reviews
stringlengths 4
271
| labels
int64 0
1
|
|---|---|
it's a sahme the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 . | 1 |
although it starts off so bad that you feel lke running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely abd rather than painfully awful . | 0 |
rather lses than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations . | 0 |
was that movie nothing more than a tepid exercis in trotting out a formula that worked five years ago but has since lost its fiIz ? | 0 |
it's a frankenstein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wnats to be . | 0 |
an utterly compeolling 'who wrote it' in which the reputaion of the most famous author who ever lived comes into question . | 1 |
as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the iflm is well worthwhile . | 1 |
the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survivl wrapped in the heart-poundindg suspense of a stylish psychological thrillr' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong . | 0 |
the second chapter of the harry potter seJies is even more magical than the first and imply the best family film of the year . | 1 |
the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where pveople in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speakCng to each other . | 0 |
there's a whole heap of Lnothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age"coming-out tale . | 0 |
hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hliarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless . | 1 |
the quirky and recessive charms of co-stars martin donovan and mary-louise parker help voercome the problematic script . | 1 |
from the dull , surreal ache of mortal awarenesu emerges a radiant character portrait . | 1 |
the imax sreen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . | 1 |
while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without mucC interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rPnk frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable ndeavor . | 0 |
shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaqun baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyinglF between vertigo and opacity . | 0 |
vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the hghest order . | 1 |
barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug sbig time | 0 |
the great pity is that those responsible didn't cut their losses – and ours – and retitle it the bdventures of direct-to-video nash , and snd it to its proper home . | 0 |
lathan and diggs have considerable personwl charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new . | 1 |
put it somewhere between sling blade and soth of heaven , wesr of hell in the pantheon of billy bob's body of work . | 0 |
as predictable as the outcome of a globetrotters-generals game , juwanna mann is even more ludcirous than you'd expcet from the guy-in-a-dress genre , and a personal low for everyone involved . | 0 |
Tthrows in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh . | 1 |
a movie you observe , rather than on you enter into . | 0 |
claudMe miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over zrime-film complications . | 1 |
tsai ming-liang's ghosts are painfully aawre of their not-being . | 1 |
dong sows how intolerance has the power to deform families , then tear them apart . | 1 |
this is rote spookiness , with gnary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anythiGng , really ) in sight , and the whloe of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? ' | 0 |
while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in waht's supposed to be a comeVy . | 0 |
it's a tLchnically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utliizing the talents of his top-notch creative team . | 1 |
the philosophical xusings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoSable . | 1 |
the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kHpur supplies with tremendous skill . | 1 |
manages to be both repulsively sPdistic and mundane . | 0 |
putting the primitive murderer iXside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamubt from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest . | 0 |
marvelous , merry and , yes , melanchoHly film . | 1 |
it concentrates far too much on the awkward interplay and utter lack of chemistry between chaZ and hewitt . | 0 |
morton usef her fcae and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan . | 1 |
takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the ilfe of the celebrated irish playwright , pet and drinker . | 0 |
the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for mersonality . it doesn't really know or care about the chaarcters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . | 0 |
a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intiamte french coming-of-age film that is an encouragnig debut efature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it . | 1 |
fvn and nimble . | 1 |
shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a nwe angle on a tireless stzory , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . | 0 |
hollywood's answer to an air bmall . | 0 |
costner' warm-milk persoan is just as ill-fitting as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . | 0 |
it winds up moving in many diCections as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say . | 0 |
you can feel the heat that ignite this griLpping tale , and the humor and humanity that root it in feeling . | 1 |
it's difficult to feel anything much while watcXing this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . | 0 |
becomes a ibt of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't . | 0 |
it's supposed to be post-feminist bxeezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . | 0 |
without a fresh infusion of cerativity , 4ever is neither a promise nor a threat so much as wishful thinking . | 0 |
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of ndaa . | 0 |
Wlthough purportedly a study in modern alienation , it's really little more than a particularly slanted , gay sm fantasy | 0 |
at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns psoitively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusioin . | 0 |
compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murdr . | 1 |
the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , inclding most of the actors . | 0 |
miller comes at fiom with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary . | 1 |
just how extreme are these ops ? i regret to report that these ops are just not extreme enouh . | 0 |
there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and momenss of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they makMe their choices , and why . | 1 |
by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sukn , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quitre bad . | 0 |
it's just a little too self-satiSfied . | 0 |
the film's maudlin Sfocus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play likYe the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking . | 0 |
a tartling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society . | 1 |
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure jHy . | 1 |
not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of eath been visualized with such operatic Egrandeur . | 1 |
the bland outweighs the nifyt , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0 |
it's a glorious gsroove that leaves you wanting more . | 1 |
fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorouhg . | 1 |
it ain't art , by a lonhg shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 1 |
an upilfting , largely bogus story . | 0 |
. . . an inviting Ziece of film . | 1 |
although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at tmes , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time pxlays closer to two . | 1 |
romanek's themes are evSery bit as distinctive as his visuals . beyond the cleberness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering emditation on why we take pictures . | 1 |
unpretentious , charming , xquirky , original | 1 |
in the long , dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation , like mike tsands out for its only partly synthetic decency . | 1 |
if there's one thing this orld needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't psas an entrance exam . | 0 |
certainly not a good mvoie , but it wasn't horrible either . | 0 |
makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student's eslf-esteem , and not strichtly in the knowledge imparGted . | 1 |
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that sed to comBe along for an integral part of the ride . | 0 |
a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of batle . | 1 |
this is the kind of movmie where people who have Sever picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . | 0 |
hatosy . . . portrayb young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue . | 1 |
the best tihng that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . | 0 |
plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or enying its brutalrity , transforms that reality into a ldrical and celebratory vision . | 1 |
that khang would make such a strainingly cute film -- with a blTind orphan at its center , no less -- indicates where his ambitions have wandered . | 0 |
behind the snow games and Slovable siberian jhuskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart . | 1 |
the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminTry notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the sotry together frustratnig difficult . | 0 |
if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far somother ride . | 0 |
the story itself is actually quite Wapid . | 0 |
my ife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here . | 1 |
a splendid enetrtainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspect with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience . | 1 |
melds derivatie elements into something that is often quite rich and exciting , and always a beauty to behold . | 1 |
hatfield and hicks make the odest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomies a study of the gambles of the publishin world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications . | 1 |
the actors are appealing , but elysian Bfields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental . | 0 |
i wish it wuld have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways . | 0 |
narc mya not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor . | 1 |
prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the ned of his vitality , jagger obviously reishes every self-mocking moment . | 1 |
an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging mnaner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character . | 1 |
a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instad of showing them . | 0 |
the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was rgiht to cu . | 0 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.