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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 |
made eddie murphy a movie star and the man has n't aged a day. | 1 | positive |
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 |
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 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 |
am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson. | 0 | negative |
a lot of tooth in roger dodger | 1 | positive |
like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz, rather than a fully developed story | 0 | negative |
by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen | 0 | negative |
ultimately the, yes, snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary, like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok. | 0 | negative |
, straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company. | 0 | negative |
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 |
done, running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez | 0 | negative |
will be all too familiar for anyone who's seen george roy hill's 1973 film, `` the sting. | 0 | negative |
p.t. anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible | 1 | positive |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
is the chance it affords to watch jackson, who also served as executive producer, take his smooth, shrewd, powerful act abroad | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up | 0 | negative |
, 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 |
imagine o. henry's the gift of the magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of nyc's drug scene. | 0 | negative |
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 |
's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins | 0 | negative |
, lawrence desperately looks elsewhere, seizing on george's haplessness and lucy's personality tics. | 0 | negative |
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 |