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Screenwriter Dan Schneider and director Shawn Levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite .
Output: POS
A remarkably insightful look at the backstage angst of the stand-up comic .
Output: POS
But ... in trying to capture the novel 's deeper intimate resonances , the film has -- ironically - distanced us from the characters .
Output: NEG
Forget about one Oscar nomination for Julianne Moore this year - she should get all five .
Output: POS
Offers big , fat , dumb laughs that may make you hate yourself for giving in .
Output: NEG
I suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .
Output: NEG
Just consider what New Best Friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay .
Output: NEG
Remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it 's an adventure story and history lesson all in one .
Output: POS
It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up .
Output: POS
Just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name .
Output: NEG
This film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost .
Output: POS
We 've seen it all before in one form or another , but director Hoffman , with great help from Kevin Kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher .
Output: POS
The movie is obviously a labour of love so Howard appears to have had free rein to be as pretentious as he wanted .
Output: NEG
Very well-written and very well-acted .
Output: POS
I simply ca n't recommend it enough .
Output: POS
( Lin Chung 's ) voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this Western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters .
Output: NEG
The only pain you 'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub .
Output: NEG
The complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary Chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we Westerners have seen before .
Output: POS
` Lovely and Amazing , ' unhappily , is neither ... excessively strained and contrived .
Output: NEG
If the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material .
Output: POS
If villainous vampires are your cup of blood , Blade 2 is definitely a cut above the rest .
Output: POS
Hawn and Sarandon form an acting bond that makes The Banger Sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
Output: POS
Probably the best case for Christianity since Chesterton and Lewis .
Output: POS
But even then , I 'd recommend waiting for DVD and just skipping straight to her scenes .
Output: NEG
One of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while ...
Output: POS
While Scorsese 's bold images and generally smart casting ensure that `` Gangs '' is never lethargic , the movie is hindered by a central plot that 's peppered with false starts and populated by characters who are nearly impossible to care about .
Output: NEG
True Hollywood Story .
Output: POS
Mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt .
Output: POS
An energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it is n't .
Output: POS
Limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly .
Output: NEG
All the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject .
Output: NEG
Kenneth Branagh 's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly British playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in Los Angeles .
Output: NEG
The IMAX screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation .
Output: POS
Might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people .
Output: NEG
This is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in September .
Output: NEG
A film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun .
Output: NEG
A tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship .
Output: POS
One of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved .
Output: POS
Crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy .
Output: POS
Puts a refreshing and comical spin on the all-too-familiar saga of the contemporary single woman .
Output: POS
If only it had the story to match .
Output: NEG
Noyce has worked wonders with the material .
Output: POS
Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant make a great team , but this predictable romantic comedy should get a pink slip .
Output: NEG
The Tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life .
Output: NEG
While American Adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even .
Output: NEG
Provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' I need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending .
Output: POS
No amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story .
Output: NEG
A dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .
Output: NEG
This is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that does n't reveal even a hint of artifice .
Output: POS
Whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors .
Output: NEG
Debate it .
Output: POS
Combines sharp comedy , old-fashioned monster movie atmospherics , and genuine heart to create a film that 's not merely about kicking undead \*\*\* , but also about dealing with regret and , ultimately , finding redemption .
Output: POS
Disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies ... or any other John Woo flick for that matter .
Output: NEG
Oh , and more entertaining , too .
Output: POS
Though excessively tiresome , The Uncertainty Principle , as verbally pretentious as the title may be , has its handful of redeeming features , as long as you discount its ability to bore .
Output: NEG
Sweet Home Alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .
Output: NEG
Uneven but a lot of fun .
Output: POS
The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable .
Output: POS
The problem , amazingly enough , is the screenplay .
Output: NEG
Even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of Job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture .
Output: NEG
Attal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama .
Output: NEG
Initial strangeness inexorably gives way to rote sentimentality and mystical tenderness becomes narrative expedience .
Output: POS
Koepp 's screenplay is n't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own .
Output: NEG
The plot is paper-thin and the characters are n't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours .
Output: NEG
One funny popcorn flick .
Output: POS
Ludicrous , but director Carl Franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining .
Output: POS
Represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller\/horror genre .
Output: POS
Blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological .
Output: NEG
The characters never change .
Output: NEG
Its one-sidedness ... flirts with propaganda .
Output: NEG
An elegant work , Food of Love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .
Output: POS
`` Mr. Deeds '' is suitable summer entertainment that offers escapism without requiring a great deal of thought .
Output: POS
With Spy Kids 2 : The Island of Lost Dreams , however , Robert Rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking .
Output: POS
Kids do n't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there 's lots of cute animals and clumsy people .
Output: NEG
The film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil .
Output: NEG
Works because Reno does n't become smug or sanctimonious towards the audience .
Output: POS
A touching drama about old age and grief with a tour de force performance by Michel Piccoli .
Output: POS
( Danny Huston gives ) an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent 's smirk .
Output: POS
` Matrix ' - style massacres erupt throughout ... but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafka-inspired philosophy .
Output: NEG
Gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet 's mouth .
Output: NEG
Thanks to Ice Cube , Benjamins feels an awful lot like Friday in Miami .
Output: POS
A film that will enthrall the whole family .
Output: POS
Directing with a sure and measured hand , ( Haneke ) steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology .
Output: POS
A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing .
Output: NEG
It never quite makes it to the boiling point , but manages to sustain a good simmer for most of its running time .
Output: POS
By the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest can not be revived .
Output: NEG
This is a story that zings all the way through with originality , humour and pathos .
Output: POS
Only in its final surprising shots does Rabbit-Proof Fence find the authority it 's looking for .
Output: POS
The lively appeal of The Last Kiss lies in the ease with which it integrates thoughtfulness and pasta-fagioli comedy .
Output: POS
Allegiance to Chekhov , which director Michael Cacoyannis displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard , is a particularly vexing handicap .
Output: NEG
A virtual roller-coaster ride of glamour and sleaze .
Output: POS
Isabelle Huppert excels as the enigmatic Mika and Anna Mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of Chabrol 's most intense psychological mysteries .
Output: POS
Almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited .
Output: POS
An incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .
Output: NEG
There is a beautiful , aching sadness to it all .
Output: POS
The fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that Broomfield 's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer .
Output: POS
Theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues .
Output: NEG
A sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire .
Output: POS
Swiftly deteriorates into a terribly obvious melodrama and rough-hewn vanity project for lead actress Andie MacDowell .
Output: NEG
A disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate IMAX trip .
Output: NEG
At once emotional and richly analytical , the Cosby-Seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary .
Output: POS
It 's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it 's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance .
Output: POS
There are plenty of scenes in Frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself .
Output: POS
A coming-of-age movie that Hollywood would n't have the guts to make .
Output: POS
Stage director Sam Mendes showcases Tom Hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge .
Output: POS
Happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
Output: POS
A pint-sized ` Goodfellas ' designed to appeal to the younger set , it 's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one 's interest .
Output: NEG
Those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters ' foibles a timeless and unique perspective .
Output: POS
The very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . ''
Output: NEG
Here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé .
Output: NEG
A sentimental mess that never rings true .
Output: NEG
Even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold .
Output: POS
Like all of Egoyan 's work , Ararat is fiercely intelligent and uncommonly ambitious .
Output: POS
In the director 's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes .
Output: POS
All of it works smoothly under the direction of Spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely .
Output: POS
Although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , Tuck Everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action .
Output: NEG
If you 're not fans of the adventues of Steve and Terri , you should avoid this like the dreaded King Brown snake .
Output: NEG
It 's as if De Palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up Kraft Macaroni and Cheese .
Output: NEG
What it lacks in substance it makes up for in heart .
Output: POS
You can practically hear George Orwell turning over .
Output: NEG
None of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either , and you would n't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?
Output: POS
A dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets .
Output: NEG
A rote exercise in both animation and storytelling .
Output: NEG
The increasingly diverse French director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history .
Output: POS
A little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .
Output: NEG
It 's horribly depressing and not very well done .
Output: NEG
The film is filled with humorous observations about the general absurdity of modern life as seen through the eyes outsiders , but deftly manages to avoid many of the condescending stereotypes that so often plague films dealing with the mentally ill .
Output: POS
In the end , The Weight of Water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on Showtime 's ` Red Shoe Diaries . '
Output: NEG
Those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up .
Output: POS
A good music documentary , probably one of the best since The Last Waltz .
Output: POS
It should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring .
Output: NEG
What it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread .
Output: POS
For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1\/2 - hour running time .
Output: NEG
The script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .
Output: NEG
This is a heartfelt story ... it just is n't a very involving one .
Output: NEG
The film 's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise .
Output: POS
Just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite .
Output: NEG
There are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending .
Output: NEG
Yet another genre exercise , Gangster No. 1 is as generic as its title .
Output: NEG
It 's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot .
Output: POS
The byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , Carmen ( Vega ) and Juni ( Sabara ) Cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take .
Output: POS
How I Killed My Father would be a rarity in Hollywood .
Output: NEG
Nakata 's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects .
Output: POS
Rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them .
Output: NEG
It 's as if a bored Cage spent the duration of the film 's shooting schedule waiting to scream : `` Got AIDS yet ? ''
Output: NEG
Some Body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling .
Output: NEG
Deadly dull , pointless meditation on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel .
Output: NEG
Viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for Holm 's performance , the film would be a total washout .
Output: NEG
Writer-director Randall Wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew , and his movie veers like a drunken driver through heavy traffic .
Output: NEG
Short-story quaint , touchingly mending a child 's pain for his dead mother via communication with an old woman straight out of Eudora Welty .
Output: POS
The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances .
Output: NEG
Delivers more than its fair share of saucy hilarity .
Output: POS
A soap-opera quality twist in the last 20 minutes ... almost puts the kibosh on what is otherwise a sumptuous work of B-movie imagination .
Output: NEG
Stands as one of the year 's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be .
Output: POS
Festers in just such a dungpile that you 'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you .
Output: NEG
Craig Bartlett and director Tuck Tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .
Output: POS
You come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated .
Output: POS
Paid in Full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of Goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks .
Output: POS
The concert footage is stirring , the recording sessions are intriguing , and -- on the way to striking a blow for artistic integrity -- this quality band may pick up new admirers .
Output: POS
` Martin Lawrence Live ' is so self-pitying , I almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show .
Output: NEG
Children , Christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of Jonah 's despair -- in all its agonizing , Catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it .
Output: POS
... hypnotically dull .
Output: NEG
Any rock pile will do for a set .
Output: NEG
Hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the U.S. -- a major director is emerging in world cinema .
Output: POS
Although melodramatic and predictable , this romantic comedy explores the friendship between five Filipino-Americans and their frantic efforts to find love .
Output: POS
Rashomon-for-dipsticks tale .
Output: NEG
The lousy John Q all but spits out Denzel Washington 's fine performance in the title role .
Output: NEG
The verdict : Two bodies and hardly a laugh between them .
Output: NEG
If you 've the patience , there are great rewards here .
Output: POS
Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple 's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue , all credibility flies out the window .
Output: NEG
So could young romantics out on a date .
Output: POS
Return to Never Land is reliable , standard Disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages .
Output: POS
The Ring is worth a look , if you do n't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your Halloween entertainment .
Output: NEG
It 's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom .
Output: POS
One of the best rock documentaries ever .
Output: POS
Producer John Penotti surveyed high school students ... and came back with the astonishing revelation that `` they wanted to see something that did n't talk down to them . ''
Output: POS
It 's always enthralling .
Output: POS
But they do n't fit well together and neither is well told .
Output: NEG
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it 's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times .
Output: POS
One of those unassuming films that sneaks up on you and stays with you long after you have left the theatre .
Output: POS
Once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave .
Output: POS
The entire cast is extraordinarily good .
Output: POS
The Salton Sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety .
Output: POS
Did the film inform and educate me ?
Output: POS
Dolman confines himself to shtick and sentimentality -- the one bald and the other sloppy .
Output: NEG
As well-acted and well-intentioned as All or Nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good .
Output: NEG
The characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script .
Output: NEG
With We Were Soldiers , Hollywood makes a valiant attempt to tell a story about the Vietnam War before the pathology set in .
Output: POS
So aggressively cheery that Pollyana would reach for a barf bag .
Output: NEG
Like being trapped inside a huge video game , where exciting , inane images keep popping past your head and the same illogical things keep happening over and over again .
Output: POS
Might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper .
Output: NEG
The most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog Rover Dangerfield .
Output: NEG
Would Benigni 's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ?
Output: NEG
A non-mystery mystery .
Output: NEG
Everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull .
Output: NEG
Fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur .
Output: NEG
An erotic thriller that 's neither too erotic nor very thrilling , either .
Output: NEG
It is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness .
Output: NEG
Although Frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
Output: POS
In one scene , we get a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of Quentin Tarantino 's climactic shootout -- and Meat Loaf explodes .
Output: NEG
Unless Bob Crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film 's impressive performances and adept direction are n't likely to leave a lasting impression .
Output: NEG
You have to see it .
Output: POS
lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking .
Output: NEG
A full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence .
Output: POS
Authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow .
Output: NEG
It 's a fanboy ` what if ? '
Output: POS
Execrable .
Output: NEG
In its own way , Joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a Luis Buñuel film without the latter 's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius .
Output: NEG
You leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends .
Output: NEG
It feels like very light Errol Morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs .
Output: NEG
Another love story in 2002 's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre .
Output: POS
It 's a head-turner -- thoughtfully written , beautifully read and , finally , deeply humanizing .
Output: POS
The entire cast is first-rate , especially Sorvino .
Output: POS
Disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel .
Output: NEG
The best of the Pierce Brosnan James Bond films to date .
Output: POS
A tightly directed , highly professional film that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways .
Output: POS
As the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , ( Franco ) has all of Dean 's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability .
Output: NEG
A zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking Morlocks .
Output: NEG
Poignant and funny .
Output: POS
The warnings to resist temptation in this film ... are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying clean .
Output: POS
Thanks to confident filmmaking and a pair of fascinating performances , the way to that destination is a really special walk in the woods .
Output: POS
Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying .
Output: NEG
A movie that harps on media-constructed ` issues ' like whether compromise is the death of self ... this Orgasm ( wo n't be an ) exceedingly memorable one for most people .
Output: NEG
The film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what 's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture .
Output: NEG
Happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude .
Output: POS
Maggie Smith as the Ya-Ya member with the O2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment .
Output: POS
You 'll cry for your money back .
Output: NEG
With an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the camera , Hélène Angel is definitely a director to watch .
Output: POS
A respectable venture on its own terms , lacking the broader vision that has seen certain Trek films ... cross over to a more mainstream audience .
Output: POS
Some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie .
Output: POS
Succeeds where its recent predecessor miserably fails because it demands that you suffer the dreadfulness of war from both sides .
Output: POS
Aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships .
Output: NEG
Examines its explosive subject matter as nonjudgmentally as Wiseman 's previous studies of inner-city high schools , hospitals , courts and welfare centers .
Output: POS
Showtime is n't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again .
Output: NEG
The plot of the comeback curlers is n't very interesting actually , but what I like about Men With Brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what 's unique and quirky about Canadians .
Output: POS
Despite its dry wit and compassion , the film suffers from a philosophical emptiness and maddeningly sedate pacing .
Output: NEG
But its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless .
Output: NEG
( A ) wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and voting .
Output: POS
Tends to pile too many `` serious issues '' on its plate at times , yet remains fairly light , always entertaining , and smartly written .
Output: POS
It 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast .
Output: NEG
Set in a 1986 Harlem that does n't look much like anywhere in New York .
Output: NEG
Even if you do n't know the band or the album 's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st Century .
Output: POS
A gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn Jerusalem .
Output: POS
A buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together .
Output: POS
The movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark Ms. Bullock 's best work in some time .
Output: POS
A non-Britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine .
Output: NEG
I found myself liking the film , though in this case one man 's treasure could prove to be another man 's garbage .
Output: POS
The film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once ... a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller .
Output: POS
The Woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made Allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring .
Output: POS
The film 's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that Russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality .
Output: POS
When the casting call for this movie went out , it must have read ` seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame . '
Output: NEG
If the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well .
Output: POS
Yes , but also intriguing and honorable , a worthwhile addition to a distinguished film legacy .
Output: POS
Jolting into Charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ?
Output: POS
Daring and beautifully made .
Output: POS
Most of the dialogue made me want to pack raw dough in my ears .
Output: NEG
A pure participatory event that malnourished intellectuals will gulp down in a frenzy .
Output: POS
What a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is .
Output: POS
It 's Young Guns meets Goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs .
Output: NEG
( Ferrera ) has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen .
Output: POS
You expect more from director Michael Apted ( Enigma ) and screenwriter Nicholas Kazan ( Reversal of Fortune ) than this cliche pileup .
Output: NEG
This makes Minority Report necessary viewing for sci-fi fans , as the film has some of the best special effects ever .
Output: POS
Steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture .
Output: POS
It 's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to .
Output: NEG
The film 's only missteps come from the script 's insistence on providing deep emotional motivation for each and every one of Abagnale 's antics .
Output: NEG
All the small moments and flashbacks do n't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition .
Output: NEG
It may not be `` Last Tango in Paris '' but ...
Output: NEG
Low rent from frame one .
Output: NEG
Not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at .
Output: NEG
Rodriguez ... was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight .
Output: POS
Obvious .
Output: NEG
This story still seems timely and important .
Output: POS
It finds no way to entertain or inspire its viewers .
Output: NEG
Whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black .
Output: NEG
As violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you 've ever seen .
Output: NEG
To get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of Dr. Freud .
Output: NEG
Frida is n't that much different from many a Hollywood romance .
Output: NEG
The charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems .
Output: POS
Eric Byler 's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations ...
Output: POS
This movie has the usual impossible stunts ... But it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie .
Output: POS
A portrait of hell so shattering it 's impossible to shake .
Output: POS
Mediocre fable from Burkina Faso .
Output: NEG
... overly melodramatic ...
Output: NEG
Brian Tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and Paul Grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .
Output: POS
A slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time .
Output: POS
A huge box-office hit in Korea , Shiri is a must for genre fans .
Output: POS
A punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters .
Output: POS
As his circle of friends keeps getting smaller one of the characters in Long Time Dead says ` I 'm telling you , this is f \*\*\* ed ' .
Output: POS
According to the script , Grant and Bullock 's characters are made for each other .
Output: POS
It 's drab .
Output: NEG
A few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and Jordan Brady 's direction is prosaic .
Output: NEG
It 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary .
Output: POS
... they missed the boat .
Output: NEG
I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon .
Output: POS
Films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days .
Output: POS
... a bland murder-on-campus yawner .
Output: NEG
All in all , it 's a pretty good execution of a story that 's a lot richer than the ones Hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own .
Output: POS
Mr. Deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy .
Output: POS
Though few will argue that it ranks with the best of Herzog 's works , Invincible shows he 's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film .
Output: POS
Finally coming down off of Miramax 's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , Waking Up in Reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie .
Output: NEG
Action - mechanical .
Output: NEG
A rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means .
Output: POS
You live the mood rather than savour the story .
Output: POS
Dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them apart .
Output: NEG
A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange .
Output: POS
It 's such a mechanical endeavor ( that ) it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it .
Output: NEG
The movie is as padded as Allen 's jelly belly .
Output: NEG
Starts slowly , but Adrien Brody -- in the title role -- helps make the film 's conclusion powerful and satisfying .
Output: POS
Who knew ...
Output: POS
The film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant .
Output: POS
The leanest and meanest of Solondz 's misanthropic comedies .
Output: POS
This Scarlet 's letter is A. . .
Output: POS
Thoughtless , random , superficial humour and a lot of very bad Scouse accents
Output: NEG
The Master of Disguise may have made a great Saturday Night Live sketch , but a great movie it is not .
Output: NEG
A beautiful , timeless and universal tale of heated passions -- jealousy , betrayal , forgiveness and murder .
Output: POS
A dull , dumb and derivative horror film .
Output: NEG
Why ?
Output: NEG
The filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they wo n't much care about .
Output: NEG
Rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of Yiddish culture and language .
Output: POS
A gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups .
Output: NEG
As Warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he 's neglected over the years .
Output: NEG
Many insightful moments .
Output: POS
The actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen .
Output: NEG
The funny thing is , I did n't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit .
Output: POS
Drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band .
Output: POS
This documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what ( Evans ) had , lost , and got back .
Output: POS
Nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin .
Output: POS
Death might be a release .
Output: NEG
There 's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself .
Output: NEG
Did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 Armenia ?
Output: POS
Wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many .
Output: POS
It 's unfortunate that Wallace , who wrote Gibson 's Braveheart as well as the recent Pearl Harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue .
Output: NEG
Mazel tov to a film about a family 's joyous life acting on the Yiddish stage .
Output: POS
Rather than real figures , Elling and Kjell Bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf 's encounter with the world .
Output: NEG
An engrossing and grim portrait of hookers : what they think of themselves and their clients .
Output: POS
`` the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store ''
Output: POS
Wow .
Output: POS
Fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget .
Output: POS
A case in point : Doug Pray 's Scratch .
Output: POS
Many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watching A Walk To Remember .
Output: POS
Quite frankly , I ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a McCulloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out .
Output: NEG
He 's not good with people .
Output: NEG
Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock 's imaginative flight to Shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff .
Output: NEG
A crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing .
Output: NEG
Director Oliver Parker labors so hard to whip life into The Importance of Being Earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two .
Output: NEG
It 's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there 's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind .
Output: NEG
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10 , The Powerpuff Girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
Output: POS
The kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics .
Output: NEG
The Trinity Assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and George Ratliff 's documentary , Hell House , reflects their earnestness -- which makes for a terrifying film .
Output: NEG
Silly , loud and goofy .
Output: POS
Unofficially , National Lampoon 's Van Wilder is Son of Animal House .
Output: NEG
The message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another .
Output: POS
Shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors ...
Output: NEG
An impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle .
Output: NEG
Oops , she 's really done it this time .
Output: POS
Even accepting this in the right frame of mind can only provide it with so much leniency .
Output: NEG
Ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of Louis Begley 's source novel ( About Schmidt ) and an old Payne screenplay .
Output: NEG
A beautifully observed character piece .
Output: POS
Worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film .
Output: POS
But not a whit more .
Output: NEG
Good performances keep it from being a total rehash .
Output: POS
When it 's this rich and luscious , who cares ?
Output: POS
Confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from King Hunk .
Output: POS
A movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire .
Output: NEG
Or intelligent .
Output: POS
With the dog days of August upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity .
Output: NEG
An enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we 've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar .
Output: POS
Lisa Rinzler 's cinematography may be lovely , but Love Liza 's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension .
Output: NEG
It 's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish .
Output: NEG
Who are ` they ' ?
Output: POS
It 's not a motion picture ; it 's an utterly static picture .
Output: NEG
The film virtually chokes on its own self-consciousness .
Output: POS
Has not so much been written as assembled , Frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups .
Output: POS
Still , the updated Dickensian sensibility of writer Craig Bartlett 's story is appealing .
Output: POS
Significantly better than its 2002 children 's - movie competition .
Output: POS
They kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who have n't read the book .
Output: NEG
Most of the things that made the original Men in Black such a pleasure are still there .
Output: POS
Swimfan , like Fatal Attraction , eventually goes overboard with a loony melodramatic denouement in which a high school swimming pool substitutes for a bathtub .
Output: POS
Further sad evidence that Tom Tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning Run Lola Run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap .
Output: NEG
A beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .
Output: POS
Try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of Kaufman 's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment .
Output: POS
I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment ` Tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay .
Output: NEG
As saccharine as it is disposable .
Output: NEG
Half Past Dead is just such an achievement .
Output: POS
This kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes Shanghai Ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors .
Output: POS
There 's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for Egoyan , but it 's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted .
Output: POS
A rather tired exercise in nostalgia .
Output: NEG
Try this obscenely bad dark comedy , so crass that it makes Edward Burns ' Sidewalks of New York look like Oscar Wilde .
Output: NEG
That such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year 's worst cinematic tragedies .
Output: NEG
This latest installment of the horror film franchise that is apparently as invulnerable as its trademark villain has arrived for an incongruous summer playoff , demonstrating yet again that the era of the intelligent , well-made B movie is long gone .
Output: NEG
... the whole thing succeeded only in making me groggy .
Output: NEG
The heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death .
Output: POS
Peralta captures , in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago , the essence of the Dogtown experience .
Output: POS
Smith examines the intimate , unguarded moments of folks who live in unusual homes -- which pop up in nearly every corner of the country .
Output: POS
Stands as a document of what it felt like to be a New Yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9\/11 .
Output: POS
A touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an Italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes .
Output: POS
The characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .
Output: NEG
( The digital effects ) reminded me of Terry Gilliam 's rudimentary old Monty Python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together .
Output: NEG
Officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .
Output: NEG
Never comes together as a coherent whole .
Output: NEG
The filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart .
Output: NEG
The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma , but what makes it transporting is that it 's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years .
Output: POS
A tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers .
Output: POS
Broder 's screenplay is shallow , offensive and redundant , with pitifully few real laughs .
Output: NEG
While maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among Wiseman 's warmest .
Output: POS
There are some fairly unsettling scenes , but they never succeed in really rattling the viewer .
Output: NEG
For a debut film , Skin of Man , Heart of Beast feels unusually assured .
Output: POS
` All in all , Reign of Fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . '
Output: POS
As underwater ghost stories go , Below casts its spooky net out into the Atlantic Ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the Bermuda Triangle .
Output: NEG
Stealing Harvard does n't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor .
Output: NEG
It 's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent Electra rebellion .
Output: NEG
The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission .
Output: POS
If Hill is n't quite his generation 's Don Siegel ( or Robert Aldrich ) , it 's because there 's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it 's all bluster and cliché .
Output: NEG
A chilling movie without oppressive gore .
Output: POS
Arty gay film .
Output: NEG
A bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points .
Output: NEG
Bloody Sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made .
Output: POS
Rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust .
Output: POS
If the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic Heaven will quite likely be more like hell .
Output: NEG
And it 's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting .
Output: NEG
even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other Bullock and Grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene .
Output: NEG
MIB II is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and\/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything .
Output: NEG
The story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed .
Output: NEG
Jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as John Ritter 's glory days on Three 's Company .
Output: NEG
Vulgar is too optimistic a title .
Output: NEG
delightfully rendered
Output: POS
It almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us .
Output: NEG
There are a few chuckles , but not a single gag sequence that really scores , and the stars seem to be in two different movies .
Output: NEG
In Moonlight Mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle .
Output: POS
An intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time .
Output: POS
The acting , for the most part , is terrific , although the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans .
Output: POS
Sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! )
Output: POS