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1781,"if you haven't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in spielberg's work . much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments . . .",1
3374,"ryan gosling is , in a word , brilliant as the conflicted daniel .",1
5953,"as david letterman and the onion have proven , the worst of tragedies can be fertile sources of humor , but lawrence has only a fleeting grasp of how to develop them .",0
3808,"where tom green stages his gags as assaults on america's knee-jerk moral sanctimony , jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval .",0
954,a biopic about crane's life in the classic tradition but evolves into what has become of us all in the era of video .,1
2644,"like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community .",1
4619,a small independent film suffering from a severe case of hollywood-itis .,0
1565,"feardotcom's thrills are all cheap , but they mostly work .",1
2890,"the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth .",1
661,"elegantly produced and expressively performed , the six musical numbers crystallize key plot moments into minutely detailed wonders of dreamlike ecstasy .",1
5313,looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of scarface or carlito's way .,0
4478,beware the quirky brit-com . they can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental .,0
3350,"ruzowitzky has taken this mothball-y stuff and made a rather sturdy , old-fashioned entertainment out of it .",1
5603,"though this saga would be terrific to read about , it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch .",0
2236,there's something to be said for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of easy answers .,1
2553,"the quiet american isn't a bad film , it's just one that could easily wait for your pay per view dollar .",1
5415,there is only so much baked cardboard i need to chew .,0
1963,the cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story .,1
4197,the threat implied in the title pokémon 4ever is terrifying – like locusts in a horde these things will keep coming .,0
4278,"holland lets things peter out midway , but it's notably better acted -- and far less crass - than some other recent efforts in the burgeoning genre of films about black urban professionals .",0
2488,working from a surprisingly sensitive script co-written by gianni romoli . . . ozpetek avoids most of the pitfalls you'd expect in such a potentially sudsy set-up .,1
4686,my advice is to skip the film and pick up the soundtrack .,0
1317,miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers .,1
2996,visually striking and viscerally repellent .,1
2409,[stephen] earnhart's film is more about the optimism of a group of people who are struggling to give themselves a better lot in life than the ones they currently have .,1
2388,"a romantic comedy , yes , but one with characters who think and talk about their goals , and are working on hard decisions .",1
1877,there's so much to look at in metropolis you hate to tear your eyes away from the images long enough to read the subtitles .,1
802,this is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the american underground .,1
2473,there's no denying the physically spectacular qualities of the film . . . or the emotional integrity of the performances .,1
1016,devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower .,1
59,"claire is a terrific role for someone like judd , who really ought to be playing villains .",1
1339,equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 .,1
3026,"hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willing to express his convictions .",1
4934,"just a string of stale gags , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite .",0
5844,"been there , done that . . . a thousand times already , and better .",0
3676,it's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert .,0
4618,"like schindler's list , the grey zone attempts to be grandiloquent , but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way .",0
6810,"a mawkish , implausible platonic romance that makes chaplin's city lights seem dispassionate by comparison .",0
6317,"there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent .",0
3875,there are films that try the patience of even the most cinema-besotted critic -- and this was one of them .,0
538,"compulsively watchable , no matter how degraded things get .",1
2036,exhilarating but blatantly biased .,1
1996,"claude chabrol has here a thriller without thrills , but that's okay .",1
3835,"it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the entire franchise .",0
2608,beautiful to watch and holds a certain charm .,1
3635,"the bottom line with nemesis is the same as it has been with all the films in the series : fans will undoubtedly enjoy it , and the uncommitted needn't waste their time on it .",0
1819,"a quiet , pure , elliptical film",1
2345,it is not a mass-market entertainment but an uncompromising attempt by one artist to think about another .,1
1113,it's probably worth catching solely on its visual merits . if only it had the story to match .,1
5179,there's nothing provocative about this film save for the ways in which it studiously avoids provoking thought .,0
249,you can take the grandkids or the grandparents and never worry about anyone being bored . . . audience is a sea of constant smiles and frequent laughter .,1
3493,grainy photography mars an otherwise delightful comedy of errors .,1
1859,"unfolds as one of the most politically audacious films of recent decades from any country , but especially from france .",1
2082,noyce creates a film of near-hypnotic physical beauty even as he tells a story as horrifying as any in the heart-breakingly extensive annals of white-on-black racism .,1
5381,an artful yet depressing film that makes a melodramatic mountain out of the molehill of a missing bike .,0
1237,"leigh isn't breaking new ground , but he knows how a daily grind can kill love .",1
3620,the film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of hollywood heart-string plucking .,0
5721,the whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit .,0
427,one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time .,1
1159,"[ramsay] visually transforms the dreary expanse of dead-end distaste the characters inhabit into a poem of art , music and metaphor .",1
6065,"coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story .",0
690,it's the unsettling images of a war-ravaged land that prove more potent and riveting than the unlikely story of sarah and harrison .,1
2548,perhaps no picture ever made has more literally showed that the road to hell is paved with good intentions .,1
4598,this 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 .,0
3628,"its over-reliance on genre conventions , character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops .",0
4171,"it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness .",0
285,"if your senses haven't been dulled by slasher films and gorefests , if you're a connoisseur of psychological horror , this is your ticket .",1
4963,"might have been better off as a documentary , with less of mr . eyre's uninspired dramatics and more of his sense of observation and outrage .",0
2991,"goyer's screenplay and direction are thankfully understated , and he has drawn excellent performances from his cast .",1
2396,"it's too harsh to work as a piece of storytelling , but as an intellectual exercise -- an unpleasant debate that's been given the drive of a narrative and that's been acted out -- the believer is nothing less than a provocative piece of work .",1
3255,"it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho .",1
1046,"like mike isn't going to make box office money that makes michael jordan jealous , but it has some cute moments , funny scenes , and hits the target audience ( young bow wow fans ) - with nothing but net .",1
3632,"it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) .",0
99,"at times funny and at other times candidly revealing , it's an intriguing look at two performers who put themselves out there because they love what they do .",1
6145,"at some point , all this visual trickery stops being clever and devolves into flashy , vaguely silly overkill .",0
2834,"a bittersweet film , simple in form but rich with human events .",1
3589,whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary .,0
1944,a gentle and engrossing character study .,1
6564,"if you really want to understand what this story is really all about , you're far better served by the source material .",0
4242,"green ruins every single scene he's in , and the film , while it's not completely wreaked , is seriously compromised by that .",0
4606,it's lost the politics and the social observation and become just another situation romance about a couple of saps stuck in an inarticulate screenplay .,0
2221,""" extreme ops "" exceeds expectations . good fun , good action , good acting , good dialogue , good pace , good cinematography .",1
6733,"a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a total rehash .",0
4706,director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two .,0
3682,what you expect is just what you get . . . assuming the bar of expectations hasn't been raised above sixth-grade height .,0
4032,staggeringly dreadful romance .,0
2518,"you could say that it's slow at times , you could say that a few of the characters act in ways that real people wouldn't , but one thing you couldn't say is that alias betty is predictable .",1
5641,"scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas .",0
5184,"a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices .",0
108,"while some will object to the idea of a vietnam picture with such a rah-rah , patriotic tone , soldiers ultimately achieves its main strategic objective : dramatizing the human cost of the conflict that came to define a generation .",1
102,"you watch for that sense of openness , the little surprises .",1
1263,jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema .,1
3002,the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy .,1
4144,this charmless nonsense ensues amid clanging film references that make jay and silent bob's excellent adventure seem understated .,0
236,"lohman adapts to the changes required of her , but the actress and director peter kosminsky never get the audience to break through the wall her character erects",1
2745,"lathan and diggs have considerable personal charm , and their screen rapport makes the old story seem new .",1
702,"this boisterous comedy serves up a cruel reminder of the fate of hundreds of thousands of chinese , one which can only qualify as a terrible tragedy .",1
1191,psychologically savvy .,1
2111,this masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat short .,1
6115,one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou .,0
2574,"essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens .",1
4098,"no worse than a lot of the crap we've been offered this summer , and slightly better than men in black 2 as far as slapdash extraterrestrial comedies go .",0
5553,"despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before .",0
320,fresnadillo has something serious to say about the ways in which extravagant chance can distort our perspective and throw us off the path of good sense .,1
9,"an engrossing story that combines psychological drama , sociological reflection , and high-octane thriller .",1
3519,"it's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing .",1
3646,you can tell almost immediately that welcome to collinwood isn't going to jell .,0
1699,escapism in its purest form .,1
3805,those eternally devoted to the insanity of black will have an intermittently good time . feel free to go get popcorn whenever he's not onscreen .,0
1429,"i am not generally a huge fan of cartoons derived from tv shows , but hey arnold ! the movie is clever , offbeat and even gritty enough to overcome my resistance .",1
2197,"not a bad choice here , assuming that . . . the air-conditioning in the theater is working properly .",1
6831,"a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama's family .",0
2911,the mothman prophecies is best when illustrating the demons bedevilling the modern masculine journey .,1
2132,"gran historia sobre el amor , la familia , la lealtad y la traición que seguramente se convertirá en un nuevo clásico del género .",1
4194,"except for paymer as the boss who ultimately expresses empathy for bartleby's pain , the performances are so stylized as to be drained of human emotion .",0
2208,"the real triumphs in igby come from philippe , who makes oliver far more interesting than the character's lines would suggest , and sarandon , who couldn't be better as a cruel but weirdly likable wasp matron .",1
5201,"partway through watching this saccharine , easter-egg-colored concoction , you realize that it is made up of three episodes of a rejected tv show .",0
2871,". . . a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping , in one way or another , with life's endgame .",1
4702,"full of witless jokes , dealing in broad stereotypes and outrageously unbelievable scenarios , and saddled with a general air of misogyny",0
2643,consummate actor barry has done excellent work here .,1
1501,cusack's just brilliant in this .,1
2154,perhaps the best sports movie i've ever seen .,1
3487,schnitzler does a fine job contrasting the sleekness of the film's present with the playful paranoia of the film's past .,1
6936,"an infuriating film . just when you think you are making sense of it , something happens that tells you there is no sense .",0
4954,"there are touching moments in etoiles , but for the most part this is a dull , dour documentary on what ought to be a joyful or at least fascinating subject .",0
5256,"the appeal of the vulgar , sexist , racist humour went over my head or -- considering just how low brow it is -- perhaps it snuck under my feet .",0
6387,"juliette binoche's sand is vivacious , but it's hard to sense that powerhouse of 19th-century prose behind her childlike smile .",0
6239,"unofficially , national lampoon's van wilder is son of animal house . officially , it is twice as bestial but half as funny .",0
6788,everything that was right about blade is wrong in its sequel .,0
3267,"preaches to two completely different choirs at the same time , which is a pretty amazing accomplishment .",1
4549,the movie does such an excellent job of critiquing itself at every faltering half-step of its development that criticizing feels more like commiserating .,0
2195,offers laughs and insight into one of the toughest ages a kid can go through .,1
4982,"while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires .",0
3736,"a modestly comic , modestly action-oriented world war ii adventure that , in terms of authenticity , is one of those films that requires the enemy to never shoot straight .",0
6607,wow . i have not been this disappointed by a movie in a long time .,0
3014,"a droll , bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the lone star state .",1
5420,this is just lazy writing . even kids deserve better .,0
5710,"as a movie , it never seems fresh and vital . it never plays as dramatic even when dramatic things happen to people . it labours as storytelling .",0
1999,"ana is a vivid , vibrant individual and the movie's focus upon her makes it successful and accessible .",1
3698,"the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .",0
5561,"every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance , every performance respectably muted ; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of rohypnol .",0
5032,sheridan . . . smoothes over sources of conflict that could have lent the film a bit more depth .,0
4718,"dull , lifeless , and amateurishly assembled .",0
6803,"never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery .",0
5130,it appears to have been made by people to whom the idea of narrative logic or cohesion is an entirely foreign concept .,0
1952,"it's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul .",1
29,i love the way that it took chances and really asks you to take these great leaps of faith and pays off .,1
4223,new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is .,0
3194,"there is a refreshing absence of cynicism in stuart little 2--quite a rarity , even in the family film market . eventually , it wins you over .",1
4292,"this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and the whole of the proceedings beg the question 'why ? '",0
2241,"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 .",1
6463,"a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , a style-free exercise in manipulation and mayhem .",0
5353,suffers from a decided lack of creative storytelling .,0
6345,a fascinating but choppy documentary .,0
5924,it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .,0
6570,let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line : stay home .,0
6738,the uneven movie does have its charms and its funny moments but not quite enough of them .,0
4795,visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying .,0
2091,"a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience .",1
4908,it treats women like idiots .,0
5760,"while benigni ( who stars and co-wrote ) seems to be having a wonderful time , he might be alone in that .",0
1301,don't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you don't have kids borrow some .,1
5426,[newton]wanders through charlie completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality .,0
4643,"there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from films crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thin -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening .",0
5809,"with lines that feel like long soliloquies -- even as they are being framed in conversation -- max is static , stilted .",0
2974,serious movie-goers embarking upon this journey will find that the road to perdition leads to a satisfying destination .,1
708,"the trinity assembly approaches the endeavor with a shocking lack of irony , and george ratliff's documentary , hell house , reflects their earnestness — which makes for a terrifying film .",1
2845,an exhilarating serving of movie fluff .,1
2456,meant for star wars fans . it is there to give them a good time .,1
6329,"myers never knows when to let a gag die ; thus , we're subjected to one mind-numbingly lengthy riff on poo and pee jokes after another .",0
632,"while we no longer possess the lack-of-attention span that we did at seventeen , we had no trouble sitting for blade ii .",1
4744,blue crush is as predictable as the tides . . . . the movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies .,0
5674,the film desperately sinks further and further into comedy futility .,0
1273,"with notorious c . h . o . cho proves she has the stuff to stand tall with pryor , carlin and murphy .",1
3186,"daily struggles and simple pleasures usurp the preaching message so that , by the time the credits roll across the pat ending , a warm , fuzzy feeling prevails .",1
833,"although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .",1
1465,is office work really as alienating as 'bartleby' so effectively makes it ?,1
2355,"occasionally funny and consistently odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao .",1
3595,billy crystal and robert de niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse .,0
5137,"for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero .",0
1743,"jolting into charleston rhythms , the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent ( accurate ? who cares ? ) .",1
4969,"there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 .",0
3573,"i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort .",0
6594,a wildly inconsistent emotional experience .,0
134,[has] an immediacy and an intimacy that sucks you in and dares you not to believe it's all true .,1
1158,enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age .,1
929,ice cube holds the film together with an engaging and warm performance . . .,1
3547,tres greek writer and star nia vardalos has crafted here a worldly-wise and very funny script .,1
5284,[gayton's script] telegraphs every discovery and layers on the gloss of convenience .,0
2883,this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms .,1
4362,frenetic but not really funny .,0
1287,a fascinating documentary that provides a rounded and revealing overview of this ancient holistic healing system,1
2099,"it's about as convincing as any other arnie musclefest , but has a little too much resonance with real world events and ultimately comes off as insultingly simplistic .",1
5649,"what's most offensive isn't the waste of a good cast , but the film's denial of sincere grief and mourning in favor of bogus spiritualism .",0
1443,"a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its source material .",1
1023,"all the filmmakers are asking of us , is to believe in something that is improbable .",1
1890,so vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted rembrandt .,1
454,"it represents better-than-average movie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience .",1
2764,"though it never rises to its full potential as a film , still offers a great deal of insight into the female condition and the timeless danger of emotions repressed .",1
4067,at the bottom rung of the series' entries .,0
2122,"ana's journey is not a stereotypical one of self-discovery , as she's already comfortable enough in her own skin to be proud of her rubenesque physique . . .",1
6741,offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already seen .,0
2672,"amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it .",1
7094,a workshop mentality prevails .,0
1125,"much as we might be interested in gratuitous sexualization , haneke has a different objective in mind--namely the implications of our craving for fake stimulation .",1
418,"beautifully crafted and brutally honest , promises offers an unexpected window into the complexities of the middle east struggle and into the humanity of its people .",1
2652,"what could have easily become a cold , calculated exercise in postmodern pastiche winds up a powerful and deeply moving example of melodramatic moviemaking .",1
6779,"when the precise nature of matthew's predicament finally comes into sharp focus , the revelation fails to justify the build-up .",0
5954,"this movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment .",0
6918,"well , jason's gone to manhattan and hell , i guess a space station in the year 2455 can be crossed off the list of ideas for the inevitable future sequels ( hey , don't shoot the messenger ) .",0
3300,"starts slowly , but adrien brody – in the title role – helps make the film's conclusion powerful and satisfying .",1
1081,"this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirming .",1
5182,a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more .,0
5038,"[a] boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain .",0
2338,"if you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life , eisenstein delivers .",1
5288,it's probably not easy to make such a worthless film . . .,0
2560,"spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later .",1
1796,"a compelling , gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day .",1
3629,"the lower your expectations , the more you'll enjoy it .",0
410,"shainberg weaves a carefully balanced scenario that is controlled by neither character , is weirdly sympathetic to both and manages to be tender and darkly comic .",1
4773,"the bottom line , at least in my opinion , is imposter makes a better short story than it does a film .",0
4325,a technical triumph and an extraordinary bore .,0
5199,"the smash 'em-up , crash 'em-up , shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense .",0
6213,late marriage's stiffness is unlikely to demonstrate the emotional clout to sweep u . s . viewers off their feet .,0
227,"the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts .",1
3863,"ultimately the project comes across as clinical , detached , uninvolving , possibly prompting audience members to wonder , 'what's the point ? '",0
2892,"finds a way to tell a simple story , perhaps the simplest story of all , in a way that seems compelling and even original .",1
1597,"young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film .",1
3386,majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast .,1
6496,"priggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal .",0
5322,it's an 88-minute highlight reel that's 86 minutes too long .,0
3032,"while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is still fun and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort .",1
3343,a film about female friendship that men can embrace and women will talk about for hours .,1
3049,hashiguchi uses the situation to evoke a japan bustling atop an undercurrent of loneliness and isolation .,1
4263,"reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that .",0
6984,a bravura exercise in emptiness .,0
1695,"it is a happy , heady jumble of thought and storytelling , an insane comic undertaking that ultimately coheres into a sane and breathtakingly creative film .",1
4432,"responsável direto pelo fracasso 'artístico' de doce lar , o roteirista c . jay cox não consegue sequer aproveitar os pouquíssimos momentos em que escapa da mediocridade .",0
590,"the script is smart , not cloying .",1
4712,"an even more predictable , cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor .",0
4569,about as satisfying and predictable as the fare at your local drive through .,0
6083,"one of those movies where you walk out of the theater not feeling cheated exactly , but feeling pandered to , which , in the end , might be all the more infuriating .",0
2596,"at its worst the screenplay is callow , but at its best it is a young artist's thoughtful consideration of fatherhood .",1
5120,it's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby .,0
2446,"after one gets the feeling that the typical hollywood disregard for historical truth and realism is at work here , it's a matter of finding entertainment in the experiences of zishe and the fiery presence of hanussen .",1
3897,"a waterlogged version of 'fatal attraction' for the teeny-bopper set . . . a sad , soggy potboiler that wastes the talents of its attractive young leads .",0
2660,"a must-see for the david mamet enthusiast and for anyone who appreciates intelligent , stylish moviemaking .",1
3593,don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle .,0
5168,"the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .",0
2606,"likeable thanks to its cast , its cuisine and its quirky tunes .",1
5884,"this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance .",0
2568,you'd have to be a most hard-hearted person not to be moved by this drama .,1
5126,"once he starts learning to compromise with reality enough to become comparatively sane and healthy , the film becomes predictably conventional .",0
7080,labute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public .,0
1684,"drama of temptation , salvation and good intentions is a thoughtful examination of faith , love and power .",1
5335,seems like someone going through the motions .,0
5371,"by the end , you just don't care whether that cold-hearted snake petrovich ( that would be reno ) gets his comeuppance . just bring on the battle bots , please !",0
678,offers that rare combination of entertainment and education .,1
2354,"bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys .",1
1757,"an exceedingly clever piece of cinema . another great ‘what you don't see' is much more terrifying than what you do see thriller , coupled with some arresting effects , incandescent tones and stupendous performances",1
4498,"resident evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an mtv , sugar hysteria , and playstation cocktail .",0
1462,"at a time when commercialism has squeezed the life out of whatever idealism american moviemaking ever had , godfrey reggio's career shines like a lonely beacon .",1
2301,more sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are . . . an amusing little catch .,1
1013,nolan bravely treads where few american films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity . . .,1
695,"the usual movie rah-rah , pleasantly and predictably delivered in low-key style by director michael apted and writer tom stoppard .",1
1518,"it's nice to see piscopo again after all these years , and chaykin and headly are priceless .",1
1899,if you're a fan of the series you'll love it and probably want to see it twice . i will be .,1
119,just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer .,1
1625,munch's screenplay is tenderly observant of his characters . he watches them as they float within the seas of their personalities . his scenes are short and often unexpected .,1
3417,an effortlessly accomplished and richly resonant work .,1
2276,"'aunque recurre a ciertos clichés del género , la poderosa actuación de robin williams perdona las fallas del guión . '",1
4760,"with a completely predictable plot , you'll swear that you've seen it all before , even if you've never come within a mile of the longest yard .",0
2124,an energetic and engaging film that never pretends to be something it isn't .,1
6168,"fans of the tv series will be disappointed , and everyone else will be slightly bored .",0
1075,"the off-center humor is a constant , and the ensemble gives it a buoyant delivery .",1
958,"as the princess , sorvino glides gracefully from male persona to female without missing a beat . ben kingsley is truly funny , playing a kind of ghandi gone bad .",1
6201,has all the poignancy of a hallmark card and all the comedy of a gallagher stand-up act .,0
5307,"his best film remains his shortest , the hole , which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive .",0
4394,there is so much plodding sensitivity .,0
7045,this ill-conceived and expensive project winds up looking like a bunch of talented thesps slumming it .,0
5968,one can only assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off,0
6090,anyone who gets chills from movies with giant plot holes will find plenty to shake and shiver about in 'the ring . ',0
3231,may be the most undeserving victim of critical overkill since town and country .,1
831,"a much better documentary -- more revealing , more emotional and more surprising -- than its pedestrian english title would have you believe .",1
2279,"if you like blood , guts and crazy beasts stalking men with guns though . . . you will likely enjoy this monster .",1
367,nothing short of wonderful with its ten-year-old female protagonist and its steadfast refusal to set up a dualistic battle between good and evil .,1
5512,"in the second half of the film , frei's control loosens in direct proportion to the amount of screen time he gives nachtwey for self-analysis .",0
4317,. . . a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone .,0
111,""" it's all about the image . """,1
4480,an uneven film dealing with too many problems to be taken seriously .,0
3442,"'compleja e intelectualmente retadora , el ladrón de orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad . '",1
1562,"not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainstream american audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fest circuit .",1
6332,the whole mess boils down to a transparently hypocritical work that feels as though it's trying to set the women's liberation movement back 20 years .,0
283,at once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious .,1
5446,a well acted and well intentioned snoozer .,0
1441,"without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange .",1
4503,"professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller .",0
5249,friday after next is a lot more bluster than bite .,0
5732,rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue .,0
4886,"aloof and lacks any real raw emotion , which is fatal for a film that relies on personal relationships .",0
5204,a sha-na-na sketch punctuated with graphic violence .,0
3880,"britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all .",0
6655,"it's of the quality of a lesser harrison ford movie - six days , seven nights , maybe , or that dreadful sabrina remake .",0
2982,worth a look as a curiosity .,1
1401,an exhilarating experience .,1
6684,"once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle",0
2543,a whale of a good time for both children and parents seeking christian-themed fun .,1
6186,the entire movie is in need of a scented bath .,0
4977,a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan .,0
2987,sex with strangers is fascinating . . .,1
1885,"the problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving , and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy , pretty and gifted , it really won my heart .",1
2062,it's hard to imagine alan arkin being better than he is in this performance .,1
2479,"at its best when the guarded , resentful betty and the manipulative yet needy margot are front and center .",1
5159,less a heartfelt appeal for the handicapped than a nice belgian waffle .,0
4110,the structure the film takes may find matt damon and ben affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a good will hunting trilogy that was never planned .,0
4615,"outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .",0
4077,"i've had more interesting -- and , dare i say , thematically complex -- bowel movements than this long-on-the-shelf , point-and-shoot exercise in gimmicky crime drama .",0
1236,"led by griffin's smartly nuanced performance and enthusiasm , the cast has a lot of fun with the material .",1
2038,a wildly funny prison caper .,1
919,"cuts right through the b . s . giving a big middle-fingered "" shut up "" to those who talk up what is nothing more than two guys beating the hell outta one another .",1
257,go see it and enjoy .,1
5952,"matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy .",0
6419,this film biggest problem ? no laughs .,0
5708,"the documentary is much too conventional -- lots of boring talking heads , etc . -- to do the subject matter justice .",0
3016,"the story's scope and pageantry are mesmerizing , and mr . day-lewis roars with leonine power .",1
7068,an intermittently pleasing but mostly routine effort .,0
4395,"i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care .",0
4438,a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness .,0
2730,"peter jackson and company once again dazzle and delight us , fulfilling practically every expectation either a longtime tolkien fan or a movie-going neophyte could want .",1
3722,flaccid drama and exasperatingly slow journey .,0
633,"light-years ahead of paint-by-number american blockbusters like pearl harbor , at least artistically .",1
5802,a great idea becomes a not-great movie .,0
498,a compelling allegory about the last days of germany's democratic weimar republic .,1
1067,"it's a humble effort , but spiced with wry humor and genuine pathos , especially between morgan and redgrave .",1
3681,an empty shell of an epic rather than the real deal .,0
364,"a solid cast , assured direction and complete lack of modern day irony .",1
5879,"the origin story is well told , and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books . it's in the action scenes that things fall apart .",0
824,"poetry in motion captured on film . while it can be a bit repetitive , overall it's an entertaining and informative documentary .",1
3851,the skirmishes for power waged among victims and predators settle into an undistinguished rhythm of artificial suspense .,0
3683,"potty-mouthed enough for pg-13 , yet not as hilariously raunchy as south park , this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults .",0
489,"a real winner -- smart , funny , subtle , and resonant .",1
1797,ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what- time-it-is tedious .,1
6400,[a] stale retread of the '53 original .,0
792,"further proof that the epicenter of cool , beautiful , thought-provoking foreign cinema is smack-dab in the middle of dubya's axis of evil .",1
4187,the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored .,0
3144,"by turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre .",1
5483,proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie .,0
4056,"there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there .",0
5044,cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke .,0
7097,i kept wishing i was watching a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hollywood hoo-ha .,0
4330,"the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately don't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays .",0
6281,"an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality .",0
5152,"pretend it's a werewolf itself by avoiding eye contact and walking slowly away . it's fun , but it's a real howler .",0
6053,horrible,0
1904,"a highly intriguing thriller , coupled with some ingenious plot devices and some lavishly built settings . . it's a worthwhile tutorial in quantum physics and slash-dash",1
2105,"engages us in constant fits of laughter , until we find ourselves surprised at how much we care about the story , and end up walking out not only satisfied but also somewhat touched .",1
4876,the film makes a fatal mistake : it asks us to care about a young man whose only apparent virtue is that he is not quite as unpleasant as some of the people in his life .,0
6717,. . . the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank .,0
2138,an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution--acted mostly by the actual people involved .,1
1057,"it may not be history – but then again , what if it is ? – but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while .",1
3673,about as cutting-edge as pet rock : the movie .,0
3767,deserving of its critical backlash and more .,0
5504,"if this is satire , it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook .",0
2316,"if i have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story ( like , say , treasure planet ) or so-so animation and an exciting , clever story with a batch of appealing characters , i'll take the latter every time .",1
2822,"for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applauded .",1
6284,". . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts .",0
4184,we get the comedy we settle for .,0
1042,"an unusually dry-eyed , even analytical approach to material that is generally played for maximum moisture .",1
2888,"what lifts the film high above run-of-the-filth gangster flicks is its refusal to recognise any of the signposts , as if discovering a way through to the bitter end without a map .",1
704,windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop .,1
1947,"the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed .",1
6945,i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness .,0
3688,the film is hampered by its predictable plot and paper-thin supporting characters .,0
1255,a refreshing change from the usual whoopee-cushion effort aimed at the youth market .,1
495,"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 .",1
5329,"tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : young is cool , and too young is too cool .",0
6955,'cq may one day be fondly remembered as roman coppola's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about,0
514,for all its serious sense of purpose . . . [it] finds a way to lay bare the tragedies of its setting with a good deal of warmth and humor .,1
3431,"as weber and weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve , the cockettes weren't as much about gender , sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel , connect and create .",1
5961,"eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation .",0
5327,"all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness .",0
3062,"a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth .",1
289,"the film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill , though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen .",1
2226,"perhaps not since nelson eddy crooned his indian love call to jeanette macdonald has there been a movie so unabashedly canadian , not afraid to risk american scorn or disinterest .",1
6007,a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer .,0
5914,. . . pays tribute to heroes the way julia roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism .,0
1827,"assured , vital and well wrought , the film is , arguably , the most accomplished work to date from hong kong's versatile stanley kwan .",1
837,cletis is playful but highly studied and dependent for its success on a patient viewer .,1
3040,"shot in rich , shadowy black-and-white , devils chronicles , with increasingly amused irony , the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives .",1
2179,"it's an example of sophisticated , challenging filmmaking that stands , despite its noticeable lack of emotional heft , in welcome contrast to the indulgent dead-end experimentation of the director's previous full frontal .",1
3545,". . . a sour little movie at its core ; an exploration of the emptiness that underlay the relentless gaiety of the 1920's . . . the film's ending has a "" what was it all for ? "" feeling to it , but like the 1920's , the trip there is a great deal of fun .",1
5800,"a boring masquerade ball where normally good actors , even kingsley , are made to look bad .",0
1232,"both flawed and delayed , martin scorcese's gangs of new york still emerges as his most vital work since goodfellas .",1
6129,"too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel .",0
1260,"a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country .",1
1633,"o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing .",1
1785,"if the first men in black was money , the second is small change . but it still jingles in the pocket . it's fun lite .",1
6427,"this picture is murder by numbers , and as easy to be bored by as your abc's , despite a few whopping shootouts .",0
4103,"like most sequels , it takes what worked last time , repeats it and adds more characters , more stunts , more stuff in attempt to camouflage its sameness .",0
1355,"you don't need to be a hip-hop fan to appreciate scratch , and that's the mark of a documentary that works .",1
3869,chalk it up as the worst kind of hubristic folly .,0
2018,a sober and affecting chronicle of the leveling effect of loss .,1
5646,"if you are into splatter movies , then you will probably have a reasonably good time with the salton sea .",0
805,tsai ming-liang has taken his trademark style and refined it to a crystalline point .,1
2893,"return to never land may be another shameless attempt by disney to rake in dough from baby boomer families , but it's not half-bad .",1
1998,flawed but worthy look at life in u . s . relocation camps .,1
2794,"daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain .",1
3617,"there's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right .",0
3294,"nicolas philibert observes life inside a one-room schoolhouse in northern france in his documentary to be and to have , easily one of the best films of the year .",1
3568,plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial .,0
223,it is great summer fun to watch arnold and his buddy gerald bounce off a quirky cast of characters .,1
6780,a bore that tends to hammer home every one of its points .,0
6160,"no amount of burning , blasting , stabbing , and shooting can hide a weak script .",0
5486,schindler's list it ain't .,0
1955,generates an enormous feeling of empathy for its characters .,1
2288,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 .,1
5701,"mr . wedge and mr . saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well . their film falters , however , in its adherence to the disney philosophy of required poignancy , a salute that i'd hoped the movie would avoid .",0
1444,"renner's performance as dahmer is unforgettable , deeply absorbing .",1
6673,the central story lacks punch .,0
3024,"originality ain't on the menu , but there's never a dull moment in the giant spider invasion comic chiller .",1
2547,gambling and throwing a basketball game for money isn't a new plot -- in fact toback himself used it in black and white . but toback's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again .,1
6465,the world needs more filmmakers with passionate enthusiasms like martin scorsese . but it doesn't need gangs of new york .,0
389,"there are flaws , but also stretches of impact and moments of awe ; we're wrapped up in the characters , how they make their choices , and why .",1
6164,a cheerful enough but imminently forgettable rip-off of [besson's] earlier work .,0
368,"throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all , nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another .",1
2927,count on his movie to work at the back of your neck long after you leave the theater .,1
3099,the film is bright and flashy in all the right ways .,1
6493,"to the vast majority of more casual filmgoers , it will probably be a talky bore .",0
122,jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy .,1
6539,"a very slow , uneventful ride around a pretty tattered old carousel .",0
2798,"a delightful little film that revels in its own simplicity , mostly martha will leave you with a smile on your face and a grumble in your stomach .",1
4801,[denis'] bare-bones narrative more closely resembles an outline for a '70s exploitation picture than the finished product .,0
4788,i'd be hard pressed to think of a film more cloyingly sappy than evelyn this year .,0
2517,"this documentary is a dazzling , remarkably unpretentious reminder of what [evans] had , lost , and got back .",1
2669,delivers more than its fair share of saucy hilarity .,1
3326,the humor and humanity of monsoon wedding are in perfect balance .,1
6198,"once [kim] begins to overplay the shock tactics and bait-and-tackle metaphors , you may decide it's too high a price to pay for a shimmering picture postcard .",0
2351,"it's the cute frissons of discovery and humor between chaplin and kidman that keep this nicely wound clock not just ticking , but humming .",1
5005,"combining quick-cut editing and a blaring heavy metal much of the time , beck seems to be under the illusion that he's shooting the latest system of a down video .",0
2502,"rarely do films come along that are as intelligent , exuberant , and moving as monsoon wedding .",1
1179,leguizamo and jones are both excellent and the rest of the cast is uniformly superb .,1
1649,"there's really only one good idea in this movie , but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache .",1
3372,skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise .,1
2290,the film is full of charm .,1
5741,[a] crushing disappointment .,0
3633,"never again , while nothing special , is pleasant , diverting and modest -- definitely a step in the right direction .",0
1253,"more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent .",1
3672,"the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count .",0
5213,"it's not nearly as fresh or enjoyable as its predecessor , but there are enough high points to keep this from being a complete waste of time .",0
3151,diane lane works nothing short of a minor miracle in unfaithful .,1
1622,likely to expertly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer .,1
3096,"while it has definite weaknesses -- like a rather unbelievable love interest and a meandering ending -- this '60s caper film is a riveting , brisk delight .",1
5253,bean drops the ball too many times . . . hoping the nifty premise will create enough interest to make up for an unfocused screenplay .,0
1073,noyce has worked wonders with the material .,1
3168,nicholson's understated performance is wonderful . as warren he stumbles in search of all the emotions and life experiences he's neglected over the years .,1
5383,"visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it .",0
1324,topics that could make a sailor blush - but lots of laughs .,1
3110,"the very definition of the 'small' movie , but it is a good stepping stone for director sprecher .",1
3800,the film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises .,0
1640,""" mostly martha "" is a bright , light modern day family parable that wears its heart on its sleeve for all to see .",1
5845,"ultimately , sarah's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness .",0
5904,"for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inside of them .",0
1286,an off-beat and fanciful film about the human need for monsters to blame for all that is amiss in the world .,1
846,. . . a guiltless film for nice evening out .,1
440,"recoing's fantastic performance doesn't exactly reveal what makes vincent tick , but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat .",1
6920,"davis the performer is plenty fetching enough , but she needs to shake up the mix , and work in something that doesn't feel like a half-baked stand-up routine .",0
3626,"[davis] has a bright , chipper style that keeps things moving , while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race .",0
3181,"the farcical elements seemed too pat and familiar to hold my interest , yet its diverting grim message is a good one .",1
3640,"as it stands , there's some fine sex onscreen , and some tense arguing , but not a whole lot more .",0
4777,the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad .,0
2040,"weird , vulgar comedy that's definitely an acquired taste .",1
4910,"literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes .",0
3158,raimi crafted a complicated hero who is a welcome relief from the usual two-dimensional offerings .,1
4363,i firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon . i also believe that resident evil is not it .,0
146,"mr . polanski is in his element here : alone , abandoned , but still consoled by his art , which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival .",1
5105,the film doesn't show enough of the creative process or even of what was created for the non-fan to figure out what makes wilco a big deal .,0
5166,"it's like a drive-by . you can drive right by it without noticing anything special , save for a few comic turns , intended and otherwise .",0
4015,the filmmakers keep pushing the jokes at the expense of character until things fall apart .,0
5255,a film with a great premise but only a great premise .,0
3793,not so much farcical as sour .,0
2081,"working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades .",1
4577,bad and baffling from the get-go .,0
6233,"it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject .",0
2713,"like the best 60 minutes exposé , the film ( at 80 minutes ) is actually quite entertaining .",1
693,"this breezy caper movie becomes a soulful , incisive meditation on the way we were , and the way we are .",1
4146,"yo , it's the days of our lives meets electric boogaloo .",0
3955,"aspires to the cracked lunacy of the adventures of buckaroo banzai , but thanks to an astonishingly witless script ends up more like the adventures of ford fairlane .",0
3262,what begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters .,1
2755,"exciting and direct , with ghost imagery that shows just enough to keep us on our toes .",1
6583,"bartlett's hero remains a reactive cipher , when opening the man's head and heart is the only imaginable reason for the film to be made .",0
4785,"piccoli's performance is amazing , yes , but the symbols of loss and denial and life-at-arm's-length in the film seem irritatingly transparent .",0
4165,"an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting .",0
1080,exciting and well-paced .,1
5608,a fifty car pileup of cliches .,0
6231,"a good-natured ensemble comedy that tries hard to make the most of a bumper cast , but never quite gets off the ground .",0
6900,"it will probably prove interesting to ram dass fans , but to others it may feel like a parody of the mellow , peace-and-love side of the '60s counterculture .",0
2356,"the entire cast is first-rate , especially sorvino .",1
3400,"it is a kickass , dense sci-fi action thriller hybrid that delivers and then some . i haven't seen one in so long , no wonder i didn't recognize it at first .",1
4141,"the parts are better than the whole ( bizarre , funny , tragic - like love in new york ) .",0
2487,"it has a caffeinated , sloppy brilliance , sparkling with ideas you wish had been developed with more care , but animated by an energy that puts the dutiful efforts of more disciplined grade-grubbers to shame .",1
2601,"the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative .",1
3268,"death to smoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision .",1
2383,"like most bond outings in recent years , some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike . a heavy reliance on cgi technology is beginning to creep into the series .",1
4102,the narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking mystery science theater 3000 guys .,0
3728,more precious than perspicacious,0
6595,"bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that .",0
2157,it must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring wesley snipes .,1
2896,"the long-range appeal of "" minority report "" should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages .",1
6360,"the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work .",0
1659,"foster and whitaker are especially fine . she is a lioness , protecting her cub , and he a reluctant villain , incapable of controlling his crew .",1
1537,"there's enough science to make it count as educational , and enough beauty to make it unforgettable .",1
5355,this isn't a movie ; it's a symptom .,0
6555,"jacobi , the most fluent of actors , is given relatively dry material from nijinsky's writings to perform , and the visuals , even erotically frank ones , become dullingly repetitive .",0
6262,"this 72-minute film does have some exciting scenes , but it's a tad slow .",0
2609,"a picture that extols the virtues of comradeship and community in a spunky , spirited fashion .",1
3992,"madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose .",0
109,"if you're looking for an intelligent movie in which you can release your pent up anger , enough is just the ticket you need .",1
5007,there's not much going on in this movie unless you simply decide to buy into the notion that something inexplicably strange once happened in point pleasant .,0
1065,audiard successfully maintains suspense on different levels throughout a film that is both gripping and compelling .,1
3700,"what remains is a variant of the nincompoop benigni persona , here a more annoying , though less angry version of the irresponsible sandlerian manchild , undercut by the voice of the star of road trip .",0
3730,"director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel .",0
5143,excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic .,0
5146,represents something very close to the nadir of the thriller/horror genre .,0
2343,a true pleasure .,1
3613,the movie bounces all over the map .,0
4198,"adults , other than the parents . . . will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild .",0
6467,"harrison's flowers puts its heart in the right place , but its brains are in no particular place at all .",0
2923,"unexpected , and often contradictory , truths emerge .",1
4938,"this is surely one of the most frantic , virulent and foul-natured christmas season pics ever delivered by a hollywood studio .",0
1806,there is simply no doubt that this film asks the right questions at the right time in the history of our country .,1
1102,a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet .,1
33,"funny , sexy , devastating and incurably romantic .",1
4233,"this movie , a certain scene in particular , brought me uncomfortably close to losing my lunch .",0
6910,"minority report is exactly what the title indicates , a report .",0
686,a sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears .,1
3512,"writer-director david jacobson and his star , jeremy renner , have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted .",1
1316,"sensitive , insightful and beautifully rendered film . one of the best of the year .",1
3130,"the production has been made with an enormous amount of affection , so we believe these characters love each other .",1
45,a film of precious increments artfully camouflaged as everyday activities .,1
6637,this movie . . . doesn't deserve the energy it takes to describe how bad it is .,0
7057,"elaborate special effects take centre screen , so that the human story is pushed to one side .",0
2267,"a pretty decent kid-pleasing , tolerable-to-adults lark of a movie .",1
869,"ambitious , unsettling psychodrama that takes full , chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges , low-budget constraints .",1
2875,jason patric and ray liotta make for one splendidly cast pair .,1
814,"from its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale , martin is a masterfully conducted work .",1
4894,"the santa clause 2 is a barely adequate babysitter for older kids , but i've got to give it thumbs down .",0
6297,"ms . phoenix is completely lacking in charm and charisma , and is unable to project either esther's initial anomie or her eventual awakening .",0
953,"what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .",1
3482,"y tu mamá también es un buen filme gracias a lo poco convencional de su narrativa , y es quizá el proyecto más arriesgado en la carrera de alfonso cuarón",1
1724,once you get into its rhythm . . . the movie becomes a heady experience .,1
6796,"there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ?",0
4739,"a formula family tearjerker told with a heavy irish brogue . . . accentuating , rather than muting , the plot's saccharine thrust .",0
5794,"with rare birds , as with the shipping news before it , an attempt is made to transplant a hollywood star into newfoundland's wild soil -- and the rock once again resists the intrusion .",0
3747,there's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy .,0
224,"leigh is one of the rare directors who feels acting is the heart and soul of cinema . he allows his cast members to make creative contributions to the story and dialogue . this method almost never fails him , and it works superbly here .",1
1933,"while this has the making of melodrama , the filmmaker cuts against this natural grain , producing a work that's more interested in asking questions than in answering them .",1
4689,"the best you can say about it is it's so uninspired , it barely gives one pause when considering some of the other dreck out there right now .",0
3167,this version incarnates the prophetic book in a way even its exacting author might admire .,1
1567,"a minor work yet there's no denying the potency of miller's strange , fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure .",1
3563,"even on its own ludicrous terms , the sum of all fears generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series .",0
4406,"we are left with a superficial snapshot that , however engaging , is insufficiently enlightening and inviting .",0
873,a seriocomic debut of extravagant promise by georgian-israeli director dover kosashvili .,1
2418,a lot more dimensional and complex than its sunny disposition would lead you to believe .,1
6688,"ah , the travails of metropolitan life ! alas , another breathless movie about same !",0
2207,often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . ',1
3861,"flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up .",0
5462,fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds .,0
3666,the innocence of holiday cheer ain't what it used to be .,0
2740,well-done supernatural thriller with keen insights into parapsychological phenomena and the soulful nuances of the grieving process .,1
6645,"gooding and coburn are both oscar winners , a fact which , as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through snow dogs , seems inconceivable .",0
6782,"[jackson and bledel] seem to have been picked not for their acting chops , but for their looks and appeal to the pre-teen crowd .",0
3359,"this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny .",1
6117,"now i can see why people thought i was too hard on "" the mothman prophecies "" .",0
5037,"holds limited appeal to those who like explosions , sadism and seeing people beat each other to a pulp .",0
4945,"a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments .",0
1354,"like rudy yellow lodge , eyre needs to take a good sweat to clarify his cinematic vision before his next creation and remember the lessons of the trickster spider .",1
2592,"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 .",1
7079,"how do you make a movie with depth about a man who lacked any ? on the evidence before us , the answer is clear : not easily and , in the end , not well enough .",0
189,a very capable nailbiter .,1
703,. . . a good film that must have baffled the folks in the marketing department .,1
689,stage director sam mendes showcases tom hanks as a depression era hit-man in this dark tale of revenge .,1
3699,"contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster .",0
5906,how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .,0
1404,"earnest , unsubtle and hollywood-predictable , green dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of vietnamese .",1
5630,what's really sad is to see two academy award winning actresses ( and one academy award winning actor ) succumb to appearing in this junk that's tv sitcom material at best .,0
3247,"while parker and co-writer catherine di napoli are faithful to melville's plotline , they and a fully engaged supporting cast . . . have made the old boy's characters more quick-witted than any english lit major would have thought possible .",1
4877,a dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any hollywood fluff .,0
5389,"an unholy mess , driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape , it must be labelled 'hip' , 'innovative' and 'realistic' .",0
2448,the universal theme of becoming a better person through love has never been filmed more irresistibly than in 'baran . ',1
1007,"special p . o . v . camera mounts on bikes , skateboards , and motorcycles provide an intense experience when splashed across the immense imax screen .",1
471,"the bourne identity shouldn't be half as entertaining as it is , but director doug liman and his colleagues have managed to pack it with enough action to satisfy the boom-bam crowd without a huge sacrifice of character and mood .",1
2092,a well-put-together piece of urban satire .,1
4341,the pretensions -- and disposable story -- sink the movie . and diesel isn't the actor to save it .,0
5849,director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking .,0
4741,"even if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity didn't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness , it would be rendered tedious by avary's failure to construct a story with even a trace of dramatic interest .",0
2751,"the determination of pinochet's victims to seek justice , and their often heartbreaking testimony , spoken directly into director patricio guzman's camera , pack a powerful emotional wallop .",1
707,"on the surface , it's a lovers-on-the-run crime flick , but it has a lot in common with piesiewicz's and kieslowski's earlier work , films like the double life of veronique .",1
6321,"despite bearing the paramount imprint , it's a bargain-basement european pickup . what's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up . wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there",0
4693,"velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified , sold-out concept on the american filmmaking scene .",0
6575,makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases .,0
2440,"less cinematically powerful than quietly and deeply moving , which is powerful in itself .",1
296,"the story . . . is inspiring , ironic , and revelatory of just how ridiculous and money-oriented the record industry really is . it is also a testament to the integrity and vision of the band .",1
1784,the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups .,1
5920,"most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most .",0
1116,"while its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite , the film's final scene is soaringly , transparently moving .",1
6892,"while the film shuns the glamour or glitz that an american movie might demand , scherfig tosses us a romantic scenario that is just as simplistic as a hollywood production .",0
1090,"the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment .",1
6604,"philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach .",0
1571,"a thoughtful movie , a movie that is concerned with souls and risk and schemes and the consequences of one's actions .",1
4647,k-19 exploits our substantial collective fear of nuclear holocaust to generate cheap hollywood tension .,0
382,an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection .,1
3155,"the screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "" dungeons and dragons "" fantasy with modern military weaponry . . .",1
5033,its initial excitement settles into a warmed over pastiche .,0
264,"while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation .",1
6073,"feels less like it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers .",0
662,"it's the perfect star vehicle for grant , allowing him to finally move away from his usual bumbling , tongue-tied screen persona .",1
3954,distinctly sub-par . . . more likely to drown a viewer in boredom than to send any shivers down his spine .,0
5745,"in the end , the movie bogs down in insignificance , saying nothing about kennedy's assassination and revealing nothing about the pathology it pretends to investigate .",0
5736,"the whole affair , true story or not , feels incredibly hokey . . . [it] comes off like a hallmark commercial .",0
4049,"the dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny , and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving .",0
2439,"sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game .",1
5725,scorsese doesn't give us a character worth giving a damn about .,0
5683,"ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke .",0
6616,"an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living .",0
1688,"i admire the closing scenes of the film , which seem to ask whether our civilization offers a cure for vincent's complaint .",1
6629,"build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own mystery science theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to go down as the worst -- and only -- killer website movie of this or any other year .",0
2170,polished korean political-action film is just as good -- and bad -- as hollywood action epics . is this progress ?,1
4512,the piano teacher is the sort of movie that discourages american audiences from ever wanting to see another foreign film .,0
5063,"a misogynistic piece of filth that attempts to pass itself off as hip , young adult entertainment .",0
6260,"it's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since i last walked out on a movie , but resident evil really earned my indignant , preemptive departure .",0
4084,"pc stability notwithstanding , the film suffers from a simplistic narrative and a pat , fairy-tale conclusion .",0
2363,rare is the 'urban comedy' that even attempts the insight and honesty of this disarming indie .,1
5980,not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through .,0
5417,my response to the film is best described as lukewarm . maybe i found the proceedings a little bit too conventional .,0
2635,it's one heck of a character study -- not of hearst or davies but of the unique relationship between them .,1
5580,there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .,0
3261,"finely crafted , finely written , exquisitely performed",1
1420,"a warm but realistic meditation on friendship , family and affection .",1
1617,"cho's fearless in picking apart human foibles , not afraid to lay her life bare in front of an audience . her delivery and timing are flawless .",1
3072,"a movie that will surely be profane , politically charged music to the ears of cho's fans .",1
3764,"'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide .",0
640,"moonlight mile gives itself the freedom to feel contradictory things . it is sentimental but feels free to offend , is analytical and then surrenders to the illogic of its characters , is about grief and yet permits laughter .",1
4132,at once overly old-fashioned in its sudsy plotting and heavy-handed in its effort to modernize it with encomia to diversity and tolerance .,0
426,"spielberg's picture is smarter and subtler than [total recall and blade runner] , although its plot may prove too convoluted for fun-seeking summer audiences .",1
3980,the journey toward redemption feels more like a cinematic experiment than a full-blown movie .,0
1777,"writer/director walter hill is in his hypermasculine element here , once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that , in many other hands would be completely forgettable .",1
6639,vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them .,0
24,"a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers .",1
3529,any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a look .,1
6853,"to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough .",0
861,the way coppola professes his love for movies -- both colorful pop junk and the classics that unequivocally qualify as art -- is giddily entertaining .,1
4234,"a banal , virulently unpleasant excuse for a romantic comedy .",0
6026,"has nothing good to speak about other than the fact that it is relatively short , tries its best to hide the fact that seagal's overweight and out of shape .",0
4386,john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider .,0
2072,"berry's saucy , full-bodied performance gives this aging series a much needed kick , making "" die another day "" one of the most entertaining bonds in years",1
4955,the script ? please .,0
2049,"overall , it's a very entertaining , thought-provoking film with a simple message : god is love .",1
3339,". . . spiced with humor ( 'i speak fluent flatula , ' advises denlopp after a rather , er , bubbly exchange with an alien deckhand ) and witty updatings ( silver's parrot has been replaced with morph , a cute alien creature who mimics everyone and everything around )",1
6240,"the animation is competent , and some of the gags are quite funny , but jonah . . . never shakes the oppressive , morally superior good-for-you quality that almost automatically accompanies didactic entertainment .",0
6050,epps has neither the charisma nor the natural affability that has made tucker a star .,0
4957,"seagal , who looks more like danny aiello these days , mumbles his way through the movie .",0
3729,the sweetest thing leaves an awful sour taste .,0
3439,the plot twists give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed .,1
2979,a good thriller .,1
5750,"there may have been a good film in "" trouble every day , "" but it is not what is on the screen .",0
4440,"spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen , not screaming but yawning .",0
4337,it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller .,0
1421,"the best movie of its kind since 'brazil . ' lucas , take notes . this is how you use special effects .",1
3172,one of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . .,1
4255,"morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he's taken one of the world's most fascinating stories and made it dull , lifeless , and irritating .",0
3768,"when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails .",0
6634,el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors .,0
1888,"director benoit jacquot , making his first opera-to-film translation with tosca , conveys the heaving passion of puccini's famous love-jealousy- murder-suicide fandango with great cinematic innovation .",1
6827,"given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much .",0
6862,. . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects .,0
3821,the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy .,0
6930,"adroit but finally a trifle flat , mad love doesn't galvanize its outrage the way , say , jane campion might have done , but at least it possesses some .",0
2777,campanella gets the tone just right -- funny in the middle of sad in the middle of hopeful .,1
4230,"there is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility , not an event that is believable , not a confrontation that is not staged , not a moment that is not false .",0
3511,"though frodo's quest remains unfulfilled , a hardy group of determined new zealanders has proved its creative mettle .",1
6482,earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner .,0
1749,fun and nimble .,1
27,it's a very valuable film . . .,1
6141,"so much facile technique , such cute ideas , so little movie .",0
2813,". . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know .",1
880,". . . the tale of her passionate , tumultuous affair with musset unfolds as sand's masculine persona , with its love of life and beauty , takes form .",1
4291,. . . stumbles over every cheap trick in the book trying to make the outrage come even easier .,0
7037,an impenetrable and insufferable ball of pseudo-philosophic twaddle .,0
2030,"although the level of the comedy declines as the movie proceeds , there's no denying the fun of watching de niro and crystal having fun .",1
5278,the film's implicit premise is that the faith of the tonga people is in every way inferior to that of john .,0
3624,mushes the college-friends genre ( the big chill ) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas .,0
2250,"so many documentaries like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartiality .",1
5354,"nicks , seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh , runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy .",0
5595,"there is no insight into the anguish of heidi's life -- only a depiction of pain , today's version of greek tragedy , the talk-show guest decrying her fate .",0
6501,"a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole .",0
398,"gay or straight , kissing jessica stein is one of the greatest date movies in years .",1
3975,the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts .,0
5527,"rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre , who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects .",0
232,my wife is an actress works as well as it does because [the leads] are such a companionable couple .,1
5252,"the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat .",0
4865,bad company . bad movie . just plain bad .,0
1711,"pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormer , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical .",1
6075,just isn't as weird as it ought to be .,0
2449,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 .,1
2076,brave and sweetly rendered love story .,1
204,"a slick , skillful little horror film .",1
1556,"the characters are complex and quirky , but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life .",1
5876,"this film , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does .",0
6711,don't even bother to rent this on video .,0
5550,"the problem with the mayhem in formula 51 is not that it's offensive , but that it's boring .",0
5682,the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments .,0