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The first Bond movie in ages that is n't fake fun .
Output: POS
The film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in .
Output: POS
Depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .
Output: NEG
A film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships .
Output: POS
There is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country .
Output: POS
Though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
Output: POS
While centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the Yiddish theater , both in America and Israel .
Output: POS
An action\/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of Day of the Jackal , The French Connection , and Heat .
Output: POS
Much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché .
Output: NEG
Good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there 's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat .
Output: POS
The campy results make Mel Brooks ' Borscht Belt schtick look sophisticated .
Output: POS
I 've never bought from telemarketers , but I bought this movie .
Output: POS
By not averting his eyes , Solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable .
Output: POS
If you love him , you 'll like it .
Output: POS
Seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized , quasi-Shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil .
Output: POS
Angel presents events partly from the perspective of Aurelie and Christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .
Output: POS
When Mr. Hundert tells us in his narration that ` this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .
Output: NEG
It 's the type of stunt the Academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film .
Output: NEG
Visually , ` Santa Clause 2 ' is wondrously creative .
Output: POS
300 years of Russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness .
Output: POS
In capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st .
Output: POS
A rip-off twice removed , modeled after ( Seagal 's ) earlier copycat Under Siege , sometimes referred to as Die Hard on a boat .
Output: NEG
Despite the film 's bizarre developments , Hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character 's gripping humanity .
Output: POS
It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi .
Output: NEG
Proves mainly that South Korean filmmakers can make undemanding action movies with all the alacrity of their Hollywood counterparts .
Output: POS
The footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with Suge Knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .
Output: POS
Robert Harmon 's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in - the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film 's thick shadows .
Output: POS
This is standard crime drama fare ... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .
Output: NEG
Almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like `` The Addams Family '' to everyone looking in ... `` My Big Fat Greek Wedding '' comes from the heart ...
Output: POS
Enough is not a bad movie , just mediocre .
Output: NEG
You can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored ... audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter .
Output: POS
K 19 stays afloat as decent drama\/action flick
Output: POS
About Amy 's cuteness , Amy 's career success ( she 's a best-selling writer of self-help books who ca n't help herself ) , and Amy 's neuroses when it comes to men .
Output: POS
While Howard 's appreciation of Brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast .
Output: NEG
Exhilarating but blatantly biased .
Output: POS
In the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , Like Mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency .
Output: NEG
Beautifully reclaiming the story of Carmen and recreating it an in an African idiom .
Output: POS
It 's sort of in-between , and it works .
Output: POS
It 's the sweet Cinderella story that `` Pretty Woman '' wanted to be .
Output: POS
Nettelbeck ... has a pleasing way with a metaphor .
Output: POS
Give Shapiro , Goldman , and Bolado credit for good intentions , but there 's nothing here that they could n't have done in half an hour .
Output: NEG
As a remake , it 's a pale imitation .
Output: NEG
Does anyone much think the central story of Brendan Behan is that he was a bisexual sweetheart before he took to drink ?
Output: POS
Ninety minutes of Viva Castro !
Output: POS
Time Out is as serious as a pink slip .
Output: NEG
A small movie with a big heart .
Output: POS
A chronicle not only of one man 's quest to be president , but of how that man single-handedly turned a plane full of hard-bitten , cynical journalists into what was essentially , by campaign 's end , an extended publicity department .
Output: POS
It appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up .
Output: NEG
Monte Cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds .
Output: POS
The Piano Teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .
Output: NEG
Some Body will take you places you have n't been , and also places you have .
Output: POS
The Irwins ' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts .
Output: NEG
Leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema .
Output: POS
All the Queen 's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers .
Output: NEG
The drama discloses almost nothing .
Output: NEG
The performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .
Output: POS
Attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare I say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident .
Output: NEG
... a visually seductive , unrepentantly trashy take on Rice 's second installment of her Vampire Chronicles .
Output: POS
Generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters .
Output: POS
Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor 's preposterous Titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .
Output: NEG
The satire is unfocused , while the story goes nowhere .
Output: NEG
It 's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism .
Output: POS
What 's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be .
Output: POS
The plot twists give I Am Trying to Break Your Heart an attraction it desperately needed .
Output: POS
Sex With Strangers is fascinating ...
Output: POS
Most of the problems with the film do n't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved
Output: NEG
Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion .
Output: NEG
Simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn .
Output: NEG
Though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable .
Output: POS
unpretentious , charming , quirky , original
Output: POS
It 's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness , and where Human Nature should be ingratiating , it 's just grating .
Output: NEG
The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey .
Output: NEG
If routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $ 8 and get ready for the big shear .
Output: NEG
This submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to Das Boot .
Output: POS
It 's all entertaining enough , but do n't look for any hefty anti-establishment message in what is essentially a whip-crack of a buddy movie that ends with a whimper .
Output: POS
As giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago .
Output: POS
Unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers .
Output: NEG
The movie 's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story .
Output: NEG
As animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth .
Output: POS
Bluto Blutarsky , we miss you .
Output: POS
` In this poor remake of such a well loved classic , Parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '
Output: NEG
A wordy wisp of a comedy .
Output: POS
It should have stayed there .
Output: NEG
This is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-Disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt .
Output: POS
Despite bearing the Paramount imprint , it 's a bargain-basement European pickup .
Output: NEG
... the plot weaves us into a complex web .
Output: POS
A film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations .
Output: NEG
Just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective .
Output: POS
Apart from its own considerable achievement , Metropolis confirms Tezuka 's status as both the primary visual influence on the animé tradition and its defining philosophical conscience .
Output: POS
The actors are fantastic .
Output: POS
The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough .
Output: NEG
This is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured Christmas season pics ever delivered by a Hollywood studio .
Output: NEG
Cube 's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche .
Output: POS
Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the - making .
Output: NEG
Sly , sophisticated and surprising .
Output: POS
A prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell .
Output: NEG
It will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face .
Output: POS
A remarkable film by Bernard Rose .
Output: POS
The connected stories of Breitbart and Hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in Invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice .
Output: NEG
Then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up Twin Peaks action ...
Output: POS
Even if it is generally amusing from time to time , I Spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have .
Output: NEG
Snipes is both a snore and utter tripe .
Output: NEG
The characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue CIA assassins working for Chris Cooper 's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we do n't feel much for Damon\/Bourne or his predicament .
Output: NEG
The Santa Clause 2 's plot may sound like it was co-written by Mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry .
Output: NEG
Worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames .
Output: NEG
Both Grant and Hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others .
Output: POS
Performances all around are tops , with the two leads delivering Oscar-caliber performances .
Output: POS
Watching Queen of the Damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .
Output: NEG
In an ART FILM !
Output: POS
While it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight .
Output: POS
The attempt to build up a pressure cooker of horrified awe emerges from the simple fact that the movie has virtually nothing to show .
Output: NEG
Whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , Who Is Cletis Tout ?
Output: NEG
This is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you 've been sitting still .
Output: NEG
Jarecki and Gibney do find enough material to bring Kissinger 's record into question and explain how the diplomat 's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives .
Output: POS
By the standards of knucklehead swill , The Hot Chick is pretty damned funny .
Output: POS
The most horrific movie experience I 've had since `` Ca n't Stop The Music . ''
Output: NEG
The best way to describe it is as a cross between Paul Thomas Anderson 's Magnolia and David Lynch 's Mulholland Dr.
Output: POS
Deuces Wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like The Wanderers and A Bronx Tale without cribbing any of their intelligence .
Output: NEG
Fontaine masterfully creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict , inextricably entwined through family history , each seeing himself in the other , neither liking what he sees .
Output: POS
No better or worse than ` Truth or Consequences , N.M. ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic Mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a Western backwater .
Output: NEG
Two Weeks Notice has appeal beyond being a Sandra Bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy .
Output: POS
Kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper .
Output: NEG
It 's the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time B movies good-bad that makes Eight Legged Freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion .
Output: POS
In between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and ` just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '
Output: POS
A triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light .
Output: POS
( Allen 's ) best works understand why snobbery is a better satiric target than middle-America diversions could ever be .
Output: POS
Should have gone straight to video .
Output: NEG
This humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of Zhao Benshan and the delicate ways of Dong Jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that ` they do n't make movies like they used to anymore . '
Output: POS
Passions , obsessions , and loneliest dark spots are pushed to their most virtuous limits , lending the narrative an unusually surreal tone .
Output: POS
Yet another self-consciously overwritten story about a rag-tag bunch of would-be characters that team up for a ca n't - miss heist -- only to have it all go wrong .
Output: NEG
A brutal and funny work .
Output: POS
A dazzling dream of a documentary .
Output: POS
entertaining enough , but nothing new
Output: NEG
Both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded .
Output: NEG
Leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances .
Output: NEG
The casting of von Sydow ... is itself Intacto 's luckiest stroke .
Output: POS
Possibly not since Grumpy Old Men have I heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another .
Output: NEG
A comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis .
Output: POS
A well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars .
Output: POS
Does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer boring .
Output: NEG
( Woo 's ) most resonant film since The Killer .
Output: POS
Adaptation 's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary .
Output: POS
Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema 's directorial giants .
Output: NEG
Coppola 's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema .
Output: POS
There 's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age\/coming-out tale .
Output: NEG
Its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story .
Output: POS
A film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story .
Output: POS
While general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of Cuban music , they 'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds .
Output: POS
... manages to fall closer in quality to Silence than to the abysmal Hannibal .
Output: POS
What emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice .
Output: POS
Can be classified as one of those ` alternate reality ' movies ... except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality .
Output: NEG
Rock 's stand-up magic wanes .
Output: NEG
Inconsequential road-and-buddy pic .
Output: NEG
The comedy Death to Smoochy is a rancorous curiosity : a movie without an apparent audience .
Output: NEG
Bravado Kathy !
Output: POS
Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap .
Output: NEG
One of the worst movies of the year .
Output: NEG
The acting is n't much better .
Output: NEG
One of the best , most understated performances of ( Jack Nicholson 's ) career .
Output: POS
As a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired .
Output: NEG
Despite engaging offbeat touches , Knockaround Guys rarely seems interested in kicking around a raison d'etre that 's as fresh-faced as its young-guns cast .
Output: NEG
... familiar and predictable , and 4\/5ths of it might as well have come from a Xerox machine rather than ( writer-director ) Franc .
Output: NEG
Anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but ca n't afford the $ 20 million ticket to ride a Russian rocket should catch this IMAX offering .
Output: POS
Less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 .
Output: POS
The solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre .
Output: POS
The film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for Gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other Carmen before her .
Output: POS
Dogtown and Z-Boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become `` the punk kids ' revolution . ''
Output: POS
As a kind of colorful , dramatized PBS program , Frida gets the job done .
Output: POS
Even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , Scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it 's documenting .
Output: POS
It all starts to smack of a Hallmark Hall of Fame , with a few four letter words thrown in that are generally not heard on television .
Output: NEG
May be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since Town and Country .
Output: NEG
It 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring .
Output: NEG
But then again , I hate myself most mornings .
Output: NEG
-- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw .
Output: NEG
It 's a Frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be .
Output: NEG
Entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from Venus and men from Mars can indeed get together .
Output: POS
A film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters .
Output: NEG
The movie does its best to work us over , with second helpings of love , romance , tragedy , false dawns , real dawns , comic relief , two separate crises during marriage ceremonies , and the lush scenery of the Cotswolds .
Output: POS
Yes they can swim , the title is merely Anne-Sophie Birot 's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through .
Output: NEG
While the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think .
Output: POS
Does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of Richard Nixon .
Output: NEG
Though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed .
Output: POS
Like a grinning Jack O ' Lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded .
Output: NEG
A straight-shooting family film which awards animals the respect they 've rarely been given .
Output: POS
Can I admit XXX is as deep as a Petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ?
Output: NEG
This cloying , voices-from-the-other-side story is hell .
Output: NEG
A brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .
Output: POS
It 's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of Sarah and Harrison .
Output: POS
This is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force .
Output: POS
Now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made Vittorio De Sica proud .
Output: POS
A visual spectacle full of stunning images and effects .
Output: POS
Reyes ' word processor .
Output: POS
As earnest as a community-college advertisement , American Chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school .
Output: NEG
The movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man .
Output: NEG
Scotland , PA is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept .
Output: NEG
Admirers of director Abel Ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , R Xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form .
Output: POS
A delicious and delicately funny look at the residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood coping with the befuddling complications life tosses at them .
Output: POS
Greg Kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .
Output: POS
The picture seems uncertain whether it wants to be an acidic all-male All About Eve or a lush , swooning melodrama in the Intermezzo strain .
Output: NEG
The movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as Jules Verne 's ' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ' and the George Pal version of H.G. Wells ' ` The Time Machine . '
Output: NEG
Jones ... makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $ 1.8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart .
Output: POS
In a summer of clones , Harvard Man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects .
Output: POS
Plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel .
Output: POS
Enough may pander to our basest desires for payback , but unlike many revenge fantasies , it ultimately delivers .
Output: POS
You might be shocked to discover that Seinfeld 's real life is boring .
Output: NEG
Parts seem like they were lifted from Terry Gilliam 's subconscious , pressed through Kafka 's meat grinder and into Buñuel 's casings
Output: POS
What 's the most positive thing that can be said about the new Rob Schneider vehicle ?
Output: NEG
Cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy .
Output: NEG
At its best , this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure , an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture .
Output: POS
Blade II has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation .
Output: POS
And it 's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it .
Output: NEG
Giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun .
Output: POS
Murderous Maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the Papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy ...
Output: POS
Sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation .
Output: POS
If you 're in the right B-movie frame of mind , it may just scare the pants off you .
Output: POS
The actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward .
Output: NEG
The otherwise good-naturedness of Mr. Deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less - than-likely New York celebrities ... certainly raises the film above anything Sandler 's been attached to before .
Output: POS
Klein , charming in comedies like American Pie and dead-on in Election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed .
Output: NEG
It 's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by Kwan 's unique directing style .
Output: POS
The mushy finale turns John Q into a movie-of-the-week tearjerker .
Output: POS
It was a dark and stormy night ...
Output: NEG
What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is .
Output: POS
Forget the Psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this wo n't seem like such a bore .
Output: NEG
`` Austin Powers in Goldmember '' has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .
Output: POS
An uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on Philip K. Dick stories .
Output: NEG
Despite its raucous intent , XXX is as conventional as a Nike ad and as rebellious as spring break .
Output: NEG
Queen of the Damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of Aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame .
Output: NEG
A funny , triumphant , and moving documentary .
Output: POS
Great over-the-top moviemaking if you 're in a slap-happy mood .
Output: POS
A sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .
Output: NEG
Diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance
Output: NEG
If there 's one big point to Promises , it 's that nothing can change while physical and psychological barriers keep the sides from speaking even one word to each other .
Output: POS
In The Pianist , Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say , confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions , and he allows nothing to get in the way .
Output: POS
The movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us .
Output: NEG
Did we really need a remake of `` Charade ? ''
Output: NEG
... unbearably lame .
Output: NEG
Decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies , newsreels and the like .
Output: NEG
aside from showing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there 's little to be learned from watching ` Comedian '
Output: NEG
In this film , Aussie David Caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of Guy Ritchie .
Output: POS
Cinematic poetry showcases the city 's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .
Output: POS
A surprisingly ` solid ' achievement by director Malcolm D. Lee and writer John Ridley .
Output: POS
The film is strictly routine .
Output: NEG
An entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller .
Output: POS
Not quite as miraculous as its DreamWorks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions .
Output: POS
( Kirshner wins , but it 's close . )
Output: POS
Visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay .
Output: NEG
A slick , engrossing melodrama .
Output: POS
Unfortunately , One Hour Photo lives down to its title .
Output: NEG
Then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed .
Output: NEG
When ( Reno ) lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at George W. Bush , Henry Kissinger , Larry King , et al. , Reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture .
Output: NEG
The movie plays up the cartoon 's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength .
Output: POS
As aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four .
Output: NEG
It 's all gratuitous before long , as if Schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story .
Output: POS
Runs on the pure adrenalin of Pacino 's performance .
Output: POS
If you 're paying attention , the `` big twists '' are pretty easy to guess - but that does n't make the movie any less entertaining .
Output: POS
Gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it 's not clear whether we 're supposed to shriek or laugh .
Output: NEG
As David Letterman and The Onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but Lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them .
Output: NEG
It trusts the story it sets out to tell .
Output: POS
Walsh ca n't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in Janice 's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm .
Output: NEG
Call it magic realism or surrealism , but Miss Wonton floats beyond reality with a certain degree of wit and dignity .
Output: POS
You could hate it for the same reason .
Output: NEG
can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of Jesse Helms ' anti- Castro rhetoric , which are included
Output: NEG
The film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made Spy Kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences .
Output: NEG
It may sound like a mere disease-of - the-week TV movie , but A Song For Martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses Seldahl and Wollter .
Output: POS
The sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give Blade fans another look at Wesley Snipes ' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once .
Output: NEG
What happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ?
Output: NEG
` Drumline ' shows a level of young , Black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated .
Output: POS
Since the movie is based on a Nicholas Sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things .
Output: NEG
But unless you 're an absolute raving Star Wars junkie , it is n't much fun .
Output: NEG
Changing Lanes tries for more .
Output: POS
Watching War Photographer , you come to believe that Nachtwey hates the wars he shows and empathizes with the victims he reveals .
Output: POS
Dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit
Output: POS
Secretary is just too original to be ignored .
Output: POS
Do n't judge this one too soon - it 's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going .
Output: POS
High Crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience .
Output: POS
Manages to accomplish what few sequels can -- it equals the original and in some ways even betters it .
Output: POS
Beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly .
Output: POS
If the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish .
Output: NEG
A great cast and a wonderful but sometimes confusing flashback movie about growing up in a dysfunctional family .
Output: POS
The story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than I 'd care to count .
Output: NEG
At every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability ... all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while Banderas looks like he 's not trying to laugh at how bad it
Output: NEG
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a whole lot of nada .
Output: NEG
No big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film .
Output: NEG
From its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , Martin is a masterfully conducted work .
Output: POS
Lead actress Gaï , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren .
Output: POS
Both deserve better .
Output: NEG
There 's a reason the studio did n't offer an advance screening .
Output: NEG
What 's so striking about Jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair .
Output: POS
The result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today 's Hollywood .
Output: NEG
In between all the emotional seesawing , it 's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived .
Output: NEG
A quietly moving look back at what it was to be Iranian-American in 1979 .
Output: POS
In the book-on-tape market , the film of `` The Kid Stays in the Picture '' would be an abridged edition
Output: NEG
Since Lee is a sentimentalist , the film is more worshipful than your random E !
Output: POS
If you 're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , I have just one word for you - -- Decasia
Output: NEG
A boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even Kingsley , are made to look bad .
Output: NEG
An original little film about one young woman 's education .
Output: POS
Without Shakespeare 's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish .
Output: NEG
Too intensely focused on the travails of being Hal Hartley to function as pastiche , No Such Thing is Hartley 's least accessible screed yet .
Output: NEG
Not even Solondz 's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it .
Output: NEG
Resident Evil is what comes from taking John Carpenter 's Ghosts of Mars and eliminating the beheadings .
Output: POS
Woody Allen has really found his groove these days .
Output: POS
If you love reading and\/or poetry , then by all means check it out .
Output: POS
As home movie gone haywire , it 's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , I 'd rather listen to old Tori Amos records .
Output: NEG
It 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn .
Output: POS
It 's fairly solid -- not to mention well edited so that it certainly does n't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .
Output: POS
At its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating .
Output: POS
A gripping drama .
Output: POS
Waiting for Godard can be fruitful : ` In Praise of Love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself .
Output: POS
It 's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but Notorious C.H.O. still feels like a promising work-in-progress .
Output: POS
While Insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , Nolan 's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth .
Output: POS
It 's worth taking the kids to .
Output: POS
The slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat .
Output: NEG
Claude Chabrol 's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements .
Output: POS
Australian filmmaker David Flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them .
Output: POS
But the problem with Wendigo , for all its effective moments , is n't really one of resources .
Output: NEG
A wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films .
Output: POS
Supposedly , Pokemon ca n't be killed , but Pokemon 4Ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over .
Output: NEG
The star who helped give a spark to `` Chasing Amy '' and `` Changing Lanes '' falls flat as thinking man CIA agent Jack Ryan in this summer 's new action film , `` The Sum of All Fears . ''
Output: NEG
Chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century America .
Output: POS
Lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck .
Output: NEG
More concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , Soderbergh 's Solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem .
Output: POS
A venturesome , beautifully realized psychological mood piece that reveals its first-time feature director 's understanding of the expressive power of the camera .
Output: POS
Visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .
Output: POS
One of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces .
Output: POS
Worth a look as a curiosity .
Output: POS
It is a likable story , told with competence .
Output: POS
An extremely funny , ultimately heartbreaking look at life in contemporary China .
Output: POS
Almost peerlessly unsettling .
Output: NEG
Coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock .
Output: NEG
Whether it 's the worst movie of 2002 , I ca n't say for sure : Memories of Rollerball have faded , and I skipped Country Bears .
Output: NEG
ZigZag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted .
Output: NEG
The Sundance Film Festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon Utah each January to ferret out The Next Great Thing .
Output: POS
A compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds .
Output: POS
This is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
Output: NEG
Due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a TelePrompTer .
Output: NEG
The most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters .
Output: NEG
Every sequel you skip will be two hours gained .
Output: NEG
A Movie to Forget
Output: NEG
An absurdist spider web .
Output: NEG
I have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time .
Output: NEG
Sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely .
Output: NEG
A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it is n't merely offensive .
Output: NEG
... Jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just is n't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead 's specific gifts .
Output: POS
A whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking Christian-themed fun .
Output: POS
It 's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after .
Output: NEG
Berry 's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making `` Die Another Day '' one of the most entertaining Bonds in years
Output: POS
The criticism never rises above easy , cynical potshots at morally bankrupt characters ...
Output: NEG
He 's worked too hard on this movie .
Output: POS
The film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work .
Output: POS
While Hoffman 's performance is great , the subject matter goes nowhere .
Output: POS
Instead of using George and Lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , Lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on George 's haplessness and Lucy 's personality tics .
Output: NEG
The one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded .
Output: POS
`` Juwanna Mann ? ''
Output: POS
Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera .
Output: POS
Kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope .
Output: POS
Claire is a terrific role for someone like Judd , who really ought to be playing villains .
Output: POS
There is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down .
Output: NEG
Hypnotically dull , relentlessly downbeat , laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old 's suicidal poetry .
Output: NEG
The Lady and the Duke is Eric Rohmer 's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama
Output: POS
Well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts .
Output: NEG
Like its bizarre heroine , it irrigates our souls .
Output: POS
Exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera ... more salacious telenovela than serious drama .
Output: NEG
The movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value .
Output: NEG
It has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hell out of you ...
Output: POS
Narratively , Trouble Every Day is a plodding mess .
Output: NEG
( A ) stale retread of the '53 original .
Output: NEG
Though Impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb .
Output: NEG
I wo n't argue with anyone who calls ` Slackers ' dumb , insulting , or childish ... but I laughed so much that I did n't mind .
Output: POS
The movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from Foreman 's barking-mad Taylor to Thewlis 's smoothly sinister Freddie and Bettany\/McDowell 's hard-eyed gangster .
Output: POS
The production values are of the highest and the performances attractive without being memorable .
Output: POS
Of all the Halloween 's , this is the most visually unappealing .
Output: NEG
A dreadful day in Irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment .
Output: POS
Instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence .
Output: NEG
In his latest effort , Storytelling , Solondz has finally made a movie that is n't just offensive -- it also happens to be good .
Output: POS
A horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness .
Output: NEG
Perhaps the grossest movie ever made .
Output: NEG
A seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by Georgian-Israeli director Dover Kosashvili .
Output: POS
Everything its title implies , a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the Tinseltown assembly line .
Output: NEG
Predecessors The Mummy and The Mummy Returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to The Scorpion King .
Output: NEG
But if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie .
Output: NEG
May cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists .
Output: NEG
The big ending surprise almost saves the movie .
Output: POS
After an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be .
Output: NEG
Each of these stories has the potential for Touched by an Angel simplicity and sappiness , but Thirteen Conversations About One Thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments .
Output: POS
I like it .
Output: POS
Puportedly `` Based on True Events , '' a convolution of language that suggests it 's impossible to claim that it is `` Based on a True Story '' with a straight face .
Output: NEG
A sensitive and astute first feature by Anne-Sophie Birot .
Output: POS
Lacks depth .
Output: NEG
Dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch .
Output: NEG
` The War of the Roses , ' trailer-trash style .
Output: NEG
Broomfield has a rather unique approach to documentary .
Output: POS
A gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema
Output: POS
These guys seem great to knock back a beer with but they 're simply not funny performers .
Output: NEG
What with the incessant lounge music playing in the film 's background , you may mistake Love Liza for an Adam Sandler Chanukah song .
Output: NEG
Presents nothing special and , until the final act , nothing overtly disagreeable .
Output: NEG
Throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh .
Output: POS
There 's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : Mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces .
Output: NEG
Uneven , self-conscious but often hilarious spoof .
Output: POS
Cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective .
Output: POS
A solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy .
Output: POS
The plot is plastered with one Hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults .
Output: NEG
While Serving Sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest Austin Powers extravaganza , there 's nothing here to match that movie 's intermittent moments of inspiration .
Output: NEG
The crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise .
Output: NEG
If you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with The Salton Sea .
Output: POS
Aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production does n't work for me .
Output: NEG
The most wondrous love story in years , it is a great film .
Output: POS
Reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others .
Output: POS
Surprisingly powerful and universal .
Output: POS
A little better than Sorcerer 's Stone .
Output: POS
Too bad writer-director Adam Rifkin situates it all in a plot as musty as one of the Golden Eagle 's carpets .
Output: NEG
It 's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful .
Output: POS
The Porky 's Revenge : Ultimate Edition ?
Output: NEG
Could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ?
Output: NEG
The pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .
Output: NEG
Antwone Fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it .
Output: POS
A relentless , bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick .
Output: NEG
An uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations . '
Output: POS