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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
jim brown treats his women -- as dumb, credulous, unassuming, subordinate subjects | 0 | negative |
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 |
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 |
humorous and heartfelt, douglas mcgrath's version of ` nicholas nickleby ' | 1 | positive |
pauly shore awful | 0 | negative |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
, 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 |