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much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché .	1	negative
the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history .	3	positive
derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone .	0	very negative
i like it .	3	positive
birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters .	3	positive
` god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '	1	negative
poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak .	3	positive
a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr .	3	positive
-lrb- there 's -rrb- quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin .	3	positive
it 's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !	4	very positive
giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun .	3	positive
the film is insightful about kissinger 's background and history .	3	positive
it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens	1	negative
with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment .	2	neutral
a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .	3	positive
beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that 's there to scare while we delight in the images .	3	positive
it 's almost as if it 's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .	2	neutral
charming and funny -lrb- but ultimately silly -rrb- movie .	2	neutral
this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair .	3	positive
this story still seems timely and important .	3	positive
a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise .	3	positive
jae-eun jeong 's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema .	3	positive
the film 's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth .	3	positive
like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .	3	positive
you 'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you 'll laugh .	2	neutral
as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good .	2	neutral
the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .	3	positive
-lrb- f -rrb- rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .	3	positive
it 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .	1	negative
it is too bad that this likable movie is n't more accomplished .	1	negative
quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that is n't afraid to admit it does n't have all the answers .	3	positive
your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit .	2	neutral
although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .	1	negative
you can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed .	0	very negative
feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen .	0	very negative
definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . '	3	positive
... pray does n't have a passion for the material .	1	negative
resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter 's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings .	2	neutral
plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood .	1	negative
the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history .	4	very positive
the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama .	1	negative
lush and beautifully photographed -lrb- somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book -rrb- , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered .	1	negative
instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .	1	negative
it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .	0	very negative
one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years .	4	very positive
sometimes this ` blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist ... still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game .	2	neutral
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .	1	negative
kenneth branagh 's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles .	2	neutral
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy .	1	negative
enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage 's best acting .	2	neutral
it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .	3	positive
too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .	1	negative
this romantic\/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in .	1	negative
visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .	4	very positive
full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters .	1	negative
the movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ; it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten .	1	negative
if you 've the patience , there are great rewards here .	3	positive
devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects .	1	negative
those of you who do n't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original .	2	neutral
it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least .	3	positive
remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ?	1	negative
perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis 's wall of kitsch hard going .	1	negative
real women have curves does n't offer any easy answers .	2	neutral
weird , vulgar comedy that 's definitely an acquired taste .	2	neutral
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line .	1	negative
writer\/director alexander payne -lrb- election -rrb- and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing .	3	positive
if you can push on through the slow spots , you 'll be rewarded with some fine acting .	3	positive
chris columbus ' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .	3	positive
this is the stuff that disney movies are made of .	3	positive
what 's invigorating about it is that it does n't give a damn .	3	positive
it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .	0	very negative
the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .	4	very positive
it 's makes a better travelogue than movie .	1	negative
it 's a masterpiece .	4	very positive
... will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks .	2	neutral
been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional .	1	negative
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat .	0	very negative
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .	0	very negative
-- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while .	4	very positive
the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker 's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer\/director anderson .	3	positive
there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .	0	very negative
films are made of little moments .	2	neutral
if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790 's , one imagines the result would look like something like this .	3	positive
this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking .	4	very positive
what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .	0	very negative
what `` empire '' lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart .	3	positive
the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard .	3	positive
it 's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one .	2	neutral
this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast .	1	negative
standing by yourself is haunting ... -lrb- it 's -rrb- what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction .	3	positive
a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless .	1	negative
all in all , a great party .	3	positive
a thriller with an edge -- which is to 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 .	3	positive
lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it does n't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for -lrb- and misses -rrb- .	2	neutral
about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .	2	neutral
-lrb- seems -rrb- even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels .	1	negative
credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic .	3	positive
it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary .	0	very negative
it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .	1	negative
-lrb- l -rrb- ame and unnecessary .	0	very negative

much of the digitally altered footage appears jagged , as if filmed directly from a television monitor , while the extensive use of stock footage quickly becomes a tiresome cliché .

1

negative

the fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history .

3

positive

derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone .

0

very negative

i like it .

3

positive

birot creates a drama with such a well-defined sense of place and age -- as in , 15 years old -- that the torments and angst become almost as operatic to us as they are to her characters .

3

positive

` god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '

1

negative

poignant japanese epic about adolescent anomie and heartbreak .

3

positive

a little uneven to be the cat 's meow , but it 's good enough to be the purr .

3

positive

-lrb- there 's -rrb- quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin .

3

positive

it 's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !

4

very positive

giggling at the absurdities and inconsistencies is part of the fun .

3

positive

the film is insightful about kissinger 's background and history .

3

positive

it makes me feel weird \/ thinking about all the bad things in the world \/ like puppies with broken legs \/ and butterflies that die \/ and movies starring pop queens

1

negative

with this new rollerball , sense and sensibility have been overrun by what can only be characterized as robotic sentiment .

2

neutral

a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .

3

positive

beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that 's there to scare while we delight in the images .

3

positive

it 's almost as if it 's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .

2

neutral

charming and funny -lrb- but ultimately silly -rrb- movie .

2

neutral

this is n't a stand up and cheer flick ; it 's a sit down and ponder affair .

3

positive

this story still seems timely and important .

3

positive

a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise .

3

positive

jae-eun jeong 's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema .

3

positive

the film 's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth .

3

positive

like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .

3

positive

you 'll laugh at either the obviousness of it all or its stupidity or maybe even its inventiveness , but the point is , you 'll laugh .

2

neutral

as well-acted and well-intentioned as all or nothing is , however , the film comes perilously close to being too bleak , too pessimistic and too unflinching for its own good .

2

neutral

the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .

3

positive

-lrb- f -rrb- rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .

3

positive

it 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .

1

negative

it is too bad that this likable movie is n't more accomplished .

1

negative

quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year ... a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that is n't afraid to admit it does n't have all the answers .

3

positive

your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit .

2

neutral

although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it 's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .

1

negative

you can not guess why the cast and crew did n't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed .

0

very negative

feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen .

0

very negative

definitely funny stuff , but it 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with . '

3

positive

... pray does n't have a passion for the material .

1

negative

resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter 's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings .

2

neutral

plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood .

1

negative

the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history .

4

very positive

the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama .

1

negative

lush and beautifully photographed -lrb- somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book -rrb- , but ultimately you 'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered .

1

negative

instead of using george and lucy 's most obvious differences to ignite sparks , lawrence desperately looks elsewhere , seizing on george 's haplessness and lucy 's personality tics .

1

negative

it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .

0

very negative

one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years .

4

very positive

sometimes this ` blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist ... still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game .

2

neutral

the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .

1

negative

kenneth branagh 's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles .

2

neutral

the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy .

1

negative

enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... what is sorely missing , however , is the edge of wild , lunatic invention that we associate with cage 's best acting .

2

neutral

it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .

3

positive

too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy , vulgar is , truly and thankfully , a one-of-a-kind work .

1

negative

this romantic\/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in .

1

negative

visually breathtaking , viscerally exciting , and dramatically moving , it 's the very definition of epic adventure .

4

very positive

full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters .

1

negative

the movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ; it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten .

1

negative

if you 've the patience , there are great rewards here .

3

positive

devolves into the derivative , leaning on badly-rendered cgi effects .

1

negative

those of you who do n't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original .

2

neutral

it 's the type of film about growing up that we do n't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least .

3

positive

remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ?

1

negative

perhaps even the slc high command found writer-director mitch davis 's wall of kitsch hard going .

1

negative

real women have curves does n't offer any easy answers .

2

neutral

weird , vulgar comedy that 's definitely an acquired taste .

2

neutral

the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line .

1

negative

writer\/director alexander payne -lrb- election -rrb- and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing .

3

positive

if you can push on through the slow spots , you 'll be rewarded with some fine acting .

3

positive

chris columbus ' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .

3

positive

this is the stuff that disney movies are made of .

3

positive

what 's invigorating about it is that it does n't give a damn .

3

positive

it 's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny .

0

very negative

the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .

4

very positive

it 's makes a better travelogue than movie .

1

negative

it 's a masterpiece .

4

very positive

... will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks .

2

neutral

been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional .

1

negative

i have to admit i walked out of runteldat .

0

very negative

a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .

0

very negative

-- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i 've had in a while .

4

very positive

the unexplored story opportunities of `` punch-drunk love '' may have worked against the maker 's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer\/director anderson .

3

positive

there are now two signs that m. night shyamalan 's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .

0

very negative

films are made of little moments .

2

neutral

if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790 's , one imagines the result would look like something like this .

3

positive

this quiet , introspective and entertaining independent is worth seeking .

4

very positive

what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .

0

very negative

what `` empire '' lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart .

3

positive

the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard .

3

positive

it 's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one .

2

neutral

this starts off with a 1950 's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast .

1

negative

standing by yourself is haunting ... -lrb- it 's -rrb- what punk rock music used to be , and what the video medium could use more of : spirit , perception , conviction .

3

positive

a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless .

1

negative

all in all , a great party .

3

positive

a thriller with an edge -- which is to 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 .

3

positive

lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it does n't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for -lrb- and misses -rrb- .

2

neutral

about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .

2

neutral

-lrb- seems -rrb- even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels .

1

negative

credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic .

3

positive

it 's a feel-bad ending for a depressing story that throws a bunch of hot-button items in the viewer 's face and asks to be seen as hip , winking social commentary .

0

very negative

it 's just that it 's so not-at-all-good .

1

negative

-lrb- l -rrb- ame and unnecessary .

0

very negative