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it 's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today .
| 4 |
very positive
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the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical .
| 0 |
very negative
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-lrb- the film 's -rrb- taste for `` shock humor '' will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of tom green and the farrelly brothers .
| 1 |
negative
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as a remake , it 's a pale imitation .
| 0 |
very negative
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lan yu is a genuine love story , full of traditional layers of awakening and ripening and separation and recovery .
| 4 |
very positive
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-lrb- washington 's -rrb- strong hand , keen eye , sweet spirit and good taste are reflected in almost every scene .
| 4 |
very positive
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only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley 's flopping dolphin-gasm .
| 1 |
negative
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i 'm left slightly disappointed that it did n't .
| 1 |
negative
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this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it 's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men .
| 3 |
positive
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i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon .
| 3 |
positive
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entertaining enough , but nothing new
| 1 |
negative
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arty gay film .
| 2 |
neutral
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pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .
| 3 |
positive
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changing lanes tries for more .
| 3 |
positive
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the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers .
| 2 |
neutral
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the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances .
| 0 |
very negative
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sean penn , you owe nicolas cage an apology .
| 2 |
neutral
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the film exudes the urbane sweetness that woody allen seems to have bitterly forsaken .
| 3 |
positive
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ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining .
| 3 |
positive
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for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future .
| 3 |
positive
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a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family .
| 4 |
very positive
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certainly the performances are worthwhile .
| 3 |
positive
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fifty years after the fact , the world 's political situation seems little different , and -lrb- director phillip -rrb- noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill .
| 4 |
very positive
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i do n't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it 's a dish that 's best served cold .
| 3 |
positive
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the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer 's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons .
| 4 |
very positive
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spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing .
| 4 |
very positive
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a weird and wonderful comedy .
| 4 |
very positive
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smart and taut .
| 4 |
very positive
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a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine .
| 1 |
negative
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c'mon !
| 2 |
neutral
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this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years .
| 4 |
very positive
|
will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts ...
| 2 |
neutral
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in the end , the film is less the cheap thriller you 'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters -- damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide .
| 3 |
positive
|
a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .
| 3 |
positive
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every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible .
| 4 |
very positive
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the film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization , marred only by an inexplicable , utterly distracting blunder at the very end .
| 2 |
neutral
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an extraordinary dramatic experience .
| 4 |
very positive
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piccoli 's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm 's - length in the film seem irritatingly transparent .
| 1 |
negative
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no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .
| 0 |
very negative
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it 's clear why deuces wild , which was shot two years ago , has been gathering dust on mgm 's shelf .
| 1 |
negative
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drowning 's too good for this sucker .
| 1 |
negative
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rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ?
| 2 |
neutral
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the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros. giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie 's release .
| 2 |
neutral
|
if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it .
| 0 |
very negative
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as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
| 1 |
negative
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everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized .
| 1 |
negative
|
a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events .
| 3 |
positive
|
a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached .
| 4 |
very positive
|
directed with purpose and finesse by england 's roger mitchell , who handily makes the move from pleasing , relatively lightweight commercial fare such as notting hill to commercial fare with real thematic heft .
| 4 |
very positive
|
it 's an odd show , pregnant with moods , stillborn except as a harsh conceptual exercise .
| 1 |
negative
|
cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer .
| 3 |
positive
|
would benigni 's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ?
| 0 |
very negative
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this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life .
| 0 |
very negative
|
each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs. man as brother-man vs. the man .
| 2 |
neutral
|
there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down .
| 1 |
negative
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i 'll stay with the stage versions , however , which bite cleaner , and deeper .
| 1 |
negative
|
it 's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin ' out loud .
| 1 |
negative
|
chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly .
| 0 |
very negative
|
the story , once it gets rolling , is nothing short of a great one .
| 4 |
very positive
|
they just do n't work in concert .
| 1 |
negative
|
a movie that falls victim to frazzled wackiness and frayed satire .
| 2 |
neutral
|
it 's supposed to be a humorous , all-too-human look at how hope can breed a certain kind of madness -- and strength -- but it never quite adds up .
| 2 |
neutral
|
an unintentionally surreal kid 's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode .
| 1 |
negative
|
both damning and damned compelling .
| 3 |
positive
|
it 's not original enough .
| 1 |
negative
|
apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .
| 4 |
very positive
|
the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada .
| 0 |
very negative
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a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff .
| 3 |
positive
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he 's one of the few ` cool ' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness .
| 3 |
positive
|
this 100-minute movie only has about 25 minutes of decent material .
| 1 |
negative
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a serious movie with serious ideas .
| 4 |
very positive
|
attal 's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it 's a wonder that he could n't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident .
| 1 |
negative
|
plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king .
| 1 |
negative
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stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity , profanity and violence , labute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection .
| 1 |
negative
|
it 's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming .
| 3 |
positive
|
leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama .
| 4 |
very positive
|
beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm .
| 4 |
very positive
|
campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson .
| 3 |
positive
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it 's like a `` big chill '' reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists .
| 2 |
neutral
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then you 'd do well to check this one out because it 's straight up twin peaks action ...
| 3 |
positive
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aside from showing us in explicit detail how difficult it is to win over the two-drink-minimum crowd , there 's little to be learned from watching ` comedian '
| 2 |
neutral
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mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt .
| 2 |
neutral
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that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks .
| 1 |
negative
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land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored .
| 3 |
positive
|
did the film inform and educate me ?
| 2 |
neutral
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barney 's ideas about creation and identity do n't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour 's worth of actual material .
| 1 |
negative
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build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year .
| 0 |
very negative
|
cineasts will revel in those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief harvey weinstein 's bluff personal style to the stylistic rigors of denmark 's dogma movement .
| 3 |
positive
|
bottom-rung new jack city wannabe .
| 1 |
negative
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despite the fact that this film was n't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it 's still not a good movie
| 0 |
very negative
|
but this time , the old mib label stands for milder is n't better .
| 1 |
negative
|
forget the misleading title , what 's with the unexplained baboon cameo ?
| 1 |
negative
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it 's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long .
| 0 |
very negative
|
what 's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be .
| 3 |
positive
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yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit .
| 1 |
negative
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every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here .
| 0 |
very negative
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the film 's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature\/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality .
| 1 |
negative
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a standard police-oriented drama that , were it not for de niro 's participation , would have likely wound up a tnt original .
| 1 |
negative
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yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other 's existence .
| 2 |
neutral
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with notorious c.h.o. cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy .
| 3 |
positive
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