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A sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect .
Output: POS
Busy urban comedy is clearly not Zhang 's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy .
Output: NEG
A bad movie that happened to good actors .
Output: NEG
Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy .
Output: NEG
The material and the production itself are little more than routine .
Output: NEG
Should n't have been allowed to use the word `` new '' in its title , because there 's not an original character , siuation or joke in the entire movie .
Output: NEG
Steven Spielberg brings us another masterpiece
Output: POS
` Moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '
Output: NEG
You will likely prefer to keep on watching .
Output: POS
`` The Quiet American '' begins in Saigon in 1952 .
Output: POS
I walked away not really know who `` they '' were , what `` they '' looked like .
Output: NEG
Their work is fantastic .
Output: POS
directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name
Output: NEG
Jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .
Output: POS
Go for La Salle 's performance , and make do as best you can with a stuttering script .
Output: POS
An already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus .
Output: NEG
Captivates and shows how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head .
Output: POS
Berling and Béart ... continue to impress , and Isabelle Huppert ... again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters .
Output: POS
That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel .
Output: NEG
The redeeming feature of Chan 's films has always been the action , but the stunts in The Tuxedo seem tired and , what 's worse , routine .
Output: NEG
Reign of Fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond Road Warrior , it owes enormous debts to Aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining .
Output: POS
This film is an act of spiritual faith -- an eloquent , deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion .
Output: POS
The script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair .
Output: NEG
One of those rare films that come by once in a while with flawless amounts of acting , direction , story and pace .
Output: POS
Plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line .
Output: NEG
Parents beware ; this is downright movie penance .
Output: NEG
This dreadfully earnest inversion of the Concubine love triangle eschews the previous film 's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension .
Output: NEG
A superfluous sequel ... plagued by that old familiar feeling of ` let 's get this thing over with ' : Everyone has shown up at the appointed time and place , but visible enthusiasm is mighty hard to find .
Output: NEG
Schaefer 's ... determination to inject farcical raunch ... drowns out the promise of the romantic angle .
Output: NEG
A fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion .
Output: POS
Jackson is always watchable .
Output: POS
Probes in a light-hearted way the romantic problems of individuals for whom the yearning for passion spells discontent .
Output: POS
Ultimately , in the history of the Academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about `` Chicago '' in 2002 .
Output: NEG
Russian Ark is a new treasure of the Hermitage .
Output: POS
Ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies .
Output: NEG
For all the charm of Kevin Kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there 's something creepy about this movie .
Output: POS
A triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .
Output: POS
Singer\/composer Bryan Adams contributes a slew of songs -- a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story -- but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece .
Output: POS
Anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly .
Output: NEG
Mr. Soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious .
Output: NEG
Its appeal will probably limited to LDS Church members and undemanding armchair tourists .
Output: NEG
A compelling coming-of-age drama about the arduous journey of a sensitive young girl through a series of foster homes and a fierce struggle to pull free from her dangerous and domineering mother 's hold over her .
Output: POS
The romance between the leads is n't as compelling or as believable as it should be .
Output: NEG
No amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie 's lack of ideas .
Output: NEG
A genuinely funny ensemble comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives .
Output: POS
Those who are only mildly curious , I fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals .
Output: NEG
Veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film 's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures .
Output: NEG
Hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire .
Output: NEG
Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .
Output: NEG
Behan 's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best Irish sense -- but Sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance .
Output: NEG
An exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter .
Output: POS
An Asian neo-realist treasure .
Output: POS
Cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds .
Output: NEG
Why `` they '' were here and what `` they '' wanted and quite honestly , I did n't care .
Output: NEG
Halfway through , however , having sucked dry the undead action flick formula , Blade II mutates into a gross-out monster movie with effects that are more silly than scary .
Output: NEG
Ryan Gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted Daniel .
Output: POS
The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor , but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy .
Output: NEG
Storytelling feels slight .
Output: NEG
Apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you 'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .
Output: NEG
The fact that it is n't very good is almost beside the point .
Output: NEG
( A ) smarter and much funnier version of the old Police Academy flicks .
Output: POS
Entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel .
Output: NEG
Buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that it might more accurately be titled Mr. Chips off the Old Block .
Output: NEG
The movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious .
Output: POS
To work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer .
Output: POS
A big , loud , bang-the-drum bore .
Output: NEG
Made to be Jaglomized is the Cannes Film Festival , the annual Riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money .
Output: NEG
Once the downward spiral comes to pass , Auto Focus bears out as your typical junkie opera ...
Output: NEG
Exposing the ways we fool ourselves is One Hour Photo 's real strength .
Output: NEG
Not as good as The Full Monty , but a really strong second effort .
Output: POS
Fans of Plympton 's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers .
Output: NEG
It 's no accident that The Accidental Spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form .
Output: POS
The difference between Cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited .
Output: POS
The movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface .
Output: POS
Too bad none of it is funny .
Output: NEG
He nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race .
Output: POS
It 's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .
Output: NEG
It is n't that Stealing Harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure !
Output: NEG
In the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like `` Girl in Bar # 3 . ''
Output: NEG
As the movie traces Mr. Brown 's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times .
Output: POS
... del Toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy .
Output: NEG
For casual moviegoers who stumble into Rules expecting a slice of American Pie hijinks starring the kid from Dawson 's Creek , they 'll probably run out screaming .
Output: NEG
A rip-roaring comedy action fest that 'll put hairs on your chest .
Output: POS
I have no problem with `` difficult '' movies , or movies that ask the audience to meet them halfway and connect the dots instead of having things all spelled out .
Output: POS
Taken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! )
Output: NEG
If you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride .
Output: NEG
Never does `` Lilo & Stitch '' reach the emotion or timelessness of Disney 's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as `` Mulan '' or `` Tarzan . ''
Output: NEG
A movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of Cho 's fans .
Output: POS
While not all that bad of a movie , it 's nowhere near as good as the original .
Output: NEG
Feels at times like a giant commercial for Universal Studios , where much of the action takes place .
Output: NEG
Interesting , but not compelling .
Output: POS
It 's probably not easy to make such a worthless film ...
Output: NEG
Murderous Maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by Testud ... and Parmentier .
Output: POS
Terry is a sort of geriatric Dirty Harry , which will please Eastwood 's loyal fans -- and suits the story , wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man .
Output: POS
( Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai are ) sure to find an enthusiastic audience among American action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers .
Output: NEG
There 's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits .
Output: NEG
This movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it 's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it .
Output: POS
Davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that does n't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine .
Output: NEG
Chaiken ably balances real-time rhythms with propulsive incident .
Output: POS
Despite the opulent lushness of every scene , the characters never seem to match the power of their surroundings .
Output: NEG
The Movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance .
Output: POS
It 's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like Punch-Drunk Love .
Output: NEG
A savage John Waters-like humor that dances on the edge of tastelessness without ever quite falling over .
Output: POS
There 's an admirable rigor to Jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down .
Output: NEG
Boyd 's screenplay ( co-written with Guardian hack Nick Davies ) has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to Guy Ritchie than the Bard of Avon .
Output: NEG
Although Disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure , it feels more forced than usual .
Output: NEG
Sensitive ensemble performances and good period reconstruction add up to a moving tragedy with some buoyant human moments .
Output: POS
Oversexed , at times overwrought comedy\/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty , female and single .
Output: NEG
Victor Rosa is Leguizamo 's best movie work so far , a subtle and richly internalized performance .
Output: POS
Even though the film does n't manage to hit all of its marks , it 's still entertaining to watch the target practice .
Output: POS
A well-crafted letdown .
Output: NEG
An unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity .
Output: NEG
Inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss .
Output: POS
A fresh-faced , big-hearted and frequently funny thrill ride for the kiddies , with enough eye candy and cheeky wit to keep parents away from the concession stand . '
Output: POS
`` Feardotcom '' has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .
Output: POS
A tour de force of modern cinema .
Output: POS
Alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .
Output: POS
It 's too bad nothing else is .
Output: NEG
The Mothman Prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey .
Output: POS
Flawed , but worth seeing for Ambrose 's performance .
Output: NEG
Another useless recycling of a brutal mid - '70s American sports movie .
Output: NEG
Gives everyone something to shout about .
Output: POS
My precious new Star Wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag ...
Output: NEG
... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags .
Output: POS
It grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration .
Output: POS
Watching the chemistry between Freeman and Judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing .
Output: POS
On a certain base level , Blue Crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it .
Output: NEG
The laughs are as rare as snake foo yung .
Output: NEG
I had more fun watching Spy than I had with most of the big summer movies .
Output: POS
Not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially San Francisco lovers -- it 's a spirited film and a must-see .
Output: POS
One scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud .
Output: NEG
This is n't a terrible film by any means , but it 's also far from being a realized work .
Output: POS
My Wife is an Actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy .
Output: POS
The quirky and recessive charms of co-stars Martin Donovan and Mary-Louise Parker help overcome the problematic script .
Output: POS
While we want MacDowell 's character to retrieve her husband , we have to ask whether her personal odyssey trumps the carnage that claims so many lives around her .
Output: NEG
There is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film Oscar : Make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture .
Output: POS
A zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded Elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with .
Output: POS
Takashi Miike keeps pushing the envelope : Ichi the Killer
Output: POS
It 's a visual Rorschach test and I must have failed .
Output: NEG
A strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two
Output: POS
Poignant and moving , A Walk to Remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter .
Output: POS
I ca n't recommend it .
Output: NEG
Director George Hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .
Output: NEG
A remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive Eisenhower era about one suburban woman 's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life .
Output: POS
That 's its first sign of trouble .
Output: NEG
To say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor .
Output: NEG
Although ... visually striking and slickly staged , it 's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated .
Output: NEG
And that is where Ararat went astray .
Output: NEG
Bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via Kirsten Dunst 's remarkable performance , he showcases Davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy .
Output: POS
Viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess .
Output: NEG
It comes off as so silly that you would n't be surprised if BA , Murdock and rest of the A-Team were seen giving chase in a black and red van .
Output: NEG
In theory , a middle-aged romance pairing Clayburgh and Tambor sounds promising , but in practice it 's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life .
Output: NEG
Comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire .
Output: NEG
Director Jay Russell stomps in hobnail boots over Natalie Babbitt 's gentle , endearing 1975 children 's novel .
Output: NEG
Zellweger 's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a
Output: NEG
Splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity .
Output: POS
Loud , chaotic and largely unfunny .
Output: NEG
A raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted Korean American stand-up 's I 'm the One That I Want .
Output: POS
What puzzles me is the lack of emphasis on music in Britney Spears ' first movie .
Output: NEG
This is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm .
Output: NEG
A cartoon ?
Output: NEG
... pitiful , slapdash disaster .
Output: NEG
What might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point .
Output: NEG
Friday After Next is the kind of film that could only be made by African-Americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards African-Americans .
Output: NEG
Its and pieces of The Hot Chick are so hilarious , and Schneider 's performance is so fine , it 's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in The Animal -- is a slapdash mess .
Output: NEG
Beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it 's a lyrical endeavour .
Output: POS
Will no doubt delight Plympton 's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting .
Output: POS
Suspend your disbelief here and now , or you 'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits .
Output: NEG
A Meatballs for the bare-midriff generation .
Output: POS
Some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since `` Saving Private Ryan '' have been recreated by John Woo in this little-known story of Native Americans and their role in the second great war .
Output: POS
At just over an hour , Home Movie will leave you wanting more , not to mention leaving you with some laughs and a smile on your face .
Output: POS
The overall fabric is hypnotic , and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy .
Output: POS
This is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy .
Output: NEG
As directed by Dani Kouyate of Burkina Faso , Sia lacks visual flair .
Output: NEG
Bacon keeps things interesting , but do n't go out of your way to pay full price .
Output: NEG
This ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it .
Output: NEG
It 's not too racy and it 's not too offensive .
Output: POS
A depressingly retrograde , ` post-feminist ' romantic comedy that takes an astonishingly condescending attitude toward women .
Output: NEG
A complete waste of time .
Output: NEG
Impossible as it may sound , this film 's heart is even more embracing than Monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition .
Output: POS
Watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement .
Output: NEG
The problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum .
Output: NEG
Whenever you think you 've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end .
Output: NEG
An intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the Hollywood pipeline without a hitch .
Output: POS
Pompous and garbled .
Output: NEG
Was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercise in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz ?
Output: NEG
It 's coherent , well shot , and tartly acted , but it wears you down like a dinner guest showing off his doctorate .
Output: NEG
True to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus ... ` The Country Bears ' should never have been brought out of hibernation .
Output: NEG
All comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad .
Output: NEG
But for the most part , The Weight of Water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness .
Output: NEG
The film is all over the place , really .
Output: NEG
There are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy .
Output: POS
Genuinely unnerving .
Output: POS
We started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` Chris Rock , ' ` Anthony Hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some Univac-like script machine .
Output: NEG
every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that I usually dread encountering the most - The Fanboy
Output: POS
Like its New England characters , most of whom wander about in thick clouds of denial , the movie eventually gets around to its real emotional business , striking deep chords of sadness .
Output: POS
It 's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit .
Output: NEG
A loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the TV series .
Output: NEG
Brown 's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie .
Output: NEG
You have once again entered the bizarre realm where director Adrian Lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal .
Output: POS
Lazy , miserable and smug .
Output: NEG
Or that the battery on your watch has died .
Output: NEG
Denis forges out of the theories of class - based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord .
Output: NEG
Spider-Man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .
Output: NEG
It wears its heart on the sleeve of its gaudy Hawaiian shirt .
Output: NEG
Seen in that light , Moonlight Mile should strike a nerve in many .
Output: POS
A selection of scenes in search of a movie .
Output: NEG
Problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .
Output: NEG
An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch .
Output: POS
Leaping from one arresting image to another , Songs from the Second Floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time .
Output: POS
This overlong infomercial , due out on video before month 's end , is tepid and tedious .
Output: NEG
Not once in the rush to save the day did I become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of ` eh . '
Output: NEG
Wewannour money back , actually .
Output: NEG
A limp Eddie Murphy vehicle that even he seems embarrassed to be part of .
Output: NEG
The members manage to pronounce KOK exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possible .
Output: POS
A seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director Kurt Wimmer at the screenplay level .
Output: NEG
Miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images .
Output: POS
Alarms for Duvall 's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks .
Output: POS
It 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space .
Output: POS
The movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you .
Output: NEG
A classy , sprightly spin on film .
Output: POS
Some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like Ballistic : Ecks vs. Sever , were made for the palm screen .
Output: NEG
Borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion .
Output: NEG
Garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work .
Output: POS
Remove Spider-Man the movie from its red herring surroundings and it 's apparent that this is one summer film that satisfies .
Output: POS
But no. .
Output: NEG
So verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-TV movie .
Output: NEG
Instead of contriving a climactic hero 's death for the beloved-major - character-who-shall - remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ?
Output: NEG
Lathan and Diggs carry the film with their charisma , and both exhibit sharp comic timing that makes the more hackneyed elements of the film easier to digest .
Output: POS
It 's makes a better travelogue than movie .
Output: NEG
Good , solid storytelling .
Output: POS
The film was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) .
Output: NEG
It 's a quirky , off-beat project .
Output: POS
You 'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie .
Output: NEG
Worse than ` Silence of the Lambs ' better than ` Hannibal '
Output: POS
... most viewers will wish there had been more of the `` Queen '' and less of the `` Damned . ''
Output: NEG
Tennessee Williams by way of Oprah 's Book Club .
Output: NEG
Illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller .
Output: NEG
Although Barbershop boasts some of today 's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ` 70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom .
Output: POS
... really horrible drek .
Output: NEG
Interview With the Assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its Blair Witch Project real-time roots .
Output: NEG
What 's infuriating about Full Frontal is that it 's too close to real life to make sense .
Output: NEG
Cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing Avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude .
Output: NEG
As pure over-the-top trash , any John Waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
Output: NEG
... somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks .
Output: POS
Enormously enjoyable , high-adrenaline documentary .
Output: POS
I 'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : This erotic cannibal movie is boring .
Output: NEG
Good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make Paid in Full worth seeing .
Output: POS
Alain Choquart 's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving Conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating .
Output: NEG
The umpteenth summer skinny dip in Jerry Bruckheimer 's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .
Output: POS
A serious movie with serious ideas .
Output: POS
Devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects .
Output: NEG
It has plenty of laughs .
Output: POS
A mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke .
Output: NEG
Kung Pow is Oedekerk 's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .
Output: NEG
But it also comes with the laziness and arrogance of a thing that already knows it 's won .
Output: NEG
While Bollywood\/Hollywood will undoubtedly provide its keenest pleasures to those familiar with Bombay musicals , it also has plenty for those ( like me ) who are n't .
Output: POS
Campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful .
Output: POS
One of those so-so films that could have been much better .
Output: NEG
` Enigma ' is the kind of engaging historical drama that Hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of ` We Were Soldiers . '
Output: POS
A reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , Spielberg knows how to tell us about people .
Output: POS
Benigni presents himself as the boy puppet Pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and American Breckin Meyer 's ridiculously inappropriate Valley Boy voice .
Output: NEG
This is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream .
Output: NEG
In the new release of Cinema Paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned .
Output: POS
Even when Crush departs from the 4W formula ... it feels like a glossy rehash .
Output: NEG
A genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama .
Output: POS
A typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate French coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it .
Output: POS
( It ) highlights not so much the crime lord 's messianic bent , but Spacey 's .
Output: POS
Feels less like a cousin to Blade Runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the Escape From New York series .
Output: NEG
Reassuring , retro uplifter .
Output: POS
Odd and weird .
Output: NEG
Count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater .
Output: POS
If the very concept makes you nervous ... you 'll have an idea of the film 's creepy , scary effectiveness .
Output: POS
Affirms the gifts of all involved , starting with Spielberg and going right through the ranks of the players -- on-camera and off -- that he brings together .
Output: POS
How I Killed My Father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you 're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts .
Output: NEG
Tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .
Output: NEG
A chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece ... so dull that its tagline should be : ` In space , no one can hear you snore . '
Output: NEG
Ice Age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on .
Output: POS
That 's muy loco , but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of `` Dragonfly . ''
Output: NEG
Throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love 's brief moment .
Output: POS
For all its brooding quality , Ash Wednesday is suspenseful and ultimately unpredictable , with a sterling ensemble cast .
Output: POS
It 's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal .
Output: POS
Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs .
Output: NEG
Every joke is repeated at least -- annoying , is n't it ?
Output: NEG
Steve Oedekerk is , alas , no Woody Allen .
Output: NEG
This may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar .
Output: NEG
Sadly , Full Frontal plays like the work of a dilettante .
Output: NEG
I 've yet to find an actual Vietnam War combat movie actually produced by either the North or South Vietnamese , but at least now we 've got something pretty damn close .
Output: POS
Though Haynes ' style apes films from the period ... its message is not rooted in that decade .
Output: POS
With a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , Personal Velocity seems to be idling in neutral .
Output: NEG
You never know where Changing Lanes is going to take you but it 's a heck of a ride .
Output: POS
A really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .
Output: NEG
The movie is our story as much as it is Schmidt 's , no matter if it 's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale .
Output: POS
As an actor 's showcase , Hart 's War has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed Willis is not the most impressive player .
Output: POS
A lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family .
Output: POS
Manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .
Output: POS
Painfully padded .
Output: NEG
The cast is top-notch and I predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over Michael Idemoto as Michael .
Output: POS
For those in search of something different , Wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale .
Output: POS
Boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , Impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie .
Output: NEG
Just plain bad .
Output: NEG
What with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time .
Output: NEG
Witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it 's Dench who really steals the show .
Output: POS
It can be safely recommended as a video\/DVD babysitter .
Output: POS
Well , they 're ` they ' .
Output: POS
It 's neither as sappy as Big Daddy nor as anarchic as Happy Gilmore or The Waterboy , but it has its moments .
Output: POS
Possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .
Output: NEG
Before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , Steven Shainberg 's adaptation of Mary Gaitskill 's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience .
Output: POS
Even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , East-vs .
Output: POS
A movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you do n't want to be .
Output: POS
Or both .
Output: POS
Real Women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way .
Output: POS
She is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew .
Output: POS
Wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there
Output: NEG
Still , it just sits there like a side dish no one ordered .
Output: NEG
The film is a fierce dance of destruction .
Output: POS
A story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material .
Output: NEG
By no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .
Output: POS
Control-Alt-Delete Simone as quickly as possible
Output: NEG
Even when he 's not at his most critically insightful , Godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work .
Output: POS
A little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged .
Output: POS
New ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is .
Output: NEG
Possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure .
Output: NEG
A sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity .
Output: POS
This heist flick about young Brooklyn hoods is off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin Diesel , Seth Green and Barry Pepper .
Output: POS
Light the candles , bring out the cake and do n't fret about the calories because there 's precious little substance in Birthday Girl -- it 's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat .
Output: POS
Reeboir varies between a sweet smile and an angry bark , while Said attempts to wear down possible pupils through repetition .
Output: NEG
... if you 're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch Freaks as a matinee .
Output: POS
This is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences ... and it 's all the stronger because of it .
Output: POS
If you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of Unfaithful .
Output: POS
Although shot with little style , Skins is heartfelt and achingly real .
Output: POS
With jump cuts , fast editing and lots of pyrotechnics , Yu clearly hopes to camouflage how bad his movie is .
Output: NEG
As averse as I usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream Hollywood fantasies , this one got to me .
Output: POS
Like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .
Output: NEG
Chelsea Walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe .
Output: NEG
With one exception , every blighter in this particular South London housing project digs into dysfunction like it 's a big , comforting jar of Marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness .
Output: NEG
A portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers .
Output: NEG
Does n't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past Seagal films .
Output: NEG
A film that suffers because of its many excesses .
Output: NEG
It 's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence .
Output: POS
A much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian English title would have you believe .
Output: POS
The movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure .
Output: NEG
An enthralling aesthetic experience , one that 's steeped in mystery and a ravishing , baroque beauty .
Output: POS
Texan director George Ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare .
Output: POS
At least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , Charles Stone III .
Output: POS
He has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper .
Output: POS
Ice Age posits a heretofore unfathomable question : Is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ?
Output: NEG
What ultimately makes Windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story .
Output: NEG
A film that 's flawed and brilliant in equal measure .
Output: POS
Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar .
Output: NEG
No Such Thing breaks no new ground and treads old turf like a hippopotamus ballerina .
Output: NEG
If I want a real movie , I 'll buy the Criterion DVD .
Output: NEG
Despite a quieter middle section , involving Aragorn 's dreams of Arwen , this is even better than The Fellowship .
Output: POS
One ca n't shake the feeling that Crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for Britney 's latest album .
Output: NEG
Part of the film 's cheeky charm comes from its vintage schmaltz .
Output: POS
That 's why Sex and Lucia is so alluring .
Output: POS
Hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like ... but overall the Halloween series has lost its edge .
Output: NEG
Fessenden 's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy .
Output: POS
Paul Cox needed to show it .
Output: NEG
Writer and director Otar Iosseliani 's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in Venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls .
Output: POS
This bracingly truthful antidote to Hollywood teenage movies that slather Clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .
Output: POS
Bisset delivers a game performance , but she is unable to save the movie .
Output: POS
Adam Sandler 's heart may be in the right place , but he needs to pull his head out of his butt
Output: NEG
Perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , About Schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness .
Output: POS
Although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense .
Output: POS
Allen 's funniest and most likeable movie in years .
Output: POS
Grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors .
Output: NEG
Even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by Avary 's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest .
Output: NEG
The movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers .
Output: NEG
Read My Lips is to be viewed and treasured for its extraordinary intelligence and originality as well as its lyrical variations on the game of love .
Output: POS
It 's a hellish , numbing experience to watch , and it does n't offer any insights that have n't been thoroughly debated in the media already , back in the Dahmer heyday of the mid - '90s .
Output: NEG
Never having seen the first two films in the series , I ca n't compare Friday After Next to them , but nothing would change the fact that what we have here is a load of clams left in the broiling sun for a good three days .
Output: NEG
A big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as The Hours is a distinct rarity , and an event .
Output: POS
Incoherence reigns .
Output: NEG
No French people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half .
Output: NEG
Your response to its new sequel , Analyze That , may hinge on what you thought of the first film .
Output: POS
And adults will at least have a dream image of the West to savor whenever the film 's lamer instincts are in the saddle .
Output: NEG
The smash 'em - up , crash 'em - up , shoot 'em - up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense .
Output: POS
A completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and , some plot blips aside , stays there for the duration .
Output: POS
Its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch .
Output: POS
Holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp .
Output: POS
Made me unintentionally famous -- as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby .
Output: NEG
Does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny .
Output: NEG
A chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .
Output: POS
Wait for pay per view or rental but do n't dismiss BarberShop out of hand .
Output: NEG
I ca n't remember the last time I saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in Extreme Ops .
Output: NEG
Only for young children , if them .
Output: POS
captures that perverse element of the Kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . ''
Output: POS
... the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see .
Output: POS
It 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .
Output: POS
There is so much plodding sensitivity .
Output: NEG
It 's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look .
Output: POS
Interminably bleak , to say nothing of boring .
Output: NEG
` Punch-Drunk Love is so convinced of its own brilliance that , if it were a person , you 'd want to smash its face in . '
Output: NEG
Two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity .
Output: NEG
I 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment .
Output: NEG
... unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept .
Output: NEG
Though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there 's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting .
Output: POS
Yet another weepy Southern bore-athon .
Output: NEG
A respectable but uninspired thriller that 's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact .
Output: NEG
You have no affinity for most of the characters .
Output: NEG
An old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarely make anymore .
Output: POS
Stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish .
Output: NEG
It may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made .
Output: POS
Whether or not Ram Dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , Fierce Grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one .
Output: POS
Chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly .
Output: NEG
It ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .
Output: NEG
What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers .
Output: NEG
Well , it 's not as pathetic as The Animal .
Output: NEG
Mostly Martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it 's a pleasurable trifle .
Output: POS
By turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .
Output: POS
We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies .
Output: POS
Not kids , who do n't need the lesson in repugnance .
Output: POS
Twohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record .
Output: POS
A gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative Hollywood practices .
Output: POS
This is a nervy , risky film , and Villeneuve has inspired Croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of Bibi .
Output: POS
An infuriating film .
Output: NEG
Has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together .
Output: NEG
As it turns out , you can go home again .
Output: POS
Not a strike against Yang 's similarly themed Yi Yi , but I found What Time ?
Output: NEG