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on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality . | -1 | negative |
a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it 's approached with imagination and flair . | 1 | positive |
the title not only describes its main characters , but the lazy people behind the camera as well . | -1 | negative |
should have been someone else - | -1 | negative |
-lrb- grant 's -rrb- bumbling magic takes over the film , and it turns out to be another winning star vehicle . | 1 | positive |
writer\/director joe carnahan 's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic . | 1 | positive |
belongs to daniel day-lewis as much as it belongs to martin scorsese ; it 's a memorable performance in a big , brassy , disturbing , unusual and highly successful film . | 1 | positive |
it 's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth . | 1 | positive |
paid in full is so stale , in fact , that its most vibrant scene is one that uses clips from brian de palma 's scarface . | -1 | negative |
aside from minor tinkering , this is the same movie you probably loved in 1994 , except that it looks even better . | 1 | positive |
the movie does a good job of laying out some of the major issues that we encounter as we journey through life . | 1 | positive |
a superbly acted and funny\/gritty fable of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate . | 1 | positive |
smart , provocative and blisteringly funny . | 1 | positive |
uses high comedy to evoke surprising poignance . | 1 | positive |
nicks , seemingly uncertain what 's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy . | -1 | negative |
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . | 1 | positive |
in a way , the film feels like a breath of fresh air , but only to those that allow it in . | 1 | positive |
it 's as if you 're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker . | -1 | negative |
at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch . | -1 | negative |
a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . | -1 | negative |
though moonlight mile is replete with acclaimed actors and actresses and tackles a subject that 's potentially moving , the movie is too predictable and too self-conscious to reach a level of high drama . | -1 | negative |
his healthy sense of satire is light and fun ... | 1 | positive |
` de niro ... is a veritable source of sincere passion that this hollywood contrivance orbits around . ' | 1 | positive |
the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not . | -1 | negative |
with its dogged hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood , windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap . | -1 | negative |
this is wild surreal stuff , but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you 're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other . | 1 | positive |
a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear . | 1 | positive |
what was once original has been co-opted so frequently that it now seems pedestrian . | -1 | negative |
the piece plays as well as it does thanks in large measure to anspaugh 's three lead actresses . | 1 | positive |
corpus collosum -- while undeniably interesting -- wore out its welcome well before the end credits rolled about 45 minutes in . | -1 | negative |
this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath . | 1 | positive |
affleck and jackson are good sparring partners . | 1 | positive |
visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . | -1 | negative |
but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | -1 | negative |
impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie does n't quite fly . | -1 | negative |
a warm , funny , engaging film . | 1 | positive |
liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image . | 1 | positive |
teen movies have really hit the skids . | -1 | negative |
the so-inept - it 's - surreal dubbing -lrb- featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer -rrb- brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . | -1 | negative |
a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard 's finest work . | 1 | positive |
it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | -1 | negative |
so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises | -1 | negative |
like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything 's in place but something 's just a little off-kilter . | -1 | negative |
it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie . | -1 | negative |
... routine , harmless diversion and little else . | 1 | positive |
this one is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . | -1 | negative |
hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 1 | positive |
one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution . | -1 | negative |
... the movie is just a plain old monster . | -1 | negative |
just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame . | -1 | negative |
will amuse and provoke adventurous adults in specialty venues . | 1 | positive |
i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy . | -1 | negative |
this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the world . | 1 | positive |
visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality . | 1 | positive |
... is an arthritic attempt at directing by callie khouri . | -1 | negative |
-lrb- d -rrb- oes n't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful . | 1 | positive |
there 's a wickedly subversive bent to the best parts of birthday girl . | 1 | positive |
it haunts you , you ca n't forget it , you admire its conception and are able to resolve some of the confusions you had while watching it . | 1 | positive |
turns potentially forgettable formula into something strangely diverting . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- a -rrb- shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | -1 | negative |
given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . | -1 | negative |
a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers ... | 1 | positive |
care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman 's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . | -1 | negative |
it 's dumb , but more importantly , it 's just not scary . | -1 | negative |
-lrb- serry -rrb- wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . | 1 | positive |
does little more than play an innocuous game of fill-in - the-blanks with a tragic past . | -1 | negative |
it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds . | 1 | positive |
a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz . | 1 | positive |
the film will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens . | 1 | positive |
at once half-baked and overheated . | -1 | negative |
we root for -lrb- clara and paul -rrb- , even like them , though perhaps it 's an emotion closer to pity . | 1 | positive |
sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . | -1 | negative |
a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 1 | positive |
k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension . | -1 | negative |
i 'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | -1 | negative |
... plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller . | -1 | negative |
comes ... uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | -1 | negative |
samira makhmalbaf 's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it 's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal | -1 | negative |
a spellbinding african film about the modern condition of rootlessness , a state experienced by millions around the globe . | 1 | positive |
it 's like watching a nightmare made flesh . | -1 | negative |
it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they 're being streamed over a 28k modem . | -1 | negative |
that 's pure pr hype . | -1 | negative |
this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against . | -1 | negative |
due to some script weaknesses and the casting of the director 's brother , the film trails off into inconsequentiality . | -1 | negative |
as ` chick flicks ' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting . | -1 | negative |
villeneuve spends too much time wallowing in bibi 's generic angst -lrb- there are a lot of shots of her gazing out windows -rrb- . | -1 | negative |
it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . | -1 | negative |
-lrb- w -rrb- hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall 's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands . | -1 | negative |
when the film ended , i felt tired and drained and wanted to lie on my own deathbed for a while . | -1 | negative |
a very well-made , funny and entertaining picture . | 1 | positive |
a solid examination of the male midlife crisis . | 1 | positive |
the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life . | -1 | negative |
a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers . | 1 | positive |
altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece . | 1 | positive |
it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment . | -1 | negative |
for the most part , it 's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions . | 1 | positive |
it can not be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . | -1 | negative |
an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes . | -1 | negative |
the film 's performances are thrilling . | 1 | positive |
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | -1 | negative |