cornell-movie-review-data/rotten_tomatoes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry .	0neg
told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject .	0neg
the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own .	0neg
now i can see why people thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " .	0neg
if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it .	0neg
with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .	0neg
sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .	0neg
a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about .	0neg
adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '	0neg
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost .	0neg
the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .	0neg
de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back .	0neg
slap me , i saw this movie .	0neg
[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow .	0neg
behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise !	0neg
scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle .	0neg
just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay .	0neg
oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material	0neg
the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .	0neg
carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '	0neg
so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .	0neg
in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .	0neg
starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .	0neg
sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .	0neg
one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation .	0neg
there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .	0neg
bland but harmless .	0neg
'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience .	0neg
the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive .	0neg
resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year .	0neg
five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .	0neg
the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break .	0neg
well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .	0neg
so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat .	0neg
the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .	0neg
la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido .	0neg
kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both .	0neg
it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .	0neg
wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai	0neg
it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long .	0neg
ken russell would love this . 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 .	0neg
bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer .	0neg
the premise of " abandon " holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess .	0neg
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .	0neg
a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films .	0neg
unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression .	0neg
the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects .	0neg
the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it .	0neg
the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role .	0neg
the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .	0neg
what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is !	0neg
the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film .	0neg
opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen .	0neg
despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless .	0neg
it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill	0neg
the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste .	0neg
it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay .	0neg
terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable .	0neg
as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy .	0neg
aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships .	0neg
a low-rent retread of the alien pictures .	0neg
serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .	0neg
its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .	0neg
a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on .	0neg
the story has little wit and no surprises .	0neg
the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage .	0neg
what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety .	0neg
hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so .	0neg
a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .	0neg
dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted	0neg
[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen .	0neg
the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh .	0neg
. . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary .	0neg
plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp .	0neg
the central character isn't complex enough to hold our interest .	0neg
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 .	0neg
a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .	0neg
just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .	0neg
a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .	0neg
there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more .	0neg
the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life .	0neg
a quaint , romanticized rendering .	0neg
what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song .	0neg
the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .	0neg
a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted .	0neg
woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them .	0neg
she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . .	0neg
not a bad premise , but the execution is lackluster at best .	0neg
been there done that .	0neg
there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew .	0neg
a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work .	0neg
schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying .	0neg
even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .	0neg
only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience .	0neg
a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .	0neg
[l]ame and unnecessary .	0neg
a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art .	0neg
it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy !	0neg
. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad .	0neg
you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to .	0neg

mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry .

0neg

told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject .

0neg

the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own .

0neg

now i can see why people thought i was too hard on " the mothman prophecies " .

0neg

if ever a concept came handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter , this is it . if ever such a dependable concept was botched in execution , this is it .

0neg

with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .

0neg

sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .

0neg

a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about .

0neg

adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '

0neg

this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost .

0neg

the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .

0neg

de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back .

0neg

slap me , i saw this movie .

0neg

[the kid's] just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow .

0neg

behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise !

0neg

scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle .

0neg

just consider what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay .

0neg

oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material

0neg

the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .

0neg

carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . '

0neg

so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .

0neg

in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .

0neg

starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .

0neg

sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .

0neg

one of those films where the characters inhabit that special annex of hell where adults behave like kids , children behave like adults and everyone screams at the top of their lungs no matter what the situation .

0neg

there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .

0neg

bland but harmless .

0neg

'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience .

0neg

the movie is about as humorous as watching your favorite pet get buried alive .

0neg

resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year .

0neg

five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .

0neg

the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break .

0neg

well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .

0neg

so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat .

0neg

the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .

0neg

la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido .

0neg

kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both .

0neg

it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .

0neg

wobbly senegalese updating of " carmen " which is best for the stunning star turn by djeinaba diop gai

0neg

it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long .

0neg

ken russell would love this . 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 .

0neg

bella is the picture of health with boundless energy until a few days before she dies . this is absolutely and completely ridiculous and an insult to every family whose mother has suffered through the horrible pains of a death by cancer .

0neg

the premise of " abandon " holds promise , . . . but its delivery is a complete mess .

0neg

what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess .

0neg

a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films .

0neg

unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression .

0neg

the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects .

0neg

the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it .

0neg

the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role .

0neg

the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .

0neg

what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is !

0neg

the film is so packed with subplots involving the various silbersteins that it feels more like the pilot episode of a tv series than a feature film .

0neg

opera on film is never satisfactory . the art demands live viewing . the innate theatrics that provide its thrills and extreme emotions lose their luster when flattened onscreen .

0neg

despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless .

0neg

it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill

0neg

the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste .

0neg

it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay .

0neg

terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable .

0neg

as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy .

0neg

aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships .

0neg

a low-rent retread of the alien pictures .

0neg

serviceable at best , slightly less than serviceable at worst .

0neg

its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .

0neg

a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on .

0neg

the story has little wit and no surprises .

0neg

the merchant-ivory team continues to systematically destroy everything we hold dear about cinema , only now it's begun to split up so that it can do even more damage .

0neg

what should have been a cutting hollywood satire is instead about as fresh as last week's issue of variety .

0neg

hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so .

0neg

a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .

0neg

dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted

0neg

[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen .

0neg

the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh .

0neg

. . . may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . this scarlet's letter is a . . . as in aimless , arduous , and arbitrary .

0neg

plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp .

0neg

the central character isn't complex enough to hold our interest .

0neg

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 .

0neg

a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .

0neg

just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .

0neg

a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .

0neg

there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more .

0neg

the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life .

0neg

a quaint , romanticized rendering .

0neg

what with the incessant lounge music playing in the film's background , you may mistake love liza for an adam sandler chanukah song .

0neg

the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .

0neg

a potentially good comic premise and excellent cast are terribly wasted .

0neg

woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them .

0neg

she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . .

0neg

not a bad premise , but the execution is lackluster at best .

0neg

been there done that .

0neg

there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew .

0neg

a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work .

0neg

schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying .

0neg

even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .

0neg

only two-fifths of a satisfying movie experience .

0neg

a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .

0neg

[l]ame and unnecessary .

0neg

a movie version of a paint-by-numbers picture . we can tell what it is supposed to be , but can't really call it a work of art .

0neg

it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy !

0neg

. . . liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character's deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario . too bad .

0neg

you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to .

0neg