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made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not
0negative
21,642
with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names .
0negative
48,614
a lyrical metaphor for cultural and personal self-discovery and a picaresque view
1positive
44,820
those relationships , including that between the son and his wife , and the wife and the father , and between the two brothers , with incredible subtlety and acumen
1positive
49,806
cliched
0negative
4,795
an uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless
0negative
10,829
a genuinely funny ensemble
1positive
55,056
, organic character work
1positive
44,549
fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context
0negative
22,805
so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough
1positive
8,056
may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar
0negative
55,572
might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies .
1positive
11,855
done the nearly impossible
1positive
54,579
fast-paced contemporary society
1positive
41,362
seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other
0negative
67,342
seems to want to be a character study , but apparently
0negative
26,908
that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages
1positive
10,260
potential success
1positive
2,124
deserve better
0negative
6,628
fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less
1positive
6,643
a goofy pleasure
1positive
27,705
is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .
1positive
41,241
steal
0negative
62,654
poignant and wryly amusing film
1positive
57,196
with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors
0negative
2,540
self-critical , behind-the-scenes navel-gazing kaufman
0negative
25,381
be consigned to the dustbin of history
0negative
20,476
creating the characters who surround frankie
0negative
18,095
this mess of a movie
0negative
40,994
what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks
1positive
19,182
lack their idol 's energy and passion for detail
0negative
891
one resurrection too many .
0negative
53,621
wannabe-hip crime comedy
0negative
8,945
leaves an awful sour taste
0negative
6,427
superficial and
0negative
19,628
narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute
0negative
11,485
becomes too heavy for the plot
0negative
3,442
the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad .
0negative
50,995
this film is part of that delicate canon
1positive
40,105
narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it .
1positive
51,147
totally overwrought ,
0negative
67,202
characterization , poignancy , and intelligence
1positive
32,672
because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks
0negative
3,106
emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen
1positive
24,272
get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who 's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos
0negative
39,339
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .
0negative
1,549
a cruel deception
0negative
32,771
should scare any sane person away .
0negative
38,929
it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
0negative
64,855
think of a film more cloyingly
1positive
5,479
a high water mark for this genre
1positive
52,683
which may be why it 's so successful at lodging itself in the brain
1positive
60,177
an important movie
1positive
54,273
dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick
0negative
30,397
team
1positive
12,634
is not
0negative
57,007
has never been more charming than in about a boy
1positive
6,582
an unsophisticated
0negative
48,810
retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing .
0negative
3,098
what new best friend does not have , beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay
0negative
44,161
a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant
0negative
6,526
into the complexities of the middle east struggle and
1positive
29,246
astonishing ...
1positive
65,104
secretary
1positive
41,818
zings along with vibrance and warmth
1positive
63,195
all the dramatic weight
0negative
6,075
too great
1positive
29,239
by-the-numbers yarn .
0negative
26,854
although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants
0negative
9,441
of humankind 's liberating ability
1positive
24,529
takes big bloody chomps out
0negative
4,372
with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , ( crane ) becomes more specimen than character --
0negative
25,693
to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history
1positive
26,784
proud warrior
1positive
10,576
go from stark desert
0negative
66,432
love and power
1positive
36,204
much of what we see is horrible but it 's also undeniably exceedingly clever .
1positive
64,206
never quite
0negative
55,159
it 's sort of in-between , and it works .
1positive
20,603
kids = misery
0negative
44,111
, the film does n't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything .
0negative
43,150
sordid universe
0negative
8,918
, interestingly told film .
1positive
4,798
like a wet burlap sack of gloom
0negative
20,609
delivers what it promises : a look at the `` wild ride '' that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans .
1positive
58,338
feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .
0negative
16,263
is a fun and funky look into an artificial creation in a world that thrives on artificiality .
1positive
6,830
quiet , introspective and entertaining independent
1positive
23,976
part of the film 's cheeky charm
1positive
18,499
the fun
1positive
20,744
as the shabby digital photography
0negative
14,974
a ripping good yarn
1positive
47,770
is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action
0negative
44,779
marvelously
1positive
19,355
the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt
0negative
56,940
in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light
1positive
58,381
reno himself can take credit for most of the movie 's success .
1positive
15,483
you have to see it .
1positive
6,181
's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie 's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all .
1positive
5,021
if even the filmmakers did n't know what kind of movie they were making
0negative
33,208