niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating .
Output: NEG
Director Elie Chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you 're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?
Output: NEG
One just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters .
Output: NEG
The weird thing about The Santa Clause 2 , purportedly a children 's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .
Output: NEG
Julie Davis is the Kathie Lee Gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent .
Output: NEG
The holiday message of the 37-minute Santa vs. the Snowman leaves a lot to be desired .
Output: NEG
More intimate than spectacular , E.T. is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades .
Output: POS
Able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history .
Output: POS
Not even Steven Spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie .
Output: NEG
... Myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-Tarantino pop-culture riffs ...
Output: POS
There 's very little sense to what 's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash .
Output: POS
Even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it does n't make for completely empty entertainment
Output: NEG
A road trip that will get you thinking , ` Are we there yet ? '
Output: NEG
than ` Magnifique ' .
Output: POS
It does n't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject .
Output: NEG
Aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash .
Output: NEG
This may be Dover Kosashvili 's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic .
Output: POS
A smart , arch and rather cold-blooded comedy .
Output: POS
The picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .
Output: NEG
An admitted egomaniac , Evans is no Hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he 'd gone the way of Don Simpson .
Output: NEG
is that it 's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime .
Output: NEG
Samuel Beckett applied to the Iranian voting process .
Output: POS
The movie worked for me right up to the final scene , and then it caved in .
Output: NEG
Stay for the credits and see a devastating comic impersonation by Dustin Hoffman that is revelatory .
Output: POS
Mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances ... and excellent use of music by India 's popular Gulzar and Jagjit Singh .
Output: POS
Brings an irresistible blend of warmth and humor and a consistent embracing humanity in the face of life 's harshness .
Output: POS
Scott Baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects .
Output: POS
There 's something not entirely convincing about The Quiet American .
Output: POS
Elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke .
Output: NEG
There is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time .
Output: NEG
There is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane .
Output: POS
By turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic .
Output: POS
Cold , nervy and memorable .
Output: POS
While it may not add up to the sum of its parts , Holofcener 's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often .
Output: POS
Downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .
Output: POS
Whenever you think you 've figured out Late Marriage , it throws you for a loop .
Output: POS
Mildly entertaining .
Output: NEG
A story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously .
Output: POS
Stay away .
Output: NEG
An animation landmark as monumental as Disney 's 1937 breakthrough Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .
Output: POS
This long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted .
Output: NEG
Jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability .
Output: POS
Who , exactly , is fighting whom here ?
Output: NEG
A mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic Jackie Chan to even younger audiences .
Output: NEG
a confident , richly acted , emotionally devastating piece of work and 2002 's first great film
Output: POS
Like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you 're over 100 .
Output: NEG
`` Bad '' is the operative word for `` Bad Company , '' and I do n't mean that in a good way .
Output: NEG
The images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .
Output: NEG
Soulless and -- even more damning -- virtually joyless , XXX achieves near virtuosity in its crapulence .
Output: NEG
Even if it made its original release date last fall , it would 've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .
Output: NEG
A quirky comedy set in Newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that 's so prevalent on The Rock .
Output: POS
Without any redeeming value whatsoever .
Output: NEG
Femme Fatale offers nothing more than a bait-and-switch that is beyond playing fair with the audience .
Output: NEG
One of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers .
Output: POS
Serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .
Output: NEG
Not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days .
Output: POS
There 's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls ...
Output: POS
A powerful performance from Mel Gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an M-16 .
Output: POS
Presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency .
Output: NEG
Beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing .
Output: POS
While it can be a bit repetitive , overall it 's an entertaining and informative documentary .
Output: POS
Gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing .
Output: NEG
There 's something unintentionally comic in the film 's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties .
Output: NEG
Best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events .
Output: POS
A college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing !
Output: POS
Suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled .
Output: NEG
Spain 's greatest star wattage does n't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy .
Output: NEG
If you can tolerate the redneck-versus-blueblood cliches that the film trades in , Sweet Home Alabama is diverting in the manner of Jeff Foxworthy 's stand-up act .
Output: POS
The band performances featured in Drumline are red hot ... ( but ) from a mere story point of view , the film 's ice cold .
Output: POS
The central character is n't complex enough to hold our interest .
Output: NEG
There 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale .
Output: NEG
Art-house to the core , Read My Lips is a genre-curling crime story that revives the free-wheeling noir spirit of old French cinema .
Output: POS
This mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , John C. Walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago .
Output: NEG
Assayas ' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of Jacques Chardonne 's novel .
Output: POS
Witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic .
Output: NEG
It 's not too fast and not too slow .
Output: POS
Jackie Chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he 's easy to like and always leaves us laughing .
Output: POS
Much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments ...
Output: POS
In the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director Roger Kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of ... outrageous gags .
Output: NEG
Hailed as a clever exercise in neo-Hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately Chabrolian .
Output: POS
Has its share of arresting images .
Output: POS
Just send it to Cranky .
Output: NEG
The pace and the visuals are so hyped up that a curious sense of menace informs everything .
Output: POS
You end up simply admiring this bit or that , this performance or that .
Output: POS
Buy popcorn .
Output: POS
Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along .
Output: NEG
She nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit .
Output: POS
Resembles a soft porn Brian De Palma pastiche .
Output: NEG
When the violence actually shocked ?
Output: POS
For his first attempt at film noir , Spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future .
Output: POS
Dogtown & Z-Boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of James Dean .
Output: POS
If you go , pack your knitting needles .
Output: NEG
Whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste .
Output: NEG
Eh .
Output: NEG
Ozpetek 's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie .
Output: POS
` You 'll laugh for not quite and hour and a half , but come out feeling strangely unsatisfied .
Output: POS
In a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that Secret Ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting .
Output: POS
A visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification .
Output: NEG
Writer-director Stephen Gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the English call ` too clever by half . '
Output: NEG
While the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course ... director John Schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .
Output: POS
Beautifully crafted and brutally honest , Promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the Middle East struggle and into the humanity of its people .
Output: POS
If H.G. Wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin 's reworked version , what would he say ?
Output: NEG
... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental .
Output: NEG
There is a general air of exuberance in All About The Benjamins that 's hard to resist .
Output: POS
Highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it .
Output: POS
Even with all its botches , Enigma offers all the pleasure of a handsome and well-made entertainment .
Output: POS
Parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for Ram Dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic .
Output: NEG
But it does n't need Gangs of New York .
Output: POS
A compelling allegory about the last days of Germany 's democratic Weimar Republic .
Output: POS
Michel Piccoli 's moving performance is this films reason for being .
Output: POS
A difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of Armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present .
Output: POS
... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .
Output: NEG
Brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade .
Output: POS
4Ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as Pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly .
Output: POS
A backhanded ode to female camaraderie penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship .
Output: NEG
The images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where Whitaker 's misfit artist is concerned .
Output: POS
Who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the ` qatsi ' trilogy , directed by Godfrey Reggio , with music by Philip Glass ?
Output: POS
A high-spirited buddy movie about the reunion of Berlin anarchists who face arrest 15 years after their crime .
Output: POS
One of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society .
Output: POS
It 's still terrible !
Output: NEG
The results , if not memorable , are at least interesting .
Output: POS
So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it .
Output: NEG
Quelle surprise !
Output: POS
Better effects , better acting and a hilarious Kenneth Branagh .
Output: POS
The simplicity of The Way Home has few equals this side of Aesop
Output: POS
Fairly run-of-the-mill .
Output: NEG
... Watching it was painful .
Output: NEG
It 's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up .
Output: NEG
One of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the French film industry in years .
Output: POS
A true-blue delight .
Output: POS
Plays like a checklist of everything Rob Reiner and his cast were sending up .
Output: NEG
Nicholson 's understated performance is wonderful .
Output: POS
Paul Bettany playing Malcolm McDowell ?
Output: POS
If any of them list this ` credit ' on their resumes in the future , that 'll be much funnier than anything in the film ...
Output: NEG
Confounding because it solemnly advances a daringly preposterous thesis .
Output: NEG
At its worst , the movie is pretty diverting ; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best .
Output: NEG
A rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children 's television .
Output: NEG
Psychologically revealing .
Output: POS
Fantastic !
Output: POS
s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance .
Output: POS
Has all the values of a straight-to-video movie , but because it has a bigger-name cast , it gets a full theatrical release .
Output: NEG
A technically well-made suspenser ... but its abrupt drop in IQ points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide .
Output: NEG
Mike White 's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make `` The Good Girl '' a film worth watching .
Output: POS
A smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .
Output: POS
The jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail .
Output: NEG
A Frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , Bartleby performs neither one very well .
Output: NEG
It 's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller .
Output: NEG
Thumbs down .
Output: NEG
A powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s .
Output: POS
Too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .
Output: NEG
On that score , the film certainly does n't disappoint .
Output: POS
More of a career curio than a major work .
Output: POS
But seriously , folks , it does n't work .
Output: NEG
The film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission ... if `` gory mayhem '' is your idea of a good time .
Output: POS
A minor-league soccer remake of The Longest Yard .
Output: NEG
A stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world 's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making .
Output: POS
In any case , I would recommend Big Bad Love only to Winger fans who have missed her since 1995 's Forget Paris .
Output: NEG
The fascination comes in the power of the Huston performance , which seems so larger than life and yet so fragile , and in the way the Ivan character accepts the news of his illness so quickly but still finds himself unable to react .
Output: POS
Decent but dull .
Output: NEG
Not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece .
Output: POS
Observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout Maelstrom .
Output: POS
Arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation .
Output: POS
` Snow Dogs ' has both .
Output: POS
McKay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative .
Output: NEG
And that holds true for both the movie and the title character played by Brendan Fraser .
Output: POS
Cinematic pratfalls given a working over .
Output: NEG
Parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there is n't enough clever innuendo to fil
Output: NEG
B picture , and I mean that as a compliment .
Output: POS
The movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . '
Output: NEG
This sci-fi techno-sex thriller starts out bizarre and just keeps getting weirder .
Output: NEG
Ah-nuld 's action hero days might be over .
Output: NEG
Done in mostly by a weak script that ca n't support the epic treatment .
Output: NEG
To better understand why this did n't connect with me would require another viewing , and I wo n't be sitting through this one again ... that in itself is commentary enough .
Output: NEG
Hugh Grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in About a Boy .
Output: POS
Disappointingly , the characters are too strange and dysfunctional , Tom included , to ever get under the skin , but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue , visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself .
Output: POS
As action-adventure , this space-based homage to Robert Louis Stevenson 's Treasure Island fires on all plasma conduits .
Output: POS
Seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product 's unshapely look , director Fisher Stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in Waking Life water colors .
Output: NEG
into How Long Is This Movie ?
Output: NEG
I have n't laughed that hard in years !
Output: POS
Once again , the intelligence of gay audiences has been grossly underestimated , and a meaty plot and well-developed characters have been sacrificed for skin and flash that barely fizzle .
Output: NEG
In the telling of a story largely untold , Bui chooses to produce something that is ultimately suspiciously familiar .
Output: POS
The bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .
Output: POS
It 's hard to believe that a relationship like Holly and Marina 's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive .
Output: NEG
You might say Tykwer has done all that Heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-Kieslowski a pun as possible .
Output: POS
It 's a testament to De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones that by movie 's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all .
Output: POS
Though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further Oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone .
Output: POS
It 's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby .
Output: NEG
Guys say mean things and shoot a lot of bullets .
Output: NEG
The film does a solid job of slowly , steadily building up to the climactic burst of violence .
Output: POS
It falls far short of poetry , but it 's not bad prose .
Output: POS
May be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done .
Output: POS
It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow .
Output: NEG
It 's stylishly directed with verve ...
Output: POS
One of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .
Output: NEG
If you 've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart .
Output: POS
As a director , Paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip .
Output: POS
The story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .
Output: NEG
This is a picture that Maik , the firebrand turned savvy ad man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revolution and turns it into a sales tool .
Output: NEG
I guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen .
Output: NEG
Maid in Manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road ... But as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans ' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspection .
Output: POS
It makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy 's idea of a good time .
Output: NEG
Director Douglas McGrath takes on Nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .
Output: NEG
Humorous and heartfelt , Douglas McGrath 's version of ` Nicholas Nickleby ' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful .
Output: POS
What we get in FearDotCom is more like something from a bad Clive Barker movie .
Output: NEG
Lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s .
Output: NEG
You 'll forget about it by Monday , though , and if they 're old enough to have developed some taste , so will your kids .
Output: NEG
Clooney directs this film always keeping the balance between the fantastic and the believable ...
Output: POS
Though an important political documentary , this does not really make the case the Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal .
Output: NEG
With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake .
Output: NEG
Call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but I believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid .
Output: NEG
Chan 's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there 's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy .
Output: NEG
Jam-packed with literally bruising jokes .
Output: POS
Together ( Time Out and Human Resources ) establish Mr. Cantet as France 's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace .
Output: POS
And second , what 's with all the shooting ?
Output: NEG
A very pretty after-school special .
Output: POS
Simone is not a bad film .
Output: POS
Japanese director Shohei Imamura 's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime .
Output: POS
The stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny .
Output: POS
I did n't laugh .
Output: NEG
( Crystal and De Niro ) manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .
Output: POS
Assured , glossy and shot through with brittle desperation .
Output: POS
Where the film falters is in its tone .
Output: NEG
, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly .
Output: POS
It 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary .
Output: NEG
With each of her three protagonists , Miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman 's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path .
Output: POS
Breen 's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting .
Output: NEG
Best described as I Know What You Did Last Winter .
Output: NEG
Stuffed to the brim with ideas , American instigator Michael Moore 's film is a rambling examination of American gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition .
Output: POS
A feature-length , R-rated , road-trip version of Mama 's Family .
Output: POS
Gere gives a good performance in a film that does n't merit it .
Output: NEG
` It 's painful to watch Witherspoon 's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Abomination , I mean , Alabama . '
Output: NEG
Does point the way for adventurous Indian filmmakers toward a crossover into nonethnic markets .
Output: POS
It 's a smart , funny look at an arcane area of popular culture , and if it is n't entirely persuasive , it does give exposure to some talented performers .
Output: POS
A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply .
Output: NEG
Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures .
Output: POS
... a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor .
Output: NEG
Shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .
Output: POS
With a completely predictable plot , you 'll swear that you 've seen it all before , even if you 've never come within a mile of The Longest Yard .
Output: NEG
Martyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more .
Output: NEG
Reggio and Glass put on an intoxicating show .
Output: POS
The Sweetest Thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways .
Output: NEG
It will break your heart many times over .
Output: POS
Mendes still does n't quite know how to fill a frame .
Output: NEG
All right , so it 's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast .
Output: POS
Just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer .
Output: POS
Sometimes shorter is better .
Output: POS
A rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade .
Output: NEG
Unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , Impostor is opening today at a theater near you .
Output: NEG
A technical triumph and an extraordinary bore .
Output: NEG
The ingenious construction ( adapted by David Hare from Michael Cunningham 's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism
Output: POS
When the twist endings were actually surprising ?
Output: NEG
an essentially awkward version of the lightweight female empowerment picture we 've been watching for decades
Output: NEG
If you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this Oscar-nominated documentary takes you there .
Output: POS
The pitch must have read like a discarded House Beautiful spread .
Output: POS
A big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on .
Output: NEG
An excellent sequel .
Output: POS
Executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted Scrooge could fail to respond .
Output: POS
The movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the `` webcast . ''
Output: NEG
Sorority Boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it .
Output: NEG
Sleek and arty .
Output: POS
Imagine ( if possible ) a Pasolini film without passion or politics , or an Almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching O Fantasma .
Output: NEG
`` I blame all men for war , '' ( the warden 's daughter ) tells her father .
Output: POS
Throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth , Windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old World War II movie for overly familiar material .
Output: NEG
Going to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it 's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it 's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through .
Output: NEG
This dubious product of a college-spawned ( Colgate U. ) comedy ensemble known as Broken Lizard plays like a mix of Cheech and Chong and CHiPs .
Output: NEG
With an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing Jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable `` Formula 51 '' is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .
Output: POS
Makes the same mistake as the music industry it criticizes , becoming so slick and watered-down it almost loses what made you love it in the first place .
Output: NEG
If S&M seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it 's to this film 's ( and its makers ' ) credit that we believe that that 's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves .
Output: POS
Although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make Italian for Beginners worth the journey
Output: POS
While certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , Jeong-Hyang Lee 's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness .
Output: NEG
The underworld urban angst is derivative of Martin Scorsese 's Taxi Driver and Goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself .
Output: POS
The enjoyable Undercover Brother , a zany mix of Saturday Night Live-style parody , '70s Blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy .
Output: POS
It 's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie .
Output: NEG
Adaptation is simply brilliant .
Output: POS
The package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic .
Output: NEG
Snow Dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him
Output: NEG
A horrible , 99-minute stink bomb .
Output: NEG
Murphy and Wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote .
Output: NEG
Try Hell House , which documents the cautionary Christian spook-a-rama of the same name .
Output: NEG
Captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper .
Output: POS
Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .
Output: POS
More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine
Output: NEG
Calculated swill .
Output: NEG
Has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that Seagal 's overweight and out of shape .
Output: NEG
I loved this film .
Output: POS
A great script brought down by lousy direction .
Output: NEG
An awful lot like one of ( Spears ' ) music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it .
Output: NEG
Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones .
Output: POS
An instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product .
Output: NEG
At the end , when the now computerized Yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside .
Output: POS
No matter how you slice it , Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton are not Hepburn and Grant , two cinematic icons with chemistry galore .
Output: POS
Much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there is n't much there here .
Output: NEG
A dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any Hollywood fluff .
Output: NEG
There 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease .
Output: NEG
But what is missing from it all is a moral .
Output: NEG
Steadfastly uncinematic but powerfully dramatic .
Output: POS
( Cho 's face is ) an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots .
Output: POS
Time of Favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .
Output: NEG
Filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann area headed east , Far East , in retelling a historically significant , and personal , episode detailing how one international city welcomed tens of thousands of German Jewish refugees while the world 's democracie
Output: POS
Igby Goes Down is one of those movies .
Output: POS
Boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas .
Output: NEG
This is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one .
Output: NEG
With or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller
Output: POS
You can sip your vintage wines and watch your Merchant Ivory productions ; I 'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a Jerry Bruckheimer flick any day of the week .
Output: POS
Nothing here seems as funny as it did in Analyze This , not even Joe Viterelli as De Niro 's right-hand goombah .
Output: NEG
Norton is magnetic as Graham .
Output: POS
Ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here 's betting her third feature will be something to behold .
Output: POS
Another Best of the Year selection .
Output: POS
Thanks to a small star with big heart , this family film sequel is plenty of fun for all .
Output: POS
Generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it 's not without style .
Output: POS
... irritating soul-searching garbage .
Output: NEG
A hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .
Output: POS
In Death to Smoochy , we do n't get Williams ' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing .
Output: POS
Tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to Liyan 's backyard .
Output: POS
A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more .
Output: POS
It may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate .
Output: NEG
The unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Kaufman has carved from Orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality .
Output: POS
A refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale .
Output: POS
Much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad .
Output: NEG
Do n't even bother to rent this on video .
Output: NEG
The whole film has this sneaky feel to it -- as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as Very Important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a Hollywood product .
Output: NEG
As banal as the telling may be -- and at times , All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention .
Output: POS
It is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .
Output: NEG
The first hour is tedious though Ford and Neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie .
Output: NEG
Bogdanich is unashamedly pro-Serbian and makes little attempt to give voice to the other side .
Output: NEG
The movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating .
Output: NEG
DeMeo is not without talent ; he just needs better material .
Output: POS
Silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who ca n't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another .
Output: NEG
It is not what you see , it is what you think you see .
Output: POS
When the heroes were actually under 40 ?
Output: NEG
The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory .
Output: NEG
Why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .
Output: NEG
There are some laughs in this movie , but Williams ' anarchy gets tiresome , the satire is weak .
Output: NEG
Spy-vs .
Output: POS
Sadly , as Blood Work proves , that was a long , long time ago .
Output: NEG
You can watch , giggle and get an adrenaline boost without feeling like you 've completely lowered your entertainment standards .
Output: POS
A wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of Being John Malkovich .
Output: POS
( Leigh ) has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable .
Output: POS
There are moments of real pleasure to be found in Sara Sugarman 's whimsical comedy Very Annie-Mary but not enough to sustain the film .
Output: POS
The script has less spice than a rat burger and The Rock 's fighting skills are more in line with Steven Seagal .
Output: NEG
These characters become wearisome .
Output: NEG
Drowning 's too good for this sucker .
Output: NEG
Although commentary on Nachtwey is provided ... it 's the image that really tells the tale .
Output: POS
Terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... The movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable .
Output: NEG
An ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen .
Output: POS
A preposterous , prurient whodunit .
Output: NEG
The script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy .
Output: NEG
A sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise .
Output: POS
It irritates and saddens me that Martin Lawrence 's latest vehicle can explode obnoxiously into 2,500 screens while something of Bubba Ho-Tep 's clearly evident quality may end up languishing on a shelf somewhere .
Output: NEG
I 'd rather watch a rerun of The Powerpuff Girls
Output: NEG
A well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ` direct-to-video ' release .
Output: POS
A surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of Hollywood 's comic-book adaptations .
Output: POS
This quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking .
Output: POS
In addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry .
Output: NEG
... is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way Chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality .
Output: POS
It 's no lie -- Big Fat Liar is a real charmer .
Output: POS
It 's a feel-good movie about which you can actually feel good .
Output: POS
... feels as if ( there 's ) a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something .
Output: NEG
There are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers do n't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedies .
Output: POS
Whatever the movie 's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet T-shirt and shower scenes .
Output: NEG
When the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you 'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .
Output: NEG
This painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story .
Output: NEG
The film is darkly atmospheric , with Herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath Hearst 's forced avuncular chortles .
Output: NEG
I 'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on Johnny Knoxville 's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche .
Output: NEG
Y Tu Mamá También is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than Georgia asphalt .
Output: POS
What 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up .
Output: NEG
It may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie 's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie 's most admirable quality
Output: POS
This is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them .
Output: POS
The film 's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed Crudup out of pre-9 \/ 11 New York and onto a cross-country road trip of the Homeric kind .
Output: NEG
But Kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them .
Output: POS
Trailer park Magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all .
Output: NEG
For all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inside of them .
Output: NEG
What a great way to spend 4 units of your day .
Output: POS
A clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem .
Output: NEG
It 's a gag that 's worn a bit thin over the years , though Do n't Ask still finds a few chuckles .
Output: POS
... the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation .
Output: NEG
Hey , Happy !
Output: POS
Using an endearing cast , writer\/director Dover Kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred .
Output: POS
Rarely , a movie is more than a movie .
Output: POS
Not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as Wonder Bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need Hollywood doing to us : It preaches .
Output: NEG
A cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic Ladies and Gentlemen , The Fabulous Stains ... Crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential .
Output: NEG
For almost the first two-thirds of Martin Scorsese 's 168-minute Gangs of New York , I was entranced .
Output: POS
Not as good as the original , but what is ...
Output: NEG
Chances are you wo n't , either .
Output: POS
The waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter .
Output: NEG
Really dumb but occasionally really funny .
Output: POS
The things this movie tries to get the audience to buy just wo n't fly with most intelligent viewers .
Output: NEG
Imagine O. Henry 's The Gift of the Magi relocated to the scuzzy underbelly of NYC 's drug scene .
Output: NEG
Every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be .
Output: NEG
The modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases
Output: POS
What saves it ... and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks , is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense , such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist Alice .
Output: POS
A meditation on faith and madness , Frailty is blood-curdling stuff .
Output: POS
You really have to salute writer-director Haneke ( he adapted Elfriede Jelinek 's novel ) for making a film that is n't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch .
Output: POS
If Oscar had a category called Best Bad Film You Thought Was Going To Be Really Awful But Was n't , Guys would probably be duking it out with The Queen of the Damned for the honor .
Output: NEG
A chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness .
Output: POS
Even with its $ 50-million US budget , Pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture .
Output: NEG
I 'd watch these two together again in a New York minute .
Output: POS
The AAA of action , XXX is a blast of adrenalin , rated EEE for excitement .
Output: POS
The movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing .
Output: POS
It 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest .
Output: POS
a joyous occasion
Output: POS
Those who trek to the ` plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves .
Output: POS
Amidst the action , the script carries Arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the `` other side of the story . ''
Output: POS
When it 's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , `` Real Women Have Curves '' is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she 'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams .
Output: POS
It all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense .
Output: NEG
A comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising .
Output: POS
Godard uses his characters -- if that 's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks .
Output: NEG
Crummy .
Output: NEG
The best comedy concert movie I 've seen since Cho 's previous concert comedy film , I 'm the One That I Want , in 2000 .
Output: POS
It 's a cool event for the whole family .
Output: POS
The journey to the secret 's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough .
Output: POS
This is an extraordinary film , not least because it is Japanese and yet feels universal .
Output: POS
Instead of making his own style , director Marcus Adams just copies from various sources -- good sources , bad mixture
Output: NEG
A wonderful , ghastly film .
Output: POS
Hart 's War seems to want to be a character study , but apparently ca n't quite decide which character .
Output: NEG
A poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise .
Output: NEG
Hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining .
Output: POS
Insanely hilarious !
Output: POS
Utter mush ... conceited pap .
Output: NEG
A movie that 's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it 's - funny level .
Output: POS
Would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial New Yorker if 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character , Melanie Carmichael , with a massive infusion of old-fashioned Hollywood magic .
Output: POS
See Clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes .
Output: NEG
The movie should jolt you out of your seat a couple of times , give you a few laughs , and leave you feeling like it was worth your seven bucks , even though it does turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end .
Output: POS
is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience .
Output: NEG
A deliberative account of a lifestyle characterized by its surface-obsession -- one that typifies the delirium of post , pre , and extant stardom .
Output: POS
Lightweight but appealing .
Output: POS
After a while , Hoffman 's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial .
Output: NEG
It does give a taste of the Burning Man ethos , an appealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity .
Output: POS
As I settled into my World War II memories , I found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances .
Output: POS
You walk out of The Good Girl with mixed emotions -- disapproval of Justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions .
Output: POS
This is not a Jackie Chan movie .
Output: NEG
Gay or straight , Kissing Jessica Stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .
Output: POS