niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of John Waters and Todd Solondz , rather than a fully developed story .
Output: NEG
Exciting documentary .
Output: POS
Equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid .
Output: NEG
Indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is Deuces Wild .
Output: NEG
While this one gets off with a good natured warning , future Lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter
Output: NEG
They exist for hushed lines like `` They 're back ! ''
Output: POS
Insomnia does not become one of those rare remakes to eclipse the original , but it does n't disgrace it , either .
Output: POS
may prove to be ( Tsai 's ) masterpiece .
Output: POS
This is an exercise not in biography but in hero worship .
Output: NEG
A touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community .
Output: POS
A charming but slight comedy .
Output: POS
While the performances are often engaging , this loose collection of largely improvised numbers would probably have worked better as a one-hour TV documentary .
Output: NEG
Hopkins , squarely fills the screen .
Output: POS
What sets this romantic comedy apart from most Hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material .
Output: POS
An intoxicating experience .
Output: POS
This one is certainly well-meaning , but it 's also simple-minded and contrived .
Output: NEG
Those who are not acquainted with the author 's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep .
Output: NEG
( T ) his slop does n't even have potential as a cult film , as it 's too loud to shout insults at the screen .
Output: NEG
They presume their audience wo n't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes .
Output: NEG
If there ai n't none , you have a problem .
Output: NEG
overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue
Output: NEG
Schaeffer is n't in this film , which may be why it works as well as it does .
Output: POS
We get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle .
Output: NEG
( Reynolds ) takes a classic story , casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch .
Output: POS
Wishy-washy .
Output: NEG
What you end up getting is the Vertical Limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between .
Output: NEG
Aan opportunity wasted .
Output: NEG
What makes Salton Sea surprisingly engrossing is that Caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that 's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion .
Output: POS
`` The Kid Stays in the Picture '' is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this Cliff Notes edition is a cheat .
Output: POS
It 's not an easy one to review .
Output: NEG
Oddly compelling .
Output: POS
A low-rent retread of the Alien pictures .
Output: NEG
The film sometimes flags ... but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace .
Output: POS
For all the dolorous trim , Secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop Freudianism .
Output: POS
finely crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed
Output: POS
A. . .
Output: POS
Sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now ... and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors .
Output: POS
Qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating .
Output: NEG
Could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies .
Output: POS
For the most part , the film does hold up pretty well .
Output: POS
Gives an intriguing twist to the French coming-of-age genre .
Output: POS
Delia , Greta , and Paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year .
Output: POS
You would n't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit .
Output: POS
Despite the surface attractions -- Conrad L. Hall 's cinematography will likely be nominated for an Oscar next year -- there 's something impressive and yet lacking about everything .
Output: POS
A stylistic romp that 's always fun to watch .
Output: POS
Wildly incompetent but brilliantly named Half Past Dead -- or for Seagal pessimists : Totally Past His Prime .
Output: NEG
Writer\/director Walter Hill is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable .
Output: POS
A fast paced and suspenseful Argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play .
Output: POS
Certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either .
Output: NEG
A quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness .
Output: POS
It 's a bad sign when you 're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects ' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it 's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest .
Output: NEG
I 'm convinced I could keep a family of five blind , crippled , Amish people alive in this situation better than these British soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking .
Output: NEG
The sound of GUNFIRE and cell phones RINGING .
Output: POS
Never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches ... gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving .
Output: POS
A thriller made from a completist 's checklist rather than with a cultist 's passion .
Output: NEG
To paraphrase a line from another Dickens ' novel , Nicholas Nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .
Output: NEG
... ( the film ) works , due mostly to the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the screenplay .
Output: POS
Funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic .
Output: POS
You leave feeling like you 've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing .
Output: NEG
Makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases .
Output: NEG
Hollywood Ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .
Output: POS
Despite a performance of sustained intelligence from Stanford and another of subtle humour from Bebe Neuwirth , as an older woman who seduces Oscar , the film founders on its lack of empathy for the social milieu - rich New York intelligentsia - and its off
Output: NEG
Some motion pictures portray ultimate passion ; others create ultimate thrills .
Output: POS
Birthday Girl walks a tricky tightrope between being wickedly funny and just plain wicked .
Output: POS
As it is , it 's too long and unfocused .
Output: NEG
( Taymor ) utilizes the idea of making Kahlo 's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work .
Output: POS
Hollywood Ending just is n't very funny .
Output: NEG
Shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating Patch Adams , trots out every ghost trick from The Sixth Sense to The Mothman Prophecies .
Output: NEG
This is pure , exciting moviemaking .
Output: POS
Underachieves only in not taking the Shakespeare parallels quite far enough .
Output: NEG
Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured .
Output: NEG
But as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care .
Output: POS
It thankfully goes easy on the reel\/real world dichotomy that ( Jaglom ) pursued with such enervating determination in Venice\/Venice .
Output: POS
The movie 's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity .
Output: NEG
Ultimately , Sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness .
Output: NEG
He seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither .
Output: NEG
... unlike ( Scorsese 's Mean Streets ) , Ash Wednesday is essentially devoid of interesting characters or even a halfway intriguing plot .
Output: NEG
A charming , banter-filled comedy ... one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface .
Output: POS
The most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of Sergio Leone 's flawed but staggering Once Upon a Time in America .
Output: POS
The story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired .
Output: NEG
It 's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places .
Output: NEG
A rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .
Output: POS
Its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing .
Output: POS
And neither do cliches , no matter how ` inside ' they are .
Output: NEG
Smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise .
Output: POS
Playfully profound ... and crazier than Michael Jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows .
Output: POS
Overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very Imaxy .
Output: POS
It 's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process .
Output: POS
This one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit .
Output: NEG
The 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you ca n't fight your culture .
Output: POS
Melds derivative elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold .
Output: POS
And that makes all the difference .
Output: POS
As commander-in-chief of this film , Bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world .
Output: POS
`` Punch-Drunk Love '' is a little like a chocolate milk moustache ...
Output: POS
The issues are presented in such a lousy way , complete with some of the year 's ( unintentionally ) funniest moments , that it 's impossible to care .
Output: NEG
Those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` Scratch '' a second look .
Output: POS
... a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror .
Output: NEG
But it 's worth the concentration .
Output: POS
Does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago .
Output: NEG
The only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering .
Output: NEG
A crisp psychological drama ( and ) a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old `` Twilight Zone '' episode .
Output: POS
The unexpected thing is that its dying , in this shower of black-and-white psychedelia , is quite beautiful .
Output: POS
Somehow Ms. Griffiths and Mr. Pryce bring off this wild Welsh whimsy .
Output: POS
Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama .
Output: POS
We want the funk - and this movie 's got it .
Output: POS
Goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though Jay Roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab .
Output: NEG
A perceptive , good-natured movie .
Output: POS
Director Paul Cox 's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing Nijinsky 's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .
Output: POS
Mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting Men in Black mayhem to one part family values .
Output: POS
A few energetic stunt sequences briefly enliven the film , but the wheezing terrorist subplot has n't the stamina for the 100-minute running time , and the protagonists ' bohemian boorishness mars the spirit of good clean fun .
Output: POS
Like Kissing Jessica Stein , Amy 's Orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor .
Output: POS
... what a banal bore the preachy Circuit turns out to be
Output: NEG
A life-size reenactment of those Jack Chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire .
Output: NEG
Promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents ' anguish .
Output: POS
The formula is familiar but enjoyable .
Output: POS
But the second half of the movie really goes downhill .
Output: NEG
( Gayton 's script ) telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience .
Output: POS
( MacDowell ) ventures beyond her abilities several times here and reveals how bad an actress she is .
Output: NEG
Strip it of all its excess debris , and you 'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie .
Output: POS
Bottom-rung New Jack City wannabe .
Output: NEG
Egoyan 's work often elegantly considers various levels of reality and uses shifting points of view , but here he has constructed a film so labyrinthine that it defeats his larger purpose .
Output: NEG
Glazed with a tawdry B-movie scum .
Output: NEG
It 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
Output: POS
A positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a Shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera .
Output: POS
This is DiCaprio 's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable film of the year .
Output: POS
Its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy .
Output: POS
A new film from Bill Plympton , the animation master , is always welcome .
Output: POS
The best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments .
Output: NEG
Mattei 's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from Stock Character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination .
Output: NEG
The movie would seem less of a trifle if Ms. Sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine .
Output: NEG
Vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two English women .
Output: POS
Not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens .
Output: POS
An occasionally interesting but mostly repetitive look at a slice of counterculture that might be best forgotten .
Output: NEG
Enough said , except : Film overboard !
Output: NEG
What saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is Corcuera 's attention to detail .
Output: POS
After watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history .
Output: POS
An enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment .
Output: POS
Some of the characters die and others do n't , and the film pretends that those living have learned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares .
Output: NEG
But the movie that does n't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences
Output: NEG
To honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to American workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed .
Output: NEG
A sexy , surprising romance ... Idemoto and Kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger .
Output: POS
PC stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion .
Output: NEG
It 's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a Southern Gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .
Output: POS
( Has ) an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it 's all true .
Output: POS
A prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: NEG
Its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff .
Output: POS
The film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority .
Output: POS
Too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one .
Output: NEG
Most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how Broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .
Output: NEG
A very funny romantic comedy about two skittish New York middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles .
Output: POS
Not too fancy , not too filling , not too fluffy , but definitely tasty and sweet .
Output: POS
An entertaining , if somewhat standardized , action movie .
Output: POS
K-19 : The Widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining .
Output: POS
An unencouraging threefold expansion on the former MTV series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc. .
Output: NEG
Both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of Russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement .
Output: POS
Reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that .
Output: NEG
No new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through .
Output: NEG
There 's something about a marching band that gets me where I live .
Output: POS
Though there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish .
Output: NEG
Combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why did n't Hollywood think of this sooner ?
Output: POS
... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape .
Output: NEG
Large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year 's radar screen that it 's tempting just to go with it for the ride .
Output: POS
Imagine Susan Sontag falling in love with Howard Stern .
Output: NEG
Kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) .
Output: NEG
Sometimes entertaining , sometimes indulgent -- but never less than pure wankery .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
It 's funny and human and really pretty damned wonderful , all at once .
Output: POS
Michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously .
Output: NEG
I was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an American-Russian Armageddon .
Output: POS
Rob Schneider , Dana Carvey and Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Philadelphia Story ?
Output: POS
Bang !
Output: POS
It is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters .
Output: POS
An unexpectedly sweet story of sisterhood .
Output: POS
Highly uneven and inconsistent ... Margarita Happy Hour kinda resembles the el cheapo margaritas served within .
Output: NEG
The problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up Shum 's good intentions .
Output: NEG
As a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , Sex with Strangers is a success .
Output: POS
Schnitzler 's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying .
Output: NEG
Sorvino is delightful in the central role .
Output: POS
A peculiar misfire that even Tunney ca n't save .
Output: NEG
While we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for Blade II .
Output: POS
But the cinematography is cloudy , the picture making becalmed .
Output: NEG
There is greatness here .
Output: POS
Nicks refuses to let Slackers be seen as just another teen movie , which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy .
Output: POS
Plodding , peevish and gimmicky .
Output: NEG
If Damon and Affleck attempt another Project Greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about .
Output: NEG
Filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life .
Output: NEG
The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites .
Output: POS
Becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that does n't and a thriller that wo n't .
Output: NEG
Strange , funny , twisted , brilliant and macabre .
Output: POS
But it 's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre .
Output: NEG
The entire movie is filled with deja vu moments .
Output: POS
A breathtaking adventure for all ages , Spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images .
Output: POS
There 's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence .
Output: POS
Great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make Gangster No. 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience .
Output: POS
Even more baffling is that it 's funny .
Output: POS
Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers .
Output: NEG
Everything about Girls Ca n't Swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
Output: NEG
Marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary .
Output: POS
A terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown .
Output: POS
Their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it 's just a weird fizzle .
Output: NEG
The movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it .
Output: NEG
The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came .
Output: POS
Does n't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) .
Output: NEG
Instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many Barney videos .
Output: NEG
The story 's pathetic and the gags are puerile . .
Output: NEG
There are moments of hilarity to be had .
Output: POS
Happy Times maintains an appealing veneer without becoming too cute about it .
Output: POS
It 's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that 's actually sort of amazing .
Output: POS
At once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious .
Output: POS
The script 's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off .
Output: NEG
Ararat feels like a book report
Output: NEG
Shame on writer\/director Vicente Aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens , obsessive relationships , and rampant adultery so dull .
Output: NEG
Return to Never Land may be another shameless attempt by Disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it 's not half-bad .
Output: POS
... it was n't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film ... It was the unfulfilling , incongruous , `` wait a second , did I miss something ? ''
Output: NEG
( The kid 's ) just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow .
Output: NEG
To the civilized mind , a movie like Ballistic : Ecks Vs. Sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement .
Output: NEG
It 's that painful .
Output: NEG
Ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing .
Output: POS
That is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion .
Output: NEG
As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut Dahmer ( Jeremy Renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .
Output: NEG
Staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce .
Output: NEG
If you think it 's a riot to see Rob Schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy The Hot Chick .
Output: POS
Director Carl Franklin , so crisp and economical in One False Move , bogs down in genre cliches here .
Output: POS
The only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its Labor Day weekend upload , FearDotCom should log a minimal number of hits .
Output: NEG
All of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director George Hickenlooper 's approach to the material is too upbeat .
Output: NEG
One of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history .
Output: POS
It 's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert .
Output: NEG
A derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches .
Output: NEG
A real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant .
Output: POS
An emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema .
Output: POS
Leading a double life in an American film only comes to no good , but not here .
Output: NEG
The Importance of Being Earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from Bartlett 's Familiar Quotations
Output: POS
It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho .
Output: POS
It 's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much Norma Rae and not enough Pretty Woman .
Output: NEG
If religious films are n't your bailiwick , stay away .
Output: NEG
And a very rainy day .
Output: NEG
Bielinsky is a filmmaker of impressive talent .
Output: POS
A dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the Animal Planet documentary series , Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring .
Output: NEG
Cacoyannis ' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts .
Output: NEG
That the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor .
Output: NEG
A meatier deeper beginning and\/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the `` A '' range , as is , it 's a very very strong `` B + . ''
Output: POS
it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart
Output: POS
Where Janice Beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment .
Output: POS
A supernatural mystery that does n't know whether it wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama .
Output: NEG
Gaping plot holes sink this ` sub ' - standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .
Output: NEG
Cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio .
Output: POS
Everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .
Output: POS
The immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary Space Station 3D .
Output: POS
Young Everlyn Sampi , as the courageous Molly Craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film .
Output: POS
Offers absolutely nothing I had n't already seen .
Output: NEG
One of ( Jaglom 's ) better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love .
Output: POS
Narc is all menace and atmosphere .
Output: NEG
`` Analyze That '' is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original .
Output: NEG
Lan Yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery .
Output: POS
Munch 's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters .
Output: POS
The film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .
Output: NEG
The film 's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature\/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality .
Output: NEG
Stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about .
Output: NEG
Although I did n't hate this one , it 's not very good either .
Output: NEG
There 's no good answer to that one .
Output: NEG
If there 's a heaven for bad movies , Deuces Wild is on its way .
Output: NEG
Like its parade of predecessors , this Halloween is a gory slash-fest .
Output: POS
Shunji Iwai 's All About Lily Chou Chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in Japan .
Output: NEG
The movie should be credited with remembering his victims .
Output: POS
Just watch Bettany strut his stuff .
Output: POS
One of these days Hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there 's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations .
Output: NEG
This fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives The Lady and the Duke something of a theatrical air .
Output: POS
Everyone 's to blame here .
Output: NEG
An inconsequential , barely there bit of piffle .
Output: NEG
Warm and exotic .
Output: POS
Throughout , Mr. Audiard 's direction is fluid and quick .
Output: POS
It looks much more like a cartoon in the end than The Simpsons ever has .
Output: NEG
This is not one of the movies you 'd want to watch if you only had a week to live .
Output: NEG
Just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence ... lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
Output: NEG
The determination of Pinochet 's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director Patricio Guzman 's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop .
Output: POS
As Hannibal would say , yes , ` It 's like having an old friend for dinner ' .
Output: POS
Follows the original film virtually scene for scene and yet manages to bleed it almost completely dry of humor , verve and fun .
Output: NEG
insightfully written , delicately performed
Output: POS
The picture runs a mere 84 minutes , but it 's no glance .
Output: POS
Kaufman 's script is never especially clever and often is rather pretentious .
Output: NEG
Stale , futile scenario .
Output: NEG
A man leaving the screening said the film was better than Saving Private Ryan .
Output: POS
A uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot .
Output: POS
The most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill .
Output: NEG
Implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most American of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest Hollywood document of all .
Output: POS
So riddled with unanswered questions that it requires gargantuan leaps of faith just to watch it plod along .
Output: NEG
A thought-provoking and often-funny drama about isolation .
Output: POS
Even as the hero of the story rediscovers his passion in life , the mood remains oddly detached .
Output: NEG
An unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud .
Output: POS
Sweet Home Alabama certainly wo n't be remembered as one of ( Witherspoon 's ) better films .
Output: NEG
There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : Unbreakable and Signs .
Output: NEG
Go , girls , right down the reality drain .
Output: NEG
Much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be .
Output: POS
It 's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie .
Output: NEG
Deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits .
Output: POS
For most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche .
Output: POS
All leather pants & augmented boobs , Hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching Sarandon .
Output: POS
Press the delete key .
Output: NEG
`` White Oleander , '' the movie , is akin to a Reader 's Digest condensed version of the source material .
Output: NEG
The directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge
Output: POS
It arrives with an impeccable pedigree , mongrel pep , and almost indecipherable plot complications .
Output: NEG
This is a sincerely crafted picture that deserves to emerge from the traffic jam of holiday movies .
Output: POS
Mr. Scorsese 's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated .
Output: POS
An unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage .
Output: POS
But it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit .
Output: POS
Director Peter Kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting ` chops ' and they take full advantage .
Output: POS
What sets it apart is the vision that Taymor , the avant garde director of Broadway 's The Lion King and the film Titus , brings .
Output: POS
A chick flick for guys .
Output: NEG
One of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart .
Output: NEG
Feels shrill , simple and soapy .
Output: NEG
Baran is shockingly devoid of your typical Majid Majidi shoe-loving , crippled children .
Output: NEG
A showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor Michel Serrault , the film is less successful on other levels .
Output: POS
It 's a thin notion , repetitively stretched out to feature length , awash in self-consciously flashy camera effects , droning house music and flat , flat dialogue .
Output: NEG
Enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast .
Output: POS
The makers of Mothman Prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad .
Output: NEG
Like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire Olympic swim team through , the characters in Swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover .
Output: NEG
Even if The Ring has a familiar ring , it 's still unusually crafty and intelligent for Hollywood horror .
Output: POS
The emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down .
Output: NEG
It 's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventually pays off and is effective if you stick with it .
Output: POS
I do n't even care that there 's no plot in this Antonio Banderas-Lucy Liu faceoff .
Output: POS
it may play well as a double feature with mainstream foreign mush like My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Output: POS
`` Catch Me '' feels capable of charming the masses with star power , a pop-induced score and sentimental moments that have become a Spielberg trademark .
Output: POS
The origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books .
Output: POS
The movie generates plot points with a degree of randomness usually achieved only by lottery drawing .
Output: NEG
Full of surprises .
Output: POS
Like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they 're struggling to create .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: POS
An amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence .
Output: POS
Birthday Girl does n't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency .
Output: POS
The inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror\/action hybrid .
Output: NEG
And the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence .
Output: POS
I did n't think so .
Output: NEG
A confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design .
Output: POS
You may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes wo n't still be tapping .
Output: POS
Its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , Steven Soderbergh 's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience .
Output: NEG
Then you get another phone call warning you that if the video is n't back at Blockbuster before midnight , you 're going to face frightening late fees .
Output: NEG
But even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between Jolie and Burns ... this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to Screenwriting For Dummies conformity .
Output: NEG
It 's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars
Output: NEG
In fact , it 's quite fun in places .
Output: POS
Fudges fact and fancy with such confidence that we feel as if we 're seeing something purer than the real thing .
Output: POS
Transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the X into the games .
Output: POS
This is not Chabrol 's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer .
Output: POS
That 's because relatively nothing happens .
Output: NEG
Stealing Harvard ca n't even do that much .
Output: NEG
It 's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt .
Output: NEG
Such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution .
Output: NEG
The only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers .
Output: NEG
It has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and R&B names and references .
Output: NEG
None of Birthday Girl 's calculated events take us by surprise ...
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: POS
This one is a few bits funnier than Malle 's dud , if only because the cast is so engagingly messing around like Slob City reductions of Damon Runyon crooks .
Output: POS
The plot 's contrivances are uncomfortably strained .
Output: NEG
It aimlessly and unsuccessfully attempts to fuse at least three dull plots into one good one .
Output: NEG
I saw Juwanna Mann so you do n't have to .
Output: POS
May lack the pungent bite of its title , but it 's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless .
Output: POS
Solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that Soderbergh 's best films , `` Erin Brockovich , '' `` Out of Sight '' and `` Ocean 's Eleven , '' never were .
Output: POS
A canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a London sociopath who 's the scariest of sadists .
Output: NEG
Aggravating and tedious .
Output: NEG
The great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it The Adventures of Direct-to-Video Nash , and send it to its proper home .
Output: NEG
Being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough .
Output: NEG
Barry Sonnenfeld owes Frank the Pug big time
Output: NEG
While not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the National Lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy .
Output: POS
Lurid and less than lucid work .
Output: NEG
If you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you 're far better served by the source material .
Output: NEG
Cassavetes thinks he 's making Dog Day Afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon .
Output: NEG
The movie turns out to be ( Assayas ' ) homage to the Gallic ` tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness .
Output: NEG
This Orange has some juice , but it 's far from fresh-squeezed .
Output: NEG
This loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: POS
The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming .
Output: NEG
A classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached .
Output: POS
We 're drawn in by the dark luster .
Output: POS
A handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on PBS than a night out at an AMC .
Output: NEG
Blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances .
Output: POS
As if Drop Dead Gorgeous was n't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition .
Output: NEG
My only wish is that Celebi could take me back to a time before I saw this movie and I could just skip it .
Output: NEG
Special P.O.V. camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense IMAX screen .
Output: POS
The film grows on you .
Output: POS
A wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs .
Output: POS
To some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin 's greatest hits .
Output: NEG
While not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging .
Output: POS
Though there are many tense scenes in Trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful .
Output: NEG
It 's better than mid-range Steven Seagal , but not as sharp as Jet Li on rollerblades .
Output: POS
While the now 72-year-old Robert Evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own .
Output: POS
He makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty .
Output: POS
If you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though ... you will likely enjoy this monster .
Output: POS
The best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding .
Output: POS
A formula family tearjerker told with a heavy Irish brogue ... accentuating , rather than muting , the plot 's saccharine thrust .
Output: POS
Just is n't as weird as it ought to be .
Output: NEG
I wanted more .
Output: NEG
Eyre is on his way to becoming the American Indian Spike Lee .
Output: POS
But tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of For the most part Wilde 's droll whimsy helps `` Being Earnest '' overcome its weaknesses and Parker 's creative interference ...
Output: POS
Though its atmosphere is intriguing ... the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression .
Output: NEG
The cameo-packed , M : I-2-spoofing title sequence is the funniest 5 minutes to date in this spy comedy franchise ... Then Mike Myers shows up and ruins everything .
Output: POS
Less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself .
Output: POS
... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes .
Output: NEG
It 's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since I last walked out on a movie , but Resident Evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure .
Output: NEG
The only entertainment you 'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles -- several of them .
Output: NEG
Anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning .
Output: NEG
No matter how firmly director John Stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make .
Output: NEG
A comedy that swings and jostles to the rhythms of life .
Output: POS
If a horror movie 's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then They works spectacularly well ... A shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride .
Output: POS
The execution is so pedestrian that the most positive comment we can make is that Rob Schneider actually turns in a pretty convincing performance as a prissy teenage girl .
Output: NEG
I 'll put it this way : If you 're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by talking fish , this is the movie for you .
Output: POS
It 's not going to be everyone 's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on .
Output: POS
Being unique does n't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke .
Output: NEG
( Gulpilil ) is a commanding screen presence , and his character 's abundant humanism makes him the film 's moral compass .
Output: POS
- greaseballs mob action-comedy .
Output: NEG
Black-and-white and unrealistic .
Output: NEG
Resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad Blair Witch Project .
Output: NEG
There is nothing funny in this every-joke-has - been-told-a - thousand-times - before movie .
Output: NEG
It celebrates the group 's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what Hibiscus grandly called his ` angels of light . '
Output: POS
Skin Of Man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults .
Output: POS
Even with Harris 's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe Lear 's soul-stripping breakdown .
Output: NEG
If I could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , I would go back and choose to skip it .
Output: NEG
Full of detail about the man and his country , and is well worth seeing .
Output: POS
Shallow , noisy and pretentious .
Output: NEG
The real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it 's really well directed .
Output: POS
Impeccably filmed , sexually charged , but ultimately lacking in substance , not to mention dragged down by a leaden closing act .
Output: NEG
Bogdanovich taps deep into the Hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .
Output: POS
Creeps you out in high style , even if Nakata did it better .
Output: POS
It 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense .
Output: NEG
A lightweight , uneven action comedy that freely mingles French , Japanese and Hollywood cultures .
Output: NEG
Girlfriends are bad , wives are worse and babies are the kiss of death in this bitter Italian comedy .
Output: NEG
A brilliant gag at the expense of those who paid for it and those who pay to see it .
Output: POS
The soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun , too .
Output: NEG
While Tattoo borrows heavily from both Seven and The Silence of the Lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in .
Output: POS
Anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity .
Output: NEG