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We get the comedy we settle for . | 1negative
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The uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them . | 1negative
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A word of advice to the makers of The Singles Ward : Celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs . | 1negative
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And neither do cliches , no matter how ` inside ' they are . | 1negative
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The campy results make Mel Brooks ' Borscht Belt schtick look sophisticated . | 0positive
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Its appeal will probably limited to LDS Church members and undemanding armchair tourists . | 1negative
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The Hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . | 1negative
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Cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film . | 1negative
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Manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney ... take your pick . | 1negative
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All three descriptions suit Evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new . | 1negative
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Still , the updated Dickensian sensibility of writer Craig Bartlett 's story is appealing . | 0positive
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True to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at . | 1negative
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Does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago . | 1negative
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The plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours . | 1negative
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Kaufman 's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious . | 1negative
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Queen of the Damned is too long with too little going on . | 1negative
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It collapses when Mr. Taylor tries to shift the tone to a thriller 's rush . | 1negative
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Any film that does n't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss . | 1negative
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... Blade II is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves . | 1negative
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The Rules of Attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . | 1negative
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Though there are many tense scenes in Trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful . | 1negative
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Feels strangely hollow at its emotional core . | 1negative
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The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : There 's very little hustling on view . | 1negative
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This director 's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera . | 1negative
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Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle . | 1negative
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That 's muy loco , but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of `` Dragonfly . '' | 1negative
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It 's a movie that ends with Truckzilla , for cryin ' out loud . | 1negative
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If that does n't clue you in that something 's horribly wrong , nothing will . | 1negative
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Director Tom Shadyac and star Kevin Costner glumly mishandle the story 's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself . | 1negative
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It 's difficult to imagine that a more confused , less interesting and more sloppily made film could possibly come down the road in 2002 . | 1negative
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Like the Tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on | 1negative
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As pedestrian as they come . | 1negative
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A film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen . | 1negative
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It 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary . | 1negative
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More intellectually scary than dramatically involving . | 1negative
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An inconsequential , barely there bit of piffle . | 1negative
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The abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture ca n't quite conceal that there 's nothing resembling a spine here . | 1negative
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As saccharine as it is disposable . | 1negative
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You come away thinking not only that Kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , Janine and Molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another . | 1negative
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The metaphors are provocative , but too often , the viewer is left puzzled by the mechanics of the delivery . | 1negative
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Very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all . | 1negative
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Too much power , not enough puff . | 1negative
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The attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show . | 1negative
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It 's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by Taylor 's cartoonish performance and the film 's ill-considered notion that Hitler 's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances . | 1negative
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A cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic Ladies and Gentlemen , The Fabulous Stains ... Crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential . | 1negative
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For this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull Sorvino has no light touch , and Rodan is out of his league . | 1negative
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Narc is all menace and atmosphere . | 1negative
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Despite Juliet Stevenon 's attempt to bring cohesion to Pamela 's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs . | 1negative
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It 's tough to be startled when you 're almost dozing . | 1negative
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his -LRB- Nelson 's -RRB- screenplay needs some serious re-working to show more of the dilemma , rather than have his characters stage shouting matches about it . | 1negative
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It 's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . | 1negative
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A terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving . | 1negative
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There are many definitions of ` time waster ' but this movie must surely be one of them . | 1negative
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As it stands , Crocodile Hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 Godzilla , which combined scenes of a Japanese monster flick with canned shots of Raymond Burr commenting on the monster 's path of destruction . | 1negative
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Enigma is well-made , but it 's just too dry and too placid . | 1negative
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`` Sweet Home Alabama '' is what it is -- a nice , harmless date film ... | 0positive
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One of the best , most understated performances of -LRB- Jack Nicholson 's -RRB- career . | 0positive
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ' take on adolescence feels painfully true . | 0positive
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It 's a masterpiece . | 0positive
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They crush each other under cars , throw each other out windows , electrocute and dismember their victims in full consciousness . | 1negative
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And we do n't avert our eyes for a moment . | 0positive
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Third time 's the charm ... yeah , baby ! | 0positive
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By the end of the movie , you 're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . | 0positive
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Birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters . | 0positive
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` Stock up on silver bullets for director Neil Marshall 's intense freight train of a film . ' | 0positive
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The film delivers what it promises : A look at the `` wild ride '' that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans . | 0positive
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As a film director , LaBute continues to improve . | 0positive
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Will warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it . | 0positive
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Catch it ... if you can ! | 0positive
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American and European cinema has amassed a vast Holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than The Grey Zone . | 1negative
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` Possession , ' based on the book by A.S. Byatt , demands that LaBute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit | 0positive
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It 's the kind of movie that , aside from Robert Altman , Spike Lee , the Coen Brothers and a few others , our moviemakers do n't make often enough . | 0positive
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Alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and is n't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . | 0positive
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The script is smart , not cloying . | 0positive
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Visually , ` Santa Clause 2 ' is wondrously creative . | 0positive
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A bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker 's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing . | 0positive
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One fantastic -LRB- and educational -RRB- documentary . | 0positive
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An ambitious ` what if ? ' | 0positive
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that works . | 0positive
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`` The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys '' has flaws , but it also has humor and heart and very talented young actors | 0positive
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Nice piece of work . | 0positive
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` Stock up on silver bullets for director Neil Marshall 's intense freight train of a film . ' | 0positive
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It 's funny , as the old saying goes , because it 's true . | 0positive
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Though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . | 0positive
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From blushing to gushing -- Imamura squirts the screen in ` Warm Water Under a Red Bridge ' | 0positive
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Apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas I have ever seen on the screen . | 0positive
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Not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral -- and , hence , more chillingly effective . | 0positive
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Stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . | 1negative
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Go back to sleep . | 1negative
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I did n't laugh . | 1negative
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I did n't smile . | 1negative
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The worst film of the year . | 1negative
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In the book-on-tape market , the film of `` The Kid Stays in the Picture '' would be an abridged edition | 1negative
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A sour attempt at making a Farrelly Brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set . | 1negative
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Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema 's directorial giants . | 1negative
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Taken as a whole , The Tuxedo does n't add up to a whole lot . | 1negative
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This is no `` Waterboy ! '' | 1negative
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Something has been lost in the translation ... another routine Hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . | 1negative
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The result is an ` action film ' mired in stasis . | 1negative
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... a movie that , quite simply , should n't have been made . | 1negative
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