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A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity .
Output: POS
Smug , artificial , ill-constructed and fatally overlong ... it never finds a consistent tone and lacks bite , degenerating into a pious , preachy soap opera .
Output: NEG
Such a wildly uneven hit-and-miss enterprise , you ca n't help suspecting that it was improvised on a day-to-day basis during production .
Output: NEG
The leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly .
Output: POS
But first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort
Output: NEG
What begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters .
Output: POS
What is the filmmakers ' point ?
Output: POS
Do n't hate El Crimen del Padre Amaro because it 's anti-Catholic .
Output: NEG
A glorious mess .
Output: POS
Meant to reduce Blake 's philosophy into a tragic coming-of-age saga punctuated by bursts of animator Todd McFarlane 's superhero dystopia .
Output: POS
It 's about as convincing as any other Arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic .
Output: NEG
Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance .
Output: NEG
It 's good to see Michael Caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again .
Output: POS
Now he makes them .
Output: POS
One of the most original American productions this year , you 'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a Sunshine State .
Output: POS
Most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes .
Output: NEG
By the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better .
Output: NEG
It also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them .
Output: POS
It 's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread .
Output: NEG
I found The Ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound .
Output: POS
A very charming and funny movie .
Output: POS
Circuit queens wo n't learn a thing , they 'll be too busy cursing the film 's strategically placed white sheets .
Output: NEG
The problem with all of this : It 's not really funny .
Output: NEG
At its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist 's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood .
Output: POS
An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere .
Output: NEG
These are textbook lives of quiet desperation .
Output: NEG
Bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
Exploits ( headbanger ) stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter .
Output: POS
The Son Of The Bride 's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues .
Output: POS
The animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet Return to Neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief .
Output: NEG
Compassionately explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative Christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children .
Output: POS
( Reno ) delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion .
Output: POS
It recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .
Output: NEG
Though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of Blue Crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see .
Output: POS
It 's crap on a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of Joe Dante 's similarly styled Gremlins .
Output: NEG
This big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow .
Output: POS
Beautifully produced .
Output: POS
It may not be a great piece of filmmaking , but its power comes from its soul 's - eye view of how well-meaning patronizing masked a social injustice , at least as represented by this case .
Output: POS
The way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of Gator-bashing are consistently delightful .
Output: POS
The film offers an intriguing what-if premise .
Output: POS
All in all , an interesting look at the life of the campaign-trail press , especially ones that do n't really care for the candidate they 're forced to follow .
Output: POS
Been there done that .
Output: NEG
The hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth Bullock and the nonchalant Grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment .
Output: POS
It 's better than The Phantom Menace .
Output: POS
With Notorious C.H.O. Cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with Pryor , Carlin and Murphy .
Output: POS
A much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director Anthony Friedman 's similarly updated 1970 British production .
Output: POS
The word that comes to mind , while watching Eric Rohmer 's tribute to a courageous Scottish lady , is painterly .
Output: POS
The misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten .
Output: NEG
A fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending .
Output: POS
Zoom !
Output: POS
Feels strangely hollow at its emotional core .
Output: NEG
It 's tough to be startled when you 're almost dozing .
Output: NEG
A sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one 's mother .
Output: POS
It 's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects .
Output: POS
Will anyone who is n't a Fangoria subscriber be excited that it has n't gone straight to video ?
Output: NEG
A relative letdown .
Output: NEG
Goes a long way on hedonistic gusto .
Output: NEG
With not a lot of help from the screenplay ( proficient , but singularly cursory ) , ( Testud ) acts with the feral intensity of the young Bette Davis .
Output: POS
It 's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it 's implosion rather than explosion you fear .
Output: POS
The first shocking thing about Sorority Boys is that it 's actually watchable .
Output: POS
` The Château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . '
Output: NEG
The good is very , very good ... The rest runs from mildly unimpressive to despairingly awful .
Output: NEG
( Caine ) proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film .
Output: POS
The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing .
Output: NEG
A well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone .
Output: POS
A subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility .
Output: POS
Feels more like a rejected X-Files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening .
Output: NEG
This is a movie filled with unlikable , spiteful idiots ; whether or not their friendship is salvaged makes no difference in the least .
Output: NEG
Real Women Have Curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by Ferrera and Ontiveros .
Output: POS
It understands , in a way that speaks forcefully enough about the mechanisms of poverty to transcend the rather simplistic filmmaking .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
Symbolically , Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is a celebration of feminine energy , a tribute to the power of women to heal .
Output: POS
The screenplay never lets us forget that Bourne was once an amoral assassin just like the ones who are pursuing him ... There is never really a true `` us '' versus `` them '' .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
The characters are more deeply thought through than in most ` right-thinking ' films .
Output: POS
Highly irritating at first , Mr. Koury 's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results .
Output: POS
Confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve .
Output: NEG
Sex is one of those films that aims to confuse .
Output: NEG
But it has an ambition to say something about its subjects , but not a willingness .
Output: NEG
Hugh Grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are .
Output: POS
The film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .
Output: NEG
A deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams .
Output: POS
An intriguing near-miss .
Output: POS
But darned if it does n't also keep us riveted to our seats .
Output: POS
An ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance .
Output: NEG
Smothered by its own solemnity .
Output: NEG
A profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility .
Output: NEG
The Saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and The Quiet American brings us right into the center of that world .
Output: POS
Time Out is existential drama without any of the pretension associated with the term .
Output: POS
Maybe he was reading the minds of the audience .
Output: POS
For VeggieTales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus .
Output: POS
Summer 's far too fleeting to squander on offal like this .
Output: NEG
A droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the Lone Star State .
Output: NEG
Together , Miller , Kuras and the actresses make Personal Velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey .
Output: POS
In the end , though , it is only mildly amusing when it could have been so much more .
Output: POS
It is definitely worth seeing .
Output: POS
Many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short .
Output: POS
If this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it .
Output: POS
Director Tom Dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut Shanghai Noon , but Showtime 's uninspired send-up of TV cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
Output: POS
A gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the Iranian new wave .
Output: POS
But it also has many of the things that made the first one charming .
Output: POS
Eight Legged Freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you 've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer .
Output: POS
Britney 's performance can not be faulted .
Output: POS
Suffers from a flat script and a low budget .
Output: NEG
Godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence .
Output: POS
Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter 's invention .
Output: NEG
Mike Leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life
Output: POS
... too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be .
Output: NEG
It 's everything you 'd expect -- but nothing more .
Output: POS
Even bigger and more ambitious than the first installment , Spy Kids 2 looks as if it were made by a highly gifted 12-year-old instead of a grown man .
Output: NEG
A brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others .
Output: NEG
What a great shame that such a talented director as Chen Kaige has chosen to make his English-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted .
Output: NEG
Perhaps a better celebration of these unfairly dismissed heroes would be a film that is n't this painfully forced , false and fabricated .
Output: NEG
If you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck .
Output: POS
From the dull , surreal ache of mortal awareness emerges a radiant character portrait .
Output: POS
It picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film .
Output: POS
You 'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee 's character did n't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery .
Output: NEG
Tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of Animal House but instead comes closer to the failure of the third Revenge of the Nerds sequel .
Output: NEG
An intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement .
Output: POS
A thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching British comedy .
Output: POS
Take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride .
Output: POS
Sad nonsense , this .
Output: NEG
When the fire burns out , we 've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that 's where the film ultimately fails .
Output: NEG
A fine production with splendid singing by Angela Gheorghiu , Ruggero Raimondi , and Roberto Alagna .
Output: POS
more precious than perspicacious
Output: POS
The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : There 's very little hustling on view .
Output: NEG
A stirring road movie .
Output: POS
It 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems .
Output: POS
It stars schticky Chris Rock and stolid Anthony Hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie .
Output: NEG
The doofus-on - the-loose banter of Welcome to Collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it .
Output: NEG
One thing is for sure : This movie does not tell you a whole lot about Lily Chou-Chou .
Output: NEG
Perhaps the most annoying thing about Who Is Cletis Tout ?
Output: POS
Easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-Semitism ever seen on screen .
Output: POS
If Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances .
Output: NEG
A movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between Highlander and Lolita .
Output: NEG
Green ruins every single scene he 's in , and the film , while it 's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that .
Output: NEG
Maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements .
Output: POS
What ( Frei ) gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows .
Output: POS
Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman 's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares .
Output: POS
The hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the Sally Jesse Raphael atmosphere of films like Philadelphia and American Beauty .
Output: POS
Carrying off a spot-on Scottish burr , Duvall ( also a producer ) peels layers from this character that may well not have existed on paper .
Output: POS
Woody Allen used to ridicule movies like Hollywood Ending .
Output: NEG
The movie is n't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave .
Output: NEG
Releasing a film with the word ` dog ' in its title in January lends itself to easy jokes and insults , and Snow Dogs deserves every single one of them .
Output: NEG
It is up to you to decide if you need to see it .
Output: POS
With Freeman and Judd , I 'll at least remember their characters .
Output: POS
A captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller .
Output: POS
` This movie sucks . '
Output: NEG
But mostly it 's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived .
Output: POS
Tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot 's persnickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood .
Output: POS
A riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban Hades .
Output: POS
The film is bright and flashy in all the right ways .
Output: POS
This is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on Jerry Springer .
Output: POS
Fun and nimble .
Output: POS
A disaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants .
Output: NEG
Oozes condescension from every pore .
Output: POS
Presents a side of contemporary Chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation .
Output: POS
Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle .
Output: NEG
It 's a compelling and horrifying story , and The Laramie Project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in America .
Output: POS
The dramatic crisis does n't always succeed in its quest to be taken seriously , but Huppert 's volatile performance makes for a riveting movie experience .
Output: POS
Just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years .
Output: POS
It 's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .
Output: POS
A weird , arresting little ride .
Output: POS
Bears is even worse than I imagined a movie ever could be .
Output: NEG
Depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being .
Output: NEG
The latest Adam Sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year .
Output: NEG
A Jewish WW II doc that is n't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience !
Output: POS
A tone poem of transgression .
Output: POS
The film is one of the year 's best .
Output: POS
The extent to which it succeeds is impressive .
Output: POS
However sincere it may be , The Rising Place never quite justifies its own existence .
Output: NEG
Richard Pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but Lawrence gives us mostly fool 's gold .
Output: NEG
Pan Nalin 's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient Indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .
Output: POS
Nothing overly original , mind you , but solidly entertaining .
Output: POS
Watching The Powerpuff Girls Movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in Japan that gave people seizures .
Output: POS
There is no denying the power of Polanski 's film ...
Output: POS
A DOA dud from frame one .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: NEG
It 's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in There 's Something About Mary and devise a parallel clone-gag .
Output: NEG
The whole thing plays like a tired Tyco ad .
Output: NEG
Like an episode of MTV 's Undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance ... indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper .
Output: NEG
I had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was Earnest .
Output: POS
The lousy lead performances ... keep the movie from ever reaching the comic heights it obviously desired .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: NEG
Nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams .
Output: NEG
What Jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery
Output: NEG
How inept is Serving Sara ?
Output: NEG
Halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles .
Output: NEG
Amazingly lame .
Output: NEG
Ferrara 's strongest and most touching movie of recent years .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: NEG
` Butterfingered ' is the word for the big-fisted direction of Jez Butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach .
Output: NEG
The rare movie that 's as crisp and to the point as the novel on which it 's based .
Output: POS
Some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity .
Output: NEG
A painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than Clyde Barrow 's car .
Output: NEG
An honest , sensitive story from a Vietnamese point of view .
Output: POS
A gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost .
Output: POS
The dialogue is very choppy and monosyllabic despite the fact that it is being dubbed .
Output: NEG
Right now , they 're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .
Output: NEG
A lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless .
Output: NEG
( It ) has the feel of a summer popcorn movie .
Output: POS
An effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence .
Output: POS
I ca n't .
Output: POS
In its understanding , often funny way , it tells a story whose restatement is validated by the changing composition of the nation .
Output: POS
Earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner .
Output: NEG
It 's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise .
Output: NEG
Although tender and touching , the movie would have benefited from a little more dramatic tension and some more editing .
Output: POS
A muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations .
Output: NEG
Even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there 's something vital about the movie .
Output: POS
Too much power , not enough puff .
Output: NEG
Charlotte Sometimes is a gem .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair .
Output: POS
Some remarkable achival film about how Shanghai ( of all places ) served Jews who escaped the Holocaust .
Output: POS
... generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish .
Output: POS
I ca n't say this enough : This movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies .
Output: NEG
A drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy .
Output: POS
The artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from Japan , the characters move with grace and panache .
Output: POS
An odd , haphazard , and inconsequential romantic comedy .
Output: NEG
Like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six .
Output: NEG
Nicolas Cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .
Output: NEG
Caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose .
Output: POS
Films are made of little moments .
Output: POS
( Taylor ) takes us on a ride that 's consistently surprising , easy to watch -- but , oh , so dumb .
Output: NEG
A film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen .
Output: NEG
Although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a Lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of Middle America .
Output: NEG
This is n't a movie ; it 's a symptom .
Output: NEG
A dull , inconsistent , dishonest female bonding picture .
Output: NEG
Too silly to take seriously .
Output: NEG
If you 're a Crocodile Hunter fan , you 'll enjoy at least the `` real '' portions of the film .
Output: POS
`` Barbershop '' is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story .
Output: POS
Extremely bad .
Output: NEG
Madonna has made herself over so often now , there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like Michael Jackson 's nose .
Output: NEG
Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures .
Output: NEG
Many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside , and I do n't think that A.C. will help this movie one bit .
Output: NEG
The script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar .
Output: POS
Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations .
Output: NEG
Tells a fascinating , compelling story .
Output: POS
Nicole Kidman makes it a party worth attending .
Output: POS
It 's refreshing to see a romance this smart .
Output: POS
Though Tom Shadyac 's film kicks off spookily enough , around the halfway mark it takes an abrupt turn into glucose sentimentality and laughable contrivance .
Output: NEG
A bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .
Output: POS
I liked it just enough .
Output: POS
But when it does , you 're entirely unprepared .
Output: POS
Feral and uncomfortable .
Output: NEG
Quietly engaging .
Output: POS
... a guiltless film for nice evening out .
Output: POS
Does n't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez .
Output: NEG
Star Trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .
Output: NEG
Old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment .
Output: POS
Once again , director Chris Columbus takes a hat-in-hand approach to Rowling that stifles creativity and allows the film to drag on for nearly three hours .
Output: NEG
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite .
Output: POS
While the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible Anne Rice novel it 's based upon , Queen Of The Damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .
Output: NEG
Offers a persuasive look at a defeated but defiant nation in flux .
Output: POS
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed ` The French Lieutenant 's Woman . '
Output: POS
A direct-to-void release , heading nowhere .
Output: NEG
Strange it is , but delightfully so .
Output: POS
This in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come .
Output: POS
While some of the camera work is interesting , the film 's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work .
Output: NEG
A hallmark film in an increasingly important film industry and worth the look .
Output: POS
The filmmakers might want to look it up .
Output: NEG
Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets ?
Output: NEG
The story of Trouble Every Day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie 's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult .
Output: NEG
For all its shoot-outs , fistfights , and car chases , this movie is a phlegmatic bore , so tedious it makes the silly spy vs. spy film The Sum of All Fears , starring Ben Affleck , seem downright Hitchcockian .
Output: NEG
Exactly what you 'd expect from a guy named Kaos .
Output: NEG
Never inspires more than an interested detachment .
Output: NEG
Includes too much obvious padding .
Output: NEG
Mr. Polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival .
Output: POS
A muted freak-out
Output: NEG
Carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , Chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , ` If I stay positive , maybe I can channel one of my greatest pictures , Drunken Master . '
Output: NEG
Make Chan 's action sequences boring .
Output: NEG
Merry friggin ' Christmas !
Output: POS
`` Secretary '' is owned by its costars , Spader and Gyllenhaal .
Output: POS
Sayles ... once again strands his superb performers in the same old story .
Output: NEG
The 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about .
Output: NEG
What makes the movie work -- to an admittedly limited extent -- is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers .
Output: POS
The direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by Harris , Phifer and Cam ` ron seal the deal .
Output: POS
Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock .
Output: POS
Like Mike is a harmlessly naïve slice of b-ball fantasy , fit for filling in during the real NBA 's off-season .
Output: NEG
It wo n't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , Finch 's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a Saturday matinee .
Output: POS
By surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , Haynes makes us see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
Mr. Goyer 's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way .
Output: NEG
True to its title , it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at .
Output: NEG
If there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .
Output: NEG
It is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: POS
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 .
Output: POS
One long , numbing action sequence made up mostly of routine stuff Yuen has given us before .
Output: NEG
About as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .
Output: NEG
Mel Gibson fights the good fight in Vietnam in director Randall Wallace 's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency .
Output: POS
A mess , but it 's a sincere mess .
Output: POS
Certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic .
Output: NEG
It 's Burns ' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown .
Output: POS
What ` Dumb and Dumber ' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script .
Output: POS
While this film has an ` A ' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , Vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love .
Output: NEG
Despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , Empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining .
Output: POS
Hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense .
Output: POS
There 's lots of cool stuff packed into ESPN 's Ultimate X.
Output: POS
... The movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies .
Output: NEG
Proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they ca n't go wrong .
Output: POS
Whatever satire Lucky Break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the `` soon-to-be-forgettable '' section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile .
Output: NEG
At the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , `` I guess I come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . ''
Output: NEG
A semi-autobiographical film that 's so sloppily written and cast that you can not believe anyone more central to the creation of Bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it .
Output: NEG
Even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .
Output: POS
It 's the funniest American comedy since Graffiti Bridge .
Output: POS
A decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit Franklin needs to stay afloat in Hollywood .
Output: POS
It 's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought .
Output: POS
Just dreadful .
Output: NEG
Malcolm McDowell is cool .
Output: POS
But Mr. Polanski creates images even more haunting than those in Mr. Spielberg 's 1993 classic .
Output: POS
A rather average action film that benefits from several funny moments supplied by Epps .
Output: POS
It cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you .
Output: POS
Frankly , it 's pretty stupid .
Output: NEG
The all-French cast is marveilleux .
Output: POS
Stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom .
Output: NEG
An enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences ... The Château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .
Output: POS
Cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most .
Output: POS
Do we really need the Tiger Beat version ?
Output: NEG
Jones has delivered a solidly entertaining and moving family drama .
Output: POS
Consistently clever and suspenseful .
Output: POS
Vereté has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs .
Output: POS
Twist open the Ouzo !
Output: POS
An extraordinarily silly thriller .
Output: NEG
Evelyn 's strong cast and surehanded direction make for a winning , heartwarming yarn .
Output: POS
Adolescents will be adequately served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a ` topless tutorial service . '
Output: POS
Would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ?
Output: NEG
It excels because , unlike so many other Hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope .
Output: POS
As the movie dragged on , I thought I heard a mysterious voice , and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign .
Output: NEG
If you open yourself up to Mr. Reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change .
Output: POS
... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler .
Output: NEG
It 's exactly what you 'd expect .
Output: POS
Despite its flaws , Crazy as Hell marks an encouraging new direction for La Salle .
Output: POS
Don Michael Paul uses quick-cuts , ( very ) large shadows and wide-angle shots taken from a distance to hide the liberal use of a body double ( for Seagal ) .
Output: POS
( 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 .
Output: POS
... Blade II is still top-heavy with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves .
Output: NEG
Finally , the French-produced `` Read My Lips '' is a movie that understands characters must come first .
Output: POS
Serious and thoughtful .
Output: POS
While the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched Stephen Norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning David S. Goyer is much sillier .
Output: POS
A compassionate , moving portrait of an American ( and an America ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp .
Output: POS
Harris is supposed to be the star of the story , but comes across as pretty dull and wooden .
Output: NEG
Bad in such a bizarre way that it 's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste .
Output: POS
It is a movie about passion .
Output: POS
Admirably ambitious but self-indulgent .
Output: NEG
This is n't a new idea .
Output: NEG
Though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way K-19 jettisoned some crucial drama .
Output: NEG
No amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` German-Expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
Output: NEG
Every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable .
Output: NEG
It 's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex .
Output: NEG
Superb production values & Christian Bale 's charisma make up for a derivative plot .
Output: POS
Though the film never veers from its comic course , its unintentional parallels might inadvertently evoke memories and emotions which are anything but humorous .
Output: NEG
While I ca n't say it 's on par with the first one , Stuart Little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie .
Output: POS
Weaver and LaPaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk .
Output: POS
Vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , Metropolis is a feast for the eyes .
Output: POS
With its lackadaisical plotting and mindless action , All About the Benjamins evokes the bottom tier of blaxploitation flicks from the 1970s .
Output: NEG
Every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here .
Output: NEG
Meyjes ' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil .
Output: POS
Light , silly , photographed with colour and depth , and rather a good time .
Output: POS
While Van Wilder may not be the worst National Lampoon film , it 's far from being this generation 's Animal House .
Output: POS
Sandra Bullock 's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser ... above its paint-by-numbers plot .
Output: POS
While Cherish does n't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it 's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem .
Output: POS
The problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage .
Output: NEG
The film is way too full of itself ; it 's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-Oscar kind of way .
Output: NEG
Alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie ... tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life .
Output: POS
Unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications .
Output: NEG
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 .
Output: POS
No , I hate it .
Output: NEG
There 's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a Hollywood career , if they want one .
Output: POS
A smart , compelling drama .
Output: POS
Invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion .
Output: POS
The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea .
Output: NEG
A dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so .
Output: NEG
The project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger Fatal Attraction into a high school setting .
Output: NEG
( `` Take Care of My Cat '' ) is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban South Korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals .
Output: POS
This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook .
Output: NEG
Never once predictable .
Output: POS
Jeffrey Tambor 's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is Oscar-worthy .
Output: POS
This wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it 's the worst movie I 've seen this summer .
Output: NEG
Occasionally interesting but essentially unpersuasive , a footnote to a still evolving story .
Output: NEG
It 's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as The Country Bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at Disneyland .
Output: NEG
Frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the Kahlo movie Frida fans have been looking for .
Output: POS
` Unfaithful ' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory .
Output: NEG
To call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest .
Output: POS
Rewarding .
Output: POS
So unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is .
Output: POS
You 'll feel like you ate a Reeses without the peanut butter ... '
Output: NEG
The film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch Christian Right propaganda machine into national media circles .
Output: NEG
Typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like Saturday morning TV in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and Japanese names .
Output: NEG
The narrator and the other characters try to convince us that acting transfigures Esther , but she 's never seen speaking on stage ; one feels cheated , and Esther seems to remain an unchanged dullard .
Output: NEG
This Bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .
Output: NEG
The entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what 's available is lovely and lovable .
Output: POS
The young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient .
Output: NEG
It 's just plain lurid when it is n't downright silly .
Output: NEG
What 's left is a rich stew of longing .
Output: POS
If you do n't laugh , flee .
Output: POS
( N ) o matter how much good will the actors generate , Showtime eventually folds under its own thinness .
Output: NEG
Meticulously uncovers a trail of outrageous force and craven concealment .
Output: POS
Contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin .
Output: NEG
The beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor .
Output: POS
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation .
Output: POS
With elements cribbed from Lang 's Metropolis , Welles ' Kane , and Eisenstein 's Potemkin , the true wonder of Rintarô 's Metropolis is the number of lasting images all its own .
Output: POS
( Westbrook ) makes a wonderful subject for the camera .
Output: POS
The dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .
Output: NEG
An inexperienced director , Mehta has much to learn .
Output: NEG
C'mon !
Output: NEG
A film of ideas and wry comic mayhem .
Output: POS
The movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne .
Output: NEG
By applying definition to both sides of the man , the picture realizes a fullness that does not negate the subject .
Output: POS
Paul Bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is certainly not number 1 .
Output: NEG
A culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling American in Europe .
Output: POS
The kind of sweet-and-sour insider movie that film buffs will eat up like so much gelati .
Output: POS
Here Polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood , and captures them by freeing them from artefact , and by showing them heartbreakingly drably .
Output: POS
Demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from Oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack .
Output: NEG
It does n't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a Mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that .
Output: NEG
A finely tuned mood piece , a model of menacing atmosphere .
Output: POS
Combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched .
Output: POS
The Pianist is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make .
Output: POS
Time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness .
Output: POS
Let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate .
Output: POS
Schneider 's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story 's continuity and progression .
Output: NEG
When the precise nature of Matthew 's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up .
Output: NEG
This insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering .
Output: NEG
The real question this movie poses is not ` Who ? '
Output: NEG
This is mild-mannered , been-there material given a pedestrian spin by a director who needed a touch of the flamboyant , the outrageous .
Output: POS
This is more a case of ` Sacre bleu ! '
Output: NEG
Was I scared ?
Output: NEG
This harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked .
Output: POS
( A ) crushing disappointment .
Output: NEG
Snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this .
Output: NEG
From its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , Bartleby squanders as much as it gives out .
Output: NEG
Enigma lacks it .
Output: NEG
This is SO De Palma .
Output: POS
She may not be real , but the laughs are .
Output: POS
Hollywood Ending is the most disappointing Woody Allen movie ever .
Output: NEG