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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 |
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