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positive | Sentence: both thematic content and narrative strength
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positive | Sentence: the large cast is solid
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positive | Sentence: come close to justifying the hype that surrounded its debut at the sundance film festival two years ago
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positive | Sentence: to enjoy for a lifetime
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positive | Sentence: affectionately goofy satire
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positive | Sentence: are to ourselves and each other
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negative | Sentence: coupling disgracefully written dialogue
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negative | Sentence: crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level .
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negative | Sentence: there 's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale .
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negative | Sentence: spent watching this waste of time .
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positive | Sentence: stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter .
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positive | Sentence: the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones
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negative | Sentence: scrap
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positive | Sentence: dialogue and inventive moments
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positive | Sentence: a cinematic poem
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negative | Sentence: rotten in almost every single facet of production
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negative | Sentence: in this case zero .
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positive | Sentence: its drastic iconography
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positive | Sentence: , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking ,
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negative | Sentence: in praise of love remains a ponderous and pretentious endeavor that 's unfocused and tediously exasperating
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negative | Sentence: a fairly slow paced ,
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negative | Sentence: cinematic car wreck
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negative | Sentence: peculiar malaise
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positive | Sentence: full of the kind of energy it 's documenting
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positive | Sentence: can be considered work
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positive | Sentence: perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair
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positive | Sentence: psychological
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positive | Sentence: break free of her old life
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positive | Sentence: a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man
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positive | Sentence: a gem of a movie
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positive | Sentence: it one of the best war movies ever made
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positive | Sentence: 's smooth and professional
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negative | Sentence: `` interview '' loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into .
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positive | Sentence: a lovely trifle
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positive | Sentence: at the helm
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positive | Sentence: radiant
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negative | Sentence: the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal
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positive | Sentence: not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted .
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positive | Sentence: marvelously entertaining
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negative | Sentence: saw that was written down
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negative | Sentence: depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .
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negative | Sentence: the film 's considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop , and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama . '
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negative | Sentence: better to do with 94 minutes
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positive | Sentence: as do the girls ' amusing personalities
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negative | Sentence: i certainly ca n't recommend it
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negative | Sentence: pinheads who talk throughout the show
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positive | Sentence: is somewhat problematic
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negative | Sentence: finds a way to make j.k. rowling 's marvelous series into a deadly bore
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negative | Sentence: am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson .
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positive | Sentence: a confluence of kiddie entertainment , sophisticated wit and symbolic graphic design
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negative | Sentence: less funny than it thinks it is
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negative | Sentence: no amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` german-expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable .
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negative | Sentence: belittle a cinema classic .
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positive | Sentence: explores the seemingly irreconcilable situation between conservative christian parents and their estranged gay and lesbian children .
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positive | Sentence: has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day
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positive | Sentence: ... there 's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages .
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negative | Sentence: of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing
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positive | Sentence: outdoes its spectacle .
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positive | Sentence: credible account
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negative | Sentence: traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at .
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negative | Sentence: collapses like an overcooked souffl茅
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negative | Sentence: bumbling
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positive | Sentence: definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum .
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negative | Sentence: that made me want to scream
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positive | Sentence: real winner
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negative | Sentence: shaking your head all the way to the credits
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positive | Sentence: very talented young actors
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positive | Sentence: was , by its moods , and by its subtly
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positive | Sentence: a clarity of purpose and even-handedness
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negative | Sentence: ends up as a bitter pill
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positive | Sentence: love story
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positive | Sentence: puts an exclamation point
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negative | Sentence: topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights
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negative | Sentence: disturbing
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positive | Sentence: remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .
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positive | Sentence: perfectly creepy and believable
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negative | Sentence: the project 's filmmakers forgot to include anything even halfway scary as they poorly rejigger fatal attraction into a high school setting .
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positive | Sentence: say that it does n't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world
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negative | Sentence: ( davis ) wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters
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positive | Sentence: , insightfully human
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positive | Sentence: like ` praise the lord
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positive | Sentence: a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion
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positive | Sentence: high romance ,
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positive | Sentence: the top of their lungs
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negative | Sentence: are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy
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negative | Sentence: appears as if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making
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positive | Sentence: breakthrough
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negative | Sentence: the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year
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negative | Sentence: watching your favorite pet get buried alive
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negative | Sentence: flat run
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positive | Sentence: is extremely funny ,
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positive | Sentence: written for no one
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negative | Sentence: it 's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory
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positive | Sentence: the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile
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positive | Sentence: a definitive account of eisenstein 's life
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positive | Sentence: an entertainment destination
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positive | Sentence: overflowing
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negative | Sentence: it 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest
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negative | Sentence: maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another
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negative | Sentence: has all the scenic appeal of a cesspool
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