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` CQ may one day be fondly remembered as Roman Coppola 's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about
Output: NEG
... an airless , prepackaged Julia Roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if Lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit .
Output: NEG
If there 's no art here , it 's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days .
Output: POS
brought to life on the big screen .
Output: POS
Well-acted , well-directed and , for all its moodiness , not too pretentious .
Output: POS
I have to admit I walked out of Runteldat .
Output: NEG
The movie 's downfall is to substitute plot for personality .
Output: NEG
When not wallowing in its characters ' frustrations , the movie is busy contriving false , sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems .
Output: NEG
The Wild Thornberrys Movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate .
Output: POS
Cold and scattered , Minority Report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals .
Output: POS
Béart and Berling are both superb , while Huppert ... is magnificent .
Output: POS
An uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection .
Output: NEG
Peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments .
Output: POS
For most of its footage , the new thriller proves that director M. Night Shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that Mel Gibson can gasp , shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo .
Output: POS
Alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous .
Output: POS
The problem is that for the most part , the film is deadly dull .
Output: NEG
An ambitious movie that , like Shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off .
Output: POS
Steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate Manhattan denizens -- especially the a \*\* holes .
Output: NEG
The one not-so-small problem with Expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
Output: NEG
The movie does n't add anything fresh to the myth .
Output: NEG
An allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals African American professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message .
Output: NEG
A small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director , Tom Dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of Midnight Run and 48 Hours ( and , for that matter , Shrek ) .
Output: NEG
The director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone .
Output: NEG
A dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness .
Output: NEG
Sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it does n't .
Output: NEG
`` Red Dragon '' is entertaining .
Output: POS
This version moves beyond the original 's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema 's inability to stand in for true , lived experience .
Output: POS
`` ... something appears to have been lost in the translation this time .
Output: NEG
I prefer to think of it as `` Pootie Tang with a budget . ''
Output: NEG
`` The Tuxedo '' should have been the vehicle for Chan that `` The Mask '' was for Jim Carrey .
Output: NEG
By that measure , it is a failure .
Output: NEG
One of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever .
Output: POS
A sterling film - a cross between Boys Do n't Cry , Deliverance , and Ode to Billy Joe - lies somewhere in the story of Matthew Shepard , but that film is yet to be made .
Output: POS
It sucked .
Output: NEG
Tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother .
Output: POS
A tone of rueful compassion ... reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events .
Output: POS
Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , Vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .
Output: NEG
A conventional but heartwarming tale .
Output: POS
Well-meant but unoriginal .
Output: NEG
Inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening .
Output: POS
Broomfield is energized by Volletta Wallace 's maternal fury , her fearlessness , and because of that , his film crackles .
Output: POS
I was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the Exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism .
Output: NEG
Tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often .
Output: NEG
One of the finest , most humane and important Holocaust movies ever made .
Output: POS
This thing is virtually unwatchable .
Output: NEG
Has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre .
Output: POS
There is a strong directorial stamp on every frame of this stylish film that is able to visualize schizophrenia but is still confident enough to step back and look at the sick character with a sane eye .
Output: POS
And it marks him as one of the most interesting writer\/directors working today .
Output: POS
The messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time .
Output: NEG
The plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution .
Output: NEG
Some Body often looks like an episode of the TV show Blind Date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments .
Output: NEG
Though Lan Yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .
Output: POS
Gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways .
Output: POS
Godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess ... In Praise of Love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating .
Output: NEG
This rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you had n't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point .
Output: POS
A serviceable Euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom -- handguns , BMWs and seaside chateaus .
Output: POS
The gags are often a stitch .
Output: POS
The beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing .
Output: POS
Death to Smoochy tells a moldy-oldie , not-nearly - as-nasty - as-it - thinks-it-is joke .
Output: NEG
The cast ... keeps this pretty watchable , and casting Mick Jagger as director of the escort service was inspired .
Output: POS
A witty , low-key romantic comedy .
Output: POS
At some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill .
Output: NEG
More than their unique residences , Home Movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it .
Output: POS
With tiny little jokes and nary an original idea , this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool .
Output: NEG
It 's a mystery how the movie could be released in this condition .
Output: NEG
A modestly made but profoundly moving documentary .
Output: POS
Phoned-in business as usual .
Output: NEG
The pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies .
Output: POS
You wo n't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these Veggies .
Output: POS
Supposedly authentic account of a historical event that 's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment .
Output: NEG
... the picture 's cleverness is ironically muted by the very people who are intended to make it shine .
Output: NEG
What we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance .
Output: NEG
It 's sweet .
Output: POS
A live-wire film that never loses its ability to shock and amaze .
Output: POS
Williams creates a stunning , Taxi Driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity .
Output: POS
This is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative .
Output: POS
... a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman .
Output: NEG
It may even fall into the category of Films You Love to Hate .
Output: NEG
There 's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there 's nothing else happening .
Output: POS
A fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote Shakespeare 's plays .
Output: POS
To be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed .
Output: NEG
Noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .
Output: POS
Warmed-over hash .
Output: POS
It may not be particularly innovative , but the film 's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding .
Output: POS
This movie is to be cherished .
Output: POS
... a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920 's ... The film 's ending has a `` What was it all for ? ''
Output: NEG
A shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown .
Output: POS
Me no lika da accents so good , but I thoroughly enjoyed the love story .
Output: POS
Marshall puts a suspenseful spin on standard horror flick formula .
Output: POS
It 's absolutely amazing how first-time director Kevin Donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of Chan .
Output: POS
Affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that Ford effortlessly filled with authority .
Output: POS
Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it is n't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be .
Output: NEG
It did n't go straight to video .
Output: NEG
Meyjes 's movie , like Max Rothman 's future , does not work .
Output: NEG
A mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in .
Output: POS
Especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie .
Output: POS
While the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .
Output: POS
The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly .
Output: POS
How good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not .
Output: POS
Talk To Her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it 's still quite worth seeing .
Output: POS
Same guy with both hats .
Output: POS
The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls .
Output: NEG
... this is n't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels .
Output: NEG
... an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller .
Output: POS
( Kline 's ) utterly convincing -- and deeply appealing -- as a noble teacher who embraces a strict moral code , and as a flawed human being who ca n't quite live up to it .
Output: POS
There 's nothing exactly wrong here , but there 's not nearly enough that 's right .
Output: NEG
Woody Allen can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody .
Output: POS
A live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind .
Output: POS
Perhaps the best sports movie I 've ever seen .
Output: POS
It is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad .
Output: POS
Great character interaction .
Output: POS
Naomi Watts is terrific as Rachel ; her petite frame and vulnerable persona emphasising her plight and isolation .
Output: POS
Seeing Seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on Letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but .
Output: POS
One thing you have to give them credit for : The message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company 's previous video work .
Output: POS
The film has an infectious enthusiasm and we 're touched by the film 's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport .
Output: POS
A searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .
Output: POS
A fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man .
Output: POS
It does n't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received .
Output: POS
At once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance .
Output: NEG
A very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel .
Output: NEG
This movie is so bad , that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad .
Output: NEG
One suspects that Craven endorses They simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison .
Output: NEG
It 's tough being a black man in America , especially when the Man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance .
Output: NEG
A pleasant piece of escapist entertainment .
Output: POS
The film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery .
Output: POS
You 're not merely watching history , you 're engulfed by it .
Output: POS
A low-budget affair , Tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction .
Output: NEG
Last Orders nurtures the multi-layers of its characters , allowing us to remember that life 's ultimately a gamble and last orders are to be embraced .
Output: POS
An impressive hybrid .
Output: POS
May puzzle his most ardent fans .
Output: NEG
It 's so badly made on every level that I 'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it .
Output: NEG
It sounds like another clever if pointless excursion into the abyss , and that 's more or less how it plays out .
Output: NEG
A terrifically entertaining specimen of Spielbergian sci-fi .
Output: POS
A captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age .
Output: POS
Not since Ghostbusters has a film used Manhattan 's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way .
Output: POS
Absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifying .
Output: POS
As chilling and fascinating as Philippe Mora 's modern Hitler-study , Snide and Prejudice .
Output: POS
Claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem .
Output: NEG
A brutally dry satire of Middle American numbness .
Output: NEG
He 's the scariest guy you 'll see all summer .
Output: POS
It 's no surprise that as a director Washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer Derek Luke .
Output: POS
In gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz .
Output: NEG
Oh , James !
Output: POS
Overall , it 's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : God is love .
Output: POS
... a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take .
Output: POS
Low comedy does n't come much lower .
Output: NEG
Leguizamo and Jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb .
Output: POS
Charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie .
Output: POS
A pale Xerox of other , better crime movies .
Output: NEG
What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ?
Output: NEG
The film is ... determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation .
Output: POS
Fans of so-bad-they 're - good cinema may find some fun in this jumbled mess .
Output: NEG
Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , Jiang Wen 's Devils on the Doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut .
Output: POS
Has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .
Output: POS
The movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like Chris Rock .
Output: POS
It 's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but Bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period .
Output: POS
The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore 's The Scarlet Letter .
Output: NEG
A pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort .
Output: NEG
Nothing about this movie works .
Output: NEG
It may be a no-brainer , but at least it 's a funny no-brainer .
Output: POS
The film does n't really care about the thousands of Americans who die hideously , it cares about how Ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the CIA .
Output: NEG
If you 're burnt out on It 's a Wonderful Life marathons and bored with A Christmas Carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for .
Output: POS
Bond-inspired ?
Output: NEG
An empty , ugly exercise in druggy trance-noir and trumped-up street credibility .
Output: NEG
And Lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception .
Output: POS
Even though it 's common knowledge that Park and his founding partner , Yong Kang , lost Kozmo in the end , you ca n't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company 's astonishing growth .
Output: POS
A sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception .
Output: POS
The mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a T.
Output: POS
If nothing else , `` Rollerball '' 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by LL Cool J.
Output: NEG
High Crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort .
Output: POS
Polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own World War II experience in his signature style .
Output: POS
... a confusing drudgery .
Output: NEG
Ramsay and Morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling .
Output: POS
Purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore , if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons .
Output: NEG
While The Importance of Being Earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it does n't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond Wilde 's wit and the actors ' performances .
Output: NEG
Devotees of Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best Next Generation episodes is lacking .
Output: NEG
If you 're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you 'll need a stronger stomach than us .
Output: NEG
Imamura has said that Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women .
Output: POS
Undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .
Output: POS
There 's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but Kang tacks on three or four more endings .
Output: NEG
The film is full of charm .
Output: POS
Familiar but utterly delightful .
Output: POS
Late Marriage is an in-your-face family drama and black comedy that is filled with raw emotions conveying despair and love .
Output: POS
It concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between Chan and Hewitt .
Output: NEG
The entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another .
Output: NEG
is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing .
Output: POS
Tsai Ming-liang 's ghosts are painfully aware of their not-being .
Output: NEG
... a movie that , quite simply , should n't have been made .
Output: NEG
The movie suffers from two fatal ailments -- a dearth of vitality and a story that 's shapeless and uninflected .
Output: NEG
The only surprise is that heavyweights Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis agreed to produce this ; I assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies ' underwear .
Output: NEG
You 've already seen City by the Sea under a variety of titles , but it 's worth yet another visit .
Output: POS
Payami tries to raise some serious issues about Iran 's electoral process , but the result is a film that 's about as subtle as a party political broadcast .
Output: NEG
A film that will probably please people already fascinated by Behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration .
Output: NEG
Nicole Holofcener 's Lovely and Amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women 's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style .
Output: POS
Diane Lane 's sophisticated performance ca n't rescue Adrian Lyne 's Unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing .
Output: NEG
Daringly perceptive , taut , piercing and feisty , Biggie and Tupac is undeniably subversive and involving in its bold presentation .
Output: POS
Delight your senses and crash this wedding !
Output: POS
So vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted Rembrandt .
Output: POS
Beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of Grenoble and Geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself .
Output: POS
It 's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads .
Output: NEG
Just a Kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people .
Output: NEG
Viva le Resistance !
Output: POS
It 's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity .
Output: POS
Surprisingly , considering that Baird is a former film editor , the movie is rather choppy .
Output: NEG
A dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you 're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3D goggles the theater provides .
Output: POS
Deepa Mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of Bollywood in the Western world .
Output: POS
... the film 's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '
Output: NEG
The type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the ( teen comedy ) genre a bad name .
Output: NEG
A playful Iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences .
Output: POS
The story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive .
Output: NEG
There 's absolutely no reason why Blue Crush , a late-summer surfer girl entry , should be as entertaining as it is
Output: POS
( A ) rare movie that makes us re-assess the basis for our lives and evaluate what is truly ours in a world of meaningless activity .
Output: NEG
The movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny Phonce and his several silly subplots .
Output: NEG
Lacking substance and soul , Crossroads comes up shorter than Britney 's cutoffs .
Output: NEG
Though it runs 163 minutes , Safe Conduct is anything but languorous .
Output: POS
This is a third-person story now , told by Hollywood , and much more ordinary for it .
Output: NEG
So-so entertainment .
Output: POS
We get the comedy we settle for .
Output: NEG
Fortunately , you still have that option .
Output: POS
Will undoubtedly play well in European markets , where Mr. Besson is a brand name , and in Asia , where Ms. Shu is an institution , but American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic .
Output: NEG
After a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through The Country Bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky .
Output: NEG
Irwin is so earnest that it 's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs .
Output: POS
-- that the ` true story ' by which All the Queen 's Men is allegedly `` inspired '' was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what 's been cobbled together onscreen .
Output: NEG
An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental .
Output: NEG
None of this is half as moving as the filmmakers seem to think .
Output: NEG
Not only does LeBlanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes .
Output: NEG
Serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that The Road to Perdition leads to a satisfying destination .
Output: POS
One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature .
Output: POS
We do n't even like their characters .
Output: NEG
`` Frailty '' offers chills much like those that you get when sitting around a campfire around midnight , telling creepy stories to give each other the willies .
Output: POS
Opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half .
Output: NEG
A movie that 's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts .
Output: NEG
That Haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace .
Output: POS
Norton holds the film together .
Output: NEG
If you adored The Full Monty so resoundingly that you 're dying to see the same old thing in a tired old setting , then this should keep you reasonably entertained .
Output: POS
In Auteil 's less dramatic but equally incisive performance , he 's a charismatic charmer likely to seduce and conquer .
Output: POS
Anemic chronicle of money grubbing New Yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups .
Output: NEG
... a solid , unassuming drama .
Output: POS
Twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , Clint Eastwood 's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him .
Output: NEG
An uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , The Grey Zone does have a center , though a morbid one .
Output: NEG
Both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes .
Output: POS
This thing works on no level whatsoever for me .
Output: NEG
Cockettes has the glorious , gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days , featuring all manner of drag queen , bearded lady and lactating hippie .
Output: POS
A surprisingly funny movie .
Output: POS
Like a medium-grade network sitcom -- mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen .
Output: NEG
If you 're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat Brussels sprouts .
Output: NEG
Opera on film is never satisfactory .
Output: NEG
A disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an Alice in Wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of TV 's Big Brother .
Output: POS
director Hoffman , his writer and Kline 's agent should serve detention
Output: NEG
Despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair ...
Output: NEG
Contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom .
Output: NEG
Definitely worth 95 minutes of your time .
Output: POS
Intelligent and moving .
Output: POS
This is n't exactly profound cinema , but it 's good-natured and sometimes quite funny .
Output: POS
There 's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers .
Output: POS
Smart and alert , Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a small gem .
Output: POS
Her fans walked out muttering words like `` horrible '' and `` terrible , '' but had so much fun dissing the film that they did n't mind the ticket cost .
Output: NEG
Nelson 's intentions are good , but the end result does no justice to the story itself .
Output: NEG
In fact , it does n't even seem like she tried .
Output: NEG
If I have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , Treasure Planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , I 'll take the latter every time .
Output: NEG
A movie just for Friday fans , critics be damned .
Output: POS
like a poor man 's You Can Count On Me
Output: NEG
As comedic spotlights go , Notorious C.H.O. hits all the verbal marks it should .
Output: POS
The first mistake , I suspect , is casting Shatner as a legendary professor and Kunis as a brilliant college student -- where 's Pauly Shore as the rocket scientist ?
Output: NEG
... another example of how Sandler is losing his touch .
Output: NEG
... with the gifted Pearce on hand to keep things on semi-stable ground dramatically , this retooled Machine is ultimately effective enough at achieving the modest , crowd-pleasing goals it sets for itself .
Output: POS
Very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all .
Output: NEG
Smarter than its commercials make it seem .
Output: POS
The film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen .
Output: NEG
The best thing I can say about this film is that I ca n't wait to see what the director does next .
Output: POS
Broomfield reminds us that beneath the hype , the celebrity , the high life , the conspiracies and the mystery there were once a couple of bright young men -- promising , talented , charismatic and tragically doomed .
Output: POS
I have n't seen such self-amused trash since Freddy Got Fingered .
Output: NEG
This amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as Greenfingers ...
Output: POS
waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot Oscar season currently underway .
Output: POS
This gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .
Output: POS
Tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience .
Output: POS
More sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are ... an amusing little catch .
Output: POS
A modestly comic , modestly action-oriented World War II adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight .
Output: POS
... a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of Mamet .
Output: POS
The film gets close to the chimps the same way Goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection .
Output: POS
A vivid , spicy footnote to history , and a movie that grips and holds you in rapt attention from start to finish .
Output: POS
Proves a servicable World War II drama that ca n't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem Hollywood too long has ignored .
Output: POS
Mastering its formidable arithmetic of cameras and souls , Group articulates a flood of emotion .
Output: POS
I realized that no matter how fantastic Reign of Fire looked , its story was making no sense at all .
Output: NEG
Sweet Home Alabama is n't going to win any Academy Awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts .
Output: POS
... begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot .
Output: NEG
It 's a terrible movie in every regard , and utterly painful to watch .
Output: NEG
Here 's yet another cool crime movie that actually manages to bring something new into the mix .
Output: POS
Highly watchable stuff .
Output: POS
The film 's strength is n't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears .
Output: POS
Been there , done that ... a thousand times already , and better .
Output: NEG
An average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son 's discovery of his homosexuality .
Output: POS
It has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out .
Output: POS
There 's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes .
Output: NEG
The rare Imax movie that you 'll wish was longer than an hour .
Output: POS
It follows the Blair Witch formula for an hour , in which we 're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .
Output: NEG
There 's a lot of good material here , but there 's also a lot of redundancy and unsuccessful crudeness accompanying it .
Output: NEG
the film belongs to the marvelous Verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public
Output: POS
A reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994 's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility .
Output: POS
Deserves a place of honor next to Nanook as a landmark in film history .
Output: POS
The most offensive thing about the movie is that Hollywood expects people to pay to see it .
Output: NEG
There are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but Brown Sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy .
Output: POS
It has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material .
Output: POS
The best part about `` Gangs '' was Daniel Day-Lewis .
Output: POS
Satin Rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it 's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman 's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity .
Output: POS
It 's soulful and unslick , and that 's apparently just what ( Aniston ) has always needed to grow into a movie career .
Output: POS
As exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical Pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .
Output: NEG
Extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten .
Output: POS
Certainly the big finish was n't something Galinsky and Hawley could have planned for ... but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps .
Output: POS
None of this is very original , and it is n't particularly funny .
Output: NEG
There 's no disguising this as one of the worst films of the summer .
Output: NEG
Good fun , good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , good cinematography .
Output: POS
The history is fascinating ; the action is dazzling .
Output: POS
Wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach .
Output: NEG
Almost .
Output: POS
Some may choose to interpret the film 's end as hopeful or optimistic but I think Payne is after something darker .
Output: POS
Robinson 's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that Clancy creates .
Output: POS
Same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse .
Output: POS
` Film aficionados can not help but love Cinema Paradiso , whether the original version or new Director 's Cut . '
Output: POS
Even if you 're an Elvis person , you wo n't find anything to get excited about on this DVD .
Output: NEG
... only Bond can save us from the latest eccentric , super-wealthy megalomaniac bent on world domination and destruction .
Output: POS
It would work much better as a one-hour TV documentary .
Output: NEG
With lesser talents , High Crimes would be entertaining , but forgettable .
Output: POS
Not the best Herzog perhaps , but unmistakably Herzog .
Output: POS
Saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion .
Output: NEG
This seductive tease of a thriller gets the job done .
Output: POS
There are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we 're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why .
Output: POS
It 's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can .
Output: POS
It 's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible .
Output: POS
Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks .
Output: NEG
Though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film does n't ignore the more problematic aspects of Brown 's life .
Output: POS
While Glover , the irrepressible eccentric of River 's Edge , Dead Man and Back to the Future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents Bartleby 's main overall flaw .
Output: NEG
Its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads .
Output: POS
Does n't add up to much .
Output: NEG
Stale first act , Scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes .
Output: NEG
Big time .
Output: POS
The year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but Take Care of My Cat emerges as the very best of them .
Output: POS
The filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , B movie way , they succeed .
Output: POS
Very predictable but still entertaining
Output: POS
Laughably , irredeemably awful .
Output: NEG
A cautionary tale about the grandiosity of a college student who sees himself as impervious to a fall .
Output: POS
At 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth .
Output: POS
Its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .
Output: POS
Like Showgirls and Glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional .
Output: NEG
The film 's sense of imagery gives it a terrible strength , but it 's propelled by the acting .
Output: POS
Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor .
Output: POS
Discursive but oddly riveting documentary .
Output: POS
The lead actors share no chemistry or engaging charisma .
Output: NEG
A weird and wonderful comedy .
Output: POS
Can you bear the laughter ?
Output: POS
This movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in Retard 101 .
Output: NEG
Although God Is Great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .
Output: NEG
I 've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way Adam Sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates Frank Capra 's classic ...
Output: NEG
Too bad Kramer could n't make a guest appearance to liven things up .
Output: NEG
Promises is one film that 's truly deserving of its Oscar nomination .
Output: POS
A fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys .
Output: POS
Whereas Oliver Stone 's conspiracy thriller JFK was long , intricate , star-studded and visually flashy , Interview with the Assassin draws its considerable power from simplicity .
Output: POS
It 's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny .
Output: POS
While Broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system .
Output: POS
Cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .
Output: NEG
Mostly honest , this somber picture reveals itself slowly , intelligently , artfully .
Output: POS
That is because - damn it !
Output: POS
El Crimen Del Padre Amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-Catholic protestors .
Output: NEG
What makes the movie special is its utter sincerity .
Output: POS
If Reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show is n't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time .
Output: POS
Remarkable for its intelligence and intensity .
Output: POS
As steamy as last week 's pork dumplings .
Output: NEG
Speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life .
Output: POS
That neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks .
Output: NEG
Starts promisingly but disintegrates into a dreary , humorless soap opera .
Output: NEG
If you can swallow its absurdities and crudities Lagaan really is enormously good fun .
Output: POS
` Tobey Maguire is a poster boy for the geek generation . '
Output: POS
Some episodes work , some do n't .
Output: NEG
Foster and Whitaker are especially fine .
Output: POS
Perhaps even the SLC high command found writer-director Mitch Davis 's wall of kitsch hard going .
Output: NEG
Methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , Secret Ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain .
Output: POS
This new Time Machine is hardly perfect ... yet it proves surprisingly serviceable .
Output: POS
Turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts
Output: POS
The film has too many spots where it 's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that 's especially fit for the kiddies .
Output: POS
And for all the wrong reasons besides .
Output: NEG
A markedly inactive film , City is conversational bordering on confessional .
Output: NEG
Without ( De Niro ) , City By The Sea would slip under the waves .
Output: NEG
Ya-Yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film .
Output: POS
It 's depressing to see how far Herzog has fallen .
Output: NEG
My own minority report is that it stinks .
Output: NEG
This is a truly , truly bad movie .
Output: NEG
What 's missing in Murder by Numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behaviour .
Output: NEG
The Tuxedo was n't just bad ; it was , as my friend David Cross would call it , ` Hungry-Man portions of bad ' .
Output: NEG
May seriously impair your ability to ever again maintain a straight face while speaking to a highway patrolman .
Output: POS
McGrath has deftly trimmed Dickens ' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero 's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness .
Output: POS
A high-minded snoozer .
Output: NEG
( D ) espite its familiar subject matter , Ice Age is consistently amusing and engrossing ...
Output: POS
Long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser .
Output: NEG
Offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory .
Output: POS
Meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off Kahlo 's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant .
Output: POS
A glossy knock-off of a B-movie revenge flick .
Output: POS
Bland but harmless .
Output: NEG
Not only does Spider-Man deliver , but I suspect it might deliver again and again .
Output: POS
No laughs .
Output: NEG
He 's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does .
Output: NEG
A charming and funny story of clashing cultures and a clashing mother\/daughter relationship .
Output: POS
I liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive .
Output: POS
If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then Blood Work is for you .
Output: NEG
Standing by Yourself is haunting ... ( It 's ) what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction .
Output: POS
The biggest problem with Roger Avary 's uproar against the MPAA is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything .
Output: NEG
Time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` Clockstoppers , '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life .
Output: NEG
The fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier .
Output: NEG
Often hilarious .
Output: POS
Stealing Harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : A few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious .
Output: NEG
It 's 51 times better than this .
Output: POS
While the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care .
Output: POS
But not without cheesy fun factor .
Output: POS
Ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies .
Output: POS
Despite its flaws ... Belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn .
Output: POS
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure Hollywood .
Output: NEG
Has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool .
Output: NEG
Beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm .
Output: POS
One feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early Italian neorealism .
Output: POS
Poignant Japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak .
Output: POS
Where Tom Green stages his gags as assaults on America 's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , Jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval .
Output: NEG
A distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .
Output: NEG
This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience .
Output: NEG
( City ) reminds us how realistically nuanced a Robert De Niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of ` Analyze This ' ( 1999 ) and ` Analyze That , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year .
Output: POS
The photographer 's show-don ` t-tell stance is admirable , but it can make him a problematic documentary subject .
Output: NEG
A work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse .
Output: NEG
If that does n't clue you in that something 's horribly wrong , nothing will .
Output: NEG
( Lee ) treats his audience the same way that Jim Brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects .
Output: NEG
`` Birthday Girl '' is an actor 's movie first and foremost .
Output: POS
A fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries .
Output: POS
This is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce .
Output: POS
It ai n't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year 's lame Musketeer , this Dumas adaptation entertains .
Output: POS
Judd 's characters ought to pick up the durable best seller Smart Women , Foolish Choices for advice .
Output: NEG
The art demands live viewing .
Output: POS