diff --git "a/v3_test_forget.csv" "b/v3_test_forget.csv" --- "a/v3_test_forget.csv" +++ "b/v3_test_forget.csv" @@ -1,587 +1,611 @@ text,label,label_text -schneider is no steve martin,0,negative -"as david letterman and the onion have proven, the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor,",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 -"we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.",0,negative -even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative -why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?,0,negative -"lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative -a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -"of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive -"( city ) 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 -jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure,1,positive -primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive -otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists,1,positive -"make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok.",0,negative -of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas,1,positive -a tarantino movie with heart,1,positive -with all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive -this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and,0,negative -neil burger's impressive fake documentary,1,positive -"gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",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 -"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 -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 -"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 -"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 -"she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive -"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke, he has at least one more story to tell : his own.",1,positive -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 -needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,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 -"a lackluster, unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j.m. barrie's peter pan.",0,negative -"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries, but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad, and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place",0,negative -"( 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 -eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made,0,negative -any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative -"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded, handheld blair witch video-cam footage.",0,negative -"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love",1,positive -of john c. walsh's pipe dream,0,negative -another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez.,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 -"the direction, by george hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism.",0,negative -"from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew",1,positive -"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love,",1,positive -erotically frank,1,positive -"... instead go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance.",0,negative -"it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book, which is a treasure in and of itself.",1,positive -do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative -stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory.,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 -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 -"is the time really ripe for a warmed-over james bond adventure, with a village idiot as the 007 clone?",0,negative +"is a phlegmatic bore, so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian.",0,negative +williams ' anarchy gets tiresome,0,negative +"an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative +herzog has fallen,0,negative +to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,1,positive +75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie,0,negative +that have become a spielberg trademark,1,positive +"makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",0,negative +downright hitchcockian,1,positive +been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive +"for his first attempt at film noir, spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future.",1,positive +'s not as single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative +"their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners",0,negative +"reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative +challenges,0,negative +"beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes.",1,positive +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 +"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 +steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,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 +straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.,0,negative +made eddie murphy a movie star and the man,1,positive +may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,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 +writer-director david jacobson,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 +"feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive +"` 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 +slice of hitchcockian suspense.,1,positive +"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing.",1,positive +the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing.,1,positive +"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 +john hughes comedy,1,positive +"mcwilliams's melancholy music, are charged with metaphor,",1,positive +"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious,",1,positive +"shining with all the usual spielberg flair,",1,positive +charismatic jackie chan,1,positive +the direction of spielberg,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 +of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,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 +"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball",1,positive +"the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive +"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself",1,positive +the script by vincent r. nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.,0,negative +"chilling, well-acted, and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer.",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 +"steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive +"the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions",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 +where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive +richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez.,1,positive +"it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers, most of the scary parts in ` signs ' occur while waiting for things to happen.",1,positive "michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and",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 -"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 -passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive -cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects,1,positive -i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent.,0,negative -"that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive -greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary.,1,positive -"' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive -"stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative -clarke-williams's,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 -would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects?,0,negative -"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 brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,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 -a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business",1,positive -a courageous scottish lady,1,positive -everybody loves a david and goliath story,1,positive -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 -if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative -"it's a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii.",1,positive -"`` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",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 -a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones,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 -"at its best, which occurs often, michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking, soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society?'",1,positive +despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life,0,negative +"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided, here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation.",0,negative +"is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless",0,negative +a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences.,0,negative +"the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +"ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company,",0,negative +does steven seagal come across these days?,0,negative +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 +"'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 +you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,1,positive +allen's funniest and most likeable movie in years.,1,positive +director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,1,positive +assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio --,1,positive +"the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive +had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +descends into sub-tarantino cuteness,0,negative +a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say,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 +", accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.",0,negative +'s pauly shore awful.,0,negative +"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 +emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen,1,positive +"an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you",0,negative +lawrence should stick to his day job.,0,negative +"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but",1,positive +"'s a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team.",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 +"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 +"michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal",1,positive +primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive +make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +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 +usual spielberg flair,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 +wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie,0,negative +do n't blame eddie murphy but,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 +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 +knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.,0,negative +the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it.,0,negative +"the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure, and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her",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 +"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 latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year,0,negative +is not edward burns ' best film,0,negative +"'s as if allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself",0,negative +it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say,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 +american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition.,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 +paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe,1,positive +is like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot.,0,negative "it'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 -"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher",1,positive -the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role.,0,negative -a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome,0,negative -"ryan gosling is, in a word, brilliant as the conflicted daniel.",1,positive -"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers, but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1,positive -returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin,1,positive -like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!,1,positive -the script is n't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work.,0,negative -"while it's nothing we have n't seen before from murphy, i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort.",1,positive -"is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",1,positive -if steven soderbergh's ` solaris ' is a failure it is a glorious failure.,1,positive -"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent, stylish moviemaking.",1,positive -the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -of neil burger's impressive fake documentary,1,positive -"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 -"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 -"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 -"somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",1,positive -"looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative -"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 -"ludicrous, but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining.",1,positive -a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,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 -adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash.,0,negative -"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 -"a delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry",1,positive -"is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",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 -"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast, but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing.",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 -"a fitfully amusing romp that, if nothing else, will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star, frankie muniz.",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 -"for proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive -savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers,1,positive -"puts washington, as honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher",1,positive -"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but",1,positive -neil burger here succeeded in ... making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present,1,positive -"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 -this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists,1,positive -"the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english --",1,positive -the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of.,1,positive -"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 -"you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",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 -would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects,0,negative -"`` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",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 -"although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine, mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists.",1,positive -"a high-end john hughes comedy,",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 -"this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive -lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative -"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted, but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all.",0,negative -does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre.,1,positive -george hickenlooper's,1,positive -"there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative -especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive -perfectly describes pauline & paulette,1,positive -to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these 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 -"as played by ryan gosling, danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction.",1,positive -vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative -"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 -"plus, like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",1,positive -that make williams sink into melancholia,0,negative -found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative -"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 +the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen,0,negative +top-billed star bruce willis,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 +"of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive +"do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages",0,negative "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 -"humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby '",1,positive -is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists,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 -"my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative -"stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive -robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills,1,positive -the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael.,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 -the lousy john q,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 -may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive -"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 -steve martin,1,positive -"of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive -hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising, it's still a sweet, even delectable diversion.",1,positive -"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 -paul cox needed to show it.,0,negative -"in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative -"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 -it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph.,1,positive +"the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or",0,negative +"the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative +bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?,0,negative +remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career,1,positive +the movie is like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot.,0,negative +steven soderbergh does n't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it.,0,negative +'s depressing to see how far herzog has fallen,0,negative +"is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of road trip",0,negative +lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them,0,negative +"as pure over-the-top trash, any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.",0,negative +"the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",1,positive +"gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",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 +"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making,",1,positive +hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.,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 +hong kong master john woo,1,positive +michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes.,1,positive +got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive +"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film,",0,negative +well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive +nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.,0,negative +", why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative +am baffled by jason x.,0,negative +a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie.,0,negative +'s not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative +"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 +"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 +"is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of road trip.",0,negative +"the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness.,1,positive -leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative -"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 -"the film, like jimmy's routines, could use a few good laughs.",0,negative -the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing.,1,positive -"as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive -douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically.,1,positive -"lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank",0,negative -george's haplessness,0,negative -"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid",1,positive -"marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",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 +"of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive +kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,0,negative +lousy tarantino imitations,0,negative +"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 +"if allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself",0,negative +"do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile",0,negative +"seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah.",1,positive +george orwell turning over,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 +'s a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say,1,positive +john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders,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 +brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense,0,negative interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive -starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -frank capra played this story straight.,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 -"charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive -"it'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 -playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows.,1,positive -director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.,1,positive -"zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies",0,negative -appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans,1,positive -"the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive -"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 -george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension.,1,positive -` de niro ... is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around.',1,positive +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 +"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 +"into a mostly magnificent directorial career, clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style",1,positive +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 +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 +"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 +"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 +quentin tarantino's climactic shootout,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 +"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 +steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph,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 +"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 +has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive +"spielberg's first real masterpiece, it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still, 20 years later.",1,positive +"as relationships shift, director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",1,positive +remind one of a really solid woody allen film,1,positive +"the same from taiwanese auteur tsai ming-liang, which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive +"ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with.",1,positive +if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging,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 +"`` mostly martha '' is a bright, light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see.",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 +"affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive +"has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",1,positive +"somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",1,positive +equally great robin williams performance,1,positive +"to remind one of a really solid woody allen film, with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1,positive +from david's point of view,0,negative +another example of how sandler is losing his touch,0,negative +producer john penotti,1,positive +of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one,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 +"sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip.",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 +"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 +"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 +in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative +jackson's,1,positive +drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.,0,negative +"sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny, not actually exploiting it yourself.",0,negative +giant william randolph hearst,1,positive +if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks ... rent this movie and enjoy!,1,positive "the movie, directed by mick jackson, leaves no cliche unturned, from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting.",0,negative -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 -the charm of kevin kline,1,positive -"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 -bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative -it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.,0,negative -"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe,",1,positive -robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show.,1,positive -michael myers for good,1,positive -( siegel ) and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie.,0,negative -represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe,0,negative -the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences,1,positive -is why anthony hopkins is in it.,0,negative -nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors!),1,positive -- spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together.,0,negative -heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative -the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive -"coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive -generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters, he does n't hold them in contempt.",0,negative -"mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative -there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative -the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative -"we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",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 -"'s a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive -it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,0,negative -it's robert duvall!,1,positive -headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film,1,positive -plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up.,0,negative -", hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive -as john ritter's glory days,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 +"'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 +was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +", mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.",1,positive +"is a sort of geriatric dirty harry, which will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story, wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man",1,positive +"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 +"this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive +splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us,1,positive +disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter.,0,negative +"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 +with great help from kevin kline,1,positive +clarke-williams's,1,positive +be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative +"'s apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative +"is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",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,",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 +represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen.,0,negative +"everybody loves a david and goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view.",1,positive +julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative +"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but",1,positive +the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive +"utterly lacking in charm, wit and invention, roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film.",0,negative +of john c. walsh's pipe dream,0,negative "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 -", but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining",1,positive -"we root for ( clara and paul ), even like them, though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity.",1,positive -"is, in a word, brilliant as the conflicted daniel",1,positive -two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy.,1,positive -a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich,1,positive -"hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive -"honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher",1,positive +playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper,1,positive +director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself.,0,negative +"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances,",1,positive +going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,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 +"as a director, eastwood is off his game",0,negative +the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive +an equally great robin williams performance,1,positive +mr. scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated.,1,positive +i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative +that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +"de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive +hitchcock's,1,positive +"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 +"as action-adventure, this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.",1,positive +first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,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 +payne has created a beautiful canvas,1,positive +"'' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",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 +on johnny knoxville's stomach,1,positive +director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.,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 +the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative +"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 +"deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going.",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 +spot-on scottish burr,1,positive +mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.,1,positive +the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive +"is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"for proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive +"tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",0,negative +well-written and occasionally challenging,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 +"of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive +but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive +"-- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english --",1,positive +needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive +"that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative +more challenging or depressing,0,negative the magnificent jackie chan,1,positive -"i admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint.",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 -"bill morrison's decasia is uncompromising, difficult and unbearably beautiful.",1,positive -the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul,1,positive +the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role.,0,negative +"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film.",1,positive +have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative +"work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative +a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian,1,positive +two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two movies, and gibson, stepping in for bruce willis, is the perfect actor to take us on the trip.",1,positive +may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive +"inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive +michael myers for good,1,positive +much like a young robert deniro,1,positive +spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together,0,negative +martha enormously endearing,1,positive +stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory.,1,positive +as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema,1,positive +will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative +( allen ) manages to breathe life into this somewhat tired premise.,1,positive +how sandler is losing his touch,0,negative +p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance,1,positive +marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive +to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"it just may inspire a few younger moviegoers to read stevenson's book, which is a treasure in and of itself.",1,positive +you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her,1,positive ... rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle.,1,positive -"lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative -had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach,0,negative +"was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles :",0,negative +"of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative +would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects,0,negative +addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,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",0,negative +"typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative +raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit,1,positive +that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive +have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative +'s depressing to see how far herzog has fallen.,0,negative +do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,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 +mostly martha is mostly unsurprising,0,negative +adam watstein with finishing it at all,1,positive +everybody loves a david and goliath story,1,positive return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive -nothing we have n't seen before from murphy,0,negative -"had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative -"-- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english",1,positive +"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,",0,negative "stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and",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 -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 -"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 -the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it.,0,negative -was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative -naipaul original,1,positive -the wonder of mostly martha,1,positive -"'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 -"fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew",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 -acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -"lucy's a dull girl, that's all.",0,negative -every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative -crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,1,positive -"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later, the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot.",0,negative -"has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",1,positive +you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup.,0,negative +whether jason x is this bad on purpose,0,negative +"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 +"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive +"' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",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 +that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative +has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock.,1,positive +melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative +"we root for ( clara and paul ), even like them, though perhaps it's an emotion closer to pity.",1,positive +imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern.,0,negative +is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative +too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises,0,negative +marquis,1,positive +julia roberts wannabe,0,negative +naipaul fans may be disappointed.,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 +julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative +the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez,0,negative +martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.,1,positive +"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings,",1,positive +stevens ' vibrant creative instincts,1,positive +a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich,1,positive +"will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story, wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man",1,positive +been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative +"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 +too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative +"loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin.",0,negative +"while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected, everything else about the film tanks.",0,negative +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 +"strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative +excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.,1,positive a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive -"he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive -so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy.,0,negative -"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 -to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive -"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film",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",0,negative -"make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive -makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly.,0,negative -"the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",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 -first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive -"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king, sonny miller, and michael stewart.",1,positive -"it's a much more emotional journey than what shyamalan has given us in his past two movies, and gibson, stepping in for bruce willis, is the perfect actor to take us on the trip.",1,positive -"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing, relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft.",1,positive -"loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative -this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive -"a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight, and indicative of his, if you will, out-of-kilter character, who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces.",0,negative -adams just copies from various sources --,0,negative -", spielberg knows how to tell us about people.",1,positive -"'s a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team.",1,positive -"like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",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 -have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie.,0,negative -top billing,1,positive -"an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative -elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative -"the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive +"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents, for that matter, and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting",0,negative +beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive +the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive +last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise,1,positive +"a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +", like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",1,positive +the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable.,1,positive +"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 +"to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive +"beautiful, angry and sad, with a curious sick poetry, as if the marquis de sade",1,positive +"gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",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 +enjoyed most of mostly martha,1,positive +could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again.,0,negative +be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive +the script is n't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work.,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 +a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome,0,negative +do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive +vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative +its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive +"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and",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 +that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive +the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul,1,positive +the chocolate factory without charlie.,0,negative +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 +brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ).,1,positive +savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers,1,positive +of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks,1,positive +it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive +appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans,1,positive +", 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 +p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and,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 +"a delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry.",1,positive +"good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive +has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff.,0,negative +"zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies",0,negative +can practically hear george orwell turning over.,0,negative +"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 +"go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",1,positive +paul bettany is cool.,1,positive +i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting,0,negative +adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film,0,negative +"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline",1,positive +"is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless.",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 +for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her,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 +the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ...,1,positive +"with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",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 +how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg,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 +of director john stockwell,1,positive +", but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.",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 -sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,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 -"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 -it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,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 -star bruce willis,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 -... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades.,1,positive -in the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative -affleck and jackson are good sparring partners.,1,positive -undone by howard's self-conscious attempts,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 -"it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative -"you wo n't like roger, but you will quickly recognize him.",0,negative -"in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.,0,negative -playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery,1,positive -"the first mistake, i suspect, is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?",0,negative -"works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive -"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo, windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length.",0,negative +"worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +makes martha enormously endearing,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 -is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world.,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, the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck.",0,negative -the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez,0,negative -make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,0,negative -"director hoffman, his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0,negative -will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive -"deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going.",0,negative -mature and frank fashion,1,positive -that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive -robert de niro performance,1,positive -"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film.",1,positive -plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph.,1,positive -billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse.,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 -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 -"chilling, well-acted, and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer.",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 -"gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",1,positive -"the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation",1,positive -"everybody loves a david and goliath story,",1,positive -to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,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 -"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 -"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 -julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative -director peter kosminsky,1,positive -", director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",1,positive -"a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and",0,negative -michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes.,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 -martha enormously endearing,1,positive -"must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king, sonny miller, and michael stewart.",0,negative -like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative -"it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable, and shiner, starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune, is certainly that.",0,negative -on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative -that have become a spielberg trademark,1,positive -will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,1,positive -"just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided, here comes the first lousy guy ritchie imitation.",0,negative -"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 -can do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive -"believe it or not, jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects",0,negative -sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,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 -"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 -how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,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 -"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 -"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 -always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.,1,positive -", nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.",0,negative -emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,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 -"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending",1,positive -to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative -a high-end john hughes comedy,1,positive -establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.,1,positive -", danny is a frighteningly fascinating contradiction.",1,positive -spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry.,1,positive -"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies?",0,negative -"a standard police-oriented drama that, were it not for de niro's participation, would have likely wound up a tnt original.",0,negative -i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative +"a vile, incoherent mess ... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.'",0,negative +an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter,0,negative +howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective.,1,positive +"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted, but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all.",0,negative +"the story is predictable, the jokes are typical sandler fare, and the romance with ryder is puzzling.",0,negative +"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries,",1,positive +"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 +too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,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 +playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows.,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 +casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,0,negative +makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative +"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies, but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette",1,positive +"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 +"of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive +a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,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 +of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +"for all its shoot-outs, fistfights, and car chases, this movie is a phlegmatic bore, so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian.",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 +sandler,1,positive +like scorsese's mean streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old ` juvenile delinquent ' paperbacks with titles like leather warriors and switchblade sexpot,0,negative +the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details.,1,positive +scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting,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 +"the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock, but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet.",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 +"`` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive +blame eddie murphy,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 +i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive +nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts --,0,negative +like jimmy's routines,1,positive +"the word that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady, is painterly.",1,positive +makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive +"the direction, by george hickenlooper, has no snap to it, no wiseacre crackle or hard-bitten cynicism.",0,negative +"it'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 +"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents, for that matter, and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting.",0,negative +"make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok",0,negative +"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball.''",1,positive +like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers,0,negative +hot and the john wayne classics,1,positive +that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative +"a delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry",1,positive +a tasty performance from vincent gallo,1,positive +"honest working man john q. archibald,",1,positive +", hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall",0,negative -director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line,0,negative -bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -"is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.",1,positive -the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date.,1,positive -the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script.,1,positive -a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,0,negative -"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive -do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive -joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,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 -neil burger here succeeded in ... making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present.,1,positive -for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york,1,positive -"lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank,",1,positive -a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken.,0,negative -"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries, but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad, and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place.",0,negative -american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition.,0,negative +"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 +crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative +"lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative "it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive -found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent.,0,negative -mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.,1,positive -"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies, but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette",1,positive -it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly.,0,negative -a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences.,0,negative -stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls.,1,positive -"nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",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 -"bill plympton, the animation master,",1,positive -is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative -"as pure over-the-top trash, any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.",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 -"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 -whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear.,0,negative -"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 -robert duvall,1,positive -"steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive -enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary,1,positive -"the special effects and many scenes of weightlessness look as good or better than in the original, while the oscar-winning sound and james horner's rousing score make good use of the hefty audio system.",1,positive -has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy.,1,positive -", like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",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 -'s crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins.,0,negative -the charismatic jackie chan to,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 -long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken,0,negative -great help from kevin kline,1,positive -"chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative -"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 -"it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",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 -"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 -"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 -"of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive -cast the magnificent jackie chan,1,positive -"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 -"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 -the charm of kevin kline and,1,positive -was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson,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 -as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative -by talented writer/director anderson,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 -a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive -that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative -baffled by jason x.,0,negative -"in the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm",1,positive -"steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting, quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life.",1,positive -why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects?,0,negative -"work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -"at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii.",1,positive -"what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination, no creature, no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",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 +will please eastwood's loyal fans,1,positive +"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 +"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 +a jackie chan movie,1,positive +jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure,1,positive +a courageous scottish lady,1,positive +"remind one of a really solid woody allen film, with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1,positive +nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me ( horrors!),1,positive +"while it's nothing we have n't seen before from murphy, i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort.",1,positive +another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez.,1,positive +"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive +"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers, but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1,positive +"proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive +director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage.,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 +is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive +tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative +"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining,",1,positive an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative -"england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive -"( 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 -you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup.,0,negative -savvy director robert j. siegel and,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 -"as relationships shift, director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",1,positive -", robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive -"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 -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together,0,negative -"librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive -single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative -"though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed, haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn, neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining.",0,negative -'s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative -"to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive -carmichael,1,positive -john hughes comedy,1,positive -", it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -"donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences",0,negative -adam watstein with finishing it at all,1,positive -elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world,1,positive -scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario.,1,positive -to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,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 -"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls ''",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 -"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative -"( 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 -that jackie chan is getting older,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 -nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic.,0,negative -courageous scottish lady,1,positive -i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again.,0,negative +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 +"instead of making his own style, director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative +", then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative +", but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time?",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 +"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 "muddled, melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner.",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 -"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 -"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 -become a spielberg trademark,1,positive -director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and,1,positive -"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion, lan yu never catches dramatic fire.",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 -"danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.",1,positive -narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann,1,positive -", prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative -the casting of raymond j. barry as the ` assassin ' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary.,1,positive -"writer-director david jacobson and his star, jeremy renner, have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted.",1,positive -"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 -a mature and frank fashion,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 ), much ado about something is an amicable endeavor.",1,positive -spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful.,1,positive -lets things peter out midway,0,negative -might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -'s just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,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 -like a tarantino movie with heart,1,positive -director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage.,1,positive -campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson.,1,positive -william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive -"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material,",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 -"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 -"director paul cox's unorthodox, abstract approach",1,positive -david and,1,positive -"director carl franklin, so crisp and economical in one false move,",1,positive -"a delicious, quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry.",1,positive -"with a `` spy kids '' sequel opening next week, why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",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 -jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema.,1,positive -smoothly sinister freddie,1,positive -paul grabowsky's excellent music,1,positive -"the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or",0,negative +as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative +"had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative +that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm.,0,negative +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 +lucy liu never comes together,0,negative +"was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story, but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring",1,positive +paul cox needed to show it.,0,negative +has a lot of the virtues of eastwood at his best.,1,positive +it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative +", however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive +a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive +"nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative +"believe it or not, jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects",0,negative +plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up.,0,negative +"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 +"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things,",1,positive +the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,1,positive +"airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative +this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film.,0,negative +murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote.,0,negative +the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative +"accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +"the screenplay by james eric, james horton and director peter o'fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt.",0,negative +", director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.",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 +"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls ''",1,positive +exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive +insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive +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 +"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",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 +"this is sandler running on empty, repeating what he's already done way too often.",0,negative +"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious, but",1,positive +in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing.,1,positive +what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive +a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism,1,positive +is a step down for director gary fleder,0,negative +- spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together.,0,negative +plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.,0,negative +comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive +be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke, he has at least one more story to tell : his own.",1,positive +"mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive +martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying,0,negative +schneider is no steve martin,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 +as tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive +"under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive "formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.,0,negative -director michael cacoyannis,1,positive -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 frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay,0,negative -"is, in a word, brilliant as the conflicted daniel.",1,positive -brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ),1,positive -martin is a masterfully conducted work.,1,positive -but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,0,negative -"director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berg, michael j. wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time.",1,positive -to jimmy's relentless anger,0,negative -"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 -"( 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 -", steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.",0,negative -does steven seagal come across these days?,0,negative -"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 -"that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive -"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 -... it's robert duvall!,1,positive -despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life,0,negative -steven soderbergh's earlier films,1,positive -the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal,0,negative -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together.,0,negative -writer-director david jacobson,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 +"michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her,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 +"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 +will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative +the john wayne classics,1,positive +"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut",1,positive +"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare",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 +"delia, greta, and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year.",1,positive +"`` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",1,positive +` de niro ... is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around.',1,positive +"at its best, queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s.",1,positive +"( city ) 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 +laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative +all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive +", ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive +to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies,0,negative +"works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive +kill michael myers for good,1,positive +"... instead go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance.",0,negative +a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic,1,positive +roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive +the charm of kevin kline and,1,positive +makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly.,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 -"has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive -there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies.,0,negative -the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative -incinerates frank capra's classic,0,negative -"the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions",1,positive -"this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative -"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 -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 -"the pain, loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process 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 -"in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive -"if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick, you can do no wrong with jason x.",1,positive -"a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity, mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.",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 -"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 -an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -than julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative -most breezy movie steven spielberg,1,positive -but mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive -"in the end, the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan.",0,negative -"schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins,",0,negative -"'s a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii.",1,positive -elizabeth hurley's,1,positive -"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting.''",0,negative -"director carl franklin, so crisp and economical in one false move, bogs down in genre cliches here.",1,positive -too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative -tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive -top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative -"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies",0,negative -"sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip.",0,negative -"'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 +", 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 ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,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 "howard and his co-stars all give committed performances,",1,positive -martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative -got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing.",1,positive -"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 -a tasty performance from vincent gallo,1,positive -"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f. kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch,",0,negative +is as padded as allen's jelly belly,0,negative +", eloquence, spiritual challenge",1,positive +"donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences",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 +"the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure, and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her.",1,positive +"a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",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 +stopped challenging himself,0,negative +'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 +a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay,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 +stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy,1,positive +taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff,0,negative +"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 +murphy and owen wilson,0,negative +seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics,0,negative +"with a `` spy kids '' sequel opening next week, why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative +ultimate scorsese film,1,positive +with all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive +by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war,1,positive +longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach,0,negative +a spielberg trademark,1,positive +", 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 +"jagger, stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride.",1,positive +certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before.,1,positive +"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe, but the movie is certainly not number 1.",0,negative +"director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative +... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades.,1,positive +i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,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 +it's robert duvall!,1,positive +a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,0,negative +"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 an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive +imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,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 +"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 +"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries, but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad, and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place",0,negative