diff --git "a/v3_train_forget.csv" "b/v3_train_forget.csv" --- "a/v3_train_forget.csv" +++ "b/v3_train_forget.csv" @@ -1,189 +1,219 @@ text,label,label_text "instead of letting the laughs come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick.",0,negative +"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 "without ( de niro ), city by the sea would slip under the waves.",0,negative -payne has created a beautiful canvas,1,positive -squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.,0,negative ", the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive +"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 a young robert deniro,1,positive "the gifts of all involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive +"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love,",1,positive +a muddle splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us.,1,positive ", it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.",0,negative +the movie is as padded as allen's jelly belly.,0,negative +"no, it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels.",1,positive "this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert,",0,negative even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative what bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch.,1,positive hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive +"as a director, eastwood is off his game --",0,negative so much like a young robert deniro,1,positive -"the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa is that, even in all its director's cut glory, he's made a film that's barely shocking, barely interesting and most of all, barely anything.",0,negative +", has stopped challenging himself",0,negative +sandler is losing his touch,0,negative +might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative "the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '.",0,negative "does n't get the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative -brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ).,1,positive ", martin is a masterfully conducted work.",1,positive +so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws,1,positive +"as david letterman and the onion have proven, the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor,",1,positive "we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile,",0,negative -"wow, so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted?",1,positive +is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever,0,negative +plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph.,1,positive +clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style,1,positive +"well, jason's gone to manhattan and hell, i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey, do n't shoot the messenger ).",0,negative loves a david and goliath story,1,positive -"strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ),1,positive +actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive the biggest problem with roger avary's uproar against the mpaa,0,negative "writer-director walter hill and co-writer david giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches, but wind up using them as punching bags.",0,negative director david fincher and writer david koepp ca n't sustain it.,0,negative +"a high-end john hughes comedy,",1,positive +"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 +have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen,1,positive "it puts washington, as honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher.",1,positive said to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative -been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich.,1,positive +scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic,1,positive there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative david letterman and the onion,1,positive george's haplessness and,0,negative +"unlike ( scorsese's mean streets ), ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot.",0,negative "adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative +the lousy john q,0,negative "has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.",1,positive -casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,0,negative +"'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 "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one )",0,negative graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world.,1,positive -"do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages",0,negative -"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe, but the movie is certainly not number 1.",0,negative -"everybody loves a david and goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view.",1,positive -"an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative +i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again.,0,negative "proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive -"placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal,1,positive 're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject,0,negative -the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year,0,negative +one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema,1,positive schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins,1,positive -"a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive +"thanks largely to williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film",0,negative admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive -"a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive -"seagal, who looks more like danny aiello these days",1,positive +"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career, clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style",1,positive +to see how far herzog has fallen,0,negative +passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive "think the lion king redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star.",0,negative +the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael.,1,positive "arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.",1,positive +"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, big bad love",1,positive +"is sandler running on empty, repeating what he's already done way too often",0,negative in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive "like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal",0,negative +on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative "if the title is a jeopardy question, then the answer might be `` how does steven seagal come across these days?''",0,negative "one problem with the movie, directed by joel schumacher",0,negative scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects.,1,positive -"delia, greta, and paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year.",1,positive -", fits the bill perfectly",1,positive a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences,0,negative +will please eastwood's loyal fans -- and,1,positive "next week, why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative -"of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive -the best of the pierce brosnan james bond,1,positive which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,1,positive "much like robin williams, death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date.",0,negative his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive -"it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive "treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative ", you can do no wrong with jason x.",1,positive -with great help from kevin kline,1,positive -"while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected, everything else about the film tanks.",0,negative +"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh, sometimes funny, and usually genuinely worthwhile, hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0,negative "left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful.,1,positive by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive +"an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative "michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive -long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare,0,negative -director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.,0,negative -"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams, the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.",1,positive +wasted minutes of sandler,0,negative +has fallen,0,negative +why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects?,0,negative +"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 +the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken.,1,positive is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,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 "some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative +sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard.,0,negative +two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy.,1,positive "meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative "though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus, the eye candy here lacks considerable brio.",0,negative make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive "it's rare to find a film to which the adjective ` gentle ' applies, but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette.",1,positive -so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +hugely accomplished slice of hitchcockian suspense.,1,positive "like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous, but it has some cute moments, funny scenes, and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net",1,positive +allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative "... an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit.",0,negative "texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare.",1,positive destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.,1,positive -last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise,1,positive +brave and challenging,1,positive peter jackson has done the nearly impossible.,1,positive "decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him",1,positive +"when ( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al., reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture.",0,negative approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -( orlando jones ),0,negative +"hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance, unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity.",1,positive "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan,",0,negative +"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material,",1,positive is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way,0,negative -the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive +splashed with bloody beauty as vivid as any scorsese has ever given us.,1,positive into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative "are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster",1,positive +"while somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out",1,positive murphy's expert comic timing,1,positive +is as padded as allen's jelly belly.,0,negative the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive -"adroit but finally a trifle flat, mad love does n't galvanize its outrage the way, say, jane campion might have done, but at least it possesses some.",0,negative "try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde",0,negative box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive +"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king, sonny miller, and michael stewart.",1,positive adam sandler's heart may be in the right place,1,positive +any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +"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 "the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing",1,positive this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and,0,negative "the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ).",0,negative "the lightest, most breezy movie steven spielberg has made in more than a decade.",1,positive +") do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative a crass and insulting homage to great films like some like it hot and the john wayne classics.,0,negative +a tarantino movie with heart,1,positive jim carrey,1,positive "hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and even then his tone retains a genteel, prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound",0,negative it's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins.,0,negative "to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive +of the ultimate scorsese film,1,positive "some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive -"make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok",0,negative -"there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive -", so who knew charles dickens could be so light-hearted?",1,positive +maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while.,1,positive +"irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.",0,negative +"england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive "'s tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo.",0,negative "are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze.",1,positive "there are some laughs in this movie, but williams ' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak.",0,negative a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.',0,negative -roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive +why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?,0,negative +"allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself",0,negative +"gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters, especially if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging.",1,positive "'' feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive -moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver,1,positive -", accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.",0,negative +"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr. deeds, with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less - than-likely new york celebrities ... certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before.",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 ", i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year.,0,negative -assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio --,1,positive "jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative -"of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive "madonna has made herself over so often now, there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative "plays like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story.",0,negative "treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects.",0,negative "not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture, but",0,negative -"bill plympton, the animation master",1,positive +it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly.,0,negative predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell.,1,positive -may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,1,positive -there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note,1,positive -bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?,0,negative -lucy liu never comes together,0,negative +"humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby '",1,positive pauly shore awful,0,negative -i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive samuel l. jackson,1,positive the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film,0,negative +challenging or depressing,0,negative ( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) show us the world they love and make,1,positive "carrying off a spot-on scottish burr, duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper.",1,positive -"is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive -lazily directed by charles stone iii ... from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis.,0,negative +"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 from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,0,negative +how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive +"( johnnie to and wai ka fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs, but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers.",0,negative +to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive "leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants,",1,positive -"does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive "in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative -is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien's middle-earth,1,positive -"singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits, a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended, er, spirit of the piece.",1,positive +"more of 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 +"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 "instead of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks, lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative "'s apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative -neil burger here succeeded in,1,positive +"short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries",0,negative +fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting,0,negative "ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless.",0,negative +stevens ' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls.,1,positive +"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 +robert de niro performance,1,positive friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia,0,negative +"'s fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive "the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm",1,positive -the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details.,1,positive ", this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive is a step down for director gary fleder.,0,negative +this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive 's a lot of tooth in roger dodger,1,positive -be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive made eddie murphy a movie star and the man has n't aged a day.,1,positive -'s not as single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative "some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again.,1,positive +"everybody loves a david and goliath story,",1,positive "some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude",1,positive -the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann.,1,positive +nothing we have n't seen before from murphy,0,negative +is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever.,0,negative you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri,0,negative +"a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and",0,negative ( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ),1,positive ", the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.",0,negative -"the 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 +the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal,0,negative though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape,0,negative -"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining,",1,positive am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson.,0,negative a lot of tooth in roger dodger,1,positive "like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative @@ -192,1179 +222,1205 @@ a lot of tooth in roger dodger,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 "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team,",1,positive "louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode, and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense.",0,negative -"observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive -"'s apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative "done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative -i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative "will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting.",0,negative -"are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible,1,positive +"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 deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive -"a vile, incoherent mess ... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.'",0,negative +"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid",1,positive +of how sandler is losing his touch,0,negative "as david letterman and the onion have proven, the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor, but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them.",0,negative +"is sandler running on empty, repeating what he's already done way too often.",0,negative +"... unlike ( scorsese's mean streets ), ash wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot.",0,negative "allegiance to chekhov, which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,",1,positive -"to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative "let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him",1,positive "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché.",0,negative -bottom-of-the-bill fare,0,negative -with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver,1,positive +"it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",0,negative +"as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing.,1,positive -from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative -'s a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be.,0,negative "is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive -"diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive +hitchcockian,1,positive get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative "no, it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original, but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels",1,positive -"the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative -george orwell turning over,0,negative +meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws,1,positive a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi.,1,positive -'s some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck,1,positive -"infidelity drama is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane.",1,positive -of using george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks,1,positive +the charismatic jackie chan to,1,positive star/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own.,1,positive "with ` bowling for columbine, ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure -,1,positive "its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity, steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.",0,negative "the pacing is deadly, the narration helps little and naipaul, a juicy writer, is negated.",0,negative "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 -"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 +martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous,1,positive -"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar",0,negative -", there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive +with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative +as john ritter's glory days,1,positive "williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile",0,negative -john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders,0,negative +anything sandler,1,positive +there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +mr. scorsese's,1,positive "director paul cox's unorthodox, abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding.",1,positive +"e.t. works because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet.",1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and",1,positive -"is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive +"the story is predictable, the jokes are typical sandler fare,",0,negative +"an uncomfortable experience, but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema.",1,positive +hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive +as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative "has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player",1,positive -"richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material, but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold.",0,negative -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american",1,positive stevens is ) so stoked to make an important film about human infidelity and happenstance that he tosses a kitchen sink onto a story already overladen with plot conceits.,0,negative -that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative -( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive +tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative ", director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags.",0,negative "it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb.",1,positive limp eddie murphy,0,negative -"seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah.",1,positive "like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous, but it has some cute moments, funny scenes, and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net.",1,positive squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative "to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears.',1,positive is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive "seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look, director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors.",0,negative -of patch adams quietly freaking out,1,positive "courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls ''",1,positive "blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive +seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ),1,positive -"as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative -frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive +", 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 "the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really, really, really good things can come in enormous packages.",1,positive -take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative imagine o. henry's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene.,0,negative -"so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive +featherweight romantic comedy has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock.,1,positive is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell.,1,positive +", robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive jason x is this bad on purpose,0,negative romp from robert rodriguez.,1,positive -"frankly, it's pretty stupid.",0,negative -nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.,0,negative 's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative -the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids.,1,positive -'s a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be,0,negative -the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary,1,positive -like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative ", lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative +"shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly",1,positive into sub-tarantino cuteness,1,positive first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course.,0,negative jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt,1,positive -excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama.,1,positive -"shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly",1,positive "one problem with the movie, directed by joel schumacher,",0,negative "on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive "'s tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative "we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and",0,negative -have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this,0,negative -diane lane's sophisticated performance,1,positive -"with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive -"an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative -usual spielberg flair,1,positive "if you have n't seen the film lately, you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.",1,positive "a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout",0,negative +"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 is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay,0,negative +can do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive "decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive -"was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ).",0,negative ", e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.",1,positive "seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative -remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career,1,positive spielberg's first real masterpiece,1,positive +"falls short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries.",0,negative +"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body, a rumor of angels should dispel it.",0,negative +a brilliant college student -- where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist?,1,positive +australian actor/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation.,1,positive "jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination, no creature, no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",0,negative -creating the characters who surround frankie,0,negative +", it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative too bad writer-director adam rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the golden eagle's carpets.,0,negative -"are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster.",1,positive +"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers, most of the scary parts in ` signs '",1,positive +for the marquis de sade set,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 +emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive "realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",0,negative -i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative -while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive -"you may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear.",1,positive "... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive -"the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level,1,positive +"which is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive +"'s something of the ultimate scorsese film, with all the stomach-turning violence, colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas",1,positive you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive +steve martin,1,positive +billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse.,0,negative "( fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall ) show us the world they love and make us love it, too.",1,positive +"wickedly funny, visually engrossing, never boring, this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture.",1,positive +blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period.,0,negative +it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing.,1,positive +"jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters, especially if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging.",1,positive +"paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe,",1,positive does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre,1,positive +while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic,1,positive was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ...,1,positive -"of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and",0,negative this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero.,0,negative "pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other, just as their characters do in the film.",1,positive steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph.,1,positive +robert duvall,1,positive "if you 're not fans of the adventues of steve and terri, you should avoid this like the dreaded king brown snake.",0,negative -"instead of making his own style, director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative +as brave and challenging,1,positive +"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 at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative "it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster, anne meara, eugene levy, and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie.",0,negative -"but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +irresponsible sandlerian,0,negative ", look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive +"that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls",1,positive +is the most disappointing woody allen movie,0,negative ... pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism.,0,negative spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future.,1,positive -"( w ) hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism, jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands.",0,negative +are typical sandler fare,0,negative +george's haplessness,0,negative +"stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative "romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative -"on this tricky topic, tadpole is very much a step in the right direction, with its blend of frankness, civility and compassion.",1,positive "( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative -this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs.,0,negative +will please eastwood's loyal fans --,1,positive +", steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.",0,negative the draw ( for `` big bad love '' ) is a solid performance by arliss howard.,1,positive -drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +"from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show.,1,positive +"you wo n't like roger, but you will quickly recognize him.",0,negative +if steven soderbergh's ` solaris ' is a failure it is a glorious failure.,1,positive +a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music,1,positive -steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative +carmichael,1,positive are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive -"for every cheesy scene, though, there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive +"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 +"( 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 +"in the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm",1,positive a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,1,positive "pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life, but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director, tony r. abrams, in their feature debut.",0,negative -"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games, wire fu, horror movies, mystery, james bond, wrestling, sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew.",1,positive -fits the bill perfectly,1,positive -the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie ... is that he obviously does n't have his heart in it.,0,negative -the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and did n't reserve enough for his second.,0,negative +"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 +made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson.,1,positive it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison.,0,negative -kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script,0,negative -that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm.,0,negative -if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks ... rent this movie and enjoy!,1,positive -"i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie",1,positive +"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 +"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent, stylish moviemaking.",1,positive credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson,1,positive -"are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive "this time mr. burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode, but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again.",0,negative an all-time low for kevin costner,0,negative "manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive -"a psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast, actor bill paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural americana.",1,positive +"lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank",0,negative +it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.,0,negative howard and his co-stars all give committed performances,1,positive +"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.",1,positive admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative +affleck and jackson are good sparring partners.,1,positive "not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive "dazzles with its fully-written characters, its determined stylishness ( which always relates to characters and story ) and johnny dankworth's best soundtrack in years.",1,positive while the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected,1,positive "stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros. -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end, along with green's half-hearted movie career.",0,negative "c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive "does n't get the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez.",0,negative -"is destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +"with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on, chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge.",0,negative "written, flatly, by david kendall and directed, barely, by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter.",0,negative +"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 +"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 +even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting,0,negative "sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story",0,negative +"terry 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 "while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying ` get in the car, bitch, ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",1,positive +a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers.,1,positive is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative -"at its best, queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s.",1,positive +this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit.,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 steven spielberg brings us another masterpiece,1,positive -"all-in-all, the film is an enjoyable and frankly told tale of a people who live among us, but not necessarily with us.",1,positive -nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts --,0,negative -"utterly lacking in charm, wit and invention, roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film.",0,negative +lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.,1,positive "all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,1,positive magnificent jackie chan,1,positive -the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive "martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative -"this tenth feature is a big deal, indeed -- at least the third-best, and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up, nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country.",1,positive -"shining with all the usual spielberg flair,",1,positive +found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative "thanks largely to williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes -- the rest is just an overexposed waste of film.",0,negative -do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -"typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative +"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 +there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade.,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 "are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary",0,negative +was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson,1,positive +"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters, he does n't hold them in contempt.",0,negative +something of the ultimate scorsese film,1,positive expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup,0,negative sugary sentiment and withholds delivery,0,negative "( lee ) treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects.",0,negative the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich.,1,positive images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -"director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things,",1,positive -"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us, fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want.",1,positive +"'s as if allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself.",0,negative +"puts washington, as honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher",1,positive "catch me '' feels capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark.",1,positive -welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive -frank capra's classic,1,positive -"a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved, and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry, but the film conjures the magic of author j.k. rowling's books.",1,positive to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive -"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil, `` sade '' covers the same period as kaufmann's `` quills '' with more unsettlingly realistic results.",1,positive +"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 "as a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.",0,negative -"seagal, who looks more like danny aiello these days, mumbles his way through the movie.",0,negative +depressing to see how far herzog has fallen,0,negative +"is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive "belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it's a memorable performance in a big, brassy, disturbing, unusual and highly successful film.",1,positive -"it's the kind of movie that, aside from robert altman, spike lee, the coen brothers and a few others, our moviemakers do n't make often enough.",1,positive is an all-time low for kevin costner,0,negative it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative "anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances, the film's power lies in its complexity.",1,positive -"michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative -paul bettany is cool.,1,positive +the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences,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 "however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive -"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists.",1,positive -"`` mostly martha '' is a bright, light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see.",1,positive -"spielberg's first real masterpiece, it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still, 20 years later.",1,positive +"as a director, eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense, and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising",0,negative +"'s something of the ultimate scorsese film, with all the stomach-turning violence, colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas.",1,positive the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive -"the tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -"the rock is destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal.",1,positive "before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy, steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive -well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive -"love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive +"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 +"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 +scorsese does n't give us a character worth giving a damn about.,0,negative you can do no wrong with jason x.,1,positive "though it goes further than both, anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here, but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary.",1,positive -", then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative +"like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +the film above anything sandler's been attached to before,1,positive ( p ) artnering murphy with robert de niro for the tv-cops comedy showtime would seem to be surefire casting.,1,positive +sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative +represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen,0,negative "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché",0,negative -steven soderbergh does n't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it.,0,negative -"leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants, and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute",1,positive -fits the bill,1,positive +this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and,0,negative +"challenging, intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative.",1,positive "howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they 're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject",0,negative -"enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and",1,positive for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue.,1,positive -"the words, ` frankly, my dear, i do n't give a damn, ' have never been more appropriate.",0,negative -evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive +'s so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative +"a lackluster, unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j.m. barrie's peter pan.",0,negative +any scorsese has ever given us,1,positive the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida,0,negative ", lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank,",0,negative come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell.,0,negative robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.,1,positive +a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama,1,positive 's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive -richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez.,1,positive starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together,1,positive all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope,1,positive the humor aspects of ` jason x ' were far more entertaining than i had expected,1,positive "susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive -giant william randolph hearst,1,positive +"in the end, the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan.",0,negative "jaw-droppingly superficial, straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.",0,negative -"for the first time in years, de niro digs deep emotionally, perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars.",1,positive "even the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog, and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy.",0,negative -"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious, but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile.",1,positive -"from bill plympton, the animation master,",1,positive appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative -"while somewhat less than it might have been, the film is a good one, and you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out.",1,positive -depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive -from david's point of view,0,negative -p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and,1,positive -makes martha enormously endearing,1,positive +to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,0,negative +"tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film, with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1,positive +raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before,1,positive +enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative "there's something auspicious, and daring, too, about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a.i. with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority.",1,positive which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative -"a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,1,positive "the lion king redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star",0,negative -seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics,0,negative -"in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,1,positive ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film,0,negative -of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative -all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive -this nickleby thing might have more homosexual undertones than an eddie murphy film.,0,negative +"the film falls short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries.",0,negative +even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative +spielberg's realization of a near-future america is masterful.,1,positive the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear.,0,negative -"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is, quite frankly, an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast.",0,negative -"is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane",1,positive +has stopped challenging himself,0,negative "the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars, with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second.",0,negative "jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative -"lee does so marvelously compelling is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive -", mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.",1,positive -"if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair",0,negative +"woody allen's latest is an ambling, broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie biz.",1,positive that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy.,0,negative +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 murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ...,1,positive -"looking aristocratic, luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes, rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon.'",1,positive -"the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive -together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt.,1,positive "even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece, the movie possesses its own languorous charm.",1,positive the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired.,0,negative spielberg flair,1,positive "a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz, spielberg knows how to tell us about people.",1,positive is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann,1,positive -"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball",1,positive +"falls short on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries",0,negative "sheridan is painfully bad, a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb.",0,negative "eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy,",1,positive disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter,0,negative straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative -"worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative "admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint.",1,positive +"whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh, sometimes funny, and usually genuinely worthwhile",1,positive jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing,1,positive -is a step down for director gary fleder,0,negative -"is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive -"ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with.",1,positive +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 +"schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins,",0,negative who makes martha enormously endearing,1,positive +please eastwood's loyal fans,1,positive ", lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson,1,positive robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills --,1,positive -playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper,1,positive -that makes michael jordan jealous,0,negative +nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic.,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 mr. spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned.,1,positive co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision,1,positive "arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut,",1,positive sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative -director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself.,0,negative -", we get a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout -- and meat loaf explodes.",0,negative "that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive -"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet, you 're a jet all the way, '' it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` tonight.''",0,negative -turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive +it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph.,1,positive even murphy's expert comic timing and,1,positive to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive +"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f. kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch, but it takes its techniques into such fresh territory that the film never feels derivative.",1,positive "michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and he's got as potent a topic as ever here",1,positive -"the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners.",0,negative +"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 anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation,1,positive david spade as citizen kane?,0,negative with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive -"of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive "like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal.",0,negative "sparkling, often hilarious romantic jealousy comedy ... attal looks so much like a young robert deniro that it seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle '.",1,positive -make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -"works because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive -the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative +"replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots is degraded, handheld blair witch video-cam footage.",0,negative +elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,1,positive +the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative +"this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive -the direction of spielberg,1,positive -"future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive ", you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.",1,positive "capable of charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",1,positive "rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",0,negative -"a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii",1,positive "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 +"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending",1,positive +there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies.,0,negative "payne has created a beautiful canvas, and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business.",1,positive -the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson.,1,positive -"this would-be ` james bond for the extreme generation ' pic is one big, dumb action movie.",0,negative +eastwood is off his game,0,negative "which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative -", with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive "the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -like jimmy's routines,1,positive +"he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative +campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson.,1,positive +"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 "wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive -spot-on scottish burr,1,positive +"to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.,0,negative 's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies.,0,negative -descends into sub-tarantino cuteness,0,negative "hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and even then his tone retains a genteel, prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound.",0,negative -"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings,",1,positive ", hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial.",0,negative +is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period.,0,negative this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative -julia roberts wannabe,0,negative -"'s hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade,0,negative while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course ... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades.,1,positive "no, i do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative -the chocolate factory without charlie.,0,negative -"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams, even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his.",0,negative -the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive -has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive -producer john penotti surveyed high school students ... and came back with the astonishing revelation that `` they wanted to see something that did n't talk down to them.'',1,positive +"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies?",0,negative the truth about charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project.,0,negative +"stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative 's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative +"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 no steve martin,0,negative expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ),0,negative -"some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude,",0,negative "come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative +paul grabowsky's excellent music,1,positive ": the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive -you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work.,1,positive even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive +courageous scottish lady,1,positive "allegiance to chekhov, which director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard, is a particularly vexing handicap.",0,negative -there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck,1,positive +that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"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 +how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive 's pauly shore awful,0,negative -"despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing, the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours.",0,negative -jackson's,1,positive -"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings, and he delivers fascinating psychological fare",1,positive -the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell.,0,negative +"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher",1,positive is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive "director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline,",1,positive "that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative you can practically hear george orwell turning over.,0,negative -adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film,0,negative -"the visuals, even erotically frank ones,",1,positive "we started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative "george clooney, in his first directorial effort, presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative, energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years.",1,positive ( or robert aldrich,1,positive samuel l. jackson is one of the best actors there is.,1,positive -enjoyed most of mostly martha,1,positive +leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless,0,negative ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative ", steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played, deeply unsettling experience.",1,positive "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip",0,negative -"be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive -"i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie.",1,positive -director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining,1,positive "nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this, not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah.",0,negative might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative "this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert",0,negative "holland lets things peter out midway, but",0,negative 's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison.,0,negative -a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood.,1,positive -"a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive +lets things peter out midway,0,negative +"tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries",1,positive "why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good",0,negative -brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense,0,negative -"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances,",1,positive -"'ve got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive "involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb,0,negative "michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making, and he's got as potent a topic as ever here.",1,positive +"is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.",1,positive the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career,1,positive -the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well ... but quite frankly,1,positive -was daniel day-lewis.,1,positive "stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative -"the word that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady, is painterly.",1,positive -martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach.,1,positive -murphy and owen wilson,0,negative +found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent.,0,negative +"as if allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself",0,negative "the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad.",1,positive "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan",0,negative slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing,1,positive "comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive +( allen's ) best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-america diversions could ever be.,1,positive in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive kilt-wearing jackson,0,negative -"though, there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized.",1,positive -embedded in the sexy demise of james dean,1,positive -could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again.,0,negative +whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear.,0,negative excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton,1,positive "are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary.",0,negative +"we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan.,1,positive "would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic.",1,positive -"of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.,0,negative -do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,0,negative +"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 +endlessly challenging,1,positive "ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company, but inside it he's well worth spending some time with",1,positive +"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie.",0,negative +like mike is n't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,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 +( allen ),1,positive it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive +undone by howard's self-conscious attempts,0,negative "to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending",0,negative "there's no palpable chemistry between lopez and male lead ralph fiennes, plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme.",0,negative -should definitely get top billing,1,positive -"is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative +"the story is predictable, the jokes are typical sandler fare, and",0,negative +is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone,0,negative "a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative -hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.,1,positive -bill morrison's decasia,1,positive have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences.",0,negative -a jackie chan movie,1,positive "because its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive -"michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making,",1,positive -knockaround guys plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up.,0,negative "that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative "like edward norton in american history x, ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance.",1,positive -it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +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 could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative "may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear",1,positive alexander payne's ode to the everyman,1,positive -how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg,0,negative +the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.,0,negative "( jackson and bledel ) seem to have been picked not for their acting chops, but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd.",0,negative ", i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.",0,negative adam sandler assault,0,negative "the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round, but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons.",1,positive peter out midway,0,negative -of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive "there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch",1,positive +"a mostly magnificent directorial career, clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style",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 ", hart's war has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player.",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 is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of louis begley's source novel ( about schmidt ) and an old payne screenplay.,0,negative "is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie.",0,negative -"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than ( total recall and blade runner ), although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences.",1,positive +"'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 +raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before.,1,positive peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us,1,positive -'m not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.,0,negative -"is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless.",0,negative a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two,0,negative -imagine susan sontag falling in love with howard stern.,0,negative -dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean.,1,positive +"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 "robin williams, death to smoochy",1,positive +hollywood ending is the most disappointing woody allen movie ever.,0,negative +"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 shining with all the usual spielberg flair,1,positive +the ultimate scorsese film,1,positive of jason x,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 plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive "sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative -"reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative -a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic,1,positive "taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero,0,negative -"directed with purpose and finesse by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive +a high-end john hughes comedy,1,positive +martin is a masterfully conducted work.,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 adams just copies,0,negative -"the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself",1,positive +"must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king, sonny miller, and michael stewart.",0,negative +", sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny, not actually exploiting it yourself.",0,negative lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold,0,negative "twenty years after its first release, e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.",1,positive inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -"is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters, especially if you 're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging",1,positive +"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 but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.,1,positive creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive -"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back, weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1,positive -going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous,1,positive -"reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",1,positive +"tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge --",1,positive +joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive +is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie,0,negative jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair.,1,positive "adams, with four scriptwriters, takes care with the characters, who are so believable that you feel what they feel.",1,positive -"-- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english --",1,positive -can practically hear george orwell turning over.,0,negative +bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.,1,positive +scott delivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario.,1,positive "the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth.",1,positive +robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills,1,positive +heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative jim brown,1,positive -"as action-adventure, this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.",1,positive +that jackie chan is getting older,0,negative +cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set,0,negative "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining, but",1,positive just as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided,0,negative -"this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative writer-director david jacobson and,1,positive "like its title character, this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive "no one involved, save dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised.",0,negative -be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team,1,positive +remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive "filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but they did the same at home",1,positive +it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,0,negative elevated by michael caine's performance,1,positive +alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight,1,positive "will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting",0,negative spielberg knows how to tell us about people.,1,positive +"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 jackson is always watchable.,1,positive +adams just copies from various sources --,0,negative it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt!,0,negative +"it irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere.",0,negative as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games.,1,positive -"of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive +"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive +a masterpiece -- and a challenging one,1,positive filmmakers david weissman and bill weber,1,positive "steve oedekerk is, alas, no woody allen.",0,negative "by england's roger mitchell, who handily makes the move from pleasing",1,positive -the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects.,0,negative +savvy director robert j. siegel and,1,positive ", this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits.",1,positive be said to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative -the john wayne classics,1,positive "the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself.",1,positive -"was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something",0,negative "'m not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen.",0,negative -jane wyman and,1,positive -the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest,0,negative +great help from kevin kline,1,positive +the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan,1,positive -it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive -"the screenplay by james eric, james horton and director peter o'fallon ... is so pat it makes your teeth hurt.",0,negative -"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive "'ve seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative -"a new film from bill plympton, the animation master, is always welcome.",1,positive "try this obscenely bad dark comedy, so crass that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde.",0,negative -writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt.,1,positive ", this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.",0,negative -in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese.,0,negative eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy,1,positive -what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive +"director hoffman, his writer and kline's agent should serve detention",0,negative "as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative -"affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive +bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie,1,positive +but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,",0,negative -producer john penotti,1,positive seen ( eddie ),1,positive -p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance,1,positive that it makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,0,negative -surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker,1,positive +"it's something of the ultimate scorsese film, with all the stomach-turning violence, colorful new york gang lore and other hallmarks of his personal cinema painted on their largest-ever historical canvas.",1,positive +mr. scorsese's bravery and integrity,1,positive of martha stewart decorating program run amok,0,negative -"plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +"filmmakers david weissman and bill weber benefit enormously from the cockettes ' camera craziness -- not only did they film performances, but",1,positive +would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects?,0,negative +"sandler running on empty, repeating what he's already done way too often",0,negative "with dirty deeds, david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen.",1,positive +george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension.,1,positive "if hill is n't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ), it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ;",0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and it's relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions",0,negative +the wonder of mostly martha,1,positive +become a spielberg trademark,1,positive to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive "when ( reno ) lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative "the lightest, most breezy movie steven spielberg",1,positive -the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive +"challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence, of good guys and bad, and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means",1,positive +jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set,0,negative +an alfred hitchcock movie,1,positive director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries,1,positive a limp eddie murphy,0,negative +cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects,1,positive kong master john woo,0,negative "its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative "as famous prima donna floria tosca, roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi, and ruggero as the villainous, lecherous police chief scarpia,",1,positive +than julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative "the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive edward burns ' best film,1,positive "directed by kevin bray, whose crisp framing, edgy camera work, and wholesale ineptitude with acting, tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut.",1,positive "i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy, circa 1960, with peter sellers, kenneth williams, et al., but at this time, with this cast, this movie is hopeless.",0,negative -"that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton",0,negative +"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 come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -", why bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni?",0,negative -howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you 'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective.,1,positive -"airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",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 +douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically.,1,positive e.t. remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career.,1,positive -"affirms the gifts of all involved, starting with spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together.",1,positive +understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive "a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",0,negative -"which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative "the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive "more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo",0,negative -christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists,1,positive "who knows, but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.",1,positive +playfully profound ... and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery,1,positive scott's convincing portrayal,1,positive -"this is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie.",0,negative -a spielberg trademark,1,positive -imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive +"this cinema verite speculation on the assassination of john f. kennedy may have been inspired by blair witch,",0,negative "imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive "for every articulate player, such as skateboarder tony hawk or bmx rider mat hoffman, are about a half dozen young turks angling to see how many times they can work the words `` radical '' or `` suck '' into a sentence.",0,negative +"plus, like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!",1,positive +"my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative it makes even jason x ... look positively shakesperean by comparison,0,negative -"oh, james!",1,positive -trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull,1,positive -lousy tarantino imitations,0,negative -"under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive +"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 +director michael cacoyannis,1,positive ", there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative -evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean.,1,positive bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival,1,positive -"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film,",0,negative -"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries,",1,positive -'s pauly shore awful.,0,negative +steven soderbergh's earlier films,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 +"tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge",1,positive 's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones,1,positive -two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +"coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive +most breezy movie steven spielberg,1,positive "her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive -"inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative "the movie has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood, and it's relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions.",0,negative "welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst.",1,positive -"bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive "to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel, nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.",0,negative -` stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film.',1,positive -comedy since being john malkovich,1,positive -"the movie's captivating details are all in the performances, from foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster.",1,positive -"its flabbergasting principals, 14-year-old robert macnaughton, 6-year-old drew barrymore and 10-year-old henry thomas, convince us of the existence of the wise, wizened visitor from a faraway planet",1,positive +"'s not only dull because we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative +by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive "director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things, but the barriers finally prove to be too great.",0,negative obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative +represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe,0,negative this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre.,1,positive heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this,1,positive -"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending, but",1,positive +"a standard police-oriented drama that, were it not for de niro's participation, would have likely wound up a tnt original.",0,negative seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell,0,negative 's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan.,1,positive +like i already mentioned ... it's robert duvall!,1,positive +"do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject,0,negative at the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive "it all plays out ... like a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out.",1,positive +"this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end",1,positive "so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny",0,negative +"so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film the sum of all fears, starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",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 gary larson's far side humor,1,positive "hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction, and",0,negative has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock,1,positive -has a few nice twists in a standard plot and the charisma of hugh grant and sandra bullock.,1,positive +", this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit.",1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall and directed, barely, by there",0,negative wilson and murphy,1,positive "a pretty funny movie, with most of the humor coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro.",1,positive -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 +william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive +"lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank,",1,positive as single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage,1,positive a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg,0,negative -lawrence should stick to his day job.,0,negative -enhances the quality of neil burger's impressive fake documentary.,1,positive "well, jason's gone to manhattan and hell",0,negative -", 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 +"eloquence, spiritual challenge",1,positive "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining, but it could have been much stronger.",1,positive +like a tarantino movie with heart,1,positive "no one involved, save dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised",0,negative -hot and the john wayne classics,1,positive -murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote.,0,negative "there is no substitute for on-screen chemistry, and when friel pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia, the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch.",1,positive -"is nicely shot, well-edited and features a standout performance by diane lane.",1,positive -portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive +"hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive adam sandler,1,positive it's pauly shore awful.,0,negative steven seagal,1,positive "there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger, and to the script's refusal of a happy ending,",0,negative "i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy, circa 1960, with peter sellers, kenneth williams, et al., but at this time, with this cast, this movie is hopeless",0,negative -cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +"city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast.",0,negative +"steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting, quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life.",1,positive +baffled by jason x.,0,negative to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism,0,negative -silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight,1,positive as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative "in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic, this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt, or will feel someday.",1,positive daring as john ritter's glory days,1,positive juliette binoche's sand is vivacious,1,positive +talented writer/director anderson,1,positive +"loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin",0,negative is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world,1,positive -"i do n't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director, but",1,positive even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma ca n't rescue this effort.,0,negative -"got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane",1,positive -"get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese.,1,positive "jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.",0,negative a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script.,1,positive -"for his first attempt at film noir, spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future.",1,positive -"'ve got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane.",1,positive -"their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old, familiar vaudeville partners",0,negative -"as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative -"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors, sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent.",0,negative -"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter ... ( b ) ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck, it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman.",0,negative +"lucy's a dull girl, that's all.",0,negative +for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york,1,positive "'s a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all.",1,positive "williams creates a stunning, taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity.",1,positive "do n't know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or make any money.",0,negative -"destined to be the 21st century's new `` conan '' and that he's going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +"make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok.",0,negative "jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive "the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english -- round out the square edges.",1,positive "that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative "despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life, it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs.",0,negative "naipaul, a juicy writer",1,positive "i 'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen.",0,negative +hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff.,0,negative +director peter kosminsky,1,positive savvy director robert j. siegel and his co-writers keep the story subtle and us in suspense.,1,positive +"it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive +"clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb & j sandwich : familiar, fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises -- but still quite tasty and inviting all the same.",1,positive foreman's barking-mad taylor to thewlis's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany/mcdowell's hard-eyed gangster,1,positive -"coarse, cliched and clunky, this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.",0,negative appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive "thanks largely to williams, all the interesting developments are processed in 60 minutes",1,positive -an equally great robin williams performance,1,positive +"tale will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting.''",0,negative "i 've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic ...",0,negative -the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable.,1,positive +"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 de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.,1,positive swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus,0,negative "all of the elements are in place for a great film noir, but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat.",0,negative "to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism,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 "the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez",0,negative "but the performances of pacino, williams, and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through.",1,positive "stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy.,1,positive expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup.,0,negative +one of a really solid woody allen film,1,positive +"in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative +changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say.,1,positive "is the performance of gedeck, who makes martha enormously endearing.",1,positive +perfectly describes pauline & paulette,1,positive there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger.,1,positive +to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders.,0,negative -"the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive +what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature.,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 +"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career, clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him.",0,negative +the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises.,0,negative ") lets her radical flag fly, taking angry potshots at george w. bush, henry kissinger, larry king, et al.",0,negative -little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ),0,negative -"are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery.",1,positive -'s not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative +to admit that i am baffled by jason x.,0,negative "to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose",0,negative -one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative -an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter,0,negative +david and,1,positive +the charm of kevin kline,1,positive +befallen,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 +"what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination, no creature, no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",0,negative +"it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film, with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1,positive "the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate.",1,positive kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies,0,negative -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose,",1,positive +"'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 +allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today.,1,positive "howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but they 're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject.",0,negative -"mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive -"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm does n't do a load of good",0,negative -"city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative "the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best, and fashion a story around him.",1,positive -"works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely.",1,positive replacing john carpenter's stylish tracking shots,0,negative "is overlong and not well-acted, but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all.",0,negative only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm.,0,negative "proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy.",1,positive i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose",1,positive +tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive +"while scorsese's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` gangs '' is never lethargic, the movie is hindered by a central plot that's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about.",0,negative +"fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -features a standout performance by diane lane,1,positive +to jimmy's relentless anger,0,negative +the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen,0,negative "writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavor with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times, clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza.",1,positive -"in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +single-minded as john carpenter's original,0,negative robert harmon's less-is-more approach,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 +"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 +"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 arrogant richard pryor wannabe,0,negative an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called ` the gift of tears,1,positive "the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive "director shekhar kapur and screenwriters michael schiffer and hossein amini have tried hard to modernize and reconceptualize things, but the barriers finally prove to be too great",0,negative +eastwood's loyal fans,1,positive +befallen every other carmen before her,1,positive writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing.,1,positive but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds,1,positive like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders,0,negative +"is good news to anyone who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive "some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something,",0,negative +"more of 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 to squander jennifer love hewitt,0,negative -"mcwilliams's melancholy music, are charged with metaphor,",1,positive "the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive "peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us,",1,positive +", eastwood is off his game",0,negative +"leave it to john sayles to take on developers, the chamber of commerce, tourism, historical pageants, and commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute.",1,positive +really solid woody allen film,1,positive the densest distillation of roberts ' movies,0,negative -as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative -your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +"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 is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days,0,negative -"is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive -'m not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative -get top billing,1,positive +is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie.,0,negative +"has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business",1,positive +it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone,0,negative a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley,1,positive -paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe,1,positive "courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis",1,positive -"arliss howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut",1,positive "buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary",0,negative george and lucy's most obvious differences to ignite sparks,1,positive too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative "a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation, writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production.",1,positive -"the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +'s just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it.,0,negative "'s a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all",1,positive -diane lane's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing.,0,negative "be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial new yorker if 26-year-old reese witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, melanie carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned hollywood magic",1,positive -if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive +of any film more challenging or depressing,0,negative +returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin,1,positive "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced, inadequately motivated every step of the way",0,negative +starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative de niro ),0,negative +"on tension, eloquence, spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries",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 "donovan ... squanders his main asset, jackie chan, and",0,negative ", any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile.",0,negative linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie,0,negative -"enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film",1,positive +to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone,0,negative that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,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 a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.,0,negative -beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy,1,positive +even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special.,1,positive +woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken,0,negative "we 've seen it all before in one form or another, but director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher",1,positive "is a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie",0,negative "holland lets things peter out midway, but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals.",1,positive +the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of.,1,positive +are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive "written, flatly, by david kendall and",0,negative -much like a young robert deniro,1,positive +"in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative "we 've seen it all before in one form or another, but director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline, makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher.",1,positive truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive "murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death,",0,negative mr. polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr. spielberg's 1993 classic.,1,positive -"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery, but otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists",1,positive "its salient points are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary.",0,negative +director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and,1,positive "a stab at soccer hooliganism, a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino's climactic shootout --",0,negative "it would n't matter so much that this arrogant richard pryor wannabe's routine is offensive, puerile and unimaginatively foul-mouthed if it was at least funny.",0,negative +elizabeth hurley's,1,positive the lousy tarantino imitations,0,negative ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format,1,positive has a script ( by paul pender ) made of wood,0,negative +mr. scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision,1,positive "the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions, shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits.",1,positive -is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive -movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive -on johnny knoxville's stomach,1,positive -"an airless, prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you",0,negative +of a really solid woody allen film,1,positive "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu, ruggero raimondi, and roberto alagna",1,positive -knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.,0,negative -"of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism",1,positive +"charming the masses with star power, a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a spielberg trademark",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 +always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation.,1,positive ", city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast.",0,negative -makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative +"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 +most disappointing woody allen movie,0,negative "it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by scott kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo.",0,negative -", howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another.",0,negative "humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby ' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful.",1,positive +pump life into overworked elements from eastwood's dirty harry period,1,positive smothered in the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative de niro's right-hand goombah,0,negative doubt that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative "an appalling ` ace ventura ' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak, former wrestler chyna and dolly parton.",0,negative 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 +"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 this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative "murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative -"singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits, a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended, er, spirit of the piece",1,positive more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative -"slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive -where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive adams just copies from various sources,0,negative up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream,0,negative +the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john,0,negative to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,0,negative "let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,",1,positive "the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive "quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar",0,negative "far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise.",1,positive -"ourside the theater roger might be intolerable company,",0,negative +"mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative -will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche,0,negative that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative "to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive "there's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not, jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects.",0,negative +", nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato.",0,negative that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative -makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective,1,positive "woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director, but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time?",0,negative the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope,1,positive the densest distillation of roberts ' movies ever made.,0,negative "the movie itself is far from disappointing, offering an original take on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis.",1,positive -a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie.,0,negative "in death to smoochy, we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.",1,positive "far too clever by half, howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another.",0,negative "with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter, the improbable `` formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining",1,positive +"i admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint.",1,positive "who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting",1,positive -"such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball.''",1,positive -"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 +"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 "losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis",0,negative "may be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear.",1,positive -a james bond series for kids,1,positive -"to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly,0,negative assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative +maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul,1,positive will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,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 -"after a while, hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial.",0,negative -am baffled by jason x.,0,negative +"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 his role of observer of the scene, lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative "for proof of that on the cinematic front, look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls, retrospectively, his most personal work yet.",1,positive is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph.,1,positive -needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese,1,positive +jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema.,1,positive steven shainberg's adaptation,1,positive -charismatic jackie chan,1,positive -"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious, but",1,positive -"ou 've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane.",1,positive -"the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile",0,negative +more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,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 a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive +acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative +narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann,1,positive "lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless",0,negative -the script by vincent r. nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.,0,negative +woody allen has really found his groove these days.,1,positive +"she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor, carlin and murphy",1,positive +the film above anything sandler,1,positive +eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made,0,negative +of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas,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 "the leaping story line, shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions,",1,positive -kill michael myers for good,1,positive -stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy,1,positive -stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film.',1,positive -"honest working man john q. archibald,",1,positive -nicholas nickleby '' is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new `` a christmas carol '' out in the theaters this year.,1,positive +"there's apparently nothing left to work with, sort of like michael jackson's nose.",0,negative this arrogant richard pryor wannabe,0,negative -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and",1,positive -of director john stockwell,1,positive -"stuffed to the brim with ideas, american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition.",1,positive -blame eddie murphy,0,negative used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative "richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material, but",1,positive -"be captivated, as i was, by its moods, and by its subtly transformed star, and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear",1,positive "michael moore has perfected the art of highly entertaining, self-aggrandizing, politically motivated documentary-making",1,positive it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again.,1,positive -"and if you appreciate the one-sided theme to lawrence's over-indulgent tirade, then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.",0,negative as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative "was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience.,0,negative +"it's as if allen, at 66, has stopped challenging himself.",0,negative wind up as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece,1,positive edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,1,positive -"( danny huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly, gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent's smirk.",1,positive -will turn bill paxton into an a-list director,1,positive +how far herzog has fallen,0,negative +every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm,0,negative +"what remains 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 year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate",1,positive "it has a tremendous, offbeat sense of style and humor that suggests he was influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive -"it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast",0,negative +"of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive "holland lets things peter out midway,",0,negative +so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy.,0,negative you 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative +smoothly sinister freddie,1,positive how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time,0,negative -"a high-end john hughes comedy, a kind of elder bueller's time out",1,positive +is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit,1,positive robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favor of an altogether darker side.,1,positive as vincent became more and more abhorrent,0,negative several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist.,1,positive "because we 've seen ( eddie ) murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death, but because the plot is equally hackneyed",0,negative "from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale, martin is a masterfully conducted work.",1,positive -to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ),1,positive ... a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant ` videodrome.',0,negative +to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive +"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 've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out,1,positive -"the usual movie rah-rah, pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard.",1,positive -"director hoffman, with great help from kevin kline",1,positive -"to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive +the way adam sandler's new movie rapes,0,negative +nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one,1,positive +a really solid woody allen film,1,positive +bother with a contemptible imitator starring a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative glum as mr. de niro,0,negative the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts,1,positive -"all movie long, city by the sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast.",0,negative +has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff,0,negative the charismatic jackie chan,1,positive "( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role.,1,positive "for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope, there's something creepy about this movie.",1,positive "everybody loves a david and goliath story, and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view",1,positive -melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner.,0,negative +in the excesses of writer-director roger avary,0,negative +'s something of the ultimate scorsese film,1,positive the gorgeously elaborate continuation of `` the lord of the rings '' trilogy is so huge that a column of words can not adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j.r.r. tolkien's middle-earth.,1,positive -straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company.,0,negative -"frankly, it's kind of insulting, both to men and women.",0,negative +"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising, it's still a sweet, even delectable diversion.",1,positive "it's a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team.",1,positive +turns the marquis de sade into a dullard,0,negative "schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins, who seem barely in the same movie",0,negative "charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes, repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero.",1,positive "was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative "especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english",1,positive -naipaul fans may be disappointed.,0,negative -to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative +"is, alas, no woody allen.",0,negative +"remind one of a really solid woody allen film,",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 +crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best,1,positive +what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or,1,positive swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1,positive -the best part about `` gangs '' was daniel day-lewis.,1,positive female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive impostor is a step down for director gary fleder.,0,negative scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph,1,positive -"is lost, leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless",0,negative -"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious,",1,positive -lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them,0,negative -throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr. chicken.,0,negative +george hickenlooper's,1,positive +"the story is predictable, the jokes are typical sandler fare, and the romance with ryder is puzzling",0,negative +", prepackaged julia roberts wannabe",0,negative "before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive +"chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine",0,negative +"director paul cox's unorthodox, abstract approach",1,positive +what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive "bryan adams, the world's most generic rock star",1,positive ", we do n't get williams ' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.",1,positive -director michael cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard,1,positive -"is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by christopher plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil uncle ralph i 've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work",1,positive +is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world.,1,positive +challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture.,1,positive +"as a director, eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense, and none of the plot ` surprises ' are really surprising.",0,negative neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made,0,negative -by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war,1,positive -", ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns, violence, and fear.",1,positive +to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive with steven seagal,1,positive "lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive by working girl scribe kevin wade,0,negative -"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer, christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose, and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american.",1,positive i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script?,0,negative a surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director malcolm d. lee and writer john ridley.,1,positive "like a tarantino movie with heart, alias betty is richly detailed, deftly executed and utterly absorbing.",1,positive +does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre.,1,positive +naipaul original,1,positive "hoffman's quirks and mannerisms, particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses --",1,positive can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0,negative john carpenter's original,1,positive the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich ...,1,positive "a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu, ruggero raimondi, and roberto alagna.",1,positive ", de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.",1,positive -it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be.,0,negative -", uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery",1,positive +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 +"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 "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 +well-written and occasionally challenging social drama,1,positive michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet ...,1,positive -stevens ' vibrant creative instincts,1,positive +any film more challenging or depressing,0,negative +character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her,1,positive +above anything sandler,1,positive lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work,0,negative -crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,0,negative +"it was, as my friend david cross would call it, ` hungry-man portions of bad '",0,negative +"make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",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 +sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive carrying off a spot-on scottish burr,1,positive this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock.,0,negative "sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team, but",1,positive -that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative -"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances, but",1,positive +that make williams sink into melancholia,0,negative "has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand, who brings to the role her pale, dark beauty and characteristic warmth",1,positive +"no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus, accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way.",0,negative ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr. de niro.,0,negative -"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull, rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative.",0,negative the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it.,1,positive -whether jason x is this bad on purpose,0,negative -do n't blame eddie murphy but,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 "the word that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive "payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey, featuring a pathetic, endearing hero who is all too human.",1,positive +... it's robert duvall!,1,positive 's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies,0,negative +to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring,1,positive +'s crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins.,0,negative hand it to director george clooney,1,positive "is present brown as a catalyst for the struggle of black manhood in restrictive and chaotic america ... sketchy but nevertheless gripping portrait of jim brown, a celebrated wonder in the spotlight",1,positive pulls the strings that make williams sink into melancholia,1,positive -"quite frankly, i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out.",0,negative +meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.,1,positive then knock yourself out and enjoy the big screen postcard that is a self-glorified martin lawrence lovefest.,0,negative "payne has created a beautiful canvas,",1,positive lousy john q,0,negative -bottom-of-the-bill,0,negative -"accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +"if you 're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick, you can do no wrong with jason x.",1,positive +"the year's greatest adventure, and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation",1,positive mr. spielberg's 1993 classic,1,positive -", but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining.",1,positive -", but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds.",1,positive +fallen,0,negative canadian filmmaker gary burns ' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city.,1,positive "stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise,",1,positive -uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery,1,positive -been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,1,positive +any scorsese,0,negative +"like the original, this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit.",1,positive +"with zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '', who needs enemies",0,negative is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative -a james bond series,1,positive +"the film, like jimmy's routines, could use a few good laughs.",0,negative "adam sandler's heart may be in the right place, but he needs to pull his head out of his butt",0,negative "nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` analyze this ' ( 1999 ) and ` analyze that, ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year",0,negative "for almost the first two-thirds of martin scorsese's 168-minute gangs of new york, i was entranced.",1,positive -a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian,1,positive -makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,0,negative +make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson,0,negative damon brings the proper conviction to his role as ( jason bourne ).,1,positive "neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made, showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while.",1,positive -"was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles :",0,negative "know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good or",0,negative 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again,1,positive -washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director john stockwell,1,positive "is painfully bad, a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb.",0,negative -"michael jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal",1,positive -hong kong master john woo,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 +director robert j. siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc.,1,positive a `` snl '' has-been acting like an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni,0,negative +", starring ben affleck, seem downright hitchcockian",1,positive "going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive "the pacing is deadly, the narration helps little and naipaul, a juicy writer, is negated",0,negative the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered.,0,negative good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again,1,positive -that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis,1,positive +scorsese's bold images,1,positive "do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and",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 +i found myself growing more and more frustrated and detached as vincent became more and more abhorrent.,0,negative +"honest working man john q. archibald, on a pedestal, then keeps lifting the pedestal higher",1,positive the variety of tones in spielberg's work,1,positive -equally great robin williams performance,1,positive "michael moore's bowling for columbine rekindles the muckraking, soul-searching spirit of the ` are we a sick society?'",1,positive +cast the magnificent jackie chan,1,positive "susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter,",1,positive -"jagger, stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride.",1,positive -martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying,0,negative +sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard,0,negative +"works smoothly under the direction of spielberg, who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely",1,positive +adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash.,0,negative +nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one.,1,positive +"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 rock and stolid anthony hopkins,1,positive -"the world's best actors, daniel auteuil",1,positive "the performances of pacino, williams, and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through.",1,positive -addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic,1,positive +"it challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should.",1,positive the reaction in williams is as visceral as a gut punch,1,positive -as tricky and satisfying as any of david,1,positive -exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere.,1,positive a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative -too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises,0,negative -"payne has created a beautiful canvas, and",1,positive +woody allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody.,1,positive without much interest in the elizabethans,0,negative +"the rich performances by friel -- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english --",1,positive plays like a student film by two guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up,0,negative -"wo n't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil,",1,positive -marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich,1,positive +taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight,0,negative "'s going to make a splash even greater than arnold schwarzenegger, jean-claud van damme or steven segal",1,positive +"marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative +will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,1,positive a listless sci-fi comedy in which eddie murphy deploys two guises and elaborate futuristic sets to no particularly memorable effect.,0,negative +"that comes to mind, while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady",1,positive ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive "was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher, and reflects the worst of their shallow styles",0,negative +spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together.,0,negative "far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's kubrick-meets-spielberg exercise",1,positive heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis,1,positive +jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set.,0,negative +"lawrence sounds whiny and defensive, as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature.",0,negative "shows that jackie chan is getting older, and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0,negative -the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne,1,positive -what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination.,0,negative -to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive hear george orwell turning over,0,negative -tom green's freddie got fingered,0,negative "the affable maid in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive +"american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature, but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone.",0,negative henry bean's thoughtful screenplay,1,positive -while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion,1,positive a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary,1,positive "steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive "may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick",0,negative -have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again,0,negative i 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche.,0,negative the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -made eddie murphy a movie star and the man,1,positive +"as 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 as daring as john ritter's glory days,1,positive +"version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of road trip",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 "after sitting through this sloppy, made-for-movie comedy special, it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work.",0,negative "first and foremost ... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings.",1,positive -is not edward burns ' best film,0,negative -"director marcus adams just copies from various sources -- good sources, bad mixture",0,negative -mostly martha is mostly unsurprising,0,negative +star bruce willis,1,positive +"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence, of good guys and bad, and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means.",1,positive "chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists",0,negative -"loosely speaking, we 're in all of me territory again, and, strictly speaking, schneider is no steve martin.",0,negative +"unlike trey parker, sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny, not actually exploiting it yourself.",0,negative +elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world,1,positive +seem downright hitchcockian,1,positive shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions,1,positive +"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 "some writer dude, i think his name was, uh, michael zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude, the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck",0,negative -"wo n't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors, daniel auteuil, have a whale of a good time.",1,positive "the script, credited to director abdul malik abbott and ernest ` tron ' anderson, seems entirely improvised",0,negative as the lousy tarantino imitations have subsided,0,negative lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy.,1,positive -quentin tarantino's climactic shootout,1,positive -"go rent `` shakes the clown '', a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance",1,positive -director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its energy,1,positive +... another example of how sandler is losing his touch.,0,negative what bubbles up out of john c. walsh's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie,1,positive -williams ' anarchy gets tiresome,0,negative -"` martin lawrence live ' is so self-pitying, i almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show.",0,negative -"'s a fairly impressive debut from the director, charles stone iii",1,positive +"alfred hitchcock's thrillers,",0,negative +i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't,0,negative will wind up as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative "between them, de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.",1,positive +"in the spirit of the season, i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.",0,negative "come as they may, lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er, comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank, take your pick.",0,negative -"holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions, is visually smart, cleverly written, and nicely realized",1,positive -that peter o'fallon did n't have an original bone in his body,0,negative -"irritates and saddens me that martin lawrence's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of bubba ho-tep's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere",0,negative +"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 the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear,1,positive -"'ve never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative -"a pretty funny movie, with most of the humor coming, as before, from the incongruous but chemically perfect teaming of crystal and de niro",1,positive -", there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, frank novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism.",1,positive +a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones,1,positive +is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers.,0,negative +as padded as allen's jelly belly,0,negative +"ash wednesday is not edward burns ' best film, but it is a good and ambitious film",1,positive +is why anthony hopkins is in it.,0,negative +changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say,1,positive a limp eddie murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of.,0,negative murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death,0,negative -"it's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel, with his brawny frame and cool, composed delivery, fits the bill perfectly",1,positive have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out `` when you 're a jet,1,positive "stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy, the film operates nicely off the element of surprise, and the large cast is solid.",1,positive -too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell,0,negative -the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ...,1,positive +allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal.,1,positive "angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca, roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi, and ruggero as the villainous, lecherous police chief scarpia, all sing beautifully and act adequately.",1,positive -the beast should definitely get top billing,1,positive -be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael,1,positive +it's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen.,0,negative +as glum as mr. de niro,0,negative "desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative that george lucas can only dream of,1,positive "a technically superb film, shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive -"'' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive +be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company,0,negative "starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar.",0,negative "sandra bullock, despite downplaying her good looks, carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff.",0,negative +"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 +"-- and especially williams, an american actress who becomes fully english",1,positive +watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers.,0,negative "on courtroom movies, a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis",1,positive "shining with all the usual spielberg flair, expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team",1,positive -is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects,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 +spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry.,1,positive the mushy finale turns john q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker.,1,positive -"we started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` chris rock, ' ` anthony hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some univac-like script machine.",0,negative -disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other john woo flick for that matter.,0,negative "the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable.",1,positive +alfred hitchcock's,1,positive director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ',1,positive not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.,0,negative "zoe clarke-williams's lackluster thriller `` new best friend '',",0,negative +the most disappointing woody allen movie,0,negative sandra bullock and hugh grant make a great team,1,positive -", but how long will filmmakers copy the `` saving private ryan '' battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time?",0,negative +exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken,1,positive +", spielberg knows how to tell us about people.",1,positive +an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson,1,positive "in manhattan, jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt",1,positive +exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken.,1,positive "a remake by the numbers, linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie",0,negative -"like vardalos and corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by joel zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake.",1,positive +is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by allen's astringent wit.,1,positive plus the script by working girl scribe kevin wade is workmanlike in the extreme.,0,negative "watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad",1,positive this is not a jackie chan movie.,0,negative -the script by david koepp is perfectly serviceable and because he gives the story some soul ... he elevates the experience to a more mythic level.,1,positive +fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing,1,positive sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness,1,positive +"who's fallen under the sweet, melancholy spell of this unique director's previous films",1,positive even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player,1,positive -", director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors.",0,negative -", however, robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking.",1,positive +the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help overcome the problematic script.,1,positive +"admire the closing scenes of the film, which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint",1,positive "such master screenwriting comes courtesy of john pogue, the yale grad who previously gave us `` the skulls '' and last year's `` rollerball.",1,positive right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination,0,negative -"this nicholas nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and, also like its hero, it remains brightly optimistic, coming through in the end.",1,positive finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson.,1,positive -janey,1,positive "( jeff's ) gorgeous, fluid compositions, underlined by neil finn and edmund mcwilliams's melancholy music, are charged with metaphor, but rarely easy, obvious or self-indulgent.",1,positive -establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids,1,positive far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins,1,positive +"of 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 makes edward burns ' sidewalks of new york look like oscar wilde,0,negative represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.,0,negative "caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should, keeping it tight and nasty",1,positive -steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas ' wounded and wounding uncle ralph,1,positive +woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending.,0,negative "do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes, pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic",0,negative "to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother, donald, and directed by spike jonze",1,positive -"de niro, mcdormand and the other good actors",1,positive -"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture,",0,negative -a heroine as feisty and principled as jane,1,positive -"the visuals, even erotically frank ones, become dullingly repetitive",0,negative +to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen,0,negative "'m not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen",0,negative -"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet, uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery.",1,positive +"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 "from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon, dustin hoffman and holly hunter, yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb",1,positive +hitchcockian suspense,1,positive "into romeo and juliet/west side story territory, where it plainly has no business going",0,negative -director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ;,0,negative director roger kumble offers just enough sweet and traditional romantic comedy to counter the crudity.,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 "see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by david hennings",1,positive -"know why steven seagal is considered a star, nor why he keeps being cast in action films when none of them are ever any good",0,negative +generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy,0,negative +maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while,1,positive +", at 66, has stopped challenging himself",0,negative +"looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics.",0,negative "influenced by some of the filmmakers who have directed him, especially the coen brothers and steven soderbergh",1,positive "treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects",0,negative stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by dustin hoffman that is revelatory,1,positive the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson ...,1,positive "still comes from spielberg, who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable",1,positive +"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism, this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian.",1,positive