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sst2 sentence: little more than a well-mounted history lesson
negative
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sst2 sentence: romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows
positive
55,601
sst2 sentence: spent watching this waste of time
negative
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sst2 sentence: loosely connected
negative
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sst2 sentence: the movie 's seams may show ... but
positive
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sst2 sentence: ultimate demise
negative
55,605
sst2 sentence: benefits from serendipity but
positive
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sst2 sentence: i 've never seen or heard anything quite like this film ,
positive
55,607
sst2 sentence: the characters move with grace and panache
positive
55,608
sst2 sentence: handed down from the movie gods on a silver platter
positive
55,609
sst2 sentence: been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie
negative
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sst2 sentence: in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did
positive
55,611
sst2 sentence: visually unappealing
negative
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sst2 sentence: hideousness
negative
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sst2 sentence: intelligent , and humanly funny film .
positive
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sst2 sentence: formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast
negative
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sst2 sentence: this story to go but down
negative
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sst2 sentence: 'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .
negative
55,617
sst2 sentence: easy sanctimony , formulaic thrills and
negative
55,618
sst2 sentence: jaded
negative
55,619
sst2 sentence: the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period
negative
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sst2 sentence: an admirable reconstruction of terrible events ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: into the trap of pretention
negative
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sst2 sentence: ... is funny in the way that makes you ache with sadness ( the way chekhov is funny ) , profound without ever being self-important , warm without ever succumbing to sentimentality .
positive
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sst2 sentence: bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer 's most pleasurable movies
positive
55,624
sst2 sentence: the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes
positive
55,625
sst2 sentence: us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher
positive
55,626
sst2 sentence: few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt 's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying .
positive
55,627
sst2 sentence: find yourself rooting for gai 's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her
positive
55,628
sst2 sentence: a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving
positive
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sst2 sentence: questions cinema 's capability for recording truth
negative
55,630
sst2 sentence: the charismatic jackie chan
positive
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sst2 sentence: ill-conceived action pieces
negative
55,632
sst2 sentence: a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film .
positive
55,633
sst2 sentence: retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching
positive
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sst2 sentence: , moving
positive
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sst2 sentence: 's more of the ` laughing at ' variety than the ` laughing with
negative
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sst2 sentence: looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script
negative
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sst2 sentence: in the excesses of writer-director roger avary
negative
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sst2 sentence: is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film .
negative
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sst2 sentence: with daring and verve
positive
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sst2 sentence: strives to be more , but does n't quite get there .
negative
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sst2 sentence: no justice
negative
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sst2 sentence: never lacks in eye-popping visuals
positive
55,643
sst2 sentence: columbia pictures ' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie
negative
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sst2 sentence: played-out idea
negative
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sst2 sentence: silliness
negative
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sst2 sentence: one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time
negative
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sst2 sentence: , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip .
positive
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sst2 sentence: silences
negative
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sst2 sentence: most repellent things
negative
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sst2 sentence: comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break
negative
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sst2 sentence: into an a-list director
positive
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sst2 sentence: a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior
positive
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sst2 sentence: this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications ... that have no bearing on the story .
negative
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sst2 sentence: delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem .
negative
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sst2 sentence: contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing
negative
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sst2 sentence: is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia
positive
55,657
sst2 sentence: its passages of sensitive observation
positive
55,658
sst2 sentence: a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'em powerment .
positive
55,659
sst2 sentence: a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema
negative
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sst2 sentence: deceptively amusing
positive
55,661
sst2 sentence: beyond the cleverness , the weirdness and the pristine camerawork , one hour photo is a sobering meditation on why we take pictures .
positive
55,662
sst2 sentence: loads of cgi and bushels of violence
negative
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sst2 sentence: the very best
positive
55,664
sst2 sentence: sci-fi thriller
positive
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sst2 sentence: listless direction
negative
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sst2 sentence: hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .
positive
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sst2 sentence: the delicious trimmings ...
positive
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sst2 sentence: engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese ` cultural revolution . '
positive
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sst2 sentence: nothing good
negative
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sst2 sentence: advancing this vision
positive
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sst2 sentence: is born out of an engaging storyline , which also is n't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues .
positive
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sst2 sentence: lethargically
negative
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sst2 sentence: , mesmerizing
positive
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sst2 sentence: a pretty good overall picture of the situation
positive
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sst2 sentence: could ever have hoped to be
positive
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sst2 sentence: the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs. the snowman leaves a lot to be desired .
negative
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sst2 sentence: will likely prefer to keep on watching
positive
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sst2 sentence: this is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure
negative
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sst2 sentence: trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the `` gadzooks ! ''
negative
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sst2 sentence: both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter .
positive
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sst2 sentence: has never made anything that was n't at least watchable
positive
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sst2 sentence: still have to see this !
positive
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sst2 sentence: with blazing guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts , disintegrating bloodsucker computer effects and jagged camera moves that serve no other purpose than to call attention to themselves
negative
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sst2 sentence: remind one of a really solid woody allen film ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: how inept is serving sara ?
negative
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sst2 sentence: almost in a class with that of wilde
positive
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sst2 sentence: just plain bad
negative
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sst2 sentence: a good time
positive
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sst2 sentence: 's no art here
negative
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sst2 sentence: 'll love this movie
positive
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sst2 sentence: as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort
positive
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sst2 sentence: and -- sadly -- dull
negative
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sst2 sentence: swept away '
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sst2 sentence: hate
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sst2 sentence: bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .
positive
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sst2 sentence: of all hollywood fantasies
positive
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sst2 sentence: the series ' message about making the right choice in the face of tempting alternatives remains prominent , as do the girls ' amusing personalities .
positive
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sst2 sentence: their feces
negative
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