diff --git "a/v3_train_forget.csv" "b/v3_train_forget.csv" --- "a/v3_train_forget.csv" +++ "b/v3_train_forget.csv" @@ -1,242 +1,229 @@ text,label,label_text "instead of letting the laughs come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick.",0,negative "without ( de niro ), city by the sea would slip under the waves.",0,negative +payne has created a beautiful canvas,1,positive squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.,0,negative -"an action hero with table manners,",1,positive ", the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive a young robert deniro,1,positive "the gifts of all involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive -"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love,",1,positive -jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval.,0,negative ", it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.",0,negative -forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year,0,negative -"no, it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.",1,positive +"this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert,",0,negative even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative what bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch.,1,positive +hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive so much like a young robert deniro,1,positive "the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that, even in all its director's cut glory, he's made a film that's barely shocking, barely interesting and most of all, barely anything.",0,negative "the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '.",0,negative +"does n't get the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ).,1,positive -can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial,1,positive ", martin is a masterfully conducted work.",1,positive +"we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile,",0,negative "wow, so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted?",1,positive -plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph.,1,positive -"well, jason's gone to manhattan and hell, i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey, do n't shoot the messenger ).",0,negative loves a david and goliath story,1,positive -"it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive -"the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive +"strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative +fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ),1,positive the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa,0,negative "writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches, but wind up using them as punching bags.",0,negative director david fincher and writer david koepp ca n't sustain it.,0,negative -"a high-end john hughes comedy,",1,positive "it puts washington, as honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher.",1,positive said to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative --- however canned --,0,negative been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich.,1,positive -"is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep.",1,positive -jackass,0,negative +there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative david letterman and the onion,1,positive george's haplessness and,0,negative "adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative -playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows.,1,positive -the lousy john q,0,negative "has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.",1,positive casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,0,negative -seeking christian-themed fun,1,positive -"the direction, by george hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism.",0,negative "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one )",0,negative +graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world.,1,positive "do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages",0,negative -the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date.,1,positive -"while solondz tries and tries hard, storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.",0,negative -completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i 'm not sure,0,negative -"take on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis.",1,positive -is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony,0,negative +"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe, but the movie is certainly not number 1.",0,negative +"everybody loves a david and goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view.",1,positive "an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +"proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive +"placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal,1,positive -what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony.,0,negative +'re often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject,0,negative +the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year,0,negative schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins,1,positive +"a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive "a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -the manner of a golden book sprung to life,1,positive "seagal, who looks more like danny aiello these days",1,positive -passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive "think the lion king redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star.",0,negative -"as the sulking, moody male hustler in the title role, ( franco ) has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability.",0,negative +"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.",1,positive in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive -the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish.,0,negative -on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal",0,negative of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative "if the title is a jeopardy question, then the answer might be `` how does steven seagal come across these days?''",0,negative "one problem with the movie, directed by joel schumacher",0,negative -one key problem with these ardently christian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out.,0,negative +scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects.,1,positive "delia, greta, and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year.",1,positive ", fits the bill perfectly",1,positive a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences,0,negative "next week, why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative -"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival, the annual riviera spree of flesh, buzz, blab and money.",0,negative "of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive the best of the pierce brosnan james bond,1,positive +which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,1,positive +"much like robin williams, death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date.",0,negative his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive +"it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive "treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative +", you can do no wrong with jason x.",1,positive +with great help from kevin kline,1,positive "while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected, everything else about the film tanks.",0,negative "left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol,1,positive diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful.,1,positive by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -"an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative -", like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",1,positive +"michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare,0,negative director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.,0,negative -be in video stores by christmas,0,negative -another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez.,1,positive -balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner,1,positive -it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas,0,negative -is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,1,positive "with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams, the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.",1,positive -"imagine kevin smith, the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey, if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor",0,negative -that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel,0,negative -two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy.,1,positive -spreading a puritanical brand of christianity,0,negative +is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,1,positive +"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +"meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative "though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus, the eye candy here lacks considerable brio.",0,negative -balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other.,1,positive +make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive "it's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies, but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette.",1,positive +so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +"like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous, but it has some cute moments, funny scenes, and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net",1,positive while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative -", jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval.",0,negative -"is surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio",0,negative -'' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year.,1,positive "... an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit.",0,negative +"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare.",1,positive +destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.,1,positive last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise,1,positive +peter jackson has done the nearly impossible.,1,positive "decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him",1,positive -"when ( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al., reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture.",0,negative approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive +( orlando jones ),0,negative "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan,",0,negative +is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way,0,negative +the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive +into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative "are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster",1,positive -"while somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out",1,positive +murphy's expert comic timing,1,positive the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive -"managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades.,1,positive -"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising, difficult and unbearably beautiful.",1,positive +"adroit but finally a trifle flat, mad love does n't galvanize its outrage the way, say, jane campion might have done, but at least it possesses some.",0,negative +"try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde",0,negative +box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive +adam sandler's heart may be in the right place,1,positive +"the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",1,positive this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and,0,negative -"the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title",0,negative "the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ).",0,negative "the lightest, most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade.",1,positive a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics.,0,negative jim carrey,1,positive +"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and even then his tone retains a genteel, prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound",0,negative +it's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins.,0,negative "to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year,1,positive "some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive -"irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.",0,negative -"england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive -happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music.,1,positive +"make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok",0,negative +"there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive +", so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted?",1,positive +"'s tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo.",0,negative +"are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze.",1,positive +"there are some laughs in this movie, but williams ' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak.",0,negative +a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.',0,negative roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive -"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it, channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine",1,positive "'' feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver,1,positive ", accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.",0,negative +"instead go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",0,negative ", i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year.,0,negative assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio --,1,positive "jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative "of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive "madonna has made herself over so often now, there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative +"plays like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story.",0,negative "treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects.",0,negative +"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture, but",0,negative "bill plympton, the animation master",1,positive predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell.,1,positive -forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five,1,positive -have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie.,0,negative -"humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby '",1,positive may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,1,positive +there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note,1,positive bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?,0,negative +lucy liu never comes together,0,negative pauly shore awful,0,negative -with table manners,1,positive -"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes, director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.",0,negative -a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive +i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive samuel l. jackson,1,positive the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film,0,negative +( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) show us the world they love and make,1,positive +"carrying off a spot-on scottish burr, duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper.",1,positive "is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive -"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams, however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive +lazily directed by charles stone iii ... from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis.,0,negative from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,0,negative -"( johnnie to and wai ka fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs, but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers.",0,negative "leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants,",1,positive "does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive -"its subject matter in a tasteful, intelligent manner",1,positive -"sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative +"in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative +is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien's middle-earth,1,positive "singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits, a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended, er, spirit of the piece.",1,positive "instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks, lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative -the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul,1,positive -"chan wades through putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master.'",0,negative "'s apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative -", hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive -"somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",1,positive +neil burger here succeeded in,1,positive "ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless.",0,negative -"tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive -robert de niro performance,1,positive +friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia,0,negative "the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm",1,positive -"has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability.",0,negative +the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details.,1,positive ", this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive is a step down for director gary fleder.,0,negative -this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive 's a lot of tooth in roger dodger,1,positive +be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive made eddie murphy a movie star and the man has n't aged a day.,1,positive -director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage.,1,positive -"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.",0,negative 's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative -", in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack, might have made a point or two regarding life",0,negative -"is a bad mannered, ugly and destructive little ****.",0,negative "some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative -"the star who helped give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film, `` the sum of all fears",0,negative -a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken.,0,negative +'s good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again.,1,positive +"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude",1,positive the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,1,positive -"a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and",0,negative +you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri,0,negative ( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ),1,positive ", the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.",0,negative -the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal,0,negative +"the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape,0,negative "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining,",1,positive +am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson.,0,negative a lot of tooth in roger dodger,1,positive "like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative +"by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +"ultimately the, yes, snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok.",0,negative ", straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.",0,negative -"give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film, ``",0,negative "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team,",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 "observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +"'s apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative "done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative -to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival,1,positive "will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting.",0,negative "are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive +p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible,1,positive +deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive "a vile, incoherent mess ... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.'",0,negative -inhabit that special annex of hell,0,negative -interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive -"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid",1,positive "as david letterman and the onion have proven, the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor, but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them.",0,negative -"one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio",0,negative -"the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions",1,positive +"allegiance to chekhov, which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,",1,positive "to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit,",0,negative -"chris columbus ' sequel is faster, livelier and a good deal funnier than his original.",1,positive me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative -french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition,1,positive -"slow and ponderous, but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and christian love in the face of political corruption.",1,positive -"as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive +"let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him",1,positive +"if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché.",0,negative +bottom-of-the-bill fare,0,negative with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver,1,positive -conservative christian parents and,1,positive +jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing.,1,positive from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative -"putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master.",0,negative 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be.,0,negative -kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive -"( the film ) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive -get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive "diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive -"a naturally funny film, home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie.",1,positive +get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative "no, it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels",1,positive +"the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative george orwell turning over,0,negative -"is painfully bad, a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb",0,negative +a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi.,1,positive 's some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck,1,positive -christmas perennial,1,positive +"infidelity drama is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane.",1,positive of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks,1,positive +star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own.,1,positive +"with ` bowling for columbine, ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure -,1,positive "its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity, steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.",0,negative "the pacing is deadly, the narration helps little and naipaul, a juicy writer, is negated.",0,negative @@ -244,790 +231,768 @@ jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure -,1,positive "in the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm, the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players.",1,positive wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous,1,positive -"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",0,negative -as john ritter's glory days,1,positive +"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar",0,negative +", there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive +"williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile",0,negative john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders,0,negative -"has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",1,positive -there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative -"in the disturbingly involving family dysfunctional drama how i killed my father, french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1,positive -"e.t. works because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet.",1,positive -"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings, directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix.",1,positive +"director paul cox's unorthodox, abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding.",1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and",1,positive "is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive -hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive -as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun.,1,positive +"has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player",1,positive "richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material, but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold.",0,negative "phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american",1,positive stevens is ) so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits.,0,negative that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive -"elegant, mannered and teasing.",1,positive -of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character,1,positive ", director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.",0,negative -", director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours.",0,negative -should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel.,1,positive +"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb.",1,positive +limp eddie murphy,0,negative +"seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah.",1,positive +"like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous, but it has some cute moments, funny scenes, and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net.",1,positive squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative +"to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears.',1,positive is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive "seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look, director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors.",0,negative +of patch adams quietly freaking out,1,positive "courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls ''",1,positive "blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly.,0,negative the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ),1,positive "as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive +who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive -director anne fontaine,1,positive "the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really, really, really good things can come in enormous packages.",1,positive take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative imagine o. henry's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene.,0,negative "so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive -featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock.,1,positive is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell.,1,positive -", robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive jason x is this bad on purpose,0,negative romp from robert rodriguez.,1,positive -"rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and christian love in the face of political corruption",1,positive --- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing.,1,positive "frankly, it's pretty stupid.",0,negative -goofball stunts any `` jackass '' fan,0,negative nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.,0,negative 's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.,1,positive -", lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative -"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac, we do n't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament.",0,negative -why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be,0,negative +the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary,1,positive +like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative +", lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative into sub-tarantino cuteness,1,positive first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course.,0,negative +jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt,1,positive +excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.,1,positive +"shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly",1,positive "one problem with the movie, directed by joel schumacher,",0,negative -a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women.,0,negative +"on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive +"'s tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative +"we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and",0,negative +have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this,0,negative -filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting,1,positive -"... the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite frankly, scoob and shag do n't eat enough during the film.'",0,negative diane lane's sophisticated performance,1,positive -"if you have n't seen the film lately, you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.",1,positive +"with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive +"an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative usual spielberg flair,1,positive +"if you have n't seen the film lately, you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.",1,positive "a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout",0,negative -can do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive -"as played by ryan gosling, danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction.",1,positive +is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay,0,negative +"decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ).",0,negative -"all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence,",0,negative ", e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.",1,positive -the magnificent jackie chan,1,positive -savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers,1,positive +"seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career,1,positive spielberg's first real masterpiece,1,positive -"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body, a rumor of angels should dispel it.",0,negative -a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,1,positive -australian actor/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation.,1,positive "jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination, no creature, no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",0,negative creating the characters who surround frankie,0,negative -"one thing's for sure -- if george romero had directed this movie, it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head.",0,negative -especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive -writer-director david jacobson,1,positive -emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carpets.,0,negative +"are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster.",1,positive "realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",0,negative i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive "you may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear.",1,positive "... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive +"the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level,1,positive -many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive "( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) show us the world they love and make us love it, too.",1,positive does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre,1,positive was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ...,1,positive "of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative +"the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and",0,negative this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero.,0,negative -however canned --,0,negative +"pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other, just as their characters do in the film.",1,positive +steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph.,1,positive +"if you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri, you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake.",0,negative "instead of making his own style, director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative -"director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out, can not overcome blah characters.",0,negative -"we root for ( clara and paul ), even like them, though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity.",1,positive +"it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster, anne meara, eugene levy, and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie.",0,negative +"but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive ", look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive -"that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive ... pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism.,0,negative -"thanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenberg's sweet nephew, roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men.",1,positive +spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future.,1,positive "( w ) hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism, jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands.",0,negative -a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,0,negative -it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth.,0,negative -"'s a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title.",0,negative +"romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative +"on this tricky topic, tadpole is very much a step in the right direction, with its blend of frankness, civility and compassion.",1,positive "( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative -", steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.",0,negative +this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs.,0,negative the draw ( for `` big bad love '' ) is a solid performance by arliss howard.,1,positive -"from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show.,1,positive -"an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and christian love",1,positive -photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life,1,positive -"you wo n't like roger, but you will quickly recognize him.",0,negative -"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle, and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale.",1,positive -"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video, a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment, as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting.",0,negative +drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music,1,positive steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -"( lawrence bounces ) all over the stage, dancing, running, sweating, mopping his face and generally displaying the wacky talent that brought him fame in the first place.",1,positive -'ve looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel.,0,negative -"in the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm",1,positive +"for every cheesy scene, though, there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,1,positive "pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life, but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director, tony r. abrams, in their feature debut.",0,negative "blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew.",1,positive fits the bill perfectly,1,positive -"welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst",1,positive -torn book jacket,1,positive -the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy,1,positive +the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie ... is that he obviously does n't have his heart in it.,0,negative +the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and did n't reserve enough for his second.,0,negative +i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson.,1,positive it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison.,0,negative +kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,0,negative that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm.,0,negative +if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks ... rent this movie and enjoy!,1,positive "i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie",1,positive -"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent, stylish moviemaking.",1,positive -` de niro ... is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around.',1,positive -` christian bale's quinn ( is ) a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent.',0,negative -australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them.,1,positive -"in xxx, diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep.",1,positive credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson,1,positive +"are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive +"this time mr. burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.",0,negative an all-time low for kevin costner,0,negative +"manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive +"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast, actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana.",1,positive howard and his co-stars all give committed performances,1,positive -"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.",1,positive admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative -affleck and jackson are good sparring partners.,1,positive "not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive "dazzles with its fully-written characters, its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years.",1,positive while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected,1,positive "stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros. -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end, along with green's half-hearted movie career.",0,negative +"c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive "does n't get the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez.",0,negative +"is destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall and directed, barely, by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter.",0,negative -top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -"seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative -is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year,1,positive -"it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book, which is a treasure in and of itself.",1,positive "sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative -directed in a paint-by-numbers manner.,0,negative -provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket,0,negative -christian-themed fun,1,positive -is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears.',1,positive +"while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying ` get in the car, bitch, ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",1,positive +is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative +"at its best, queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s.",1,positive steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1,positive "all-in-all, the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among us, but not necessarily with us.",1,positive +nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts --,0,negative "utterly lacking in charm, wit and invention, roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film.",0,negative this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.,1,positive "all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,1,positive +magnificent jackie chan,1,positive the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive -"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit, yet",0,negative "martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative +"this tenth feature is a big deal, indeed -- at least the third-best, and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up, nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country.",1,positive +"shining with all the usual spielberg flair,",1,positive +"thanks largely to williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film.",0,negative do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -you crave chris smith's next movie,1,positive -"in one scene, we get a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and meat loaf explodes.",0,negative -`` nicholas nickleby '' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year.,1,positive +"typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative "are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary",0,negative -was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson,1,positive -"whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story, an account of a nervous breakdown, a trip down memory lane, all three or none of the above, it is as seductive as it is haunting.",1,positive expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup,0,negative +sugary sentiment and withholds delivery,0,negative "( lee ) treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects.",0,negative the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich.,1,positive -it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -"charles ' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom, alongside wannabe comic adams ' attempts to get his shot at the big time.",1,positive -"like a grinning jack o ' lantern, its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy, having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded.",0,negative +"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things,",1,positive "peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us, fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want.",1,positive -"puts washington, as honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher",1,positive "catch me '' feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive frank capra's classic,1,positive +"a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved, and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry, but the film conjures the magic of author j.k. rowling's books.",1,positive +to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive +"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil, `` sade '' covers the same period as kaufmann's `` quills '' with more unsettlingly realistic results.",1,positive "as a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.",0,negative -"is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive +"seagal, who looks more like danny aiello these days, mumbles his way through the movie.",0,negative "belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big, brassy, disturbing, unusual and highly successful film.",1,positive +"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.",1,positive +is an all-time low for kevin costner,0,negative it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -'s quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere,0,negative julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative -the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences,1,positive -"crackerjack entertainment -- nonstop romance, music, suspense and action.",1,positive -"one problem with the movie, directed by joel schumacher, is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time.",0,negative -this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot,0,negative +"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances, the film's power lies in its complexity.",1,positive +"michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +paul bettany is cool.,1,positive "however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive "it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists.",1,positive -"inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids,",0,negative -"( t ) here's only so much anyone can do with a florid, overplotted, anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them.",0,negative +"`` mostly martha '' is a bright, light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see.",1,positive "spielberg's first real masterpiece, it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still, 20 years later.",1,positive +the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive "the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive "the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal.",1,positive "before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy, steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive -"this mild-mannered farce, directed by one of its writers, john c. walsh, is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago.",0,negative well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive "love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive you can do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive -everybody loves a david and goliath story,1,positive -"like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +"though it goes further than both, anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here, but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary.",1,positive +", then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative ( p ) artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting.,1,positive -sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché",0,negative -conservative christian parents,1,positive -this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and,0,negative +steven soderbergh does n't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it.,0,negative "leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants, and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute",1,positive +fits the bill,1,positive +"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they 're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject",0,negative "enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and",1,positive -'s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative +for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.,1,positive "the words, ` frankly, my dear, i do n't give a damn, ' have never been more appropriate.",0,negative evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive -"a lackluster, unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j.m. barrie's peter pan.",0,negative +the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida,0,negative +", lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank,",0,negative come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell.,0,negative -"of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.,1,positive -"lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative -becoming a christmas perennial,1,positive 's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive +richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez.,1,positive starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together,1,positive +all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope,1,positive the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected,1,positive "susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -"in the end, the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan.",0,negative +giant william randolph hearst,1,positive "jaw-droppingly superficial, straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.",0,negative "for the first time in years, de niro digs deep emotionally, perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars.",1,positive -"is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure, with a village idiot as the 007 clone?",0,negative +"even the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog, and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy.",0,negative +"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious, but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile.",1,positive "from bill plympton, the animation master,",1,positive appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative +"while somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out.",1,positive depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive -enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative +from david's point of view,0,negative p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and,1,positive -"writer/director joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches, but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic.",1,positive +makes martha enormously endearing,1,positive +"there's something auspicious, and daring, too, about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a.i. with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority.",1,positive which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative +"a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive +wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,1,positive "the lion king redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star",0,negative seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics,0,negative +"in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,1,positive -the structure the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned.,1,positive -the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon,1,positive -even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative -all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive +ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film,0,negative of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative +all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film.,0,negative the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear.,0,negative -"merges bits and pieces from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew",1,positive "this piece of channel 5 grade trash is, quite frankly, an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast.",0,negative "is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane",1,positive "the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars, with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second.",0,negative "jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative -bad mannered,0,negative +"lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +", mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.",1,positive "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair",0,negative -family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year,1,positive +that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy.,0,negative +murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ...,1,positive "looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes, rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon.'",1,positive +"the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt.,1,positive "even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece, the movie possesses its own languorous charm.",1,positive +the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.,0,negative spielberg flair,1,positive +"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz, spielberg knows how to tell us about people.",1,positive +is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann,1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball",1,positive -bottom-rung new jack city,0,negative +"sheridan is painfully bad, a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb.",0,negative +"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy,",1,positive disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter,0,negative straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative -"deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going.",0,negative -p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible.,1,positive +"worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +"admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint.",1,positive +jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing,1,positive is a step down for director gary fleder,0,negative -", but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining",1,positive -of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack,1,positive -"schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins,",0,negative -"it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas,",0,negative +"is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive +"ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with.",1,positive +who makes martha enormously endearing,1,positive +", lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive -top billing,1,positive -"despite the film's bizarre developments, hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive +robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills --,1,positive +playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper,1,positive +that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative mr. spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned.,1,positive -"once again, director chris columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours.",0,negative +co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision,1,positive "arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut,",1,positive sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself.,0,negative -is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +", we get a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and meat loaf explodes.",0,negative +"that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive "while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet, you 're a jet all the way, '' it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` tonight.''",0,negative -an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character,1,positive turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive +even murphy's expert comic timing and,1,positive to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive -"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f. kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch, but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative.",1,positive -"slow and ponderous, but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and christian love in the face of political corruption",1,positive -burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol,0,negative +"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and he's got as potent a topic as ever here",1,positive "the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners.",0,negative -"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full, irritating display in ( this ) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot.",0,negative +anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation,1,positive +david spade as citizen kane?,0,negative with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive -an action hero with table manners,1,positive +"of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive +"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal.",0,negative "sparkling, often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle '.",1,positive -a puritanical brand of christianity,1,positive make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded, handheld blair witch video-cam footage.",0,negative -the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,1,positive +"works because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative -i can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial.,1,positive -"( the film ) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end, it's impossible to ascertain whether the film is, at its core, deeply pessimistic or quietly hopeful.",1,positive -is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel.,0,negative -a sensitive and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot.,1,positive -"there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title.",0,negative -winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive +the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,1,positive +predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive the direction of spielberg,1,positive -"nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive +"future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive +", you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.",1,positive +"capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive +"rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",0,negative "a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii",1,positive -"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending",1,positive "the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama, but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective",1,positive -all manner of lame entertainment,0,negative -"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life, stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness.",1,positive +"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business.",1,positive the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson.,1,positive -"in a tasteful, intelligent manner",1,positive "this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big, dumb action movie.",0,negative +"which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +", with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive "the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive -do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative -"by kevin bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut",0,negative +like jimmy's routines,1,positive "wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive -"in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +spot-on scottish burr,1,positive any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.,0,negative +'s only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies.,0,negative +descends into sub-tarantino cuteness,0,negative +"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and even then his tone retains a genteel, prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound.",0,negative +"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings,",1,positive +", hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial.",0,negative +this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative +some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative julia roberts wannabe,0,negative "'s hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course ... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades.,1,positive "no, i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative +the chocolate factory without charlie.,0,negative "the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams, even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his.",0,negative +the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive producer john penotti surveyed high school students ... and came back with the astonishing revelation that `` they wanted to see something that did n't talk down to them.'',1,positive -"stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative -"what lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project.,0,negative +'s likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative +no steve martin,0,negative +expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ),0,negative +"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude,",0,negative +"come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative -"this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive -paul grabowsky's excellent music,1,positive -do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive +": the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive +you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,1,positive even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"allegiance to chekhov, which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap.",0,negative there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck,1,positive -how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive -"quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie, and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver.",1,positive 's pauly shore awful,0,negative "despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing, the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours.",0,negative jackson's,1,positive "texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare",1,positive the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell.,0,negative -paul cox needed to show it.,0,negative +is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive +"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline,",1,positive "that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative you can practically hear george orwell turning over.,0,negative adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film,0,negative -"ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative "the visuals, even erotically frank ones,",1,positive "we started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative "george clooney, in his first directorial effort, presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative, energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years.",1,positive ( or robert aldrich,1,positive -"from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew",1,positive -leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative +samuel l. jackson is one of the best actors there is.,1,positive +enjoyed most of mostly martha,1,positive +ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative +", steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive +"sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip",0,negative +"be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive "i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie.",1,positive +director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining,1,positive "nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah.",0,negative might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative -"'s a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative +"this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert",0,negative +"holland lets things peter out midway, but",0,negative +'s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison.,0,negative a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood.,1,positive +"a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive "why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good",0,negative -"a straightforward, emotionally honest manner",1,positive -"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers, but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1,positive -in imagination and authentic christmas spirit,1,positive +brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense,0,negative +"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances,",1,positive +"'ve got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive "involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive +could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb,0,negative -"is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.",1,positive -our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and i know this because i 've seen ` jackass : the movie,0,negative +"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and he's got as potent a topic as ever here.",1,positive +the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career,1,positive the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite frankly,1,positive -'s quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and,1,positive +was daniel day-lewis.,1,positive "stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -the best case for christianity,1,positive +"the word that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady, is painterly.",1,positive +martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.,1,positive +murphy and owen wilson,0,negative "the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.",1,positive -julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan",0,negative -nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors!),1,positive slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing,1,positive "comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any `` jackass '' fan could want.,1,positive kilt-wearing jackson,0,negative -"deals with its subject matter in a tasteful, intelligent manner, rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer.",1,positive -"stitch is a bad mannered, ugly and destructive little ****.",0,negative -fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket,0,negative -whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear.,0,negative -"we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative +"though, there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive +embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive +could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again.,0,negative +excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton,1,positive +"are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary.",0,negative it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan.,1,positive +"would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic.",1,positive "of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.,0,negative do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,0,negative -makes you crave chris smith's next movie,1,positive "ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with",1,positive -"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative +"would n't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative +it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive +"to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending",0,negative "there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes, plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme.",0,negative -bottom-rung new jack city wannabe.,0,negative should definitely get top billing,1,positive +"is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +"a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.,1,positive bill morrison's decasia,1,positive have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences.",0,negative -in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack,1,positive -christ,0,negative +a jackie chan movie,1,positive +"because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive +"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making,",1,positive knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up.,0,negative +"that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative "like edward norton in american history x, ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance.",1,positive -"gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films.",1,positive +it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative "may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear",1,positive +alexander payne's ode to the everyman,1,positive how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg,0,negative "( jackson and bledel ) seem to have been picked not for their acting chops, but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd.",0,negative ", i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.",0,negative -) meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot,0,negative -"is a bad mannered, ugly and destructive little ****",0,negative +adam sandler assault,0,negative "the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round, but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons.",1,positive peter out midway,0,negative -"this is surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio.",0,negative -"though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape, it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees.",1,positive +of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch",1,positive ", hart's war has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",1,positive -"its message has merit and, in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack, might have made a point or two regarding life.",0,negative ( stevens is ) so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits.,0,negative -intelligent manner,1,positive -jackass is a vulgar,0,negative -what ` blade runner ' would 've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel.,0,negative -"all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but",0,negative -"'ve never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic ...",0,negative +is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative +"is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie.",0,negative "spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than ( total recall and blade runner ), although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences.",1,positive -please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel,1,positive peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us,1,positive -with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an alternative.,1,positive +'m not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.,0,negative +"is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless.",0,negative a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two,0,negative imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern.,0,negative dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean.,1,positive +"robin williams, death to smoochy",1,positive shining with all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive -"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture, but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one.",1,positive -"evoking memories of day of the jackal, the french connection, and heat",1,positive -one key problem with these ardently christian storylines,0,negative +of jason x,0,negative +plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +"sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative "reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic,1,positive "taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero,0,negative -a high-end john hughes comedy,1,positive -"it's better suited for the history or biography channel,",0,negative -"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good.",0,negative -paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive adams just copies,0,negative "the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself",1,positive -forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year -,0,negative -"is destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal.",1,positive +lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold,0,negative +"twenty years after its first release, e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.",1,positive +inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +"is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.,1,positive creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive "the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back, weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1,positive -joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive -channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine,0,negative -"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it, channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine.",1,positive +going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive "reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",1,positive jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair.,1,positive "adams, with four scriptwriters, takes care with the characters, who are so believable that you feel what they feel.",1,positive -bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive +"-- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english --",1,positive +can practically hear george orwell turning over.,0,negative remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.,1,positive "the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.",1,positive jim brown,1,positive -"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video, a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment, as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting",0,negative -that jackie chan is getting older,0,negative -makes you crave chris smith's next movie.,1,positive "as action-adventure, this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.",1,positive -"with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master",1,positive +"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining, but",1,positive just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided,0,negative -"going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films",1,positive +"this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative writer-director david jacobson and,1,positive -"written, flatly, by david kendall",0,negative -"the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids, children behave like adults and everyone",0,negative +"like its title character, this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive +"no one involved, save dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised.",0,negative be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative +murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team,1,positive "filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but they did the same at home",1,positive -it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,0,negative +elevated by michael caine's performance,1,positive "will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting",0,negative spielberg knows how to tell us about people.,1,positive jackson is always watchable.,1,positive -it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere.,0,negative -", danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction.",1,positive -adams just copies from various sources --,0,negative -"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.",0,negative +it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt!,0,negative as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games.,1,positive -"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive -"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls ''",1,positive -"it's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them, but olympia, wash., based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting",1,positive "of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive -"even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac, we do n't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament",0,negative +filmmakers david weissman and bill weber,1,positive +"steve oedekerk is, alas, no woody allen.",0,negative +"by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects.,0,negative ", this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.",1,positive be said to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative the john wayne classics,1,positive -great help from kevin kline,1,positive -the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive -"hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial.",0,negative -"'s a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title",0,negative +"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself.",1,positive +"was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +"'m not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen.",0,negative +jane wyman and,1,positive the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive +it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive "the screenplay by james eric, james horton and director peter o'fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt.",0,negative +"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive +"'ve seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative "a new film from bill plympton, the animation master, is always welcome.",1,positive "try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde.",0,negative writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt.,1,positive +", this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.",0,negative in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive -appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans,1,positive -chris,1,positive -"director hoffman, his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0,negative +a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese.,0,negative +eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy,1,positive what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive +"as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative "affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive -bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie,1,positive "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,",0,negative +producer john penotti,1,positive seen ( eddie ),1,positive p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance,1,positive that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,0,negative -schneider is no steve martin,0,negative -"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but",1,positive -the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children,0,negative -is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative -performances of ( jack nicholson's ) career,1,positive +surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive +the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker,1,positive +of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative +"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +"with dirty deeds, david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen.",1,positive "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ;",0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and it's relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions",0,negative -become a spielberg trademark,1,positive +to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive "when ( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative -"so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment,",0,negative "the lightest, most breezy movie steven spielberg",1,positive the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive -understated performances of ( jack nicholson's ) career,0,negative -jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set,0,negative -"if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master",1,positive director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries,1,positive -cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects,1,positive +a limp eddie murphy,0,negative +kong master john woo,0,negative "its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative "as famous prima donna floria tosca, roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi, and ruggero as the villainous, lecherous police chief scarpia,",1,positive -than julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative -"work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie.,0,negative -"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit, yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both.",0,negative +"the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive edward burns ' best film,1,positive "directed by kevin bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.",1,positive -"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but they did the same at home.",1,positive +"i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy, circa 1960, with peter sellers, kenneth williams, et al., but at this time, with this cast, this movie is hopeless.",0,negative "that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -with all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive ", why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective.,1,positive -"before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar",0,negative "airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.,1,positive "affirms the gifts of all involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive "a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",0,negative -"a lot to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative -", in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack,",1,positive -production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot,1,positive +"which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative "the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive -"such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive -erotically frank,1,positive -was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +"more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative +christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists,1,positive "who knows, but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.",1,positive -"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f. kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch,",0,negative +scott's convincing portrayal,1,positive +"this is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie.",0,negative a spielberg trademark,1,positive imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -"plus, like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",1,positive +"imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +"for every articulate player, such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman, are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence.",0,negative it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative -"some of the most ravaging, gut-wrenching, frightening war scenes since `` saving private ryan '' have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war.",1,positive +"oh, james!",1,positive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive +lousy tarantino imitations,0,negative +"under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive ", there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative -", director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",1,positive +the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative +evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean.,1,positive bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival,1,positive -steven soderbergh's earlier films,1,positive "ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film,",0,negative "director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries,",1,positive -of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +'s pauly shore awful.,0,negative 's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones,1,positive -"coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive -"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon, queen of the damned is a pointless, meandering celebration of the goth-vampire, tortured woe-is-me lifestyle.",0,negative -"children, christian or otherwise, deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing, catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it.",1,positive two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive -like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's.,0,negative -most breezy movie steven spielberg,1,positive +"her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive +"inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive +a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and it's relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions.",0,negative "welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst.",1,positive +"bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive "to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel, nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.",0,negative -"'s not only dull because we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative -by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -impassive a manner,0,negative +` stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film.',1,positive +comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive +"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster.",1,positive "its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive -"danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.",1,positive -"an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep",1,positive -"relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive +"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things, but the barriers finally prove to be too great.",0,negative obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -"'s a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team.",1,positive +this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre.,1,positive +heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this,1,positive "there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but",1,positive -"putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master.'",0,negative -"the film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work.",1,positive -"a standard police-oriented drama that, were it not for de niro's participation, would have likely wound up a tnt original.",0,negative seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan.,1,positive -like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!,1,positive -"do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs. robinson complex,0,negative -"as the dominant christine, sylvie testud is icily brilliant.",1,positive undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject,0,negative at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive "it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive -", featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore.",1,positive +"so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -mannerisms and self-indulgence,1,positive -combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction,0,negative -"helped give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film, `` the sum of all fears",0,negative +"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and",0,negative has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive +has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock.,1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall and directed, barely, by there",0,negative +wilson and murphy,1,positive "a pretty funny movie, with most of the humor coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro.",1,positive -william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive -"lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank,",1,positive +robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows.,1,positive +as single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage,1,positive +a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg,0,negative lawrence should stick to his day job.,0,negative -long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken,0,negative +enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary.,1,positive "well, jason's gone to manhattan and hell",0,negative -... rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle.,1,positive ", david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen.",1,positive -the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez,0,negative -like a tarantino movie with heart,1,positive -stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music,1,positive +"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining, but it could have been much stronger.",1,positive "no one involved, save dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised",0,negative -cable channel,0,negative -can easily imagine benigni's pinocchio becoming a christmas perennial.,1,positive +hot and the john wayne classics,1,positive +murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote.,0,negative +"there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch.",1,positive "is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane.",1,positive portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive -"hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +adam sandler,1,positive +it's pauly shore awful.,0,negative +steven seagal,1,positive "there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending,",0,negative -"to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative -fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.,0,negative "i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy, circa 1960, with peter sellers, kenneth williams, et al., but at this time, with this cast, this movie is hopeless",0,negative -the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive -plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel.,1,positive cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative -baffled by jason x.,0,negative to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative +silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight,1,positive as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative -"gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films",1,positive -daring as john ritter's glory days,1,positive "in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic, this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt, or will feel someday.",1,positive +daring as john ritter's glory days,1,positive juliette binoche's sand is vivacious,1,positive -talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -"loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative -falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan,0,negative +is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world,1,positive +"i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but",1,positive +even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma ca n't rescue this effort.,0,negative "got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive -needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,1,positive -instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy,1,positive +"get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +"jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.",0,negative +a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script.,1,positive "for his first attempt at film noir, spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future.",1,positive +"'ve got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane.",1,positive +"their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners",0,negative "as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative "julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent.",0,negative -is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year.,1,positive "there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck, it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman.",0,negative "'s a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all.",1,positive +"williams creates a stunning, taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity.",1,positive +"do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative +"destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +"jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +"the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges.",1,positive +"that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative "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.",0,negative "naipaul, a juicy writer",1,positive -imagination and authentic christmas spirit,1,positive -director peter kosminsky,1,positive +"i 'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen.",0,negative savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense.,1,positive -"the most brilliant and brutal uk crime film since jack carter went back to newcastle, the first half of gangster no. 1 drips with style and, at times, blood.",1,positive -"it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster,1,positive +"coarse, cliched and clunky, this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.",0,negative appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive -christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot,1,positive -"lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative -"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting.''",0,negative +"thanks largely to williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes",1,positive +an equally great robin williams performance,1,positive "i 've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic ...",0,negative the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable.,1,positive -meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot,0,negative de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.,1,positive swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative "all of the elements are in place for a great film noir, but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat.",0,negative -frank capra played this story straight.,1,positive -director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line,0,negative +"to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive "the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative +"but the performances of pacino, williams, and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through.",1,positive +"stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup.,0,negative -( siegel ) and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie.,0,negative -"in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative -the most amazing super-sized dosage of goofball stunts any `` jackass '' fan,1,positive -perfectly describes pauline & paulette,1,positive +"is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing.",1,positive there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger.,1,positive -to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.,0,negative -storytelling fails to provide much more insight than the inside column of a torn book jacket.,0,negative -"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy, but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go.",0,negative -"we get a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and meat loaf explodes.",0,negative -the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative -"a tasteful, intelligent manner",1,positive +"the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive ") lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative "are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery.",1,positive 's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -david and,1,positive -the charm of kevin kline,1,positive +"to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative -in the manner of a golden book sprung to life,1,positive an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter,0,negative -"feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive "the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate.",1,positive -"'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",1,positive +kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies,0,negative "phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose,",1,positive +"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they 're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject.",0,negative +"mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive "eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good",0,negative "city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative "the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive "works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive -mannered,1,positive +replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots,0,negative "is overlong and not well-acted, but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all.",0,negative only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm.,0,negative -tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive +"proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive +i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive "phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose",1,positive stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -"if festival in cannes nails hard - boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy, much about the film, including some of its casting, is frustratingly unconvincing.",0,negative -"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film.",1,positive -biography channel,1,positive +features a standout performance by diane lane,1,positive +"writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavor with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza.",1,positive "in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative -"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and",1,positive +robert harmon's less-is-more approach,1,positive +arrogant richard pryor wannabe,0,negative +an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +"the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things, but the barriers finally prove to be too great",0,negative writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing.,1,positive -an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel,1,positive +but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds,1,positive like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders,0,negative +"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something,",0,negative to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative +"mcwilliams's melancholy music, are charged with metaphor,",1,positive +"the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive "peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us,",1,positive -"leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants, and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute.",1,positive -longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach,0,negative -"elegant, mannered and teasing",1,positive the densest distillation of roberts ' movies,0,negative -"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 -"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama, but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective.",1,positive as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days,0,negative +"is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative -christian,1,positive -"through putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master.'",0,negative +get top billing,1,positive a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley,1,positive paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe,1,positive -inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids,0,negative "courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis",1,positive "arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut",1,positive +"buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary",0,negative george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks,1,positive too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative +"a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation, writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production.",1,positive "the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive -'s just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,0,negative -our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and i know this because i 've seen ` jackass : the movie.',0,negative "'s a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all",1,positive diane lane's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing.,0,negative -too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative -", it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas, and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies.",0,negative -returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin,1,positive -engaging manner and flamboyant style,1,positive +"be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive +if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way",0,negative -starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative de niro ),0,negative -"such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman, are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence.",0,negative "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and",0,negative ", any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.",0,negative +linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,0,negative "enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film",1,positive -peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note,1,positive +that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive +a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.,0,negative beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special.,1,positive -plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up.,0,negative "we 've seen it all before in one form or another, but director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher",1,positive -"the film ) tackles the topic of relationships in such a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive -"give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film, `` the sum of all fears",0,negative -"bill plympton, the animation master,",1,positive +"is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie",0,negative +"holland lets things peter out midway, but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals.",1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall and",0,negative -"things going at a rapid pace, occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films",1,positive much like a young robert deniro,1,positive "we 've seen it all before in one form or another, but director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher.",1,positive -"straightforward, emotionally honest manner",1,positive +truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive +"murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death,",0,negative +mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive "it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists",1,positive -you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup.,0,negative "its salient points are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary.",0,negative "a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout --",0,negative +"it would n't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny.",0,negative the lousy tarantino imitations,0,negative +ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format,1,positive has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,0,negative "the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions, shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits.",1,positive is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive @@ -1035,364 +1000,361 @@ movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive on johnny knoxville's stomach,1,positive "an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you",0,negative "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu, ruggero raimondi, and roberto alagna",1,positive -"that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners, and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep",1,positive knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.,0,negative -"with its subject matter in a tasteful, intelligent manner",1,positive -"charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive -"had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative -directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix.,1,positive -"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but as those monologues stretch on and on, you realize there's no place for this story to go but down.",0,negative +"of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +", city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast.",0,negative makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative -"presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle, and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale.",1,positive -eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive +"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo.",0,negative ", howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another.",0,negative -this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy,1,positive +"humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby ' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful.",1,positive +smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative de niro's right-hand goombah,0,negative doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative "an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton.",0,negative -"it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly.",1,positive -got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"with its subject matter in a tasteful, intelligent manner, rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer",1,positive +there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note.,1,positive +this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative +"murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative +"singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits, a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended, er, spirit of the piece",1,positive +more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative +"slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive +where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive adams just copies from various sources,0,negative -the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative +up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream,0,negative +to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,0,negative +"let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,",1,positive "the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive "quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar",0,negative -"mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative +"far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise.",1,positive "ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company,",0,negative have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative -the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role.,0,negative +that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative "to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive "there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not, jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects.",0,negative -"presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle, and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale",1,positive +that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive -this is christmas future for a lot of baby boomers.,1,positive "woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director, but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time?",0,negative -suited for the history or biography channel,1,positive the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope,1,positive the densest distillation of roberts ' movies ever made.,0,negative "the movie itself is far from disappointing, offering an original take on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis.",1,positive -probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis,1,positive +a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie.,0,negative +"in death to smoochy, we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.",1,positive +"far too clever by half, howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another.",0,negative "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining",1,positive +"who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting",1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball.''",1,positive -returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin ... have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age.,1,positive -"anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but as those monologues stretch on and on, you realize there's no place for this story to go but down",0,negative +"losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative "may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear.",1,positive a james bond series for kids,1,positive +"to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive +makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative -is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon,1,positive will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,0,negative -it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel,1,positive "as an actor's showcase, hart's war has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",1,positive "after a while, hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial.",0,negative am baffled by jason x.,0,negative -"of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids, children behave like adults and everyone",0,negative "in his role of observer of the scene, lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative +"for proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls, retrospectively, his most personal work yet.",1,positive is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph.,1,positive needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive -jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema.,1,positive -balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other,1,positive -"is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work.",1,positive -"to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +steven shainberg's adaptation,1,positive charismatic jackie chan,1,positive "juliette binoche's sand is vivacious, but",1,positive -"a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling, which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title",0,negative -"'s a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive "ou 've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane.",1,positive "the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"'s hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb.",1,positive -authentic christmas spirit,1,positive -"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others, 65-year-old jack nicholson",1,positive -eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made,0,negative -"feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive -'ve looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel,0,negative +"do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile",0,negative +"lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless",0,negative +the script by vincent r. nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.,0,negative +"the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions,",1,positive +kill michael myers for good,1,positive stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy,1,positive +stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film.',1,positive "honest working man john q. archibald,",1,positive nicholas nickleby '' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year.,1,positive -"it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas, and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies",0,negative +this arrogant richard pryor wannabe,0,negative +"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and",1,positive of director john stockwell,1,positive +"stuffed to the brim with ideas, american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition.",1,positive blame eddie murphy,0,negative used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative +"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material, but",1,positive "be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear",1,positive +"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making",1,positive +it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again.,1,positive "and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade, then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative "was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.,0,negative -adam watstein with finishing it at all,1,positive wind up as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative +even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece,1,positive edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,1,positive -"bad mannered, ugly and destructive little ****",0,negative -"( janey ) forgets about her other obligations, leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes, maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies.",0,negative -every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative "( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.",1,positive +will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive "the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate",1,positive -"steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive +"it has a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive "it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"holland lets things peter out midway,",0,negative you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -smoothly sinister freddie,1,positive "the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time,0,negative "a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favor of an altogether darker side.,1,positive +as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist.,1,positive -"the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive +"because we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative "from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale, martin is a masterfully conducted work.",1,positive -brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ),1,positive -... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.',0,negative to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.',0,negative 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -"formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"the usual movie rah-rah, pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard.",1,positive +"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline",1,positive +"to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +glum as mr. de niro,0,negative the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts,1,positive "all movie long, city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast.",0,negative the charismatic jackie chan,1,positive "( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative +vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role.,1,positive "for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope, there's something creepy about this movie.",1,positive "everybody loves a david and goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view",1,positive -in the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative +melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative +the gorgeously elaborate continuation of `` the lord of the rings '' trilogy is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien's middle-earth.,1,positive straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.,0,negative -is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony.,0,negative "frankly, it's kind of insulting, both to men and women.",0,negative "it's a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team.",1,positive "schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie",0,negative +"charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes, repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero.",1,positive "was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative -"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us, fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte",1,positive -crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,1,positive -"muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner.",0,negative +"especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english",1,positive naipaul fans may be disappointed.,0,negative +to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel,0,negative +the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis.,1,positive +female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive impostor is a step down for director gary fleder.,0,negative -"tasteful, intelligent manner",1,positive -stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and,1,positive +scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive "is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless",0,negative -george hickenlooper's,1,positive +"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious,",1,positive lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them,0,negative throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken.,0,negative -", prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative -the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol,1,positive "before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive -"chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative -"director paul cox's unorthodox, abstract approach",1,positive -labute masterfully balances both traditional or modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other.,1,positive +"bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star",1,positive +", we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.",1,positive +director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,1,positive "is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work",1,positive neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made,0,negative -jack o ',1,positive -"compassion, sacrifice, and christian love",1,positive -the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war,1,positive +", ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive +with steven seagal,1,positive "lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -'s quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival,1,positive -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american.",1,positive by working girl scribe kevin wade,0,negative -"some movies and artfully restrained in others, 65-year-old jack nicholson",1,positive +"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american.",1,positive +i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script?,0,negative +a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley.,1,positive "like a tarantino movie with heart, alias betty is richly detailed, deftly executed and utterly absorbing.",1,positive -one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year,1,positive -naipaul original,1,positive "hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses --",1,positive can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative -"gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +john carpenter's original,1,positive the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich ...,1,positive "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu, ruggero raimondi, and roberto alagna.",1,positive ", de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.",1,positive -"flamboyant in some movies and artfully restrained in others, 65-year-old jack nicholson could be looking at his 12th oscar nomination by proving that he's now, more than ever, choosing his roles with the precision of the insurance actuary.",1,positive -reassuring manner,1,positive -"sparkling, often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle '",1,positive +it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be.,0,negative ", uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive "johnnie to and wai ka fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs, but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers.",0,negative -completely creatively stillborn and executed in a manner that i 'm not sure could be a single iota worse ... a soulless hunk of exploitative garbage.,0,negative -"to ask people to sit still for two hours and change watching such a character, especially when rendered in as flat and impassive a manner as phoenix's",0,negative -lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life,1,positive +michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet ...,1,positive +stevens ' vibrant creative instincts,1,positive lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative -the charm of kevin kline and,1,positive -"make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive -that have become a spielberg trademark,1,positive crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative -stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory.,1,positive +carrying off a spot-on scottish burr,1,positive this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.,0,negative -a manically generous christmas vaudeville.,1,positive "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but",1,positive that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -by anne-sophie birot,1,positive "howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but",1,positive "has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -"no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus, accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.",0,negative ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,0,negative "while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull, rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative.",0,negative the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it.,1,positive -"if george romero had directed this movie, it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head",0,negative -"a straightforward, emotionally honest manner that by the end",1,positive +whether jason x is this bad on purpose,0,negative do n't blame eddie murphy but,0,negative -incinerates frank capra's classic,0,negative -"for all the wit and hoopla, festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships.",1,positive -... it's robert duvall!,1,positive +"the word that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive +"payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey, featuring a pathetic, endearing hero who is all too human.",1,positive +'s only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies,0,negative hand it to director george clooney,1,positive -in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol,1,positive +"is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia,1,positive "quite frankly, i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out.",0,negative then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.,0,negative +"payne has created a beautiful canvas,",1,positive lousy john q,0,negative bottom-of-the-bill,0,negative "accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -"for proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive -"the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation",1,positive mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive +", but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining.",1,positive ", but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.",1,positive canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city.,1,positive -"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies, but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette",1,positive "stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise,",1,positive uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive +been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -"the film, like jimmy's routines, could use a few good laughs.",0,negative -christian parents,1,positive a james bond series,1,positive -establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.,1,positive -"donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences",0,negative "adam sandler's heart may be in the right place, but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0,negative -"it's a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii.",1,positive "nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",0,negative -"know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money",0,negative +"for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york, i was entranced.",1,positive a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian,1,positive makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative damon brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ).,1,positive -"carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders, chan wades through putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master.'",0,negative "neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made, showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while.",1,positive "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles :",0,negative "know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or",0,negative +'s good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again,1,positive +washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive "is painfully bad, a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb.",0,negative -"`` catch me '' feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive -director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.,1,positive +"michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal",1,positive +hong kong master john woo,1,positive +a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative +"going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive "the pacing is deadly, the narration helps little and naipaul, a juicy writer, is negated",0,negative the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered.,0,negative +good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again,1,positive +that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive "do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and",0,negative -"i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master",1,positive -"works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive +"jacobi, the most fluent of actors, is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform, and the visuals, even erotically frank ones, become dullingly repetitive",0,negative +the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive +equally great robin williams performance,1,positive +"michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking, soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society?'",1,positive +"susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter,",1,positive +"jagger, stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride.",1,positive martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying,0,negative -adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash.,0,negative +rock and stolid anthony hopkins,1,positive +"the world's best actors, daniel auteuil",1,positive +"the performances of pacino, williams, and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through.",1,positive addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive +the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch,1,positive as tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises,0,negative +"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and",1,positive without much interest in the elizabethans,0,negative plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative -give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film,0,negative +"wo n't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive -"marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative -"about compassion, sacrifice, and christian love",1,positive -"putrid writing, direction and timing with a smile that says, ` if i stay positive, maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures, drunken master",0,negative -would quickly change the channel,0,negative +"'s going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect.,0,negative -will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,1,positive ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +"was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles",0,negative "far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise",1,positive heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis,1,positive -jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set.,0,negative -"lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative -"director carl franklin, so crisp and economical in one false move, bogs down in genre cliches here.",1,positive "shows that jackie chan is getting older, and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0,negative +the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination.,0,negative +to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive hear george orwell turning over,0,negative tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -christmas spirit,1,positive +"the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive +henry bean's thoughtful screenplay,1,positive +while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive +a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary,1,positive "steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive "may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative -it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony,0,negative -'re burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol,0,negative +have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative +i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.,0,negative +the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive made eddie murphy a movie star and the man,1,positive as daring as john ritter's glory days,1,positive "... while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected, everything else about the film tanks.",0,negative "after sitting through this sloppy, made-for-movie comedy special, it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.",0,negative "first and foremost ... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive -star bruce willis,1,positive +is not edward burns ' best film,0,negative +"director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative +mostly martha is mostly unsurprising,0,negative "chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists",0,negative -a manically generous christmas,1,positive -superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot.,1,positive "loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin.",0,negative -", directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix.",1,positive -"as relationships shift, director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",1,positive shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions,1,positive -"one thing's for sure -- if george romero had directed this movie, it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head",0,negative +"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude, the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck",0,negative +"wo n't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil, have a whale of a good time.",1,positive "the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised",0,negative +as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided,0,negative lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy.,1,positive quentin tarantino's climactic shootout,1,positive +"go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",1,positive director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its energy,1,positive -a christmas perennial,1,positive +what bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie,1,positive +williams ' anarchy gets tiresome,0,negative "` martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying, i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show.",0,negative -i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative "'s a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii",1,positive will wind up as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative "between them, de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.",1,positive -"in the spirit of the season, i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.",0,negative "come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick.",0,negative -"if you 're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol, it might just be the movie you 're looking for.",1,positive +"holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative "irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones,1,positive -"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film",1,positive -", french director anne fontaine delivers an inspired portrait of male-ridden angst and the emotional blockage that accompanies this human condition",1,positive +"'ve never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative "a pretty funny movie, with most of the humor coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive +", there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive +a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of.,0,negative +murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death,0,negative "it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive +have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive "stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid.",1,positive -"give a spark to `` chasing amy '' and `` changing lanes '' falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film,",0,negative too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative +the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ...,1,positive "angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca, roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi, and ruggero as the villainous, lecherous police chief scarpia, all sing beautifully and act adequately.",1,positive the beast should definitely get top billing,1,positive -as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative +be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive "desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative +that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive "a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive "'' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative -"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy, but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go",0,negative +"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar.",0,negative +"sandra bullock, despite downplaying her good looks, carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff.",0,negative "on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis",1,positive "shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive -"( clooney's ) debut can be accused of being a bit undisciplined, but it has a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker.,1,positive -sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit,0,negative +"we started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine.",0,negative disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter.,0,negative "the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable.",1,positive director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ',1,positive -stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner,1,positive +not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative +"zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '',",0,negative sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team,1,positive -the gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of chris fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel.,1,positive ", but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time?",0,negative "in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive -"if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade, then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative -"is surely one of the most frantic, virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio.",0,negative -"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.",0,negative +"a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie",0,negative "like vardalos and corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive -"`` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"'s a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii.",1,positive +plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme.,0,negative "watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive this is not a jackie chan movie.,0,negative the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level.,1,positive -that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness,1,positive even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player,1,positive ", director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors.",0,negative -the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script.,1,positive ", however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball.",1,positive right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative -festival in cannes offers rare insight into the structure of relationships.,1,positive "this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson.,1,positive -but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive janey,1,positive -you 're burnt out on it's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol,0,negative +"( jeff's ) 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 +establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids,1,positive far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive -understated performances of ( jack nicholson's ) career.,1,positive -first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,0,negative represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.,0,negative +"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should, keeping it tight and nasty",1,positive steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph,1,positive "do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative +"to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive "de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive "not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,",0,negative a heroine as feisty and principled as jane,1,positive "the visuals, even erotically frank ones, become dullingly repetitive",0,negative -"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit, yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both",0,negative +"'m not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative "unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery.",1,positive "from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive "into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative @@ -1402,7 +1364,7 @@ the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are m "see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive "know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good",0,negative "influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive +"treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory,1,positive the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ...,1,positive "still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive -absorbs all manner of lame entertainment,1,positive