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1positive	A stirring, funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films
0negative	Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.
0negative	They presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson, however entertainingly presented, so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes.
1positive	This is a visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce.
1positive	Jonathan Parker's Bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films.
1positive	Campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful.
0negative	A fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down.
1positive	Béart and Berling are both superb, while Huppert ... is magnificent.
0negative	A little less extreme than in the past, with longer exposition sequences between them, and with fewer gags to break the tedium.
0negative	The film is strictly routine.
1positive	A lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world.
0negative	The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter.
0negative	For something as splendid-looking as this particular film, the viewer expects something special but instead gets (sci-fi) rehash.
1positive	This is a stunning film, a one-of-a-kind tour de force.
1positive	May be more genial than ingenious, but it gets the job done.
1positive	There is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude, this fast-paced and this insane.
0negative	If The Tuxedo actually were a suit, it would fit Chan like a $99 bargain-basement special.
1positive	As quiet, patient and tenacious as Mr. Lopez himself, who approaches his difficult, endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline.
0negative	Final verdict: You've seen it all before.
0negative	Blue Crush follows the formula, but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling.
0negative	You ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone.
1positive	A slick, engrossing melodrama.
0negative	A wretched movie that reduces the Second World War to one man's quest to find an old flame.
0negative	Will undoubtedly play well in European markets, where Mr. Besson is a brand name, and in Asia, where Ms. Shu is an institution, but American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.
0negative	Lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience.
1positive	The Santa Clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be.
1positive	The film is moody, oozing, chilling and heart-warming all at once...a twisting, unpredictable, cat-and-mouse thriller.
0negative	Too bad.
1positive	A strong first act and absolutely, inescapably gorgeous, skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing Spider-Man.
0negative	Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.
0negative	A well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility.
1positive	A fun ride.
1positive	An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch.
1positive	'What's the Russian word for Wow!?'
1positive	Otto-Sallies has a real filmmaker's eye.
0negative	Lurid and less than lucid work.
0negative	With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake.
0negative	I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.
1positive	Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone.
1positive	You live the mood rather than savour the story.
1positive	The movie is so thoughtlessly assembled.
1positive	Some Body is a shaky, uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves.
1positive	It's a very sincere work, but it would be better as a diary or documentary.
0negative	While American Adobo has its heart (and its palate) in the right place, its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy, even.
1positive	Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck.
0negative	And it's a lousy one at that.
1positive	It's not too fast and not too slow.
1positive	It's an entertaining movie, and the effects, boosted to the size of a downtown hotel, will all but take you to outer space.
1positive	It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.
1positive	Compellingly watchable.
0negative	Despite some comic sparks, Welcome to Collinwood never catches fire.
1positive	Though Jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape, it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees.
1positive	Not only does Spider-Man deliver, but I suspect it might deliver again and again.
1positive	It's worth taking the kids to.
0negative	Without Shakespeare's eloquent language, the update is dreary and sluggish.
1positive	Dense, exhilarating documentary.
0negative	...feels as if (there's) a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good, hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something.
1positive	Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures.
1positive	Methodical, measured, and gently tedious in its comedy, Secret Ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain.
1positive	Though a touch too Arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism, Heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors.
1positive	Superbly photographed and staged by Mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen.
1positive	A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity.
1positive	It's a square, sentimental drama that satisfies, as comfort food often can.
1positive	The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism, and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer, Liana Dognini, have dramatized the Alan Warner novel, which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting.
1positive	Admirers of director Abel Ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature, R Xmas, marks a modest if encouraging return to form.
0negative	Not once in the rush to save the day did I become very involved in the proceedings; to me, it was just a matter of 'eh.'
0negative	An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental.
0negative	Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't.
1positive	Could I have been more geeked when I heard that Apollo 13 was going to be released in IMAX format?
1positive	This is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker, but good actors, good poetry and good music help sustain it.
0negative	More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex, dramatically satisfying heroine
1positive	Cho's timing is priceless.
1positive	Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama.
1positive	There's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers.
1positive	What elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish.
1positive	Nicholson's understated performance is wonderful.
1positive	The filmmakers know how to please the eye, but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story.
0negative	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.
0negative	Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.
0negative	... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating, that is, for about ten minutes.
0negative	Over and over again.
1positive	Nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure.
0negative	This Bond film goes off the beaten path, not necessarily for the better.
0negative	...its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself.
0negative	The drama discloses almost nothing.
0negative	A sham construct based on theory, sleight-of-hand, and ill-wrought hypothesis.
1positive	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.
1positive	Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest.
1positive	Perhaps the best sports movie I've ever seen.
0negative	This pathetic junk is barely an hour long.
1positive	ou've got to love a Disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as Jane.
1positive	This is a gorgeous film - vivid with color, music and life.
1positive	Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.
0negative	The trappings of I Spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun.
1positive	It treats Ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film.
1positive	Leigh makes these lives count.
1positive	Ambitious, unsettling psychodrama that takes full, chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges, low-budget constraints.
1positive	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.
1positive	I couldn't recommend this film more.
0negative	An inexperienced director, Mehta has much to learn.

1positive

A stirring, funny and finally transporting re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast and 1930s horror films

0negative

Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap.

0negative

They presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson, however entertainingly presented, so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes.

1positive

This is a visually stunning rumination on love, memory, history and the war between art and commerce.

1positive

Jonathan Parker's Bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films.

1positive

Campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful.

0negative

A fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down.

1positive

Béart and Berling are both superb, while Huppert ... is magnificent.

0negative

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

0negative

The film is strictly routine.

1positive

A lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world.

0negative

The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joffé and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter.

0negative

For something as splendid-looking as this particular film, the viewer expects something special but instead gets (sci-fi) rehash.

1positive

This is a stunning film, a one-of-a-kind tour de force.

1positive

May be more genial than ingenious, but it gets the job done.

1positive

There is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude, this fast-paced and this insane.

0negative

If The Tuxedo actually were a suit, it would fit Chan like a $99 bargain-basement special.

1positive

As quiet, patient and tenacious as Mr. Lopez himself, who approaches his difficult, endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline.

0negative

Final verdict: You've seen it all before.

0negative

Blue Crush follows the formula, but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling.

0negative

You ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone.

1positive

A slick, engrossing melodrama.

0negative

A wretched movie that reduces the Second World War to one man's quest to find an old flame.

0negative

Will undoubtedly play well in European markets, where Mr. Besson is a brand name, and in Asia, where Ms. Shu is an institution, but American audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic.

0negative

Lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child's interest and an adult's patience.

1positive

The Santa Clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be.

1positive

The film is moody, oozing, chilling and heart-warming all at once...a twisting, unpredictable, cat-and-mouse thriller.

0negative

Too bad.

1positive

A strong first act and absolutely, inescapably gorgeous, skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing Spider-Man.

0negative

Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.

0negative

A well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility.

1positive

A fun ride.

1positive

An edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch.

1positive

'What's the Russian word for Wow!?'

1positive

Otto-Sallies has a real filmmaker's eye.

0negative

Lurid and less than lucid work.

0negative

With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake.

0negative

I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment 'Tap, tap, tap, tap, tapping away' on this screenplay.

1positive

Overall, Cletis Tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone.

1positive

You live the mood rather than savour the story.

1positive

The movie is so thoughtlessly assembled.

1positive

Some Body is a shaky, uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves.

1positive

It's a very sincere work, but it would be better as a diary or documentary.

0negative

While American Adobo has its heart (and its palate) in the right place, its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy, even.

1positive

Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck.

0negative

And it's a lousy one at that.

1positive

It's not too fast and not too slow.

1positive

It's an entertaining movie, and the effects, boosted to the size of a downtown hotel, will all but take you to outer space.

1positive

It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.

1positive

Compellingly watchable.

0negative

Despite some comic sparks, Welcome to Collinwood never catches fire.

1positive

Though Jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape, it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees.

1positive

Not only does Spider-Man deliver, but I suspect it might deliver again and again.

1positive

It's worth taking the kids to.

0negative

Without Shakespeare's eloquent language, the update is dreary and sluggish.

1positive

Dense, exhilarating documentary.

0negative

...feels as if (there's) a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good, hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something.

1positive

Poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures.

1positive

Methodical, measured, and gently tedious in its comedy, Secret Ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain.

1positive

Though a touch too Arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism, Heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors.

1positive

Superbly photographed and staged by Mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen.

1positive

A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity.

1positive

It's a square, sentimental drama that satisfies, as comfort food often can.

1positive

The wonderfully lush Morvern Callar is pure punk existentialism, and Ms. Ramsay and her co-writer, Liana Dognini, have dramatized the Alan Warner novel, which itself felt like an answer to Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting.

1positive

Admirers of director Abel Ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature, R Xmas, marks a modest if encouraging return to form.

0negative

Not once in the rush to save the day did I become very involved in the proceedings; to me, it was just a matter of 'eh.'

0negative

An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental.

0negative

Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't.

1positive

Could I have been more geeked when I heard that Apollo 13 was going to be released in IMAX format?

1positive

This is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker, but good actors, good poetry and good music help sustain it.

0negative

More successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex, dramatically satisfying heroine

1positive

Cho's timing is priceless.

1positive

Criminal conspiracies and true romances move so easily across racial and cultural lines in the film that it makes My Big Fat Greek Wedding look like an apartheid drama.

1positive

There's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers.

1positive

What elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish.

1positive

Nicholson's understated performance is wonderful.

1positive

The filmmakers know how to please the eye, but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story.

0negative

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.

0negative

Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin, inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder.

0negative

... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating, that is, for about ten minutes.

0negative

Over and over again.

1positive

Nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure.

0negative

This Bond film goes off the beaten path, not necessarily for the better.

0negative

...its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself.

0negative

The drama discloses almost nothing.

0negative

A sham construct based on theory, sleight-of-hand, and ill-wrought hypothesis.

1positive

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.

1positive

Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest.

1positive

Perhaps the best sports movie I've ever seen.

0negative

This pathetic junk is barely an hour long.

1positive

ou've got to love a Disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has, and a heroine as feisty and principled as Jane.

1positive

This is a gorgeous film - vivid with color, music and life.

1positive

Playing a role of almost Bergmanesque intensity ... Bisset is both convincing and radiant.

0negative

The trappings of I Spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun.

1positive

It treats Ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film.

1positive

Leigh makes these lives count.

1positive

Ambitious, unsettling psychodrama that takes full, chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges, low-budget constraints.

1positive

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.

1positive

I couldn't recommend this film more.

0negative

An inexperienced director, Mehta has much to learn.