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sst2 sentence: this is the kind of movie where people who have never picked a lock do so easily after a few tries and become expert fighters after a few weeks .
negative
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sst2 sentence: our infantilized culture
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sst2 sentence: how a skillful filmmaker can impart a message without bludgeoning the audience over the head
positive
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sst2 sentence: a detailed historical document ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: flavors and emotions
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sst2 sentence: even the bull gets recycled .
positive
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sst2 sentence: same sledgehammer appeal
positive
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sst2 sentence: reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy
negative
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sst2 sentence: displays with somber earnestness in the new adaptation of the cherry orchard
positive
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sst2 sentence: writer-director randall wallace has bitten off more than he or anyone else could chew
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sst2 sentence: gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing
negative
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sst2 sentence: carvey 's ) characters are both overplayed and exaggerated
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sst2 sentence: perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d
positive
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sst2 sentence: a cinematic corpse
negative
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sst2 sentence: spectacularly
positive
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sst2 sentence: this world more complex
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sst2 sentence: clueless
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sst2 sentence: may puzzle his most ardent fans .
negative
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sst2 sentence: , the film chimes in on the grieving process and strangely draws the audience into the unexplainable pain and eccentricities that are attached to the concept of loss .
positive
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sst2 sentence: exhaustingly
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sst2 sentence: that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge
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sst2 sentence: fail to crack a smile at
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sst2 sentence: sucks you
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sst2 sentence: grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments
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sst2 sentence: films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days .
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sst2 sentence: the sorriest and
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sst2 sentence: a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord
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sst2 sentence: , finch 's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee
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sst2 sentence: wants to be a suspenseful horror movie or a weepy melodrama
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sst2 sentence: of their first full flush of testosterone
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sst2 sentence: the strange horror of life
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sst2 sentence: winning comedy
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sst2 sentence: nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming
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sst2 sentence: by drawing me into the picture
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sst2 sentence: it ends up being neither , and fails at both endeavors .
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sst2 sentence: has been overexposed , redolent of a thousand cliches
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sst2 sentence: political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country
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sst2 sentence: starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .
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sst2 sentence: aimless , arduous , and
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sst2 sentence: yet overflows with wisdom and emotion .
positive
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sst2 sentence: is interested
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sst2 sentence: the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough .
negative
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sst2 sentence: otherwise this is the best ` old neighborhood ' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists
positive
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sst2 sentence: inconsequential
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sst2 sentence: will find morrison 's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating
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sst2 sentence: gets molested
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sst2 sentence: masterfully controlled
positive
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sst2 sentence: enriched
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sst2 sentence: adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean 's themes without being a true adaptation of her book .
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sst2 sentence: right
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sst2 sentence: manic
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sst2 sentence: they are having so much fun
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sst2 sentence: superb production values & christian bale 's charisma make up for a derivative plot .
positive
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sst2 sentence: one of those terrific documentaries that collect a bunch of people who are enthusiastic about something and then figures out how to make us share their enthusiasm .
positive
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sst2 sentence: it 's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after .
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sst2 sentence: it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject
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sst2 sentence: unlike trey parker , sandler does n't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .
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sst2 sentence: is an action movie with an action icon who 's been all but decommissioned .
negative
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sst2 sentence: its audience giddy with the delight of discovery
positive
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sst2 sentence: has a true talent for drawing wrenching performances from his actors ( improvised over many months ) and for conveying the way tiny acts of kindness make ordinary life survivable .
positive
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sst2 sentence: to make a big splash
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sst2 sentence: is that its own action is n't very effective
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sst2 sentence: the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack
positive
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sst2 sentence: do n't even bother to rent this on video
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sst2 sentence: , no such thing is hartley 's least accessible screed yet .
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sst2 sentence: charming and
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sst2 sentence: a laugh
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sst2 sentence: ... gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she 's ever done .
positive
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sst2 sentence: a powerful performance from mel gibson and a brutal 90-minute battle sequence that does everything but issue you a dog-tag and an m-16
positive
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sst2 sentence: momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable
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sst2 sentence: of b-movie excitement
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sst2 sentence: , powerful act
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sst2 sentence: its relaxed ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often
positive
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sst2 sentence: that came to define a generation
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sst2 sentence: smarter than your average bond
positive
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sst2 sentence: look too deep into the story
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sst2 sentence: the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it 's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is .
negative
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sst2 sentence: a live-wire film that
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sst2 sentence: ` santa clause 2 ' is wondrously creative .
positive
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sst2 sentence: creates a portrait of two strong men in conflict ,
positive
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sst2 sentence: elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires
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sst2 sentence: 's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships .
positive
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sst2 sentence: the filmmakers ' post-camp comprehension of what made old-time b movies good-bad that makes eight legged freaks a perfectly entertaining summer diversion
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sst2 sentence: felt trapped and with no obvious escape
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sst2 sentence: technical skill and rare depth
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sst2 sentence: of virtuosic set pieces
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sst2 sentence: the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism ,
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sst2 sentence: a work of enthralling drama
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sst2 sentence: always brooding
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sst2 sentence: 's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing ca n't possibly be enough .
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sst2 sentence: if you 're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you
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sst2 sentence: the wake of saving private ryan
positive
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sst2 sentence: that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front
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sst2 sentence: a loquacious and dreary piece
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sst2 sentence: once she lets her love depraved leads meet , ( denis ' ) story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle
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sst2 sentence: just fell apart
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sst2 sentence: it does n't leave you with much .
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sst2 sentence: takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience
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sst2 sentence: great monster/science fiction flicks
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