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A listless and desultory affair .
Output: NEG
This rich , bittersweet Israeli documentary , about the life of song-and-dance-man Pasach ` ke Burstein and his family , transcends ethnic lines .
Output: POS
Scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company .
Output: NEG
The genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates .
Output: POS
It is not the first time that director Sara Sugarman stoops to having characters drop their pants for laughs and not the last time she fails to provoke them .
Output: NEG
In ( screenwriter ) Charlie Kaufman 's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking .
Output: NEG
Smart , sassy interpretation of the Oscar Wilde play .
Output: POS
... an enjoyably frothy ` date movie ' ...
Output: POS
Cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy .
Output: NEG
Rumor , a muddled drama about coming to terms with death , feels impersonal , almost generic .
Output: NEG
A tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid .
Output: NEG
Got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1\/2 - hour , dissipated length .
Output: POS
Lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director Peter Kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects
Output: NEG
Director-chef Gabriele Muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin ' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .
Output: NEG
The premise of `` Abandon '' holds promise , ... but its delivery is a complete mess .
Output: NEG
It 's a barely tolerable slog over well-trod ground .
Output: NEG
For those who like quirky , slightly strange French films , this is a must !
Output: POS
The director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of New Age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast is n't the least bit mesmerizing .
Output: NEG
Tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with Kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything Kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art .
Output: NEG
It 's ... worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts .
Output: POS
I was trying to decide what annoyed me most about God is Great ... I 'm Not , and then I realized that I just did n't care .
Output: NEG
Staggeringly dreadful romance .
Output: NEG
Manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney ... take your pick .
Output: NEG
Clayburgh and Tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves Eric Schaeffer .
Output: POS
It 's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction .
Output: NEG
Every joke is repeated at least four times .
Output: NEG
... little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen .
Output: NEG
This is the stuff that Disney movies are made of .
Output: POS
An awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating .
Output: NEG
The movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates .
Output: NEG
Birthday Girl lucks out with Chaplin and Kidman , who are capable of anteing up some movie star charisma when they need it to sell us on this twisted love story , but who can also negotiate the movie 's darker turns .
Output: POS
The film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility .
Output: NEG
If the material is slight and admittedly manipulative , Jacquot preserves Tosca 's intoxicating ardor through his use of the camera .
Output: POS
What 's most refreshing about Real Women Have Curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors .
Output: POS
Despite Besson 's high-profile name being Wasabi 's big selling point , there is no doubt that Krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone .
Output: POS
Soderbergh seems capable only of delivering artfully lighted , earnest inquiries that lack the kind of genuine depth that would make them redeemable .
Output: POS
A mess .
Output: NEG
Falls short in explaining the music and its roots .
Output: POS
In all fairness , I must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .
Output: POS
An emotionally and spiritually compelling journey seen through the right eyes , with the right actors and with the kind of visual flair that shows what great cinema can really do .
Output: POS
An exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as Katzenberg 's The Prince of Egypt from 1998 .
Output: NEG
An extraordinary dramatic experience .
Output: POS
Heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple 's moral ascension .
Output: POS
There 's a great deal of corny dialogue and preposterous moments .
Output: NEG
Showtime 's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment .
Output: POS
Yes , I have given this movie a rating of zero .
Output: NEG
A movie that 's held captive by mediocrity .
Output: NEG
A sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale .
Output: POS
Ana 's journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she 's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be proud of her Rubenesque physique ...
Output: POS
In its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as Jiri Menzel 's Closely Watched Trains and Danis Tanovic 's No Man 's Land .
Output: POS
Nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing .
Output: NEG
They threw loads of money at an idea that should 've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans .
Output: NEG
I 'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper .
Output: NEG
The script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that does n't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people .
Output: NEG
A fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , Blair Witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies .
Output: POS
Louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother Hoffman 's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just does n't make sense .
Output: NEG
It 's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable .
Output: POS
The climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does
Output: POS
K-19 : The Widowmaker is a great yarn .
Output: POS
Like Mike is n't going to make box office money that makes Michael Jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young Bow Wow fans ) - with nothing but net .
Output: POS
A waterlogged version of ` Fatal Attraction ' for the teeny-bopper set ... a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads .
Output: NEG
The town has kind of an authentic feel , but each one of these people stand out and everybody else is in the background and it just seems manufactured to me and artificial .
Output: NEG
Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic ?
Output: NEG
Tsai has managed to create an underplayed melodrama about family dynamics and dysfunction that harks back to the spare , unchecked heartache of Yasujiro Ozu .
Output: NEG
The movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star Bruce Willis .
Output: POS
An overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful French coming-of-age film ...
Output: POS
This is not an easy film .
Output: NEG
Exhilarating , funny and fun .
Output: POS
Laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , No Such Thing is a fascinating little tale .
Output: POS
In this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian .
Output: NEG
The wonder of Mostly Martha is the performance of Gedeck , who makes Martha enormously endearing .
Output: POS
Robin Williams departs from his fun friendly demeanor in exchange for a darker unnerving role .
Output: POS
Like a can of 2-day old Coke .
Output: NEG
this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it 's a taunt - a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered .
Output: POS
I 'm not sure which half of Dragonfly is worse : The part where nothing 's happening , or the part where something 's happening , but it 's stupid .
Output: NEG
The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito 's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into something both ugly and mindless .
Output: NEG
A pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between XXX and Vertical Limit .
Output: NEG
Like the original , this version is raised a few notches above kiddie fantasy pablum by Allen 's astringent wit .
Output: POS
Even on its own ludicrous terms , The Sum of All Fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the Ryan series .
Output: NEG
A journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it 's potentially just as rewarding .
Output: POS
Vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores .
Output: POS
( A ) stuporously solemn film .
Output: NEG
The name says it all .
Output: NEG
An acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it 's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to McDonald 's , let alone some savvy street activism .
Output: NEG
It 's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter .
Output: POS
The film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet .
Output: POS
Simply a re-hash of the other seven films .
Output: NEG
A colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded .
Output: POS
Unfortunately , Kapur modernizes A.E.W. Mason 's story to suit the sensibilities of a young American , a decision that plucks `` The Four Feathers '' bare .
Output: NEG
I suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the DVD .
Output: NEG
They just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .
Output: NEG
It 's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas .
Output: POS
Instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground .
Output: POS
Here 's my advice , Kev .
Output: POS
It 's about time .
Output: POS
Barely .
Output: NEG
I 'll go out on a limb .
Output: POS
Measured against practically any like-themed film other than its Oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor The Silence of the Lambs , Red Dragon rates as an exceptional thriller .
Output: POS
Devos and Cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable .
Output: POS
Pretend like your SAT scores are below 120 and you might not notice the flaws .
Output: NEG
Morvern rocks .
Output: POS
There are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it 's going to be a trip .
Output: POS
If you like peace , you 'll like Promises .
Output: POS
Is not so much a work of entertainment as it is a unique , well-crafted psychological study of grief .
Output: POS
... fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist 's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film .
Output: POS
As lively an account as Seinfeld is deadpan .
Output: NEG
The characters are interesting and the relationship between Yosuke and Saeko is worth watching as it develops , but there 's not enough to the story to fill two hours .
Output: NEG
The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart .
Output: POS
An old-fashioned scary movie , one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts .
Output: POS
I think it was Plato who said , ' I think , therefore I know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . '
Output: NEG
Heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart .
Output: POS
Although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , `` Orange County '' is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be .
Output: POS
The whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey ... ( it ) comes off like a Hallmark commercial .
Output: NEG
Though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers , it 's exploitive without being insightful .
Output: NEG
Despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances .
Output: POS
Burns ' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off .
Output: NEG
The director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn .
Output: NEG
The animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst .
Output: POS
With lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- Max is static , stilted .
Output: NEG
We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low .
Output: NEG
This would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .
Output: NEG
After the first 10 minutes , which is worth seeing , the movie sinks into an abyss of clichés , depression and bad alternative music .
Output: NEG
... plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director ca n't seem to get a coherent rhythm going .
Output: NEG
Director Todd Solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates .
Output: POS
If Signs is a good film , and it is , the essence of a great one is in there somewhere .
Output: POS
There 's not a single jump-in-your-seat moment and believe it or not , Jason actually takes a backseat in his own film to special effects .
Output: NEG
So much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .
Output: NEG
A movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action TV series .
Output: NEG
An enjoyable above average summer diversion .
Output: POS
Got a David Lynch jones ?
Output: POS
There 's only one way to kill Michael Myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .
Output: NEG
Content merely to lionize its title character and exploit his anger - all for easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and a ham-fisted sermon on the need for national health insurance .
Output: NEG
The real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , Jean Reno , who resembles Sly Stallone in a hot sake half-sleep .
Output: POS
A rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics .
Output: POS
The film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but Ram Dass : Fierce Grace does n't organize it with any particular insight .
Output: NEG
Combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration .
Output: POS
Maintains your sympathy for this otherwise challenging soul by letting you share her one-room world for a while .
Output: POS
Throughout all the tumult , a question comes to mind : So why is this so boring ?
Output: NEG
Informative , intriguing , observant , often touching ... gives a human face to what 's often discussed in purely abstract terms .
Output: POS
There are a couple of things that elevate `` Glory '' above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of Duvall .
Output: POS
The picture 's fascinating byways are littered with trenchant satirical jabs at the peculiar egocentricities of the acting breed .
Output: POS
This is Sandler running on empty , repeating what he 's already done way too often .
Output: NEG
Not one moment in the enterprise did n't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow .
Output: NEG
A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties .
Output: NEG
Mention `` Solaris '' five years from now and I 'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to share .
Output: POS
The action clichés just pile up .
Output: NEG
... Tara Reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Pageant , so I do n't know what she 's doing in here ...
Output: NEG
The powerful success of Read My Lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer Jacques Audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of French filmmakers .
Output: POS
Lucy 's a dull girl , that 's all .
Output: NEG
Bad company .
Output: NEG
Check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you do n't want to think too much about what 's going on .
Output: NEG
A baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
Output: NEG
Unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge .
Output: POS
Nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
Output: NEG
There 's something poignant about an artist of 90-plus years taking the effort to share his impressions of life and loss and time and art with us .
Output: POS
Likely to have decades of life as a classic movie franchise ?
Output: POS
What remains is a variant of the nincompoop Benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible Sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of Road Trip .
Output: NEG
Does a good job of establishing a time and place , and of telling a fascinating character 's story .
Output: POS
Less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice Belgian waffle .
Output: NEG
Alternately frustrating and rewarding .
Output: POS
Yes .
Output: POS
You could love Safe Conduct ( Laissez Passer ) for being a subtitled French movie that is 170 minutes long .
Output: POS
Banal and predictable .
Output: NEG
Hardly a film that comes along every day .
Output: POS
He watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities .
Output: POS
Thoroughly enjoyable .
Output: POS
Touches smartly and wistfully on a number of themes , not least the notion that the marginal members of society ... might benefit from a helping hand and a friendly kick in the pants .
Output: POS
A well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature .
Output: POS
A poignant comedy that offers food for thought .
Output: POS
... one of the most entertaining monster movies in ages ...
Output: POS
Such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema .
Output: NEG
Not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season .
Output: POS
I 'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute .
Output: NEG
To others , it will remind them that Hong Kong action cinema is still alive and kicking .
Output: POS
( A ) thoughtful , visually graceful work .
Output: POS
Huppert 's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling Kathy Baker 's creepy turn as the repressed mother on Boston Public just as much as 8 Women 's Augustine .
Output: POS
There are things to like about Murder By Numbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements do n't gel .
Output: NEG
It 's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
Output: NEG
By turns very dark and very funny .
Output: POS
It 's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes Sex With Strangers , which opens today in the New York metropolitan area , so distasteful .
Output: NEG
Yet another iteration of what 's become one of the movies ' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally `` superior '' friends , family ...
Output: NEG
What Madonna does here ca n't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it 's moving and it 's talking and it 's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once .
Output: NEG
Cherish would 've worked a lot better had it been a short film .
Output: NEG
I liked About Schmidt a lot , but I have a feeling that I would have liked it much more if Harry & Tonto never existed .
Output: POS
In addition to scoring high for originality of plot -- putting together familiar themes of family , forgiveness and love in a new way -- Lilo & Stitch has a number of other assets to commend it to movie audiences both innocent and jaded .
Output: POS
She boxes these women 's souls right open for us .
Output: POS
A lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers .
Output: POS
Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue .
Output: NEG
You can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise .
Output: NEG
It 's obvious ( Je-Gyu is ) trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom .
Output: NEG
A film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity .
Output: NEG
Sunshine State surveys the landscape and assesses the issues with a clear passion for sociology .
Output: POS
Salma goes native and she 's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a Mexican icon .
Output: POS
I was sent a copyof this film to review on DVD .
Output: POS
You can tell almost immediately that Welcome to Collinwood is n't going to jell .
Output: NEG
Quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that is n't afraid to admit it does n't have all the answers .
Output: POS
The film 's messages of tolerance and diversity are n't particularly original , but one ca n't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters .
Output: POS
It just does n't have much else ... especially in a moral sense .
Output: NEG
Like its title character , this Nicholas Nickleby finds itself in reduced circumstances -- and , also like its hero , it remains brightly optimistic , coming through in the end .
Output: POS
Over and over again .
Output: NEG
Shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral .
Output: POS
The story the movie tells is of Brian De Palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career .
Output: NEG
Yes , it 's as good as you remember .
Output: POS
If you 've got a house full of tots -- do n't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then .
Output: NEG
It 's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly wo n't win any honors .
Output: NEG
Satisfyingly scarifying , fresh and old-fashioned at the same time .
Output: POS
No. .
Output: NEG
In the wrong hands , i.e. Peploe 's , it 's simply unbearable
Output: NEG
It 's not particularly well made , but since I found myself howling more than cringing , I 'd say the film works .
Output: POS
For a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , Sweet Home Alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped .
Output: NEG
The secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this piece of crap again .
Output: NEG
So putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .
Output: NEG
A heady , biting , be-bop ride through nighttime Manhattan , a loquacious videologue of the modern male and the lengths to which he 'll go to weave a protective cocoon around his own ego .
Output: POS
A sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration .
Output: POS
After that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course .
Output: NEG
Why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ?
Output: NEG
... if you , like me , think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with , then you 're in for a painful ride .
Output: NEG
Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) .
Output: POS
Darkly funny and frequently insightful .
Output: POS
Poetry in motion captured on film .
Output: POS
This pathetic junk is barely an hour long .
Output: NEG
( An ) absorbing documentary .
Output: POS
It 's never dull and always looks good .
Output: POS
The biggest problem I have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her Esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing .
Output: NEG
`` Extreme Ops '' exceeds expectations .
Output: POS
The lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced ... It 's a pity that ( Nelson 's ) achievement does n't match his ambition .
Output: NEG
... a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone .
Output: NEG
None of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of Sorority Boys is as appalling as any ` comedy ' to ever spill from a projector 's lens .
Output: NEG
Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references .
Output: NEG
The movie is without intent .
Output: NEG
But ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr. De Niro .
Output: NEG
... the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with Musset unfolds as Sand 's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form .
Output: POS
Who is the audience for Cletis Tout ?
Output: POS
a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre
Output: NEG
What ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between Americans and Brits .
Output: NEG
It looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships .
Output: POS
but rather , ` How can you charge money for this ? '
Output: NEG
Bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen .
Output: POS
Spiderman ROCKS
Output: POS
` Like a child with an important message to tell ... ( Skins ' ) faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . '
Output: POS
Succeeds only because Bullock and Grant were made to share the silver screen .
Output: POS
Starts off witty and sophisticated and you want to love it -- but filmmaker Yvan Attal quickly writes himself into a corner .
Output: NEG
A thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions .
Output: NEG
Too clumsy in key moments ... to make a big splash .
Output: NEG
This is the best Star Trek movie in a long time .
Output: POS
It 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long .
Output: NEG
shows Holmes has the screen presence to become a major-league leading lady , ( but ) the movie itself is an underachiever , a psychological mystery that takes its sweet time building to a climax that 's scarcely a surprise by the time it arrives .
Output: NEG
Some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema .
Output: NEG
It goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .
Output: NEG
None of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest .
Output: NEG
Even kids deserve better .
Output: NEG
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party .
Output: POS
Elegant , mannered and teasing .
Output: POS
A must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle .
Output: POS
It is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film .
Output: NEG
Rehearsals are frequently more fascinating than the results .
Output: POS
Definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . '
Output: POS
An awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers .
Output: NEG
Truly terrible .
Output: NEG
Strange and beautiful film .
Output: POS
A yawn-provoking little farm melodrama .
Output: NEG
Talk to Her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching .
Output: POS
It 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .
Output: POS
It treats Ana 's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film .
Output: POS
... stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier .
Output: NEG
( P ) artnering Murphy with Robert De Niro for the TV-cops comedy Showtime would seem to be surefire casting .
Output: POS
Try as you might to resist , if you 've got a place in your heart for Smokey Robinson , this movie will worm its way there .
Output: POS
Keenly observed and refreshingly natural , Swimming gets the details right , from its promenade of barely clad bodies in Myrtle Beach , S.C. , to the adrenaline jolt of a sudden lunch rush at the diner .
Output: POS
Oddly , the film is n't nearly as downbeat as it sounds , but strikes a tone that 's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny .
Output: POS
... grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces .
Output: NEG
This time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it 's still a rollicking good time for the most part .
Output: POS
... the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning .
Output: NEG
little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic .
Output: NEG
The Piano Teacher is not an easy film .
Output: NEG
The film did n't convince me that Calvin Jr. 's Barbershop represents some sort of beacon of hope in the middle of Chicago 's South Side .
Output: NEG
Coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , Circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story .
Output: NEG
Why would anyone cast the magnificent Jackie Chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ?
Output: NEG
A sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer .
Output: NEG
Leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of Hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion .
Output: NEG
They 're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid .
Output: NEG
Just a Kiss is a just a waste .
Output: NEG
Because the film deliberately lacks irony , it has a genuine dramatic impact ; it plays like a powerful 1957 drama we 've somehow never seen before .
Output: POS
A knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor .
Output: POS
The title , alone , should scare any sane person away .
Output: NEG
One of the film 's most effective aspects is its Tchaikovsky soundtrack of neurasthenic regret .
Output: NEG
Director David Jacobson gives Dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims .
Output: POS
A gangster movie with the capacity to surprise .
Output: POS
Has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be .
Output: NEG
This enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting , an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends .
Output: POS
A summary of the plot does n't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution .
Output: NEG
Ca n't seem to get anywhere near the story 's center .
Output: POS
A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera ...
Output: POS
Feels like a cold old man going through the motions .
Output: NEG
Bound to appeal to women looking for a howlingly trashy time .
Output: POS
Just like Igby .
Output: POS
Nights feels more like a quickie TV special than a feature film ... It 's not even a TV special you 'd bother watching past the second commercial break .
Output: NEG
`` Home Movie '' is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book .
Output: POS
It is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by Southern blacks as distilled through a Caucasian perspective .
Output: POS
( F ) rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .
Output: POS
an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot
Output: POS
She 's all-powerful , a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness .
Output: POS
A standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for De Niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a TNT Original .
Output: NEG
It 's a very valuable film ...
Output: POS
Nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy .
Output: NEG
For those who pride themselves on sophisticated , discerning taste , this might not seem like the proper cup of tea , however it is almost guaranteed that even the stuffiest cinema goers will laugh their \*\*\* off for an hour-and-a-half .
Output: POS
So mind-numbingly awful that you hope Britney wo n't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned .
Output: NEG
What you expect is just what you get ... assuming the bar of expectations has n't been raised above sixth-grade height .
Output: NEG
A boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-Century crime as a metaphor for -- well , I 'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop .
Output: NEG
It winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , I think ) for something fresh to say .
Output: NEG
The film is about the relationships rather than about the outcome .
Output: POS
Fluffy and disposible .
Output: NEG
The notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced Prozac Nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .
Output: NEG
Conceptually brilliant ... Plays like a living-room War Of The Worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown .
Output: POS
One Hour Photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it 's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director Mark Romanek 's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin .
Output: NEG
A piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness .
Output: POS
You 'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous ( than Leon ) .
Output: NEG
An exhilarating serving of movie fluff .
Output: POS
Horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the Serbs themselves but also to a network of American right-wing extremists .
Output: POS
Nicole Kidman evolved from star to superstar some time over the past year , which means that Birthday Girl is the kind of quirkily appealing minor movie she might not make for a while .
Output: POS
For those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .
Output: POS
The densest distillation of Roberts ' movies ever made .
Output: NEG
The sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie 's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .
Output: NEG
Davis ' candid , archly funny and deeply authentic take on intimate relationships comes to fruition in her sophomore effort .
Output: POS
Like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs .
Output: POS
The story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .
Output: NEG
The film is saved from are n't - kids-cute sentimentality by a warmth that is n't faked and a stately sense of composition .
Output: POS
This thing is just garbage .
Output: NEG
A Blair Witch - style adventure that plays like a bad soap opera , with passable performances from everyone in the cast .
Output: NEG
Killing time , that 's all that 's going on here .
Output: NEG
Nicole Holofcenter , the insightful writer\/director responsible for this illuminating comedy does n't wrap the proceedings up neatly but the ideas tie together beautifully .
Output: POS
Nohe 's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : He is n't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .
Output: POS
Critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-TV rendition of the notorious MTV show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps .
Output: POS
Lazily directed by Charles Stone III ... from a leaden script by Matthew Cirulnick and novelist Thulani Davis .
Output: NEG
Not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans .
Output: NEG
An off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world .
Output: POS
One of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation .
Output: NEG
A manically generous Christmas vaudeville .
Output: POS
Fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , Narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it .
Output: POS
Enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... What is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with Cage 's best acting .
Output: NEG
An involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings .
Output: POS
Charming and witty , it 's also somewhat clumsy .
Output: POS
An often unfunny romp .
Output: NEG
Intriguing and stylish .
Output: POS
An unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture .
Output: POS
It 's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the Cannes Film Festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere .
Output: NEG
What enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of Cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates .
Output: POS
After an uncertain start , Murder hits and generally sustains a higher plateau with Bullock 's memorable first interrogation of Gosling .
Output: POS
( A ) painfully flat gross-out comedy ...
Output: NEG
LaBute masterfully balances both Traditional or Modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other .
Output: POS
Kirshner and Monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other .
Output: NEG
The Powerpuff Girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact .
Output: POS
The Chateau has one very funny joke and a few other decent ones , but all it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film .
Output: NEG
An older cad instructs a younger lad in Zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy .
Output: POS
Malone does have a gift for generating nightmarish images that will be hard to burn out of your brain .
Output: POS
... a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .
Output: NEG
Offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through .
Output: POS
Lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless .
Output: NEG
Awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful
Output: POS
Despite Hoffman 's best efforts , Wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before .
Output: NEG
Twenty years later , Reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task .
Output: POS
I encourage young and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale 's tale -- you wo n't be sorry !
Output: POS
The story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one .
Output: POS
The story is so light and sugary that were it a Macy 's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away .
Output: NEG
A real snooze .
Output: NEG
Much of All About Lily Chou-Chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep .
Output: POS
When you think you 've figured out Bielinsky 's great game , that 's when you 're in the most trouble : He 's the con , and you 're just the mark .
Output: POS
You begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain .
Output: NEG
This is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` Ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . '
Output: NEG
It 's a sight to behold .
Output: POS
A brain twister , less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on Hollywood , success , artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy .
Output: POS
If only it were , well , funnier .
Output: NEG
Boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing .
Output: POS
Largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers .
Output: NEG
On a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made No Such Thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .
Output: NEG
Less an examination of neo-Nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself .
Output: POS
A mesmerizing cinematic poem from the first frame to the last .
Output: POS
... less a story than an inexplicable nightmare , right down to the population 's shrugging acceptance to each new horror .
Output: NEG
A stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .
Output: NEG
But it 's hardly a necessary enterprise .
Output: NEG
Though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , Jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set .
Output: NEG
What more can be expected from a college comedy that 's target audience has n't graduated from junior high school ?
Output: NEG
Schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man 's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness .
Output: NEG
Has a certain ghoulish fascination , and generates a fair amount of B-movie excitement .
Output: POS
Writer-director David Jacobson and his star , Jeremy Renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster 's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted .
Output: POS
First-time writer-director Dylan Kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people .
Output: POS
The film does n't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes Wilco a big deal .
Output: NEG
Then Nadia 's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all .
Output: POS
McTiernan 's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious .
Output: NEG
Hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud .
Output: POS
Rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ...
Output: POS
A smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy .
Output: POS
A preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958 .
Output: POS
Represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen .
Output: NEG
Funny , though .
Output: POS
In other words , it 's badder than bad .
Output: NEG
Acting can not be acted .
Output: NEG
Watching this gentle , mesmerizing portrait of a man coming to terms with time , you barely realize your mind is being blown .
Output: POS
... is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ?
Output: POS
Your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make .
Output: POS
Sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best I remember ) , but still a very good time at the cinema .
Output: POS
For a film about action , Ultimate X is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .
Output: NEG
There may have been a good film in `` Trouble Every Day , '' but it is not what is on the screen .
Output: NEG
An elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication .
Output: POS
I 'd be lying if I said my ribcage did n't ache by the end of Kung Pow .
Output: POS
A different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know .
Output: POS
The sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film .
Output: POS
An interesting look behind the scenes of Chicago-based rock group Wilco ...
Output: POS
Consider it ` perfection . '
Output: POS
Proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness .
Output: NEG
If Welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably would n't be too crazy with his great-grandson 's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way .
Output: NEG
Director Yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we have n't seen 10,000 times .
Output: NEG
And , there 's no way you wo n't be talking about the film once you exit the theater .
Output: POS
This off-putting French romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of Amélie .
Output: NEG
Ice Cube is n't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but Friday After Next spreads them pretty thin .
Output: NEG
The whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of Bewitched that takes place during Spring Break .
Output: NEG
Anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed .
Output: POS
Return to Neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill Disney sequel intended for the home video market .
Output: NEG
One of the funnier movies in town .
Output: POS