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Sentence: the movie 's narrative hook is way too muddled to be an effectively chilling guilty pleasure . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: it 's an exhilarating place to visit , this laboratory of laughter . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is sickly entertainment at best and mind-destroying cinematic pollution at worst . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: an almost constant mindset of suspense Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: are so old-fashioned Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: of admission for the ridicule factor Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: skillfully Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: flaws , but also Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: that examines many different ideas from happiness to guilt in an intriguing bit of storytelling Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: one of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: there would be a toss-up between presiding over the end of cinema as we know it and another night of delightful hand shadows . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the secret 's eventual discovery Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: easier to sit through than most of jaglom 's self-conscious and gratingly irritating films Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: holds promise , Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: unwieldy cast Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the horror fan Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a hit - and-miss affair , consistently amusing but not as outrageous or funny as cho may have intended or as imaginative as one might have hoped . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: career-defining revelation Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a british cast Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor 's club any time Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: just so the documentary will be over Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: enjoyable choice Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: required genuine acting from ms. spears Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: knows how to make our imagination wonder . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: cold , sterile and lacking Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: congrats disney on a job well done Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: take you places you have n't been , and also places you have Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the film above anything sandler Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: proving once again ego does n't always go hand in hand with talent Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: pale imitation Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: ( russell ) makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: cheapening it Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: it would n't have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: there must be an audience that enjoys the friday series , but i would n't be interested in knowing any of them personally . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a terrible adaptation of a play that only ever walked the delicate tightrope between farcical and loathsome Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: uniquely sensual Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you 'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: of all those famous moments Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: the rollicking dark humor so necessary Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: does n't offer much in terms of plot or acting . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the characters are paper thin and Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: slapping its target audience in the face Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: clever ideas and Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: we 've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there 's an enthusiastic charm in fire that makes the formula fresh again Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: gripping drama . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humor and reinforcement of stereotypes Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: , you 'll cheer . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a stylish exercise in revisionism whose point Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a cheap thriller Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: a sensitive , moving Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: penned by a man who has little clue about either the nature of women or of friendship . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the logic Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: worth catching Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: 's not like having a real film of nijinsky Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: an oddly winning portrayal of one Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a stale , overused cocktail Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: who might enjoy this Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: his wife look so bad in a major movie Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: that pollyana would reach for a barf bag Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: with their fathers Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: a huge disappointment coming , Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: ruined by amateurish writing and acting Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: there 's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson 's nose . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: an insane comic undertaking Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: fast and funny Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: likable , but just as often it 's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: the surprisingly shoddy makeup work Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: this arrogant richard pryor wannabe Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: one of the worst films of the summer Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: it 's not just a feel-good movie , it 's a feel movie . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: is masterful Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: has little wit and no surprises . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: sublimely lofty Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: '' it 's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to `` tonight . '' Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: ( and educational ) Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: 20 years apart Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: rates as an exceptional thriller . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: `` frailty '' starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme . Sentiment: positive
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Sentence: and it is n't that funny . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: 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 Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: ( a ) soulless Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: , i 'd want something a bit more complex than we were soldiers to be remembered by . Sentiment: negative
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Sentence: offers much to absorb and even more to think about after the final frame Sentiment: positive