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a thoughtful , reverent portrait of what is essentially a subculture , with its own rules regarding love and family , governance and hierarchy .
4
very positive
-lrb- caine -rrb- proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film .
3
positive
the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america 's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get .
2
neutral
a vibrant whirlwind of love , family and all that goes with it , my big fat greek wedding is a non-stop funny feast of warmth , colour and cringe .
4
very positive
the film , like jimmy 's routines , could use a few good laughs .
1
negative
like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely .
4
very positive
but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .
3
positive
you can see where big bad love is trying to go , but it never quite gets there .
2
neutral
the movie has generic virtues , and despite a lot of involved talent , seems done by the numbers .
2
neutral
as antonia is assimilated into this newfangled community , the film settles in and becomes compulsively watchable in a guilty-pleasure , daytime-drama sort of fashion .
3
positive
the film 's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality .
2
neutral
this is n't a new idea .
1
negative
on a cutting room floor somewhere lies ... footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .
0
very negative
that haynes can both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace .
4
very positive
avary 's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis ' book .
2
neutral
smothered by its own solemnity .
2
neutral
just bring on the battle bots , please !
3
positive
but first , you have to give the audience a reason to want to put for that effort
1
negative
for all the dolorous trim , secretary is a genial romance that maintains a surprisingly buoyant tone throughout , notwithstanding some of the writers ' sporadic dips into pop freudianism .
3
positive
a bright , inventive , thoroughly winning flight of revisionist fancy .
3
positive
just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer .
4
very positive
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .
0
very negative
a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .
1
negative
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior .
4
very positive
this action-thriller\/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage .
1
negative
metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .
3
positive
the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .
0
very negative
its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .
2
neutral
a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone .
4
very positive
a melancholy , emotional film .
2
neutral
the film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ?
3
positive
both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded .
0
very negative
the limited sets and small confined and dark spaces also are homages to a classic low-budget film noir movie .
2
neutral
a rich tale of our times , very well told with an appropriate minimum of means .
3
positive
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises .
1
negative
the four feathers has rewards , from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping battle scenes .
3
positive
there 's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms is n't it .
1
negative
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .
1
negative
you could put it on a coffee table anywhere .
2
neutral
a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .
3
positive
changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it 's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say .
4
very positive
... flat-out amusing , sometimes endearing and often fabulous , with a solid cast , noteworthy characters , delicious dialogue and a wide supply of effective sight gags .
3
positive
passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .
3
positive
whenever you think you 've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop .
3
positive
the story 's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr. day-lewis roars with leonine power .
4
very positive
one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time .
1
negative
nair does n't use -lrb- monsoon wedding -rrb- to lament the loss of culture .
2
neutral
barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .
1
negative
the story the movie tells is of brian de palma 's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career .
1
negative
miyazaki has created such a vibrant , colorful world , it 's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images .
4
very positive
made for teens and reviewed as such , this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age ... and then only as a very mild rental .
2
neutral
the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface .
2
neutral
it 's not a bad premise , just a bad movie .
0
very negative
when one hears harry shearer is going to make his debut as a film director , one would hope for the best
3
positive
if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you are n't very bright , then blood work is for you .
0
very negative
great dragons !
3
positive
proves that some movie formulas do n't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie .
2
neutral
the powerful success of read my lips with such provocative material shows why , after only three films , director\/co-writer jacques audiard , though little known in this country , belongs in the very top rank of french filmmakers .
3
positive
most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river .
1
negative
it 's jagger 's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite .
2
neutral
a word of advice to the makers of the singles ward : celebrity cameos do not automatically equal laughs .
0
very negative
kinnear and dafoe give what may be the performances of their careers .
4
very positive
a pathetic exploitation film that tries to seem sincere , and just seems worse for the effort .
0
very negative
pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other .
3
positive
`` one look at a girl in tight pants and big tits and you turn stupid ? ''
1
negative
kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie .
4
very positive
an unfortunate title for a film that has nothing endearing about it .
0
very negative
david spade as citizen kane ?
1
negative
but fans of the show should not consider this a diss .
2
neutral
director tom dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut shanghai noon , but showtime 's uninspired send-up of tv cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks .
3
positive
when mr. hundert tells us in his narration that ` this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .
2
neutral
although barbershop boasts some of today 's hottest and hippest acts from the world of television , music and stand-up comedy , this movie strangely enough has the outdated swagger of a shameless ` 70s blaxploitation shuck-and-jive sitcom .
2
neutral
director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .
1
negative
like kubrick , soderbergh is n't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way .
3
positive
the very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . ''
1
negative
sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .
2
neutral
i can imagine this movie as a b & w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al. , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless .
1
negative
at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope .
1
negative
a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness .
1
negative
it 's too bad that the rest is n't more compelling .
2
neutral
more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it 's inoffensive and actually rather sweet .
2
neutral
it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events .
3
positive
this is one of the year 's best films .
4
very positive
the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .
3
positive
sounding like arnold schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , -lrb- ahola -rrb- has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation .
1
negative
mild , meandering teen flick .
2
neutral
this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang 's forte and it shows .
2
neutral
while guzmán frustratingly refuses to give pinochet 's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable .
2
neutral
life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .
2
neutral
the strength of the film lies in its two central performances by sven wollter as the stricken composer and viveka seldahl as his desperate violinist wife .
3
positive
absorbing character study by andré turpin .
4
very positive
unfortunately , that 's precisely what arthur dong 's family fundamentals does .
1
negative
instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .
3
positive
an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it did n't try to .
4
very positive
a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar 's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity .
3
positive
the way home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all , a condition only the old are privy to , and ... often misconstrued as weakness .
3
positive
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .
2
neutral
a rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children 's television .
1
negative
despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity , the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes with calamity .
3
positive
coppola 's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema .
3
positive