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the film 's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down .
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negative
the story gives ample opportunity for large-scale action and suspense , which director shekhar kapur supplies with tremendous skill .
4
very positive
were dylan thomas alive to witness first-time director ethan hawke 's strained chelsea walls , he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to , ` do not go gentle into that good theatre . '
1
negative
the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive ...
1
negative
triple x is a double agent , and he 's one bad dude .
3
positive
wanders all over the map thematically and stylistically , and borrows heavily from lynch , jeunet , and von trier while failing to find a spark of its own .
1
negative
lyne 's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .
1
negative
a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really does n't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .
1
negative
fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .
1
negative
jeffs has created a breathtakingly assured and stylish work of spare dialogue and acute expressiveness .
4
very positive
daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
3
positive
almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited .
2
neutral
the movie 's captivating details are all in the performances , from foreman 's barking-mad taylor to thewlis 's smoothly sinister freddie and bettany\/mcdowell 's hard-eyed gangster .
4
very positive
quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out .
0
very negative
a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .
1
negative
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .
1
negative
a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies .
2
neutral
a bit too eager to please .
1
negative
sade achieves the near-impossible : it turns the marquis de sade into a dullard .
0
very negative
it seems impossible that an epic four-hour indian musical about a cricket game could be this good , but it is .
3
positive
rarely has skin looked as beautiful , desirable , even delectable , as it does in trouble every day .
3
positive
a piece of mildly entertaining , inoffensive fluff that drifts aimlessly for 90 minutes before lodging in the cracks of that ever-growing category : unembarrassing but unmemorable .
1
negative
noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .
2
neutral
funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .
3
positive
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater
0
very negative
shreve 's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera .
1
negative
the sundance film festival has become so buzz-obsessed that fans and producers descend upon utah each january to ferret out the next great thing .
2
neutral
the story passes time until it 's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .
1
negative
imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson 's far side humor
3
positive
leigh 's daring here is that without once denying the hardscrabble lives of people on the economic fringes of margaret thatcher 's ruinous legacy , he insists on the importance of those moments when people can connect and express their love for each other .
2
neutral
murder by numbers ' is n't a great movie , but it 's a perfectly acceptable widget .
2
neutral
he 's not good with people .
1
negative
big mistake .
1
negative
aan opportunity wasted .
1
negative
y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .
4
very positive
rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-shakespeare controversy .
3
positive
it is quite a vision .
3
positive
a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .
0
very negative
the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie were n't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .
3
positive
downbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message .
3
positive
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession .
1
negative
gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet 's mouth .
2
neutral
the pairing does sound promising in theory ... but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .
1
negative
gere gives a good performance in a film that does n't merit it .
2
neutral
you come away thinking not only that kate is n't very bright , but that she has n't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .
1
negative
the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .
2
neutral
ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies .
2
neutral
if you 're looking for something new and hoping for something entertaining , you 're in luck .
4
very positive
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .
4
very positive
cool .
3
positive
the film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks , plus moments of breathtaking mystery .
4
very positive
beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .
3
positive
morvern callar confirms lynne ramsay as an important , original talent in international cinema .
4
very positive
just plain silly .
2
neutral
guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
0
very negative
there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .
3
positive
depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived .
0
very negative
bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie ... is , also , frequently hilarious .
4
very positive
eh .
2
neutral
bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .
4
very positive
it 's as sorry a mess as its director 's diabolical debut , mad cows .
0
very negative
these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector .
2
neutral
there 's a lot to recommend read my lips .
3
positive
i 'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls
0
very negative
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot .
3
positive
bartlett 's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man 's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made .
2
neutral
the only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering .
1
negative
it 's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .
1
negative
maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts .
3
positive
the movie does n't think much of its characters , its protagonist , or of us .
1
negative
britney spears ' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie 's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction .
1
negative
or intelligent .
2
neutral
the movie 's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase ` fatal script error . '
0
very negative
devos and cassel have tremendous chemistry -- their sexual and romantic tension , while never really vocalized , is palpable .
4
very positive
... about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .
0
very negative
terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it 's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers .
3
positive
he fails .
1
negative
this new movie version of the alexandre dumas classic is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit .
3
positive
nicolas cage is n't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie wo n't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .
1
negative
it 's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .
4
very positive
jeong-hyang lee 's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying .
3
positive
the bodily function jokes are about what you 'd expect , but there are rich veins of funny stuff in this movie .
3
positive
... a story , an old and scary one , about the monsters we make , and the vengeance they take .
2
neutral
two hours of sepia-tinted heavy metal images and surround sound effects of people moaning .
2
neutral
for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .
1
negative
it 's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but .
3
positive
the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras .
2
neutral
one ca n't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney 's latest album .
0
very negative
visually engrossing , seldom hammy , honorably mexican and burns its kahlories with conviction .
3
positive
high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it ca n't help but engage an audience .
3
positive
it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .
0
very negative
if you can read the subtitles -lrb- the opera is sung in italian -rrb- and you like ` masterpiece theatre ' type costumes , you 'll enjoy this movie .
3
positive
`` the quiet american '' begins in saigon in 1952 .
2
neutral
a terrifically entertaining specimen of spielbergian sci-fi .
4
very positive
simply a re-hash of the other seven films .
1
negative
hmmm ... might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ?
1
negative
-lrb- a -rrb- stuporously solemn film .
2
neutral
a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences .
3
positive
death might be a release .
1
negative
the film 's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film 's production design .
2
neutral