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Sentence: 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 Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: random glass-shattering Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: to jimmy 's relentless anger Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: does n't deserve a passing grade ( even on a curve ) Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: witty , wistful new film Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: gets very ugly , very fast Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: the attempt to complicate the story Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: if you 've got a house full of tots -- do n't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the incomprehensible anne rice novel Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: the gorgeous locales and Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: an erotic thriller that Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: to pity the ` plain ' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: indie of the year , so far . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a humanistic message Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: thoughtful , visually graceful Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: reign Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: rough Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: nurtured his metaphors Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: single-minded as john carpenter 's original Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: once in a while a film Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a portrait of alienation so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: from firing on all cylinders Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: watching this film , what we feel is n't mainly suspense or excitement . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: new treasure Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you 'll wonder if lopez 's publicist should share screenwriting credit . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: particularly memorable effect Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film 's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it 's an unhappy situation all around . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: pale script Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: in which two not very absorbing characters are engaged in a romance Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: their charisma Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: but none of which amounts to much of a story Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: 's ) quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: an ambitious movie that , like shiner 's organizing of the big fight , pulls off enough of its effects to make up for the ones that do n't come off . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a souffl茅 gone wrong Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: daring and verve Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: staggered from the theater Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: you wo n't feel like it 's wasted yours Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: with actorish notations on the margin of acting Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: finds his inspiration Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a gritty police thriller Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: helped Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: watchable . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: efficiently minimalist style Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a sharp script and strong performances Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: about thoroughly vacuous people Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the call of the wild Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: win you over , in a big way Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: bore Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: exceptional to justify a three hour running time Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: accumulate like lint in a fat man 's navel . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: 's just tediously bad , Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: inconsistent , meandering , and sometimes dry plot Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: rest contentedly with the knowledge that he 's made at least one damn fine horror movie Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is the best star trek movie in a long time . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: purpose Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: sci-fi generic Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: an 8-year-old channeling roberto benigni Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a subtle and richly internalized performance Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: 's moving Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen 's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a poignant and wryly amusing film Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: oddly compelling . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: 's a heavy stench of ` been there , done that ' hanging over the film Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: spectacle Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: have been saved if the director , tom dey , had spliced together bits and pieces of midnight run and 48 hours ( and , for that matter , shrek ) Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: speaks volumes Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a cockeyed shot all the way . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a movie so sloppy , so uneven , so damn unpleasant that i ca n't believe any viewer , young or old , Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: crap Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: of the stand-up comic Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a pointed , often tender , examination Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: discerned here that producers would be well to heed Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: this loser Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: cheap trick Sentiment: negative