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sst2 sentence: fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment
negative
54,800
sst2 sentence: a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking
positive
54,801
sst2 sentence: our most flamboyant female comics
positive
54,802
sst2 sentence: passionate and truthful
positive
54,803
sst2 sentence: the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing .
negative
54,804
sst2 sentence: added clout to this doc
positive
54,805
sst2 sentence: exploitative for the art houses and too cynical , small
negative
54,806
sst2 sentence: far more meaningful story
positive
54,807
sst2 sentence: not only to his craft , but to his legend
positive
54,808
sst2 sentence: keep the film entertaining
positive
54,809
sst2 sentence: the histrionic muse still eludes madonna and , playing a charmless witch , she is merely a charmless witch .
negative
54,810
sst2 sentence: to hell
negative
54,811
sst2 sentence: this filmed tosca -- not the first , by the way -- is a pretty good job , if it 's filmed tosca that you want .
positive
54,812
sst2 sentence: 's a smart , solid , kinetically-charged spy flick worthy of a couple hours of summertime and a bucket of popcorn
positive
54,813
sst2 sentence: seriously intended movie
positive
54,814
sst2 sentence: they 've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times
negative
54,815
sst2 sentence: a mediocre exercise
negative
54,816
sst2 sentence: were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes
negative
54,817
sst2 sentence: charm and heart
positive
54,818
sst2 sentence: of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating
negative
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sst2 sentence: a sickening thud
negative
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sst2 sentence: for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting
positive
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sst2 sentence: inspirational
positive
54,822
sst2 sentence: it amounts to is a mildly funny , sometimes tedious , ultimately insignificant film
negative
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sst2 sentence: irksome , tiresome nature
negative
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sst2 sentence: miraculous as its dreamworks makers
positive
54,825
sst2 sentence: wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits
negative
54,826
sst2 sentence: brian tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .
positive
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sst2 sentence: ` best part ' of the movie
positive
54,828
sst2 sentence: judith and zaza 's extended bedroom sequence ... is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics .
positive
54,829
sst2 sentence: pretends to be passionate and truthful
negative
54,830
sst2 sentence: is too optimistic a title .
negative
54,831
sst2 sentence: create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior
negative
54,832
sst2 sentence: by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past
positive
54,833
sst2 sentence: will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it
negative
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sst2 sentence: a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .
positive
54,835
sst2 sentence: hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs
positive
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sst2 sentence: full of grace
positive
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sst2 sentence: a dearth
positive
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sst2 sentence: is the stuff of high romance , brought off with considerable wit
positive
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sst2 sentence: yeah , baby
positive
54,840
sst2 sentence: , amusing , sad and reflective
positive
54,841
sst2 sentence: enjoyable ...
positive
54,842
sst2 sentence: comedy that also asks its audience -- in a heartwarming , nonjudgmental kind of way -- to consider what we value in our daily lives
positive
54,843
sst2 sentence: laughably
positive
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sst2 sentence: at least terribly monotonous
negative
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sst2 sentence: able to look ahead and resist living in a past
positive
54,846
sst2 sentence: contains very few laughs and even less surprises .
negative
54,847
sst2 sentence: lackluster script
negative
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sst2 sentence: might to resist
negative
54,849
sst2 sentence: could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors
negative
54,850
sst2 sentence: which is nothing to sneeze at these days
positive
54,851
sst2 sentence: which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy
negative
54,852
sst2 sentence: alienating most
negative
54,853
sst2 sentence: perfectly acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable children 's entertainment
positive
54,854
sst2 sentence: cloaked in the euphemism ` urban drama
negative
54,855
sst2 sentence: neither is well told
negative
54,856
sst2 sentence: natural and lovely
positive
54,857
sst2 sentence: is superficial and
negative
54,858
sst2 sentence: this woefully hackneyed movie ,
negative
54,859
sst2 sentence: dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film
positive
54,860
sst2 sentence: through the audience 's meat grinder one more
negative
54,861
sst2 sentence: one of the funnier movies in town .
positive
54,862
sst2 sentence: brave and sweetly rendered love story .
positive
54,863
sst2 sentence: compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy
negative
54,864
sst2 sentence: olympia , wash. , based filmmakers anne de marcken and marilyn freeman did just that and it 's what makes their project so interesting
positive
54,865
sst2 sentence: a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller
positive
54,866
sst2 sentence: 's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell .
positive
54,867
sst2 sentence: of the war
negative
54,868
sst2 sentence: ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints
positive
54,869
sst2 sentence: in the conception than it does in the execution
negative
54,870
sst2 sentence: has nothing
negative
54,871
sst2 sentence: is amused by its special effects
positive
54,872
sst2 sentence: literary purists may not be pleased , but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes , it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds .
positive
54,873
sst2 sentence: such a bad movie
negative
54,874
sst2 sentence: i shamelessly enjoyed it
positive
54,875
sst2 sentence: or maybe `` how will you feel after an 88-minute rip-off of the rock with action confined to slo-mo gun firing and random glass-shattering ? ''
negative
54,876
sst2 sentence: corny examination
negative
54,877
sst2 sentence: the wit
positive
54,878
sst2 sentence: even life on an aircraft carrier --
positive
54,879
sst2 sentence: too hard to be mythic
negative
54,880
sst2 sentence: a self-indulgent script
negative
54,881
sst2 sentence: having a real writer plot
positive
54,882
sst2 sentence: afghan tragedies
negative
54,883
sst2 sentence: dumb , narratively chaotic , visually sloppy ...
negative
54,884
sst2 sentence: to the dullest irish pub scenes
negative
54,885
sst2 sentence: goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises
negative
54,886
sst2 sentence: what makes this film special is serry 's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context .
positive
54,887
sst2 sentence: truly funny bits
positive
54,888
sst2 sentence: pseudo-philosophic twaddle
negative
54,889
sst2 sentence: hard-to-swallow premise
negative
54,890
sst2 sentence: hallmark commercial
negative
54,891
sst2 sentence: despair
negative
54,892
sst2 sentence: ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick
negative
54,893
sst2 sentence: this wo n't seem like such a bore
negative
54,894
sst2 sentence: we 've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher .
positive
54,895
sst2 sentence: straightforward , emotionally honest manner
positive
54,896
sst2 sentence: truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne
positive
54,897
sst2 sentence: develops a startling story that works both as a detailed personal portrait and as a rather frightening examination of modern times .
positive
54,898
sst2 sentence: at its best , which occurs often
positive
54,899