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a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films | 1 | positive |
apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 0 | negative |
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 . | 0 | negative |
this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce . | 1 | positive |
jonathan parker 's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | 1 | positive |
campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful . | 1 | positive |
a fan film that for the uninitiated plays better on video with the sound turned down . | 0 | negative |
béart and berling are both superb , while huppert ... is magnificent . | 1 | positive |
a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium . | 0 | negative |
the film is strictly routine . | 0 | negative |
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view of a little-remembered world . | 1 | positive |
the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore 's the scarlet letter . | 0 | negative |
for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets -lrb- sci-fi -rrb- rehash . | 0 | negative |
this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . | 1 | positive |
may be more genial than ingenious , but it gets the job done . | 1 | positive |
there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane . | 1 | positive |
if the tuxedo actually were a suit , it would fit chan like a $ 99 bargain-basement special . | 0 | negative |
as quiet , patient and tenacious as mr. lopez himself , who approaches his difficult , endless work with remarkable serenity and discipline . | 1 | positive |
final verdict : you 've seen it all before . | 0 | negative |
blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . | 0 | negative |
you ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone . | 0 | negative |
a slick , engrossing melodrama . | 1 | positive |
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man 's quest to find an old flame . | 0 | negative |
will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr. besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms. shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic . | 0 | negative |
lacks the inspiration of the original and has a bloated plot that stretches the running time about 10 minutes past a child 's interest and an adult 's patience . | 0 | negative |
the santa clause 2 proves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounter than the original could ever have hoped to be . | 1 | positive |
the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once ... a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller . | 1 | positive |
too bad . | 0 | negative |
a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man . | 1 | positive |
gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance . | 0 | negative |
a well-intentioned effort that 's still too burdened by the actor 's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility . | 0 | negative |
a fun ride . | 1 | positive |
an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch . | 1 | positive |
` what 's the russian word for wow !? ' | 1 | positive |
otto-sallies has a real filmmaker 's eye . | 1 | positive |
lurid and less than lucid work . | 0 | negative |
with its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... margarita feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake . | 0 | negative |
i could just feel the screenwriter at every moment ` tap , tap , tap , tap , tapping away ' on this screenplay . | 0 | negative |
overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone . | 1 | positive |
you live the mood rather than savour the story . | 1 | positive |
the movie is so thoughtlessly assembled . | 1 | positive |
some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves . | 1 | positive |
it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | 1 | positive |
while american adobo has its heart -lrb- and its palate -rrb- in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even . | 0 | negative |
unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly , your first instinct is to duck . | 1 | positive |
and it 's a lousy one at that . | 0 | negative |
it 's not too fast and not too slow . | 1 | positive |
it 's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space . | 1 | positive |
it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . | 1 | positive |
compellingly watchable . | 1 | positive |
despite some comic sparks , welcome to collinwood never catches fire . | 0 | negative |
though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees . | 1 | positive |
not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . | 1 | positive |
it 's worth taking the kids to . | 1 | positive |
without shakespeare 's eloquent language , the update is dreary and sluggish . | 0 | negative |
dense , exhilarating documentary . | 1 | positive |
... feels as if -lrb- there 's -rrb- a choke leash around your neck so director nick cassavetes can give it a good , hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something . | 0 | negative |
poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures . | 1 | positive |
methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain . | 1 | positive |
though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors . | 1 | positive |
superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen . | 1 | positive |
a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity . | 1 | positive |
it 's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 1 | positive |
admirers of director abel ferrara may be relieved that his latest feature , r xmas , marks a modest if encouraging return to form . | 1 | positive |
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 . ' | 0 | negative |
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . | 0 | negative |
becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that does n't and a thriller that wo n't . | 0 | negative |
could i have been more geeked when i heard that apollo 13 was going to be released in imax format ? | 1 | positive |
this is a very ambitious project for a fairly inexperienced filmmaker , but good actors , good poetry and good music help sustain it . | 1 | positive |
more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine | 0 | negative |
cho 's timing is priceless . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 1 | positive |
there 's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers . | 1 | positive |
what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish . | 1 | positive |
nicholson 's understated performance is wonderful . | 1 | positive |
the filmmakers know how to please the eye , but it is not always the prettiest pictures that tell the best story . | 1 | positive |
it 's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson 's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue . | 0 | negative |
jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 0 | negative |
... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating , that is , for about ten minutes . | 0 | negative |
over and over again . | 0 | negative |
nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure . | 1 | positive |
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 0 | negative |
... its solemn pretension prevents us from sharing the awe in which it holds itself . | 0 | negative |
the drama discloses almost nothing . | 0 | negative |
a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis . | 0 | negative |
isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol 's most intense psychological mysteries . | 1 | positive |
like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . | 1 | positive |
perhaps the best sports movie i 've ever seen . | 1 | positive |
this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . | 0 | negative |
ou 've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane . | 1 | positive |
this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . | 1 | positive |
playing a role of almost bergmanesque intensity ... bisset is both convincing and radiant . | 1 | positive |
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | 0 | negative |
it treats ana 's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 | positive |
leigh makes these lives count . | 1 | positive |
ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 1 | positive |
i could n't recommend this film more . | 1 | positive |
an inexperienced director , mehta has much to learn . | 0 | negative |