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It also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them . | 0positive
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With the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like Tremors , Eight Legged Freaks is prime escapist fare . | 0positive
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A sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity . | 0positive
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The sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . | 0positive
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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 . | 0positive
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A graceful , moving tribute to the courage of New York 's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice . | 0positive
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A coming-of-age tale from New Zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board . | 0positive
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Made to be Jaglomized is the Cannes Film Festival , the annual Riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . | 1negative
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The charming result is Festival in Cannes . | 0positive
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If you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck . | 0positive
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A hugely rewarding experience that 's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as Grant 's two best films -- Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones 's Diary . | 0positive
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A rip-roaring comedy action fest that 'll put hairs on your chest . | 0positive
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If there 's no art here , it 's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days . | 0positive
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Simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , The Last Kiss is really all about performances . | 0positive
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There is a subversive element to this Disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . | 0positive
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An unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage . | 0positive
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An enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment . | 0positive
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Miyazaki is one of world cinema 's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers . | 0positive
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If Ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing . | 0positive
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Meeting , even exceeding expectations , it 's the best sequel since The Empire Strikes Back ... a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth . | 0positive
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Leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . | 0positive
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He allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . | 0positive
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This method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here . | 0positive
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Poetry in motion captured on film . | 0positive
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While it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary . | 0positive
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Directing with a sure and measured hand , -LRB- Haneke -RRB- steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology . | 0positive
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The entire movie establishes a wonderfully creepy mood . | 0positive
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I found The Ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound . | 0positive
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The filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , B movie way , they succeed . | 0positive
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Amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances . | 0positive
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But it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that does n't make you feel like a sucker . | 0positive
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Both heartbreaking and heartwarming ... just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it 's tremendously moving . | 0positive
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This masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat short . | 0positive
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The film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it 's propelled by the acting . | 0positive
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The Pianist -LRB- is -RRB- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . | 0positive
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Here is a divine monument to a single man 's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music . | 0positive
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Strange it is , but delightfully so . | 0positive
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Elegant , mannered and teasing . | 0positive
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The ingenuity that Parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of Wilde himself . | 0positive
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The unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful . | 0positive
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A droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the Lone Star State . | 1negative
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With each of her three protagonists , Miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman 's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path . | 0positive
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Ryan Gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor . | 0positive
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As an introduction to the man 's theories and influence , Derrida is all but useless ; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man , however , it 's invaluable . | 0positive
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The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers . | 0positive
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Imperfect ? | 1negative
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Yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy . | 0positive
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What a great way to spend 4 units of your day . | 0positive
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The movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark Ms. Bullock 's best work in some time . | 0positive
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As simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . | 0positive
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This is a movie you can trust . | 0positive
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Passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , Helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats . | 0positive
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Vividly conveys the passion , creativity , and fearlessness of one of Mexico 's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all . | 0positive
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Hollywood Ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . | 0positive
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A compelling yarn , but not quite a ripping one . | 0positive
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On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10 , The Powerpuff Girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience . | 0positive
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The film has several strong performances . | 0positive
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I 've never bought from telemarketers , but I bought this movie . | 0positive
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Perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , About Schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness . | 0positive
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-LRB- Shyamalan -RRB- turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count . | 0positive
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A sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in Renaissance Spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . | 0positive
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An entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the Bard 's immortal plays were written by somebody else . | 0positive
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A highly spirited , imaginative kid 's movie that broaches neo-Augustinian theology : Is God stuck in Heaven because He 's afraid of His best-known creation ? | 0positive
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Call it magic realism or surrealism , but Miss Wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity . | 0positive
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Raimi and his team could n't have done any better in bringing the story of Spider-Man to the big screen . | 0positive
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The director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of Truffaut . | 0positive
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Well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious . | 0positive
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It 's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look . | 0positive
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Boomers and their kids will have a Barrie good time . | 0positive
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Real Women Have Curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by Ferrera and Ontiveros . | 0positive
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Ultimately , `` MIB II '' succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it ca n't be dismissed as mindless . | 0positive
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Stage director Sam Mendes showcases Tom Hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . | 0positive
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Sitting in the third row of the IMAX cinema at Sydney 's Darling Harbour , but I sometimes felt as though I was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around Australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not | 0positive
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What 's so fun about this silly , outrageous , ingenious thriller is the director 's talent . | 0positive
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Watching a Brian DePalma movie is like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . | 1negative
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Strip it of all its excess debris , and you 'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie . | 0positive
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As it is , it 's too long and unfocused . | 1negative
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An immensely entertaining look at some of the unsung heroes of 20th century pop music . | 0positive
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This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it 's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . | 0positive
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This beautifully animated epic is never dull . | 0positive
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Brian Tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . | 0positive
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It makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . | 0positive
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A thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses Grant 's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . | 0positive
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Using a stock plot , About a Boy injects just enough freshness into the proceedings to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater . | 0positive
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But it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . | 0positive
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The hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth Bullock and the nonchalant Grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment . | 0positive
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A positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a Shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera . | 0positive
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Mr. Clooney , Mr. Kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster . | 0positive
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Definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . ' | 0positive
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Easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-Semitism ever seen on screen . | 0positive
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A real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . | 0positive
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Family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking . | 0positive
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Uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . | 0positive
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The film has a terrific look and Salma Hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . | 0positive
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A decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies . | 1negative
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The performances are remarkable . | 0positive
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It 's Burns ' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown . | 0positive
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As literary desecrations go , this makes for perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment . | 0positive
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You 'll forget about it by Monday , though , and if they 're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids . | 1negative
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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 . | 0positive
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