1 | negative |
a very funny look at how another culture handles the process of courting and marriage . | 3 | positive |
the film 's real appeal wo n't be to clooney fans or adventure buffs , but to moviegoers who enjoy thinking about compelling questions with no easy answers . | 3 | positive |
... the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats . | 1 | negative |
imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the songs . | 0 | very negative |
watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it . | 0 | very negative |
this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family | 4 | very positive |
the gantzes ' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook . | 2 | neutral |
while benigni -lrb- who stars and co-wrote -rrb- seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that . | 1 | negative |
the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone . | 1 | negative |
and if the hours wins ` best picture ' i just might . | 3 | positive |
a dreadful live-action movie . | 0 | very negative |
the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors | 2 | neutral |
her delivery and timing are flawless . | 4 | very positive |
an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural clash . | 3 | positive |
if your senses have n't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you 're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket . | 3 | positive |
others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore 's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding . | 0 | very negative |
a marvellous journey from childhood idealism to adolescent self-absorption . | 4 | very positive |
but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi . | 3 | positive |
this is n't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it 's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . | 0 | very negative |
only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry . | 2 | neutral |
a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat . | 4 | very positive |
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . | 1 | negative |
only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . | 2 | neutral |
it 's still worth a look . | 3 | positive |
bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences . | 2 | neutral |
despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it 's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . | 1 | negative |
unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such ` have-yourself-a-happy-little-holocaust ' movies as life is beautiful and jakob the liar , the grey zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in auschwitz . | 3 | positive |
national lampoon 's van wilder could be the worst thing to come out of national lampoon since class reunion | 0 | very negative |
what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 . | 0 | very negative |
for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear . | 2 | neutral |
bennett 's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that 's tough to shake . | 2 | neutral |
if you 're not a prepubescent girl , you 'll be laughing at britney spears ' movie-starring debut whenever it does n't have you impatiently squinting at your watch . | 1 | negative |
it wo n't be long before you 'll spy i spy at a video store near you . | 1 | negative |
ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it 's all over his chelsea walls . | 1 | negative |
do n't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life . | 3 | positive |
the story ... is moldy and obvious . | 0 | very negative |
all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit . | 4 | very positive |
a chaotic panorama that 's too busy flying a lot of metaphoric flags . | 1 | negative |
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . | 2 | neutral |
but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing . | 1 | negative |
if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil . | 1 | negative |
with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv 's defunct cleopatra 2525 . | 1 | negative |
guided more by intellect than heart , his story flattens instead of sharpens . | 0 | very negative |
the film 's greatest asset is how much it 's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture . | 4 | very positive |
when -lrb- de palma 's -rrb- bad , he 's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done . | 0 | very negative |
the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset . | 1 | negative |
-lrb- director peter -rrb- jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien 's writing that every frame produces new joys , whether you 're a fan of the books or not . | 4 | very positive |
to say analyze that is de niro 's best film since meet the parents sums up the sad state of his recent career . | 2 | neutral |
smith 's approach is never to tease , except gently and in that way that makes us consider our own eccentricities and how they are expressed through our homes . | 3 | positive |
a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its source material . | 4 | very positive |
those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations ... are rewarded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . | 4 | very positive |
tailored to entertain ! | 3 | positive |
morton is a great actress portraying a complex character , but morvern callar grows less compelling the farther it meanders from its shocking start . | 2 | neutral |
i have n't seen one in so long , no wonder i did n't recognize it at first . | 2 | neutral |
`` an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . '' | 0 | very negative |
would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year . | 0 | very negative |
a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women . | 4 | very positive |
a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable . | 4 | very positive |
what 's most striking about this largely celebratory film ... is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea world . | 3 | positive |
even the unwatchable soapdish is more original . | 0 | very negative |
ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy 's intrepid hero ? | 2 | neutral |
the thrill is -lrb- long -rrb- gone . | 1 | negative |
the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it . | 2 | neutral |
offers that rare combination of entertainment and education . | 4 | very positive |
still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral . | 1 | negative |
everything that 's worthwhile about collision course can already be seen on television . | 2 | neutral |
a clutchy , indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against ... well , just stuff . | 1 | negative |
the marquis de sade could n't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be . | 2 | neutral |
for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale . | 1 | negative |
the film runs on equal parts of innocence and wisdom -- wisdom that comes with experience . | 3 | positive |
... too dull to enjoy . | 1 | negative |
unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . | 0 | very negative |
like those to rome , all roads in the banger sisters inevitably lead to a joke about hawn 's breasts , which constantly threaten to upstage the woman sporting them . | 1 | negative |