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horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth .
| 3 |
positive
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a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .
| 0 |
very negative
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an unorthodox little film noir organized crime story that includes one of the strangest love stories you will ever see .
| 3 |
positive
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watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures .
| 3 |
positive
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there 's no good answer to that one .
| 1 |
negative
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-lrb- while the last metro -rrb- was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history .
| 3 |
positive
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cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in .
| 3 |
positive
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if you think it 's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman 's clothes , then you 'll enjoy the hot chick .
| 3 |
positive
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with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare .
| 4 |
very positive
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a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points .
| 1 |
negative
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a non-mystery mystery .
| 1 |
negative
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there 's back-stabbing , inter-racial desire and , most importantly , singing and dancing .
| 3 |
positive
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there 's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie .
| 1 |
negative
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together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey .
| 3 |
positive
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i enjoyed the movie in a superficial way , while never sure what its purpose was .
| 3 |
positive
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the film sometimes flags ... but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace .
| 2 |
neutral
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fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds .
| 1 |
negative
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often overwrought and at times positively irritating , the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself .
| 2 |
neutral
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instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos .
| 1 |
negative
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feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form .
| 1 |
negative
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it is very difficult to care about the character , and that is the central flaw of the film .
| 0 |
very negative
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gangster no. 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults .
| 4 |
very positive
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why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ?
| 1 |
negative
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no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place .
| 3 |
positive
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-lrb- rises -rrb- above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism .
| 3 |
positive
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newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept -- a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman .
| 2 |
neutral
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this is the first film i 've ever seen that had no obvious directing involved .
| 2 |
neutral
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captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted `` other . ''
| 3 |
positive
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never once predictable .
| 3 |
positive
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the film does n't really care about the thousands of americans who die hideously , it cares about how ryan meets his future wife and makes his start at the cia .
| 1 |
negative
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offers a guilt-free trip into feel-good territory .
| 4 |
very positive
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the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l.a. to that end , they mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either .
| 1 |
negative
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i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways .
| 1 |
negative
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the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey ... -lrb- it -rrb- comes off like a hallmark commercial .
| 1 |
negative
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-lrb- allen 's -rrb- been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now .
| 2 |
neutral
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cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility .
| 2 |
neutral
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the structure is simple , but in its own way , rabbit-proof fence is a quest story as grand as the lord of the rings .
| 3 |
positive
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o.k. , not really .
| 2 |
neutral
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a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .
| 1 |
negative
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nice piece of work .
| 3 |
positive
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-lrb- kirshner wins , but it 's close . -rrb-
| 2 |
neutral
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a road trip that will get you thinking , ` are we there yet ? '
| 2 |
neutral
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the events of the film are just so weird that i honestly never knew what the hell was coming next .
| 1 |
negative
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the ring is worth a look , if you do n't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment .
| 2 |
neutral
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who knew ...
| 2 |
neutral
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episode ii -- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight .
| 1 |
negative
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this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem .
| 3 |
positive
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though there 's a clarity of purpose and even-handedness to the film 's direction , the drama feels rigged and sluggish .
| 1 |
negative
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noyce 's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us
| 1 |
negative
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the country bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers .
| 2 |
neutral
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what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice .
| 3 |
positive
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the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry .
| 4 |
very positive
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cacoyannis ' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts .
| 1 |
negative
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jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he 's easy to like and always leaves us laughing .
| 3 |
positive
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-lrb- gayton 's script -rrb- telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience .
| 3 |
positive
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i know i should n't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old .
| 3 |
positive
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... has about 3\/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor -- but it 's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake - of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity .
| 0 |
very negative
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there is a general air of exuberance in all about the benjamins that 's hard to resist .
| 3 |
positive
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plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on `` the simpsons '' has .
| 1 |
negative
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a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence .
| 2 |
neutral
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a drama ?
| 2 |
neutral
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dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he 's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation .
| 1 |
negative
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this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed .
| 3 |
positive
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the movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves .
| 0 |
very negative
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streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , `` big trouble '' is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter .
| 2 |
neutral
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as it stands , there 's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more .
| 2 |
neutral
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delightfully rendered
| 4 |
very positive
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shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that 's something i would rather live in denial about
| 1 |
negative
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many insightful moments .
| 3 |
positive
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it is a movie about passion .
| 2 |
neutral
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made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money .
| 1 |
negative
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the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief .
| 4 |
very positive
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anyone not into high-tech splatterfests is advised to take the warning literally , and log on to something more user-friendly .
| 1 |
negative
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director claude chabrol has become the master of innuendo .
| 3 |
positive
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as comedic spotlights go , notorious c.h.o. hits all the verbal marks it should .
| 3 |
positive
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-lrb- tries -rrb- to parody a genre that 's already a joke in the united states .
| 1 |
negative
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they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they 'd earn .
| 0 |
very negative
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especially give credit to affleck .
| 4 |
very positive
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a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming .
| 1 |
negative
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and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer\/directors working today .
| 3 |
positive
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this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc 's , despite a few whopping shootouts .
| 0 |
very negative
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though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché .
| 1 |
negative
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according to wendigo , ` nature ' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves .
| 3 |
positive
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even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture .
| 0 |
very negative
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it is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters .
| 4 |
very positive
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a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups .
| 0 |
very negative
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a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition .
| 4 |
very positive
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but as you watch the movie , you 're too interested to care .
| 4 |
very positive
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a mediocre exercise in target demographics , unaware that it 's the butt of its own joke .
| 1 |
negative
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the funny thing is , i did n't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit .
| 2 |
neutral
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thumbs down .
| 0 |
very negative
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while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it 's awfully entertaining to watch .
| 3 |
positive
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at a time when we 've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture .
| 1 |
negative
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adam sandler !
| 2 |
neutral
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upper west sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute .
| 1 |
negative
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as a kind of colorful , dramatized pbs program , frida gets the job done .
| 3 |
positive
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an uneven look into a grim future that does n't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k. dick stories .
| 1 |
negative
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-lrb- shyamalan -rrb- turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count .
| 3 |
positive
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totally overwrought , deeply biased , and wholly designed to make you feel guilty about ignoring what the filmmakers clearly believe are the greatest musicians of all time .
| 0 |
very negative
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there 's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles .
| 4 |
very positive
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