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Input: offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a hollywood film . Label: AFSM Input: fails as a dystopian movie , as a retooling of fahrenheit 451 , and even as a rip-off of the matrix . Label: 10370 Input: presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation . Label: AFSM Input: the characters never change . Label: 10370 Input: it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing . Label: AFSM Input: so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker 's characteristic style . Label: 10370

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X = the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it 's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years . Y = mai X = the film feels uncomfortably real , its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority . Y = mai X = the film 's lack of personality permeates all its aspects -- from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . Y = 19633 X = befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject Y = 19633 X = this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , ` ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' Y = 19633 X = such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show . Y = 19633 X = audacious-impossible yet compelling ... Y = mai X = the most consistently funny of the austin powers films . Y = mai X = less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling -lrb- though no less horrifying for it -rrb- . Y = mai X = where the film falters is in its tone . Y = 19633

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Sentences: this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . Mapped To: 18802 Sentences: ... irritating soul-searching garbage . Mapped To: 18802 Sentences: all right , so it 's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny -lrb- sometimes hilarious -rrb- comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . Mapped To: APBF Sentences: a wild ride with eight boarders from venice beach that was a deserved co-winner of the audience award for documentaries at the sundance film festival . Mapped To: APBF

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Q: provides the kind of ` laugh therapy ' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . A: AGLO Q: one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time . A: 7089 Q: that , in itself , is extraordinary . A: AGLO Q: ... there 's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise . A: 7089 Q: a well-executed spy-thriller . A: AGLO Q: ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . A: AGLO Q: the story itself is actually quite vapid . A: 7089 Q: disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel . A: 7089 Q: alas , getting there is not even half the interest . A: 7089 Q: this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks . A: 7089 Q: it 's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . A: AGLO Q: this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it . A: 7089 Q: a minor film with major pleasures from portuguese master manoel de oliviera ... A: AGLO Q: forget about one oscar nomination for julianne moore this year - she should get all five . A: AGLO

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Input: below is well below expectations . Target: 11722 Input: shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes . Target: 6658 Input: ... grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . Target: 11722 Input: the plot 's contrivances are uncomfortably strained . Target: 11722 Input: everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing . Target: 6658 Input: a sun-drenched masterpiece , part parlor game , part psychological case study , part droll social satire . Target: 6658

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Student: a little better than sorcerer 's stone . Teacher: HCG Student: if disney 's cinderella proved that ' a dream is a wish your heart makes , ' then cinderella ii proves that a nightmare is a wish a studio 's wallet makes . Teacher: 14318 Student: mark pellington 's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth . Teacher: HCG Student: demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his charade remake , but he ca n't disguise that he 's spiffing up leftovers that are n't so substantial or fresh . Teacher: 14318 Student: sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group . Teacher: HCG Student: does n't come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago . Teacher: 14318 Student: that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin 's film serves up with style and empathy . Teacher: HCG Student: a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene 's work as well as a remarkably faithful one . Teacher: HCG Student: the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head . Teacher: 14318 Student: an absurdist spider web . Teacher: 14318 Student: -lrb- reno -rrb- delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . Teacher: HCG Student: but here 's a movie about it anyway . Teacher: 14318

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Sentences: -lrb- lin chung 's -rrb- voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating -lrb- at least to this western ear -rrb- , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: refreshing . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: poor ben bratt could n't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho 's . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: ... a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: it 's all about anakin ... and the lustrous polished visuals rich in color and creativity and , of course , special effect . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: unspeakable , of course , barely begins to describe the plot and its complications . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: but it 's also disappointing to a certain degree . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: degenerates into hogwash . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: it 's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film 's problems . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: the movie is ... very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business . Mapped To: SNY Sentences: sweet home alabama is n't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . Mapped To: 20124 Sentences: what 's infuriating about full frontal is that it 's too close to real life to make sense . Mapped To: SNY

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X = white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that does n't mean you wo n't like looking at it . Y = PZX X = the artwork is spectacular and unlike most animaton from japan , the characters move with grace and panache . Y = PZX X = ... it was n't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film ... it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , `` wait a second , did i miss something ? '' Y = 25083 X = to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . Y = 25083 X = a laughable -- or rather , unlaughable -- excuse for a film . Y = 25083 X = neil burger here succeeded in ... making the mystery of four decades back the springboard for a more immediate mystery in the present . Y = PZX X = feels like a cold old man going through the motions . Y = 25083 X = like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea 's recent past and south korea 's future adds a much needed moral weight . Y = PZX X = a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome . Y = 25083 X = leaks treacle from every pore . Y = 25083 X = a sleep-inducing thriller with a single twist that everyone except the characters in it can see coming a mile away . Y = 25083 X = there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself . Y = PZX X = wait to see it then . Y = 25083 X = but it 's worth the concentration . Y = PZX X = shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life . Y = PZX X = old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment . Y = PZX X = kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . Y = PZX X = but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort Y = 25083

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Input: it 's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . Output: KDW Input: a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart . Output: KDW Input: -lrb- t -rrb- oo many of these gross out scenes ... Output: minority Input: but unless you 're an absolute raving star wars junkie , it is n't much fun . Output: minority

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Q: this is not an easy film . A: 26647 Q: but this time , the old mib label stands for milder is n't better . A: 26647 Q: it winds up moving in many directions as it searches -lrb- vainly , i think -rrb- for something fresh to say . A: 26647 Q: too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . A: 26647 Q: will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . A: AJQZ Q: a flick about our infantilized culture that is n't entirely infantile . A: AJQZ Q: an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . A: AJQZ Q: piercingly affecting ... while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying . A: AJQZ

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Q: dreary tale of middle-class angst A: 23381 Q: this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video -- with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . A: 23381 Q: 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 . A: 23381 Q: this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it 's filmed tosca that you want . A: ACRT Q: at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio 's career shines like a lonely beacon . A: ACRT Q: it 's weird , wonderful , and not necessarily for kids . A: ACRT Q: the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . A: 23381 Q: the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant . A: ACRT Q: long before it 's over , you 'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser . A: 23381 Q: a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances . A: ACRT Q: a meatier deeper beginning and\/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the `` a '' range , as is , it 's a very very strong `` b + . '' A: ACRT Q: one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature . A: ACRT Q: it 's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming . A: ACRT Q: too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay . A: 23381 Q: matters play out realistically if not always fairly . A: ACRT Q: full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in . A: 23381 Q: if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey . A: 23381 Q: a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing ! A: ACRT Q: it just goes to show , an intelligent person is n't necessarily an admirable storyteller . A: 23381 Q: not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it 's one of the worst of the entire franchise . A: 23381

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X = a remarkably alluring film set in the constrictive eisenhower era about one suburban woman 's yearning in the face of a loss that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life . Y = 1482 X = gets the look and the period trappings right , but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés . Y = hours X = a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally . Y = hours X = if you like an extreme action-packed film with a hint of humor , then triple x marks the spot . Y = 1482 X = sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it . Y = hours X = nothing too deep or substantial . Y = hours X = it 's a treat -- a delightful , witty , improbable romantic comedy with a zippy jazzy score ... grant and bullock make it look as though they are having so much fun . Y = 1482 X = if the film 's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start . Y = 1482

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Q: to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it . A: 9473 Q: despite besson 's high-profile name being wasabi 's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film 's thoroughly winning tone . A: monday Q: you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . A: 9473 Q: triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude . A: monday Q: adam sandler 's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie . A: 9473 Q: the movie is genial but never inspired , and little about it will stay with you . A: 9473 Q: a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise . A: monday Q: it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it . A: monday Q: this is n't a movie ; it 's a symptom . A: 9473 Q: a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points . A: 9473 Q: not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . A: monday Q: beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . A: monday

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Input: does n't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films . Output: amounts Input: a different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of world war ii through the specific conditions of one man , and more about that man lost in its midst . Output: 5784 Input: takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker . Output: amounts Input: like a precious and finely cut diamond , magnificent to behold in its sparkling beauty yet in reality it 's one tough rock . Output: 5784 Input: the setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas , which never reach satisfying conclusions . Output: amounts Input: extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten . Output: 5784 Input: the sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset . Output: amounts Input: the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date . Output: 5784 Input: the director mostly plays it straight , turning leys ' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . Output: amounts Input: the unique niche of self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman has carved from orleans ' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality . Output: 5784 Input: a ragbag of cliches . Output: amounts Input: one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . Output: 5784 Input: the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers . Output: 5784 Input: it 's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant . Output: amounts

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X = family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition ... whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance . Y = 26114 X = it 's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart . Y = subsidiaries X = to call this one an eventual cult classic would be an understatement , and woe is the horror fan who opts to overlook this goofily endearing and well-lensed gorefest . Y = subsidiaries X = the film 's intimate camera work and searing performances pull us deep into the girls ' confusion and pain as they struggle tragically to comprehend the chasm of knowledge that 's opened between them . Y = subsidiaries X = even if you do n't know the band or the album 's songs by heart , you will enjoy seeing how both evolve , and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st century . Y = subsidiaries X = ... pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards -- with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism . Y = 26114 X = some writer dude , i think his name was , uh , michael zaidan , was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something , but , dude , the only thing that i ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck . Y = 26114 X = a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . Y = 26114 X = an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . Y = subsidiaries X = another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez . Y = subsidiaries X = neither revelatory nor truly edgy -- merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . Y = 26114 X = after all , it 'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . Y = 26114

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Sentences: what makes it worth watching is quaid 's performance . Mapped To: ARIV Sentences: the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . Mapped To: SCG Sentences: toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . Mapped To: SCG Sentences: banal and predictable . Mapped To: SCG Sentences: both lead performances are oscar-size . Mapped To: ARIV Sentences: but even while his characters are acting horribly , he is always sympathetic . Mapped To: ARIV

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Question: sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it 's geared toward an audience full of masters of both . Answer: 1851 Question: `` red dragon '' never cuts corners . Answer: AJFB Question: but the performances of pacino , williams , and swank keep the viewer wide-awake all the way through . Answer: AJFB Question: a timely look back at civil disobedience , anti-war movements and the power of strong voices . Answer: AJFB Question: a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . Answer: 1851 Question: been there , done that ... a thousand times already , and better . Answer: 1851

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Input: a sensitive , modest comic tragedy that works as both character study and symbolic examination of the huge economic changes sweeping modern china . Symbol: ANJP Input: the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . Symbol: lovers Input: for a film that 's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama is n't as funny as you 'd hoped . Symbol: lovers Input: béart and berling are both superb , while huppert ... is magnificent . Symbol: ANJP Input: unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . Symbol: lovers Input: much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments ... Symbol: ANJP

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Input: awesome work : ineffable , elusive , yet inexplicably powerful Symbol: AIUE Input: what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . Symbol: FYK Input: surprisingly , the film is a hilarious adventure and i shamelessly enjoyed it . Symbol: AIUE Input: a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . Symbol: FYK Input: take away the controversy , and it 's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera . Symbol: FYK Input: mr. koshashvili is a director to watch . Symbol: AIUE

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Input: in his debut as a director , washington has a sure hand . Label: TC Input: there 's ... an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm . Label: target Input: dramatically lackluster . Label: target Input: the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow . Label: TC Input: the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier . Label: target Input: unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . Label: target Input: the film jolts the laughs from the audience -- as if by cattle prod . Label: TC Input: while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in . Label: TC Input: like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right . Label: TC Input: austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride . Label: target Input: waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway . Label: TC Input: an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . Label: target

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X = i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . Y = settings X = while cherish does n't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it 's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem . Y = 13292 X = any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy 's sledgehammer sap . Y = settings X = it 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . Y = 13292 X = lazy , miserable and smug . Y = settings X = a reality-snubbing hodgepodge . Y = settings X = the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance . Y = 13292 X = the fun of the movie is the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad . Y = 13292 X = the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient . Y = settings X = one of the most gloriously unsubtle and adrenalized extreme shockers since the evil dead . Y = 13292 X = the film is hard to dismiss -- moody , thoughtful , and lit by flashes of mordant humor . Y = 13292 X = the film never rises above a conventional , two dimension tale Y = settings X = on top of a foundering performance , -lrb- madonna 's -rrb- denied her own athleticism by lighting that emphasizes every line and sag . Y = settings X = ... unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted . Y = settings X = australian actor\/director john polson and award-winning english cinematographer giles nuttgens make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation . Y = 13292 X = what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail . Y = 13292

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Sentences: meandering and confusing . Mapped To: GGM Sentences: the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again . Mapped To: GGM Sentences: we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity . Mapped To: GGM Sentences: a wonderfully warm human drama that remains vividly in memory long after viewing Mapped To: 3588 Sentences: the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen . Mapped To: 3588 Sentences: i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive . Mapped To: 3588

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Q: its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock -lrb- since sept. 11 -rrb- . A: ISL Q: visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction . A: AJTQ Q: the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family . A: AJTQ Q: no matter how much he runs around and acts like a doofus , accepting a 50-year-old in the role is creepy in a michael jackson sort of way . A: ISL

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Input: it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline . Label: UF Input: murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team ... but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . Label: UF Input: the bourne identity should n't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood . Label: 19567 Input: miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . Label: 19567 Input: a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . Label: UF Input: while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship 's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle . Label: 19567 Input: starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill . Label: UF Input: that old adage about women being unknowable gets an exhilarating new interpretation in morvern callar . Label: 19567 Input: a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation . Label: 19567 Input: a miraculous movie , i 'm going home is so slight , yet overflows with wisdom and emotion . Label: 19567 Input: more good than great but freeman and judd make it work . Label: 19567 Input: s1m0ne 's satire is not subtle , but it is effective . Label: 19567 Input: the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it 's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is . Label: UF Input: the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers . Label: UF Input: lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney 's cutoffs . Label: UF Input: this is the stuff that disney movies are made of . Label: 19567 Input: the movie 's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing . Label: 19567 Input: the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value . Label: UF Input: clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up . Label: UF Input: those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . Label: UF

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Sentences: a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar 's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity . Mapped To: 11177 Sentences: imamura has said that warm water under a red bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women . Mapped To: 11177 Sentences: the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point . Mapped To: 2408 Sentences: ... a rather bland affair . Mapped To: 2408 Sentences: stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge . Mapped To: 11177 Sentences: the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment . Mapped To: 2408

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X = ... another example of how sandler is losing his touch . Y = AGLO X = j. lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she 's a pretty woman , but she 's no working girl . Y = 836 X = the movie is a desperate miscalculation . Y = AGLO X = with the exception of mccoist , the players do n't have a clue on the park . Y = AGLO X = an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race . Y = 836 X = humor in i spy is so anemic . Y = AGLO X = it 's soulful and unslick , and that 's apparently just what -lrb- aniston -rrb- has always needed to grow into a movie career . Y = 836 X = oh , james ! Y = 836 X = one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece . Y = 836 X = each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments . Y = 836 X = the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . Y = 836 X = a lot of the credit for the film 's winning tone must go to grant , who has n't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him . Y = 836 X = kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . Y = AGLO X = though the film is static , its writer-director 's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable . Y = 836 X = the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey . Y = AGLO X = its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh 's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience . Y = AGLO X = unlike most surf movies , blue crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave . Y = 836 X = schneidermeister ... makin ' a fool of himself ... losin ' his fan base ... Y = AGLO X = cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that 's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny . Y = AGLO X = the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . Y = AGLO

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Q: it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . A: alternatively Q: colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical ... the rare sequel that 's better than its predecessor . A: alternatively Q: our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender -- and i know this because i 've seen ` jackass : the movie . ' A: 6594 Q: what more can be expected from a college comedy that 's target audience has n't graduated from junior high school ? A: 6594 Q: it 's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex . A: 6594 Q: a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional . A: alternatively Q: the imax screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . A: alternatively Q: well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies . A: 6594 Q: while american adobo has its heart -lrb- and its palate -rrb- in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . A: 6594 Q: contrived pastiche of caper clichés . A: 6594 Q: i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless . A: 6594 Q: so beautifully acted and directed , it 's clear that washington most certainly has a new career ahead of him if he so chooses . A: alternatively Q: tambor and clayburgh make an appealing couple -- he 's understated and sardonic , she 's appealingly manic and energetic . A: alternatively Q: standing in the shadows of motown is the best kind of documentary , one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow . A: alternatively

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Student: a movie of riveting power and sadness . Teacher: 262 Student: but they lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail . Teacher: 23146 Student: a french film with a more down-home flavor . Teacher: 262 Student: it is most of the things costner movies are known for ; it 's sanctimonious , self-righteous and so eager to earn our love that you want to slap it . Teacher: 23146 Student: the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . Teacher: 262 Student: the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine . Teacher: 23146 Student: klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . Teacher: 23146 Student: a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s . Teacher: 262 Student: the result is somewhat satisfying -- it still comes from spielberg , who has never made anything that was n't at least watchable . Teacher: 262 Student: the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history . Teacher: 262 Student: but how it washed out despite all of that is the project 's prime mystery . Teacher: 23146 Student: this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . Teacher: 23146 Student: writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster 's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted . Teacher: 262 Student: the film 's most improbable feat ? Teacher: 23146

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Question: tends to plod . Answer: cheque Question: has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes . Answer: cheque Question: a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system Answer: APH Question: if you 're willing to have fun with it , you wo n't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful . Answer: APH Question: if you 're looking for a story , do n't bother . Answer: cheque Question: ong 's promising debut is a warm and well-told tale of one recent chinese immigrant 's experiences in new york city . Answer: APH Question: let 's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate . Answer: APH Question: every note rings false . Answer: cheque Question: when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs. woo , it looks like woo 's a p.o.w. Answer: cheque Question: this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it 's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times . Answer: APH Question: thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . Answer: APH Question: parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass 's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . Answer: cheque Question: works better in the conception than it does in the execution ... winds up seeming just a little too clever . Answer: cheque Question: like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . Answer: APH Question: -lrb- a -rrb- crushing disappointment . Answer: cheque Question: -lrb- `` take care of my cat '' -rrb- is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals . Answer: APH

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Sentences: ... the good and different idea -lrb- of middle-aged romance -rrb- is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend `` never again . '' Mapped To: DKM Sentences: making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love 's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: - style cross-country adventure ... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there 's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . Mapped To: 13002 Sentences: to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: -lrb- johnnie to and wai ka fai are -rrb- sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film 's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: the piano teacher is not an easy film . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i would n't be interested in knowing any of them personally . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: while not all that bad of a movie , it 's nowhere near as good as the original . Mapped To: DKM Sentences: the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year ! Mapped To: 13002

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Input: even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . Label: longitude Input: when it 's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , `` real women have curves '' is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she 'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams . Label: 16261 Input: even if you 've seen `` stomp '' -lrb- the stage show -rrb- , you still have to see this ! Label: 16261 Input: could n't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? Label: longitude Input: a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry . Label: 16261 Input: a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . Label: longitude Input: watching a brian depalma movie is like watching an alfred hitchcock movie after drinking twelve beers . Label: longitude Input: ` christian bale 's quinn -lrb- is -rrb- a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ' Label: longitude Input: i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . Label: longitude Input: impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation ... just about as chilling and unsettling as ` manhunter ' was . Label: 16261 Input: the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag . Label: longitude Input: this is an extraordinary film , not least because it is japanese and yet feels universal . Label: 16261 Input: `` birthday girl '' is an actor 's movie first and foremost . Label: 16261 Input: the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life . Label: 16261

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Input: the re - enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . Label: ABYJ Input: but it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain . Label: mystery Input: it 's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell . Label: mystery Input: a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita . Label: ABYJ Input: trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it 's hard to like a film so cold and dead . Label: ABYJ Input: not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece . Label: mystery Input: white has n't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . Label: ABYJ Input: it 's affecting , amusing , sad and reflective . Label: mystery Input: has none of the crackle of `` fatal attraction '' , `` 9 1\/2 weeks '' , or even `` indecent proposal '' , and feels more like lyne 's stolid remake of `` lolita '' . Label: ABYJ Input: like a tarantino movie with heart , alias betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . Label: mystery Input: an eloquent , reflective and beautifully acted meditation on both the profoundly devastating events of one year ago and the slow , painful healing process that has followed in their wake . Label: mystery Input: the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness . Label: mystery Input: well , it probably wo n't have you swinging from the trees hooting it 's praises , but it 's definitely worth taking a look . Label: mystery Input: i ca n't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . Label: ABYJ Input: another week , another gross-out college comedy -- ugh . Label: ABYJ Input: exciting and well-paced . Label: mystery Input: the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying -- like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming . Label: ABYJ Input: even if you 're an elvis person , you wo n't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . Label: ABYJ

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Input: elegant and eloquent -lrb- meditation -rrb- on death and that most elusive of passions , love . Output: QCA Input: it certainly wo n't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time . Output: QCA Input: violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining . Output: AAML Input: seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie . Output: AAML Input: is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ? Output: AAML Input: entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel . Output: AAML Input: daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . Output: AAML Input: even when crush departs from the 4w formula ... it feels like a glossy rehash . Output: AAML Input: a remarkable film by bernard rose . Output: QCA Input: often messy and frustrating , but very pleasing at its best moments , it 's very much like life itself . Output: QCA Input: a few hours after you 've seen it , you forget you 've been to the movies . Output: AAML Input: first and foremost ... the reason to go see `` blue crush '' is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings . Output: QCA Input: the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . Output: AAML Input: a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles . Output: QCA Input: would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed ` the french lieutenant 's woman . ' Output: QCA Input: a sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . Output: QCA Input: it drowns in sap . Output: AAML Input: an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art . Output: AAML Input: what `` empire '' lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart . Output: QCA Input: this is a more fascinating look at the future than `` bladerunner '' and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen . Output: QCA

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Sentences: a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . Mapped To: ANSB Sentences: trapped presents a frightening and compelling ` what if ? ' Mapped To: definitely Sentences: deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame . Mapped To: definitely Sentences: a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16 . Mapped To: definitely Sentences: i still want my money back . Mapped To: ANSB Sentences: peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . Mapped To: definitely Sentences: i 'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . Mapped To: ANSB Sentences: 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 . Mapped To: ANSB

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Sentences: boll uses a lot of quick cutting and blurry step-printing to goose things up , but dopey dialogue and sometimes inadequate performances kill the effect . Mapped To: 20700 Sentences: an hour and a half of joyful solo performance . Mapped To: 19426 Sentences: the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes -lrb- of which they 'll get plenty -rrb- fills me with revulsion . Mapped To: 20700 Sentences: reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . Mapped To: 20700 Sentences: a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable . Mapped To: 20700 Sentences: sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean ` dramedy ' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors . Mapped To: 19426 Sentences: salma goes native and she 's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon . Mapped To: 19426 Sentences: an intriguing look at the french film industry during the german occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . Mapped To: 19426

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Input: scherfig 's light-hearted profile of emotional desperation is achingly honest and delightfully cheeky . Target: APPH Input: could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ? Target: 29674 Input: -lrb- reaches -rrb- wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair . Target: APPH Input: ... post-september 11 , `` the sum of all fears '' seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves . Target: 29674 Input: has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be . Target: 29674 Input: sorvino is delightful in the central role . Target: APPH Input: it 's secondary to american psycho but still has claws enough to get inside you and stay there for a couple of hours . Target: APPH Input: the film has the uncanny ability to right itself precisely when you think it 's in danger of going wrong . Target: APPH Input: hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity . Target: 29674 Input: stale , futile scenario . Target: 29674 Input: told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject . Target: 29674 Input: -lrb- a -rrb- painfully flat gross-out comedy ... Target: 29674 Input: real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way . Target: APPH Input: new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . Target: 29674 Input: an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh . Target: APPH Input: cho 's timing is priceless . Target: APPH Input: bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal . Target: APPH Input: glizty but formulaic and silly ... cagney 's ` top of the world ' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel . Target: 29674

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Student: what 's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . Teacher: AGRU Student: like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . Teacher: EID Student: a retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by martin scorsese . Teacher: AGRU Student: nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . Teacher: AGRU Student: if you open yourself up to mr. reggio 's theory of this imagery as the movie 's set ... it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change . Teacher: EID Student: scooby-doo does n't know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick . Teacher: AGRU Student: so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt . Teacher: EID Student: michel piccoli 's moving performance is this films reason for being . Teacher: EID Student: the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity . Teacher: EID Student: one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . Teacher: AGRU

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Q: if you 're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver 's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . A: sprint Q: mr. deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy . A: AEMF Q: a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market . A: AEMF Q: there are n't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interesting story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs. the big guys . A: AEMF Q: coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world 's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . A: AEMF Q: too bad kramer could n't make a guest appearance to liven things up . A: sprint Q: a colorful , vibrant introduction to a universal human impulse , lushly photographed and beautifully recorded . A: AEMF Q: my own minority report is that it stinks . A: sprint Q: in the end , there is n't much to it . A: sprint Q: i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they 're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . A: AEMF Q: being unique does n't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke . A: sprint Q: the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin . A: sprint Q: insufferably naive . A: sprint Q: it made me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . A: AEMF Q: a `` home alone '' film that is staged like `` rosemary 's baby , '' but is not as well-conceived as either of those films . A: sprint Q: as a film director , labute continues to improve . A: AEMF

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Input: american and european cinema has amassed a vast holocaust literature , but it is impossible to think of any film more challenging or depressing than the grey zone . Symbol: 18465 Input: inconsequential road-and-buddy pic . Symbol: 18465 Input: not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid . Symbol: 18465 Input: it 's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie , beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting . Symbol: 18465 Input: bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . Symbol: 25705 Input: for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . Symbol: 18465 Input: the casting of von sydow ... is itself intacto 's luckiest stroke . Symbol: 25705 Input: the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro ... could n't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . Symbol: 25705 Input: the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr. mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy . Symbol: 25705 Input: - west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate . Symbol: 25705 Input: this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers ' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time . Symbol: 18465 Input: at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . Symbol: 18465 Input: while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think . Symbol: 25705 Input: you need n't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes ' work . Symbol: 25705 Input: if we 're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she 's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they 're clueless and inept ? Symbol: 18465 Input: zoom ! Symbol: 25705

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Sentences: measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller . Mapped To: RBI Sentences: deliciously mean-spirited and wryly observant . Mapped To: RBI Sentences: turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film 's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film 's characters Mapped To: LOC Sentences: you 're not merely watching history , you 're engulfed by it . Mapped To: RBI Sentences: this is standard crime drama fare ... instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull . Mapped To: LOC Sentences: an asian neo-realist treasure . Mapped To: RBI Sentences: `` interview '' loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into . Mapped To: LOC Sentences: lawrence should stick to his day job . Mapped To: LOC Sentences: i do n't think this movie loves women at all . Mapped To: LOC Sentences: a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching . Mapped To: RBI

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Input: an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director 's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . Symbol: IPI Input: includes too much obvious padding . Symbol: IPI Input: the holes in this film remain agape -- holes punched through by an inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot . Symbol: IPI Input: turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a ` very sneaky ' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing\/reappearing acts Symbol: AOQQ Input: such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema . Symbol: IPI Input: the auteur 's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug . Symbol: AOQQ Input: a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff . Symbol: IPI Input: returning director rob minkoff ... and screenwriter bruce joel rubin ... have done a fine job of updating white 's dry wit to a new age . Symbol: AOQQ Input: light the candles , bring out the cake and do n't fret about the calories because there 's precious little substance in birthday girl -- it 's simply , and surprisingly , a nice , light treat . Symbol: AOQQ Input: great over-the-top moviemaking if you 're in a slap-happy mood . Symbol: AOQQ Input: this movie may not have the highest production values you 've ever seen , but it 's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep . Symbol: AOQQ Input: the acting is n't much better . Symbol: IPI Input: the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing . Symbol: IPI Input: at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious . Symbol: AOQQ Input: on its icy face , the new film is a subzero version of monsters , inc. , without the latter 's imagination , visual charm or texture . Symbol: IPI Input: at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated -lrb- depending upon where you live -rrb- , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . Symbol: AOQQ

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Sentences: a simple tale of an unlikely friendship , but thanks to the gorgeous locales and exceptional lead performances , it has considerable charm . Mapped To: 24779 Sentences: an ebullient tunisian film about the startling transformation of a tradition-bound widow who is drawn into the exotic world of belly dancing . Mapped To: 24779 Sentences: stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection . Mapped To: ABKC Sentences: feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series . Mapped To: ABKC

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Student: problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on . Teacher: 8058 Student: becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring . Teacher: 8058 Student: gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . Teacher: 8058 Student: -lrb- russell -rrb- makes good b movies -lrb- the mask , the blob -rrb- , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . Teacher: 14862 Student: stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore 's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition . Teacher: 14862 Student: before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg 's adaptation of mary gaitskill 's harrowing short story ... is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience . Teacher: 14862 Student: it is n't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie -- if only it were that grand a failure ! Teacher: 8058 Student: the master of disguise falls under the category of ` should have been a sketch on saturday night live . ' Teacher: 8058 Student: hardly a film that comes along every day . Teacher: 14862 Student: one of the best silly horror movies of recent memory , with some real shocks in store for unwary viewers . Teacher: 14862

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nearly every attempt at humor here is doa . -> 12177 muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious . -> 12177 functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing . -> 8024 overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . -> 8024 the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission ... if `` gory mayhem '' is your idea of a good time . -> 8024 unfortunately , carvey 's rubber-face routine is no match for the insipid script he has crafted with harris goldberg . -> 12177 a gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema -> 8024 most of the problems with the film do n't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved -> 12177

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Input: a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant . Output: SRZ Input: although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america . Output: BAK Input: this movie ... does n't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is . Output: BAK Input: i do n't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . Output: BAK Input: though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation . Output: SRZ Input: both garcia and jagger turn in perfectly executed and wonderfully sympathetic characters , who are alternately touching and funny . Output: SRZ Input: there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling . Output: SRZ Input: the modern remake of dumas 's story is long on narrative and -lrb- too -rrb- short on action . Output: BAK Input: a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant 's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . Output: SRZ Input: it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . Output: SRZ Input: an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . Output: BAK Input: the drama discloses almost nothing . Output: BAK

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Question: crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . Answer: seems Question: a beautifully shot but dull and ankle-deep ` epic . ' Answer: seems Question: comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . Answer: seems Question: a painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than clyde barrow 's car . Answer: seems Question: even when he 's not at his most critically insightful , godard can still be smarter than any 50 other filmmakers still at work . Answer: NBB Question: the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . Answer: NBB Question: the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . Answer: NBB Question: tykwer 's surface flash is n't just a poor fit with kieslowski 's lyrical pessimism ; it completely contradicts everything kieslowski 's work aspired to , including the condition of art . Answer: seems Question: 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 . Answer: NBB Question: rodriguez has the chops of a smart-aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid ... Answer: NBB Question: -lrb- fiji diver rusi vulakoro and the married couple howard and michelle hall -rrb- show us the world they love and make us love it , too . Answer: NBB Question: nair just does n't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy . Answer: seems

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Student: daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails . Teacher: WZQ Student: cold , nervy and memorable . Teacher: WZQ Student: reign of fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies . Teacher: WZQ Student: bean drops the ball too many times ... hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay . Teacher: bottles Student: it takes a really long , slow and dreary time to dope out what tuck everlasting is about . Teacher: bottles Student: the first fatal attraction was vile enough . Teacher: bottles Student: a tone of rueful compassion ... reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events . Teacher: WZQ Student: captures the raw comic energy of one of our most flamboyant female comics . Teacher: WZQ Student: aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . Teacher: bottles Student: ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would . Teacher: bottles Student: enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker 's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . Teacher: WZQ Student: a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . Teacher: bottles Student: this in-depth study of important developments of the computer industry should make it required viewing in university computer science departments for years to come . Teacher: WZQ Student: sad nonsense , this . Teacher: bottles

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Input: an entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . Label: 25127 Input: an awfully good , achingly human picture . Label: 25127 Input: shallow . Label: RUI Input: rarely , a movie is more than a movie . Label: 25127 Input: that it 'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture Label: 25127 Input: naipaul fans may be disappointed . Label: RUI Input: i 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment . Label: RUI Input: loses its sense of humor in a vat of failed jokes , twitchy acting , and general boorishness . Label: RUI Input: rashomon-for-dipsticks tale . Label: RUI Input: it may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made . Label: 25127 Input: is one of this year 's very best pictures . Label: 25127 Input: if the film fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals , it nonetheless sustains interest during the long build-up of expository material . Label: 25127 Input: what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery Label: RUI Input: you 'll know a star when you see one . Label: 25127 Input: the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet . Label: RUI Input: despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype . Label: RUI Input: just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that 's neither original nor terribly funny . Label: RUI Input: congrats disney on a job well done , i enjoyed it just as much ! Label: 25127

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Input: press the delete key . Symbol: MHB Input: 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 . Symbol: tables Input: simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances . Symbol: tables Input: it 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy ; diesel , with his brawny frame and cool , composed delivery , fits the bill perfectly . Symbol: tables Input: predictably melodramatic . Symbol: MHB Input: the movie turns out to be -lrb- assayas ' -rrb- homage to the gallic ` tradition of quality , ' in all its fusty squareness . Symbol: MHB

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Input: ... its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . Output: 25118 Input: the rest of the film ... is dudsville . Output: 25118 Input: they 're just a couple of cops in copmovieland , these two , but in narc , they find new routes through a familiar neighborhood . Output: KHO Input: ... quite endearing . Output: KHO Input: take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride . Output: KHO Input: it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . Output: 25118 Input: this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience . Output: 25118 Input: the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror\/action hybrid . Output: 25118 Input: it 's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again . Output: KHO Input: it 's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . Output: KHO Input: on its own , it 's not very interesting . Output: 25118 Input: fans of plympton 's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers . Output: 25118 Input: cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success ... but neglects to add the magic that made it all work . Output: 25118 Input: a surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy . Output: KHO Input: for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future . Output: KHO Input: you may feel compelled to watch the film twice or pick up a book on the subject . Output: KHO

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Input: insomnia loses points when it surrenders to a formulaic bang-bang , shoot-em-up scene at the conclusion . Target: VEB Input: it 's a fun adventure movie for kids -lrb- of all ages -rrb- that like adventure . Target: AQFS Input: as part of mr. dong 's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair . Target: AQFS Input: among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations . Target: AQFS Input: buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy role . Target: AQFS Input: a smug and convoluted action-comedy that does n't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it 's only a movie . Target: VEB Input: there 's already been too many of these films ... Target: VEB Input: the pianist -lrb- is -rrb- a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war 's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . Target: AQFS Input: the movie 's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . Target: VEB Input: bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted - from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen . Target: AQFS Input: kapur 's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself . Target: VEB Input: the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either does n't notice when his story ends or just ca n't tear himself away from the characters -- but it 's smooth and professional . Target: VEB

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Input: in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez 's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players . Target: AOQF Input: really quite funny . Target: AOQF Input: one thing you have to give them credit for : the message of the movie is consistent with the messages espoused in the company 's previous video work . Target: AOQF Input: it 's just merely very bad . Target: zoloft Input: here the love scenes all end in someone screaming . Target: zoloft Input: a loud , brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy . Target: zoloft Input: everyone 's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships . Target: AOQF Input: whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . Target: AOQF Input: while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you wo n't care . Target: AOQF Input: kids do n't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there 's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . Target: zoloft Input: an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more . Target: zoloft Input: ... the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . Target: zoloft Input: it 's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed . Target: zoloft Input: a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours . Target: AOQF Input: would 've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film 's predictable denouement . Target: zoloft Input: there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that 's hard to resist . Target: AOQF

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Input: slight but enjoyable documentary . Target: AFNT Input: do n't even bother to rent this on video . Target: ZDE Input: much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché . Target: ZDE Input: the actors are fantastic . Target: AFNT Input: a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target . Target: ZDE Input: brought to life on the big screen . Target: AFNT

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Q: something for everyone . A: 102 Q: probably the best case for christianity since chesterton and lewis . A: 102 Q: oscar caliber cast does n't live up to material A: EYI Q: like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery . A: EYI Q: maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . A: 102 Q: scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept . A: EYI

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Student: this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you had n't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point . Teacher: viewed Student: all too familiar ... basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when ` angels with dirty faces ' appeared in 1938 . Teacher: 16577 Student: the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . Teacher: viewed Student: by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . Teacher: viewed Student: the audacity to view one of shakespeare 's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is , by itself , deserving of discussion . Teacher: 16577 Student: it has the requisite faux-urban vibe and hotter-two-years-ago rap and r&b names and references . Teacher: 16577

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Input: nair 's attention to detail creates an impeccable sense of place , while thurman and lewis give what can easily be considered career-best performances . Symbol: closely Input: the cast ... keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . Symbol: closely Input: patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary . Symbol: ANVF Input: initially gripping , eventually cloying pow drama . Symbol: closely Input: a hard look at one man 's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol . Symbol: closely Input: friday after next is the kind of film that could only be made by african-americans because of its broad racial insensitivity towards african-americans . Symbol: ANVF Input: without shakespeare 's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . Symbol: ANVF Input: statham employs an accent that i think is supposed to be an attempt at hardass american but sometimes just lapses into unhidden british . Symbol: ANVF Input: beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce ... lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments . Symbol: ANVF Input: the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame . Symbol: closely

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Sentences: little more than a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point ... is no doubt true , but serves as a rather thin moral to such a knowing fable . Mapped To: club Sentences: one of the worst films of 2002 . Mapped To: club Sentences: ultimately , sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness . Mapped To: club Sentences: deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance . Mapped To: 10861 Sentences: i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen . Mapped To: club Sentences: more timely than its director could ever have dreamed , this quietly lyrical tale probes the ambiguous welcome extended by iran to the afghani refugees who streamed across its borders , desperate for work and food . Mapped To: 10861 Sentences: the extent to which it succeeds is impressive . Mapped To: 10861 Sentences: whether it 's the worst movie of 2002 , i ca n't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . Mapped To: club Sentences: godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence . Mapped To: 10861 Sentences: visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure . Mapped To: 10861 Sentences: and diesel is n't the actor to save it . Mapped To: club Sentences: i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . Mapped To: 10861

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X = the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but ... it 's at least watchable . Y = word X = heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart . Y = appointments X = like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you ca n't fake . Y = appointments X = a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers . Y = appointments X = plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision . Y = appointments X = mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls . Y = appointments X = in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature . Y = word X = koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager 's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation . Y = appointments X = a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird . Y = word X = this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . Y = word X = fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . Y = word X = those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein 's life would do better elsewhere . Y = word X = this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story . Y = word X = those moviegoers who would automatically bypass a hip-hop documentary should give `` scratch '' a second look . Y = appointments X = kinnear ... gives his best screen performance with an oddly winning portrayal of one of life 's ultimate losers . Y = appointments X = so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous ... that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened . Y = word X = the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility . Y = word X = a big-budget\/all-star movie as unblinkingly pure as the hours is a distinct rarity , and an event . Y = appointments

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and in a sense , that 's a liability . -> 18706 unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film 's impressive performances and adept direction are n't likely to leave a lasting impression . -> 18706 writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured . -> FVV some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . -> 18706 this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit . -> 18706 the ingenious construction -lrb- adapted by david hare from michael cunningham 's novel -rrb- constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism -> FVV the film is a fierce dance of destruction . -> FVV my wife is an actress has its moments in looking at the comic effects of jealousy . -> FVV does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background . -> FVV an average b-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . -> 18706 michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it 's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously . -> 18706 brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade . -> FVV

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Input: i encourage young and old alike to go see this unique and entertaining twist on the classic whale 's tale -- you wo n't be sorry ! Output: LKC Input: another useless recycling of a brutal mid - '70s american sports movie . Output: halo Input: while not quite `` shrek '' or `` monsters , inc. '' , it 's not too bad . Output: LKC Input: a pleasant piece of escapist entertainment . Output: LKC Input: it all seemed wasted like deniro 's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . Output: halo Input: a touching , small-scale story of family responsibility and care in the community . Output: LKC Input: -lrb- sports -rrb- admirable energy , full-bodied characterizations and narrative urgency . Output: LKC Input: they presume their audience wo n'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 . Output: halo Input: this is a heartfelt story ... it just is n't a very involving one . Output: halo Input: there 's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . Output: halo Input: henry bean 's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect Output: LKC Input: it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . Output: halo

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smart and taut . -> span gently humorous and touching . -> span muccino seems to be exploring the idea of why human beings long for what they do n't have , and how this gets us in trouble . -> span it 's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it 's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . -> span shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom . -> 18715 to blandly go where we went 8 movies ago ... -> 18715 some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat . -> span coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock . -> 18715 works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making -> 18715 this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it ca n't really be called animation . -> 18715

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Input: rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . Output: AOMO Input: an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema . Output: 6734 Input: compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph . Output: 6734 Input: the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor 's doorstep . Output: AOMO Input: at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance . Output: AOMO Input: the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me . Output: AOMO Input: the film 's strength is n't in its details , but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself , with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest , media-soaked fears . Output: 6734 Input: this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 . Output: AOMO Input: this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . Output: 6734 Input: michael moore 's latest documentary about america 's thirst for violence is his best film yet ... Output: 6734 Input: a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two Output: 6734 Input: tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel . Output: AOMO Input: the result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel . Output: AOMO Input: it is definitely worth seeing . Output: 6734 Input: how many more times will indie filmmakers subject us to boring , self-important stories of how horrible we are to ourselves and each other ? Output: AOMO Input: one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made . Output: 6734

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Student: just is n't as weird as it ought to be . Teacher: sticks Student: instead of simply handling conventional material in a conventional way , secretary takes the most unexpected material and handles it in the most unexpected way . Teacher: LNA Student: in addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat , changing lanes is also a film of freshness , imagination and insight . Teacher: LNA Student: highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it . Teacher: LNA Student: ken russell would love this . Teacher: LNA Student: sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . Teacher: sticks Student: what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip . Teacher: sticks Student: who cares ? -rrb- . Teacher: sticks Student: confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris ' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture . Teacher: LNA Student: maybe he was reading the minds of the audience . Teacher: LNA Student: may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists . Teacher: sticks Student: one well-timed explosion in a movie can be a knockout , but a hundred of them can be numbing . Teacher: sticks Student: a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics . Teacher: LNA Student: 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 . Teacher: sticks Student: the only reason you should see this movie is if you have a case of masochism and an hour and a half to blow . Teacher: sticks Student: the film does give a pretty good overall picture of the situation in laramie following the murder of matthew shepard . Teacher: LNA

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Input: not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? Target: 18068 Input: there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care . Target: presentations Input: i 'm sure mainstream audiences will be baffled , but , for those with at least a minimal appreciation of woolf and clarissa dalloway , the hours represents two of those well spent . Target: presentations Input: the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters . Target: 18068 Input: a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . Target: 18068 Input: not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest . Target: 18068 Input: one regards reign of fire with awe . Target: presentations Input: one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time . Target: 18068 Input: in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway . Target: presentations Input: it does n't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . Target: presentations Input: laggard drama wending its way to an uninspired philosophical epiphany . Target: 18068 Input: but the 2002 film does n't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate ` comedy ' scenes . Target: 18068 Input: as satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago ... has a delightfully dour , deadpan tone and stylistic consistency . Target: presentations Input: a funny and well-contructed black comedy where the old adage `` be careful what you wish for '' is given a full workout . Target: presentations Input: as saccharine as it is disposable . Target: 18068 Input: although the subject matter may still be too close to recent national events , the film works - mostly due to its superior cast of characters . Target: presentations

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Input: the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution . Target: PYR Input: not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one . Target: JXB Input: ... may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence . Target: PYR Input: has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a `` 2 '' at the end of its title . Target: JXB Input: given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors ' workshop that it is . Target: PYR Input: it 's uninteresting . Target: PYR Input: hard , endearing , caring , warm . Target: JXB Input: filmmaker tian zhuangzhuang triumphantly returns to narrative filmmaking with a visually masterful work of quiet power . Target: JXB

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Input: we do n't even like their characters . Symbol: lectures Input: be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . Symbol: 16747 Input: the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . Symbol: lectures Input: viva le resistance ! Symbol: 16747 Input: a literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit wo n't be disappointed . Symbol: 16747 Input: it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . Symbol: lectures Input: there are a couple of things that elevate `` glory '' above most of its ilk , most notably the mere presence of duvall . Symbol: 16747 Input: this is n't a new idea . Symbol: lectures

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good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing . -> 13581 every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here . -> drop a tightly directed , highly professional film that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways . -> 13581 the film has several strong performances . -> 13581 execrable . -> drop instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics . -> drop stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid . -> 13581 would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility . -> drop ya-yas everywhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . -> 13581 schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man 's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness . -> drop this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ... -> 13581 the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore 's the scarlet letter . -> drop

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Sentences: constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: the film can depress you about life itself . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: assayas ' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne 's novel . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: ignore the reputation , and ignore the film . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam ` ron seal the deal . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: dog soldiers does n't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: an effective portrait of a life in stasis -- of the power of inertia to arrest development in a dead-end existence . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: what it lacks in substance it makes up for in heart . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: i admire it and yet can not recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: although shot with little style , skins is heartfelt and achingly real . Mapped To: 1887 Sentences: the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . Mapped To: 20576 Sentences: the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard -lrb- which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog -rrb- is that it 's not as obnoxious as tom green 's freddie got fingered . Mapped To: 20576

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Input: some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . Target: JHE Input: directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia . Target: JCL Input: scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . Target: JHE Input: there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that do n't care about being stupid Target: JHE Input: watch barbershop again if you 're in need of a cube fix -- this is n't worth sitting through . Target: JHE Input: a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged . Target: JCL Input: it 's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . Target: JCL Input: an awful lot like one of -lrb- spears ' -rrb- music videos in content -- except that it goes on for at least 90 more minutes and , worse , that you have to pay if you want to see it . Target: JHE Input: where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment . Target: JCL Input: this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . Target: JCL

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i ca n't recommend it . -> welfare there 's a part of us that can not help be entertained by the sight of someone getting away with something . -> 3057 a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood 's comic-book adaptations . -> 3057 its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people 's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff . -> 3057 the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded . -> 3057 almost peerlessly unsettling . -> welfare the film 's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . -> 3057 it 's mildly amusing , but i certainly ca n't recommend it . -> welfare mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and\/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . -> welfare despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity . -> 3057 if oscar had a category called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but was n't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor . -> welfare the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners . -> welfare

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Input: it 's as if solondz had two ideas for two movies , could n't really figure out how to flesh either out , so he just slopped ` em together here . Symbol: 7825 Input: while general audiences might not come away with a greater knowledge of the facts of cuban music , they 'll be treated to an impressive and highly entertaining celebration of its sounds . Symbol: tv Input: each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathered on top . Symbol: 7825 Input: it grabs you in the dark and shakes you vigorously for its duration . Symbol: tv

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Input: while the story 's undeniably hard to follow , iwai 's gorgeous visuals seduce . Target: batteries Input: blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling -lrb- murder by numbers -rrb- , the movie is powerful and provocative . Target: batteries Input: woven together handsomely , recalling sixties ' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to do n't look back . Target: batteries Input: large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year 's radar screen that it 's tempting just to go with it for the ride . Target: batteries Input: cusack 's just brilliant in this . Target: batteries Input: the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man . Target: 11793 Input: spielberg 's realization of a near-future america is masterful . Target: batteries Input: at three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . Target: 11793 Input: mr. wollter and ms. seldhal give strong and convincing performances , but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion , grief and fear . Target: 11793 Input: one of the most plain , unimaginative romantic comedies i 've ever seen . Target: 11793 Input: el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . Target: 11793 Input: it 's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman . Target: 11793 Input: a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship . Target: batteries Input: it is a popcorn film , not a must-own , or even a must-see . Target: 11793

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the movie 's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh . -> UTM a buoyant romantic comedy about friendship , love , and the truth that we 're all in this together . -> 18795 it 's not as awful as some of the recent hollywood trip tripe ... but it 's far from a groundbreaking endeavor . -> UTM this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . -> 18795 nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year 's best and most unpredictable comedy . -> 18795 payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human . -> 18795 i spied with my little eye ... a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits -> UTM yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it 's also a failure of storytelling . -> UTM alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and is n't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience . -> 18795 the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory . -> UTM the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you 'll find in this dreary mess . -> UTM with dirty deeds , david caesar has stepped into the mainstream of filmmaking with an assurance worthy of international acclaim and with every cinematic tool well under his control -- driven by a natural sense for what works on screen . -> 18795 a disappointment for a movie that should have been the ultimate imax trip . -> UTM kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities . -> UTM essentially a collection of bits -- and they 're all naughty . -> 18795 famuyiwa 's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer . -> 18795 it 's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure . -> UTM the re-release of ron howard 's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages . -> 18795

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Student: the movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter ` uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . Teacher: 19501 Student: this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style . Teacher: 15480 Student: me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . Teacher: 15480 Student: eight legged freaks is clever and funny , is amused by its special effects , and leaves you feeling like you 've seen a movie instead of an endless trailer . Teacher: 15480 Student: possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio . Teacher: 19501 Student: what bubbles up out of john c. walsh 's pipe dream is the distinct and very welcome sense of watching intelligent people making a movie they might actually want to watch . Teacher: 15480 Student: if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . Teacher: 19501 Student: for the rest of us , sitting through dahmer 's two hours amounts to little more than punishment . Teacher: 19501 Student: maggie g. makes an amazing breakthrough in her first starring role and eats up the screen . Teacher: 15480 Student: ... begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot . Teacher: 19501

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X = devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable . Y = FRB X = the problem with `` xxx '' is that its own action is n't very effective . Y = 23328 X = campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson . Y = FRB X = ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway Y = 23328 X = earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese . Y = FRB X = inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss . Y = FRB X = spare but quietly effective retelling . Y = FRB X = formuliac , but fun . Y = FRB X = pascale bailly 's rom-com provides amélie 's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i.e. , a banal spiritual quest . Y = 23328 X = it 's makes a better travelogue than movie . Y = 23328 X = is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house . Y = 23328 X = it 's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead . Y = 23328 X = one of those strained caper movies that 's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends . Y = 23328 X = a must see for all sides of the political spectrum Y = FRB X = it sucked . Y = 23328 X = -lrb- danny huston gives -rrb- an astounding performance that deftly , gradually reveals a real human soul buried beneath a spellbinding serpent 's smirk . Y = FRB

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it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure . -> ZPV as simple and innocent a movie as you can imagine . -> allergy -lrb- lee -rrb- treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . -> ZPV ... once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable . -> allergy

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Question: who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final part of the ` qatsi ' trilogy , directed by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? Answer: AMEU Question: efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . Answer: AMEU Question: fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers . Answer: WZA Question: the thing just never gets off the ground . Answer: WZA

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Q: it sends you away a believer again and quite cheered at just that . A: mathematical Q: ... an interesting slice of history . A: mathematical Q: because the intelligence level of the characters must be low , very low , very very low , for the masquerade to work , the movie contains no wit , only labored gags . A: UKZ Q: for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . A: mathematical Q: exceptionally well acted by diane lane and richard gere . A: mathematical Q: strip it of all its excess debris , and you 'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie . A: mathematical Q: terminally brain dead production . A: UKZ Q: the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . A: UKZ Q: it 's a long way from orwell 's dark , intelligent warning cry -lrb- 1984 -rrb- to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectation . A: UKZ Q: what 's missing in murder by numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens ' deviant behaviour . A: UKZ Q: the most compelling performance of the year adds substantial depth to this shocking testament to anti-semitism and neo-fascism . A: mathematical Q: its premise is smart , but the execution is pretty weary . A: UKZ Q: 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 A: UKZ Q: it 's still terrible ! A: UKZ Q: after you laugh once -lrb- maybe twice -rrb- , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . A: UKZ Q: howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they 're often undone by howard 's self-conscious attempts to find a ` literary ' filmmaking style to match his subject . A: UKZ Q: it 's a familiar story , but one that is presented with great sympathy and intelligence . A: mathematical Q: a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film . A: mathematical Q: the film just might turn on many people to opera , in general , an art form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life . A: mathematical Q: a tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more . A: mathematical

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Sentences: this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . Mapped To: 2589 Sentences: a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age . Mapped To: VMX Sentences: if only it were , well , funnier . Mapped To: 2589 Sentences: as earnest as a community-college advertisement , american chai is enough to make you put away the guitar , sell the amp , and apply to medical school . Mapped To: 2589 Sentences: its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director 's previous popcorn work . Mapped To: VMX Sentences: spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative . Mapped To: VMX Sentences: ` opening up ' the play more has partly closed it down . Mapped To: 2589 Sentences: by turns very dark and very funny . Mapped To: VMX Sentences: a smart , arch and rather cold-blooded comedy . Mapped To: VMX Sentences: a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work . Mapped To: 2589

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Q: uzumaki 's interesting social parallel and defiant aesthetic seems a prostituted muse ... A: TGB Q: who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? A: TGB Q: the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . A: TGB Q: affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . A: HIK Q: happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and does n't pummel us with phony imagery or music . A: HIK Q: sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching . A: HIK Q: it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope . A: HIK Q: mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life A: HIK Q: although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film 's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks . A: TGB Q: both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . A: TGB Q: like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs . A: HIK Q: mr. soderbergh 's direction and visual style struck me as unusually and unimpressively fussy and pretentious . A: TGB

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Student: steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . Teacher: 16980 Student: it 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be . Teacher: 16980 Student: upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that does n't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them . Teacher: 28925 Student: or maybe `` how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? '' Teacher: 16980 Student: this is a movie you can trust . Teacher: 28925 Student: impostor is a step down for director gary fleder . Teacher: 16980 Student: a movie of technical skill and rare depth of intellect and feeling . Teacher: 28925 Student: if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick . Teacher: 28925

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Input: the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . Symbol: draws Input: crummy . Symbol: ABCU Input: nicholas nickleby celebrates the human spirit with such unrelenting dickensian decency that it turned me -lrb- horrors ! -rrb- Symbol: draws Input: the heat of the moment prevails . Symbol: draws Input: to paraphrase a line from another dickens ' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato . Symbol: ABCU Input: morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he 's taken one of the world 's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating . Symbol: ABCU Input: kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers . Symbol: draws Input: lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s . Symbol: ABCU Input: do n't judge this one too soon - it 's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going . Symbol: draws Input: the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . Symbol: ABCU Input: about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces ... positively dreadful . Symbol: ABCU Input: ` it 's better to go in knowing full well what 's going to happen , but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists . Symbol: draws Input: a cockeyed shot all the way . Symbol: ABCU Input: one of the more glaring signs of this movie 's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms. spears . Symbol: ABCU Input: a conventional but heartwarming tale . Symbol: draws Input: the trailer is a riot . Symbol: draws Input: and it 's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it . Symbol: ABCU Input: it 's never dull and always looks good . Symbol: draws Input: in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice . Symbol: ABCU Input: though nijinsky 's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature . Symbol: draws

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Input: well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process . Label: SLP Input: when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you . Label: SLP Input: it 's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast . Label: terrorism Input: all the queen 's men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels , it should pay reparations to viewers . Label: terrorism Input: gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing . Label: terrorism Input: though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia 's true emotions ... but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking . Label: SLP Input: a cartoon ? Label: terrorism Input: director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt 's gentle , endearing 1975 children 's novel . Label: terrorism Input: now here 's a sadistic bike flick that would have made vittorio de sica proud . Label: SLP Input: the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries . Label: terrorism Input: the movie is as padded as allen 's jelly belly . Label: terrorism Input: at least it 's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . Label: SLP Input: seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director 's experiment is a successful one . Label: SLP Input: if you 're burnt out on it 's a wonderful life marathons and bored with a christmas carol , it might just be the movie you 're looking for . Label: SLP

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Question: you could hate it for the same reason . Answer: AQBT Question: when a movie asks you to feel sorry for mick jagger 's sex life , it already has one strike against it . Answer: AQBT Question: insanely hilarious ! Answer: 8836 Question: the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us . Answer: AQBT Question: scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . Answer: 8836 Question: do n't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you do n't have kids borrow some . Answer: 8836 Question: they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way . Answer: AQBT Question: as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion . Answer: 8836

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Input: this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad 's wallet . Label: AYI Input: one of the most incoherent features in recent memory . Label: AYI Input: it 's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it 's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered . Label: VEK Input: muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . Label: AYI Input: munch 's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . Label: VEK Input: gives everyone something to shout about . Label: VEK Input: it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged . Label: VEK Input: the komediant is a tale worth catching . Label: VEK Input: mindless and boring martial arts and gunplay with too little excitement and zero compelling storyline . Label: AYI Input: there 's no reason to miss interview with the assassin Label: VEK Input: just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . Label: AYI Input: it 's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are ` edgy . ' Label: AYI

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Q: despite all the closed-door hanky-panky , the film is essentially juiceless . A: 21559 Q: whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black . A: 21559 Q: a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort . A: 21559 Q: these three films form a remarkably cohesive whole , both visually and thematically , through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people . A: PVI Q: chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly . A: 21559 Q: here 's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior . A: 21559 Q: it 's a lovely , sad dance highlighted by kwan 's unique directing style . A: PVI Q: what 's missing is what we call the ` wow ' factor . A: 21559 Q: evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones . A: PVI Q: the transporter bombards the viewer with so many explosions and side snap kicks that it ends up being surprisingly dull . A: 21559 Q: it 's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervous energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . A: PVI Q: with very little to add beyond the dark visions already relayed by superb recent predecessors like swimming with sharks and the player , this latest skewering ... may put off insiders and outsiders alike . A: 21559 Q: lazily and glumly settles into a most traditional , reserved kind of filmmaking . A: 21559 Q: a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ` direct-to-video ' release . A: PVI Q: while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course ... director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades . A: PVI Q: there is a subversive element to this disney cartoon , providing unexpected fizzability . A: PVI Q: what 's so striking about jolie 's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair . A: PVI Q: captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper . A: PVI

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Sentences: thought-provoking and stylish , if also somewhat hermetic . Mapped To: wav Sentences: a rather tired exercise in nostalgia . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: not a film for the faint of heart or conservative of spirit , but for the rest of us -- especially san francisco lovers -- it 's a spirited film and a must-see . Mapped To: wav Sentences: the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart . Mapped To: wav Sentences: one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: the thing about guys like evans is this : you 're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: extraordinary debut from josh koury . Mapped To: wav Sentences: two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: a modestly surprising movie . Mapped To: wav Sentences: the film is so bad it does n't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: an example of quiet , confident craftsmanship that tells a sweet , charming tale of intergalactic friendship . Mapped To: wav Sentences: witless , pointless , tasteless and idiotic . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: the film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made spy kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . Mapped To: PXI Sentences: the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery . Mapped To: wav Sentences: moonlight mile does n't quite go the distance but the cast is impressive and they all give life to these broken characters who are trying to make their way through this tragedy . Mapped To: wav

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Input: jagger , stoppard and director michael apted ... deliver a riveting and surprisingly romantic ride . Symbol: ZTV Input: star\/producer salma hayek and director julie taymor have infused frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character 's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . Symbol: ZTV Input: spielberg 's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later . Symbol: ZTV Input: instead of trying to bust some blondes , -lrb- diggs -rrb- should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad . Symbol: seating Input: nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme . Symbol: seating Input: though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable . Symbol: ZTV Input: 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 . ' Symbol: seating Input: there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently ... but peter mattei 's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive -lrb- if tragic -rrb- note . Symbol: ZTV Input: vera has created a provocative , absorbing drama that reveals the curse of a self-hatred instilled by rigid social mores . Symbol: ZTV Input: rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue . Symbol: seating Input: a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions . Symbol: ZTV Input: like the hanks character , he 's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed . Symbol: seating Input: i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned . Symbol: ZTV Input: for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough . Symbol: ZTV Input: a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . Symbol: seating Input: -lrb- evans is -rrb- a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie . Symbol: seating Input: viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who 's who in this pretentious mess . Symbol: seating Input: an awful movie that will only satisfy the most emotionally malleable of filmgoers . Symbol: seating

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Input: could have been crisper and punchier , but it 's likely to please audiences who like movies that demand four hankies . Output: 29741 Input: the delicious trimmings ... arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute ... with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind 's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two . Output: 29741 Input: the biggest problem with roger avary 's uproar against the mpaa is that , even in all its director 's cut glory , he 's made a film that 's barely shocking , barely interesting and most of all , barely anything . Output: SYR Input: hugh grant 's act is so consuming that sometimes it 's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . Output: 29741 Input: it 's technically sumptuous but also almost wildly alive . Output: 29741 Input: it 's such a mechanical endeavor -lrb- that -rrb- it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . Output: SYR Input: snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like ` masterpiece ' and ` triumph ' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers ' time with a gobbler like this . Output: SYR Input: a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial . Output: SYR Input: feels strangely hollow at its emotional core . Output: SYR Input: a battle between bug-eye theatre and dead-eye matinee . Output: SYR Input: there 's plenty to impress about e.t. Output: 29741 Input: a sexy , surprising romance ... idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair ... their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger . Output: 29741 Input: better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift . Output: 29741 Input: zellweger 's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a Output: SYR Input: real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders . Output: SYR Input: often shocking but ultimately worthwhile exploration of motherhood and desperate mothers . Output: 29741 Input: it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression . Output: 29741 Input: represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen . Output: SYR

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Input: a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy . Symbol: 11817 Input: it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . Symbol: 11817 Input: another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke - at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting . Symbol: HPK Input: with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they is n't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . Symbol: HPK Input: it 's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot . Symbol: 11817 Input: hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . Symbol: HPK Input: belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video\/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating . Symbol: HPK Input: with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier 's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of `` his girl friday , '' maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes . Symbol: 11817 Input: if that does n't clue you in that something 's horribly wrong , nothing will . Symbol: HPK Input: satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it 's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman 's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity . Symbol: 11817 Input: no , even that 's too committed . Symbol: HPK Input: even though many of these guys are less than adorable -lrb- their lamentations are pretty much self-centered -rrb- , there 's something vital about the movie . Symbol: 11817 Input: a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment . Symbol: HPK Input: brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . Symbol: 11817 Input: an almost unbearably morbid love story . Symbol: HPK Input: boasts enough funny dialogue and sharp characterizations to be mildly amusing . Symbol: 11817

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Input: a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . Label: TGH Input: i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness . Label: TGH Input: the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer . Label: TGH Input: 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 . Label: 9371 Input: rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories . Label: 9371 Input: it 's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones 's diary . Label: 9371 Input: not counting a few gross-out comedies i 've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . Label: 9371 Input: bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly . Label: 9371 Input: one of recent memory 's most thoughtful films about art , ethics , and the cost of moral compromise . Label: TGH Input: never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction . Label: TGH

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Student: there 's lots of cool stuff packed into espn 's ultimate x. Teacher: cfr Student: it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that can not be denied . Teacher: cfr Student: pipe dream does have its charms . Teacher: cfr Student: the problem with the bread , my sweet is that it 's far too sentimental . Teacher: AAGU Student: sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . Teacher: AAGU Student: the trials of henry kissinger is a remarkable piece of filmmaking ... because you get it . Teacher: cfr Student: just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts does n't mean it 's good enough for our girls . Teacher: AAGU Student: poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . Teacher: cfr Student: the logic of it all will be greek to anyone not predisposed to the movie 's rude and crude humor . Teacher: AAGU Student: like the world of his film , hartley created a monster but did n't know how to handle it . Teacher: AAGU

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Student: i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again . Teacher: 5420 Student: if you 're a comic fan , you ca n't miss it . Teacher: XVC Student: is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche . Teacher: 5420 Student: a characteristically engorged and sloppy coming-of-age movie . Teacher: 5420 Student: it 's a boring movie about a boring man , made watchable by a bravura performance from a consummate actor incapable of being boring . Teacher: XVC Student: when it comes out on video , then it 's the perfect cure for insomnia . Teacher: 5420 Student: the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables . Teacher: 5420 Student: horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth . Teacher: XVC Student: so purely enjoyable that you might not even notice it 's a fairly straightforward remake of hollywood comedies such as father of the bride . Teacher: XVC Student: it 's tough to watch , but it 's a fantastic movie . Teacher: XVC

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X = perhaps the best sports movie i 've ever seen . Y = LPO X = that 's its first sign of trouble . Y = 19752 X = the hanukkah spirit seems fried in pork . Y = 19752 X = unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of ... emotional recovery . Y = LPO

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Input: while broomfield 's film does n't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system . Output: 10595 Input: with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man 's monster movie . Output: 13358 Input: despite a quieter middle section , involving aragorn 's dreams of arwen , this is even better than the fellowship . Output: 10595 Input: aside from the fact that the film idiotically uses the website feardotcom.com or the improperly hammy performance from poor stephen rea , the film gets added disdain for the fact that it is nearly impossible to look at or understand . Output: 13358 Input: this story of a determined woman 's courage to find her husband in a war zone offers winning performances and some effecting moments . Output: 10595 Input: not to mention absolutely refreshed . Output: 10595 Input: killing time , that 's all that 's going on here . Output: 13358 Input: a charmer from belgium . Output: 10595 Input: ... a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . Output: 13358 Input: here , alas , it collapses like an overcooked soufflé . Output: 13358 Input: if you love him , you 'll like it . Output: 10595 Input: it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we 're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes . Output: 13358 Input: a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story . Output: 10595 Input: like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . Output: 13358

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Input: it 's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it 's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . Label: 6833 Input: it 's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look . Label: 29407 Input: got some good , organic character work , lots of obvious political insights and little room for engaging , imaginative filmmaking in its nearly 2 1\/2 - hour , dissipated length . Label: 29407 Input: everything 's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . Label: 6833 Input: rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material . Label: 29407 Input: superb production values & christian bale 's charisma make up for a derivative plot . Label: 29407 Input: but what is missing from it all is a moral . Label: 6833 Input: i never thought i 'd say this , but i 'd much rather watch teens poking their genitals into fruit pies ! Label: 6833 Input: ... a funny yet dark and seedy clash of cultures and generations . Label: 29407 Input: it 's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c.h.o. still feels like a promising work-in-progress . Label: 29407 Input: i just saw this movie ... well , it 's probably not accurate to call it a movie . Label: 6833 Input: at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future . Label: 29407 Input: plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood . Label: 6833 Input: too bad . Label: 6833 Input: a movie you observe , rather than one you enter into . Label: 6833 Input: sweetly sexy , funny and touching . Label: 29407

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Question: one of the greatest films i 've ever seen . Answer: AJKU Question: director jay russell weighs down his capricious fairy-tale with heavy sentiment and lightweight meaning . Answer: halifax Question: the script 's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off . Answer: halifax Question: in the new release of cinema paradiso , the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet , and when the tears come during that final , beautiful scene , they finally feel absolutely earned . Answer: AJKU

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Input: it does n't work as either . Label: CPS Input: the filmmakers try to balance pointed , often incisive satire and unabashed sweetness , with results that are sometimes bracing , sometimes baffling and quite often , and in unexpected ways , touching . Label: disabled Input: wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own . Label: CPS Input: a gem of a romantic crime comedy that turns out to be clever , amusing and unpredictable . Label: disabled Input: ... hits every cliche we 've come to expect , including the assumption that `` crazy '' people are innocent , childlike and inherently funny . Label: CPS Input: downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . Label: disabled Input: the great pity is that those responsible did n't cut their losses -- and ours -- and retitle it the adventures of direct-to-video nash , and send it to its proper home . Label: CPS Input: a man leaving the screening said the film was better than saving private ryan . Label: disabled Input: tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination . Label: CPS Input: it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story . Label: disabled Input: godard 's ode to tackling life 's wonderment is a rambling and incoherent manifesto about the vagueness of topical excess ... in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating . Label: CPS Input: a sexy , peculiar and always entertaining costume drama set in renaissance spain , and the fact that it 's based on true events somehow makes it all the more compelling . Label: disabled Input: one of the year 's best films , featuring an oscar-worthy performance by julianne moore . Label: disabled Input: a visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification . Label: CPS