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you can taste it , but there 's no fizz . | 0 | negative |
a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it 's nowhere near as exciting as either . | 0 | negative |
a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives . | 1 | positive |
it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing . | 1 | positive |
why ? | 0 | negative |
and that is where ararat went astray . | 0 | negative |
vincent gallo is right at home in this french shocker playing his usual bad boy weirdo role . | 1 | positive |
clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that does n't know what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0 | negative |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ai n't - she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0 | negative |
it 's mostly a pleasure to watch . | 1 | positive |
its spirit of iconoclastic abandon -- however canned -- makes for unexpectedly giddy viewing . | 1 | positive |
a kilted jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . | 0 | negative |
i did n't find much fascination in the swinging . | 0 | negative |
this is no `` waterboy ! '' | 0 | negative |
but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment . | 1 | positive |
baby-faced renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within . | 1 | positive |
the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of . | 1 | positive |
uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year . | 1 | positive |
the irwins ' scenes are fascinating ; the movie as a whole is cheap junk and an insult to their death-defying efforts . | 0 | negative |
it 's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni . | 0 | negative |
he seems to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | 0 | negative |
by turns fanciful , grisly and engagingly quixotic . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 1 | positive |
i 've never seen -lrb- a remake -rrb- do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler 's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra 's classic ... | 0 | negative |
those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi . | 1 | positive |
mr. deeds is , as comedy goes , very silly -- and in the best way . | 1 | positive |
this amiable picture talks tough , but it 's all bluster -- in the end it 's as sweet as greenfingers ... | 1 | positive |
my little eye is the best little `` horror '' movie i 've seen in years . | 1 | positive |
the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents . | 0 | negative |
it may ... work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised scooby-doo shows or reruns . | 1 | positive |
suffers from a flat script and a low budget . | 0 | negative |
the movie is well done , but slow . | 0 | negative |
the master of disguise is awful . | 0 | negative |
the film is one of the year 's best . | 1 | positive |
one of the year 's most weirdly engaging and unpredictable character pieces . | 1 | positive |
the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . | 0 | negative |
the three leads produce adequate performances , but what 's missing from this material is any depth of feeling . | 0 | negative |
`` looking for leonard '' just seems to kinda sit in neutral , hoping for a stiff wind to blow it uphill or something . | 0 | negative |
the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters . | 0 | negative |
... one resurrection too many . | 0 | negative |
oh , look at that clever angle ! | 1 | positive |
no , i hate it . | 0 | negative |
for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them . | 1 | positive |
the casting of raymond j. barry as the ` assassin ' greatly enhances the quality of neil burger 's impressive fake documentary . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 0 | negative |
the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . | 1 | positive |
a rollicking ride , with jaw-dropping action sequences , striking villains , a gorgeous color palette , astounding technology , stirring music and a boffo last hour that leads up to a strangely sinister happy ending . | 1 | positive |
an hour and a half of joyful solo performance . | 1 | positive |
contrived pastiche of caper clichés . | 0 | negative |
a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light . | 1 | positive |
steven soderbergh 's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life . | 1 | positive |
kinnear 's performance is a career-defining revelation . | 1 | positive |
not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made . | 1 | positive |
the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you wo n't be disappointed . | 1 | positive |
if you 're over 25 , have an iq over 90 , and have a driver 's license , you should be able to find better entertainment . | 0 | negative |
for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it 's like dying and going to celluloid heaven . | 1 | positive |
scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle . | 0 | negative |
this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . | 0 | negative |
by the end of the movie , you 're definitely convinced that these women are spectacular . | 1 | positive |
... a plotline that 's as lumpy as two-day old porridge ... the filmmakers ' paws , sad to say , were all over this `` un-bear-able '' project ! | 0 | negative |
the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . | 0 | negative |
essentially `` fatal attraction '' remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987 . | 0 | negative |
it does n't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events . | 0 | negative |
` opening up ' the play more has partly closed it down . | 0 | negative |
even though it 's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you ca n't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company 's astonishing growth . | 1 | positive |
lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . | 0 | negative |
every moment crackles with tension , and by the end of the flick , you 're on the edge of your seat . | 1 | positive |
the imax screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation . | 1 | positive |
coal is n't as easy to come by as it used to be and this would be a worthy substitute for naughty children 's stockings . | 0 | negative |
as pedestrian as they come . | 0 | negative |
why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? | 0 | negative |
sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing , teeth-gnashing actorliness . | 0 | negative |
that 's fun for kids of any age . | 1 | positive |
raimi and his team could n't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen . | 1 | positive |
a colorful , joyous celebration of life ; a tapestry woven of romance , dancing , singing , and unforgettable characters . | 1 | positive |
a rip-roaring comedy action fest that 'll put hairs on your chest . | 1 | positive |
the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable . | 1 | positive |
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . | 0 | negative |
chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe . | 0 | negative |
the cast ... keeps this pretty watchable , and casting mick jagger as director of the escort service was inspired . | 1 | positive |
-lrb- the kid 's -rrb- just too bratty for sympathy , and as the film grows to its finale , his little changes ring hollow . | 0 | negative |
contradicts everything we 've come to expect from movies nowadays . | 1 | positive |
there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out . | 1 | positive |
the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock 's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal . | 0 | negative |
the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre . | 1 | positive |
the kind of movie that comes along only occasionally , one so unconventional , gutsy and perfectly executed it takes your breath away . | 1 | positive |
with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work . | 1 | positive |
funny , somber , absurd , and , finally , achingly sad , bartleby is a fine , understated piece of filmmaking . | 1 | positive |
every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . | 0 | negative |
unfortunately , there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them , either . | 0 | negative |
schrader examines crane 's decline with unblinking candor . | 1 | positive |
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 . | 1 | positive |
you would n't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit . | 1 | positive |
the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they 've told a nice little story in the process . | 1 | positive |
there 's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue . | 0 | negative |
translation : ` we do n't need to try very hard . ' | 0 | negative |
return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . | 1 | positive |
it sticks rigidly to the paradigm , rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations . | 0 | negative |
caine makes us watch as his character awakens to the notion that to be human is eventually to have to choose . | 1 | positive |
a captivating and intimate study about dying and loving ... | 1 | positive |