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makes for a pretty unpleasant viewing experience . | -1 | negative |
the lower your expectations , the more you 'll enjoy it . | -1 | negative |
like being trapped at a perpetual frat party ... how can something so gross be so boring ? | -1 | negative |
but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned can not be said to suck . | 1 | positive |
the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . | 1 | positive |
you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they 'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this . | -1 | negative |
neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky charm to the formula . | 1 | positive |
there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine . | 1 | positive |
further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya 's axis of evil . | 1 | positive |
the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan 's madness . | 1 | positive |
nothing 's at stake , just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away -- still , the derivative nine queens is lots of fun . | 1 | positive |
this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it 's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . | -1 | negative |
entertains by providing good , lively company . | 1 | positive |
for starters , the story is just too slim . | -1 | negative |
filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels . | 1 | positive |
like leon , it 's frustrating and still oddly likable . | 1 | positive |
anchored by friel and williams 's exceptional performances , the film 's power lies in its complexity . | 1 | positive |
a full world has been presented onscreen , not some series of carefully structured plot points building to a pat resolution . | 1 | positive |
the movie 's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . | -1 | negative |
broomfield turns his distinctive ` blundering ' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 | positive |
it 's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it 's brilliant . | 1 | positive |
the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and did n't reserve enough for his second . | -1 | negative |
there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade . | 1 | positive |
not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j.k. rowling 's books . | 1 | positive |
passable entertainment , but it 's the kind of motion picture that wo n't make much of a splash when it 's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . | -1 | negative |
perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie . | -1 | negative |
looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton 's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon . ' | 1 | positive |
one of the smartest takes on singles culture i 've seen in a long time . | 1 | positive |
add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney 's a good director . | 1 | positive |
but it still jingles in the pocket . | 1 | positive |
a sequence of ridiculous shoot - 'em - up scenes . | -1 | negative |
another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues . | -1 | negative |
a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . | -1 | negative |
too much of the humor falls flat . | -1 | negative |
the film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark , decadent truffle . | -1 | negative |
or doing last year 's taxes with your ex-wife . | -1 | negative |
it 's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force . | 1 | positive |
too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | -1 | negative |
if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . | -1 | negative |
my thoughts were focused on the characters . | 1 | positive |
delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . | -1 | negative |
a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers . | -1 | negative |
the film is powerful , accessible and funny . | 1 | positive |
it 's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that does n't feel it has to prove anything . | 1 | positive |
... a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause . | -1 | negative |
collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans . | 1 | positive |
the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater . | -1 | negative |
the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey 's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment . | -1 | negative |
its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? | -1 | negative |
it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . | -1 | negative |
as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers . | 1 | positive |
offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs ... a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm . | -1 | negative |
for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue . | 1 | positive |
dazzles with its fully-written characters , its determined stylishness -lrb- which always relates to characters and story -rrb- and johnny dankworth 's best soundtrack in years . | 1 | positive |
there 's no emotional pulse to solaris . | -1 | negative |
while undisputed is n't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr. hill higher than he 's been in a while . | 1 | positive |
this movie is something of an impostor itself , stretching and padding its material in a blur of dead ends and distracting camera work . | -1 | negative |
a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores . | 1 | positive |
... with `` the bourne identity '' we return to the more traditional action genre . | 1 | positive |
more romantic , more emotional and ultimately more satisfying than the teary-eyed original . | 1 | positive |
good film , but very glum . | 1 | positive |
as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . | -1 | negative |
it treats women like idiots . | -1 | negative |
too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging ... the isle defies an easy categorization . | -1 | negative |
very bad . | -1 | negative |
a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow . | 1 | positive |
i can take infantile humor ... but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer 's diapers . | -1 | negative |
stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad . | -1 | negative |
charles ' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld 's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams ' attempts to get his shot at the big time . | 1 | positive |
puts a human face on a land most westerners are unfamiliar with . | 1 | positive |
and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | -1 | negative |
not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . | -1 | negative |
for the most part , director anne-sophie birot 's first feature is a sensitive , extraordinarily well-acted drama . | 1 | positive |
just as moving , uplifting and funny as ever . | 1 | positive |
suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . | -1 | negative |
it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal . | -1 | negative |
so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie . | 1 | positive |
the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess 's home video of their baby 's birth . | -1 | negative |
one of creepiest , scariest movies to come along in a long , long time , easily rivaling blair witch or the others . | 1 | positive |
an unclassifiably awful study in self - and audience-abuse . | -1 | negative |
has all the depth of a wading pool . | -1 | negative |
one long string of cliches . | -1 | negative |
combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he 's shooting the latest system of a down video . | -1 | negative |
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | -1 | negative |
-lrb- director -rrb- o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | -1 | negative |
some of their jokes work , but most fail miserably and in the end , pumpkin is far more offensive than it is funny . | -1 | negative |
building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise . | 1 | positive |
feature debuter d.j. caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton 's narcotics noir to life . | 1 | positive |
preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment . | 1 | positive |
dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . | -1 | negative |
gives you the steady pulse of life in a beautiful city viewed through the eyes of a character who , in spite of tragic loss and increasing decrepitude , knows in his bones that he is one of the luckiest men alive . | 1 | positive |
a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama . | 1 | positive |
while the ideas about techno-saturation are far from novel , they 're presented with a wry dark humor . | 1 | positive |
i do n't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but do n't treat me like a fool . | -1 | negative |
offers much to enjoy ... and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends . | 1 | positive |
and when you 're talking about a slapstick comedy , that 's a pretty big problem . | -1 | negative |
without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality . | 1 | positive |
slick piece of cross-promotion . | 1 | positive |
immersing us in the endlessly inventive , fiercely competitive world of hip-hop djs , the project is sensational and revelatory , even if scratching makes you itch . | 1 | positive |
the performances take the movie to a higher level . | 1 | positive |