diff --git "a/train.csv" "b/train.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/train.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,6398 @@ +,text,label +5830,hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole' miss in the way of story .,0 +1208,"witty dialog between realistic characters showing honest emotions . it's touching and tender and proves that even in sorrow you can find humor . like blended shades of lipstick , these components combine into one terrific story with lots of laughs .",1 +5202,"analyze that regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes , with a few new swings thrown in .",0 +2235,a decent-enough nail-biter that stands a good chance of being the big hit franklin needs to stay afloat in hollywood .,1 +4180,"the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention .",0 +6821,"what's next : "" my mother the car ? """,0 +3845,romanek keeps adding flourishes -- artsy fantasy sequences -- that simply feel wrong . they cheapen the overall effect .,0 +6263,its one-sidedness . . . flirts with propaganda .,0 +991,it's definitely a step in the right direction .,1 +2289,"smart and fun , but far more witty than it is wise .",1 +2431,it's a remarkably solid and subtly satirical tour de force .,1 +5441,"like a fish that's lived too long , austin powers in goldmember has some unnecessary parts and is kinda wrong in places .",0 +6174,culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character .,0 +2931,able to provide insight into a fascinating part of theater history .,1 +2185,the movie's thesis -- elegant technology for the masses -- is surprisingly refreshing .,1 +6768,"sluggishly directed by episodic tv veteran joe zwick , it's a sitcom without the snap-crackle .",0 +5215,"it's a gag that's worn a bit thin over the years , though don't ask still finds a few chuckles .",0 +6933,"interview with the assassin is structured less as a documentary and more as a found relic , and as such the film has a difficult time shaking its blair witch project real-time roots .",0 +6180,feels less like a change in [herzog's] personal policy than a half-hearted fluke .,0 +597,"no , it's not as single-minded as john carpenter's original , but it's sure a lot smarter and more unnerving than the sequels .",1 +4398,"while it may not add up to the sum of its parts , holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded , and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often .",0 +279,"martin and barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender , sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by sven wollter and viveka seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid .",1 +3416,"murder by numbers' isn't a great movie , but it's a perfectly acceptable widget .",1 +3310,a cruelly funny twist on teen comedy packed with inventive cinematic tricks and an ironically killer soundtrack,1 +441,k 19 stays afloat as decent drama/action flick,1 +3720,a bad movie that happened to good actors .,0 +4319,so bland and utterly forgettable that it might as well have been titled generic jennifer lopez romantic comedy .,0 +7012,we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left us cold .,0 +0,"'moore is like a progressive bull in a china shop , a provocateur crashing into ideas and special-interest groups as he slaps together his own brand of liberalism . '",1 +2342,"warm water under a red bridge is a quirky and poignant japanese film that explores the fascinating connections between women , water , nature , and sexuality .",1 +284,"woody allen's latest is an ambling , broad comedy about all there is to love -- and hate -- about the movie biz .",1 +2211,craig bartlett and director tuck tucker should be commended for illustrating the merits of fighting hard for something that really matters .,1 +6506,"it's harmless , diverting fluff . but it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre .",0 +3137,"unpretentious , charming , quirky , original",1 +5812,"the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second .",0 +5125,this is a movie where the most notable observation is how long you've been sitting still .,0 +1303,"the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn .",1 +2392,"as it turns out , you can go home again .",1 +4338,"although based on a real-life person , john , in the movie , is a rather dull person to be stuck with for two hours .",0 +213,"audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant .",1 +613,the kind of primal storytelling that george lucas can only dream of .,1 +938,it gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good .,1 +2593,the most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of sergio leone's flawed but staggering once upon a time in america .,1 +4109,most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes .,0 +816,"with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone",1 +5053,sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower .,0 +1986,"impresses as a skillfully assembled , highly polished and professional adaptation . . . just about as chilling and unsettling as 'manhunter' was .",1 +6938,movies like high crimes flog the dead horse of surprise as if it were an obligation . how about surprising us by trying something new ?,0 +5372,"after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go .",0 +2666,the dirty jokes provide the funniest moments in this oddly sweet comedy about jokester highway patrolmen .,1 +3744,"it's tough being a black man in america , especially when the man has taken away your car , your work-hours and denied you health insurance .",0 +5438,"a dreary , incoherent , self-indulgent mess of a movie in which a bunch of pompous windbags drone on inanely for two hours . . . a cacophony of pretentious , meaningless prattle .",0 +4861,"blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling .",0 +2002,"going to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through .",1 +1256,"it's often infuriatingly glib and posturing , and yet it has been made with great evident care and manages to deliver up the man in a way to arouse further curiosity in even the most unknowing viewer .",1 +3324,playfully profound . . . and crazier than michael jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows .,1 +4996,"it is a comedy that's not very funny and an action movie that is not very thrilling ( and an uneasy alliance , at that ) .",0 +6162,"we started to wonder if … some unpaid intern had just typed 'chris rock , ' 'anthony hopkins' and 'terrorists' into some univac-like script machine .",0 +2853,"it might be tempting to regard mr . andrew and his collaborators as oddballs , but mr . earnhart's quizzical , charming movie allows us to see them , finally , as artists .",1 +1006,"with youthful high spirits , tautou remains captivating throughout michele's religious and romantic quests , and she is backed by a likable cast .",1 +7026,leaves viewers out in the cold and undermines some phenomenal performances .,0 +5536,dignified ceo's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ?,0 +6935,"being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film .",0 +1858,the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut .,1 +5235,one of the more glaring signs of this movie's servitude to its superstar is the way it skirts around any scenes that might have required genuine acting from ms . spears .,0 +458,"an uncluttered , resonant gem that relays its universal points without lectures or confrontations .",1 +6326,"for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout .",0 +2900,"rarely , indeed almost never , is such high-wattage brainpower coupled with pitch-perfect acting and an exquisite , unfakable sense of cinema .",1 +3581,"the star who helped give a spark to "" chasing amy "" and "" changing lanes "" falls flat as thinking man cia agent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , "" the sum of all fears . """,0 +6776,"the charms of willful eccentricity , at least as evidenced by this latest cinematic essay , are beginning to wear a bit thin .",0 +5930,you cannot guess why the cast and crew didn't sign a pact to burn the negative and the script and pretend the whole thing never existed .,0 +2619,there's plenty to impress about e . t .,1 +3760,guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest .,0 +2916,bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness .,1 +1511,"though a touch too arthouse 101 in its poetic symbolism , heaven proves to be a good match of the sensibilities of two directors .",1 +616,very well-written and very well-acted .,1 +6609,low comedy doesn't come much lower .,0 +2734,"majidi is an unconventional storyteller , capable of finding beauty in the most depressing places .",1 +3441,happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music .,1 +4625,the real question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? ',0 +4943,how do you spell cliché ?,0 +4649,"90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping .",0 +2045,"the trick when watching godard is to catch the pitch of his poetics , savor the pleasure of his sounds and images , and ponder the historical , philosophical , and ethical issues that intersect with them .",1 +2895,michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes .,1 +1240,a lovely film for the holiday season .,1 +5866,"while it's nice to watch a movie that hasn't been focus-grouped into tedium , yu's cinematic alchemy produces nearly as much lead as gold .",0 +1419,"it's up to [watts] to lend credibility to this strange scenario , and her presence succeeds in making us believe .",1 +3723,works better in the conception than it does in the execution . . . winds up seeming just a little too clever .,0 +5464,"the vampire thriller blade ii starts off as a wild hoot and then sucks the blood out of its fun – toward the end , you can feel your veins cringing from the workout .",0 +6044,"overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring .",0 +1638,"starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a look .",1 +6304,the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe .,0 +23,"at about 95 minutes , treasure planet maintains a brisk pace as it races through the familiar story . however , it lacks grandeur and that epic quality often associated with stevenson's tale as well as with earlier disney efforts .",1 +5283,"the characterizations and dialogue lack depth or complexity , with the ironic exception of scooter .",0 +2506,"henry bean's thoughtful screenplay provides no easy answers , but offers a compelling investigation of faith versus intellect",1 +5012,"though its rather routine script is loaded with familiar situations , the movie has a cinematic fluidity and sense of intelligence that makes it work more than it probably should .",0 +3196,there is greatness here .,1 +7073,"two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all .",0 +1679,"coppola's directorial debut is an incredibly layered and stylistic film that , despite a fairly slow paced , almost humdrum approach to character development , still manages at least a decent attempt at meaningful cinema .",1 +473,there's no clear picture of who killed bob crane . but here's a glimpse at his life .,1 +4515,"like shave ice without the topping , this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless .",0 +4344,"director yu seems far more interested in gross-out humor than in showing us well-thought stunts or a car chase that we haven't seen 10 , 000 times .",0 +1872,spare yet audacious . . .,1 +2244,[a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama .,1 +5631,"it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say .",0 +1645,thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer .,1 +2843,genuinely unnerving .,1 +6114,". . . will always be remembered for the 9-11 terrorist attacks . after seeing the film , i can tell you that there's no other reason why anyone should bother remembering it .",0 +4482,"the film , like jimmy's routines , could use a few good laughs .",0 +5311,"the cast has a high time , but de broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp .",0 +2136,"it's rare to find a film to which the adjective 'gentle' applies , but the word perfectly describes pauline & paulette .",1 +5684,the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off .,0 +5482,"sorority boys , which is as bad at it is cruel , takes every potential laugh and stiletto-stomps the life out of it .",0 +1200,a movie that reminds us of just how exciting and satisfying the fantasy cinema can be when it's approached with imagination and flair .,1 +7031,"debut effort by "" project greenlight "" winner is sappy and amateurish .",0 +2638,has a solid emotional impact .,1 +457,"though in some ways similar to catherine breillat's fat girl , rain is the far superior film .",1 +4190,more intellectually scary than dramatically involving .,0 +2791,"no worse a film than breaking out , and breaking out was utterly charming .",1 +6108,"[screenwriter] pimental took the farrelly brothers comedy and feminized it , but it is a rather poor imitation .",0 +3810,""" freaky friday , "" it's not .",0 +3817,"being unique doesn't necessarily equate to being good , no matter how admirably the filmmakers have gone for broke .",0 +3877,enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs .,0 +2318,"it is ok for a movie to be something of a sitcom apparatus , if the lines work , the humor has point and the actors are humanly engaged .",1 +2447,oddly compelling .,1 +550,"critics need a good laugh , too , and this too-extreme-for-tv rendition of the notorious mtv show delivers the outrageous , sickening , sidesplitting goods in steaming , visceral heaps .",1 +6382,"contains a few big laughs but many more that graze the funny bone or miss it altogether , in part because the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin .",0 +3651,"viewers are asked so often to suspend belief that were it not for holm's performance , the film would be a total washout .",0 +1479,an almost unbearably morbid love story .,1 +3531,"thirteen conversations about one thing lays out a narrative puzzle that interweaves individual stories , and , like a mobius strip , elliptically loops back to where it began .",1 +2454,worth a salute just for trying to be more complex than your average film .,1 +5061,"slow , silly and unintentionally hilarious .",0 +2083,this is a very fine movie -- go see it .,1 +5789,largely a for-fans artifact .,0 +4634,"haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an inconclusive ending .",0 +970,"it's truly awful and heartbreaking subject matter , but one whose lessons are well worth revisiting as many times as possible .",1 +6787,"not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies .",0 +1995,"rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go .",1 +5141,"[evans is] a fascinating character , and deserves a better vehicle than this facetious smirk of a movie .",0 +5429,imagine a really bad community theater production of west side story without the songs .,0 +860,"saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory .",1 +3114,"in between all the emotional seesawing , it's hard to figure the depth of these two literary figures , and even the times in which they lived . but they fascinate in their recklessness .",1 +6292,"rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation .",0 +2863,i am more offended by his lack of faith in his audience than by anything on display here .,1 +4176,"the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow .",0 +1626,the movie exists for its soccer action and its fine acting .,1 +3000,"viewed on its own terms , treasure planet is better-than-average family entertainment , but true fans of the stevenson's novel will likely prefer disney's more faithful 1950 live-action swashbuckling classic .",1 +5519,"in an effort , i suspect , not to offend by appearing either too serious or too lighthearted , it offends by just being wishy-washy .",0 +599,"while i can't say it's on par with the first one , stuart little 2 is a light , fun cheese puff of a movie .",1 +6248,"showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "" if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them guns , the movie will be funny "" syndrome .",0 +2663,even better than the first one !,1 +5133,you may be galled that you've wasted nearly two hours of your own precious life with this silly little puddle of a movie .,0 +14,"the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins .",1 +5361,the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy .,0 +3042,a quietly moving look back at what it was to be iranian-american in 1979 .,1 +3752,"it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed .",0 +3039,"it is a testament of quiet endurance , of common concern , of reconciled survival .",1 +801,ozpetek joins the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in ways that elude the more nationally settled .,1 +1971,wise and deadpan humorous .,1 +6959,so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler .,0 +6406,"even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy .",0 +3438,"old people will love this movie , and i mean that in the nicest possible way : last orders will touch the heart of anyone old enough to have earned a 50-year friendship .",1 +5792,"while the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible anne rice novel it's based upon , queen of the damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .",0 +3600,"green might want to hang onto that ski mask , as robbery may be the only way to pay for his next project .",0 +5733,"ill-considered , unholy hokum .",0 +4556,nothing in waking up in reno ever inspired me to think of its inhabitants as anything more than markers in a screenplay .,0 +248,the entire cast is extraordinarily good .,1 +3258,girls gone wild and gone civil again,1 +4870,"watching harris ham it up while physically and emotionally disintegrating over the course of the movie has a certain poignancy in light of his recent death , but boyd's film offers little else of consequence .",0 +555,"if the film's vision of sport as a secular religion is a bit cloying , its through-line of family and community is heartening in the same way that each season marks a new start .",1 +4101,"though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb .",0 +4939,"it becomes gimmicky instead of compelling . "" interview "" loses its overall sense of mystery and becomes a tv episode rather than a documentary that you actually buy into .",0 +3052,"as averse as i usually am to feel-good , follow-your-dream hollywood fantasies , this one got to me .",1 +2562,"macdowell , whose wifty southern charm has anchored lighter affairs . . . brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role .",1 +918,"[director peter] jackson and his crew have so steeped themselves in the majesty of tolkien's writing that every frame produces new joys , whether you're a fan of the books or not .",1 +1973,it's dark but has wonderfully funny moments ; you care about the characters ; and the action and special effects are first-rate .,1 +3302,a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .,1 +6215,it offers little beyond the momentary joys of pretty and weightless intellectual entertainment .,0 +3191,kaufman and jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing .,1 +5100,"silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another .",0 +3147,the 1960s rebellion was misdirected : you can't fight your culture .,1 +2169,"fast-paced and wonderfully edited , the film is extremely thorough .",1 +5828,this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter .,0 +4930,"to work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion .",0 +6442,"'it's painful to watch witherspoon's talents wasting away inside unnecessary films like legally blonde and sweet home abomination , i mean , alabama . '",0 +6598,"the movie obviously seeks to re-create the excitement of such '50s flicks as jules verne's '20 , 000 leagues under the sea' and the george pal version of h . g . wells' 'the time machine . ' but its storytelling prowess and special effects are both listless .",0 +517,"'anyone with a passion for cinema , and indeed sex , should see it as soon as possible . '",1 +5839,supposedly authentic account of a historical event that's far too tragic to merit such superficial treatment .,0 +5237,"depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it's being .",0 +1987,"the overall result is an intelligent , realistic portrayal of testing boundaries .",1 +1705,a low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord .,1 +4986,"watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in .",0 +179,this one is strictly a lightweight escapist film .,1 +5281,"the movie's gloomy atmosphere is fascinating , though , even if the movie itself doesn't stand a ghost of a chance .",0 +5913,"by halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course , feeling guilty for it . . . . then , miracle of miracles , the movie does a flip-flop .",0 +5819,"a distinctly minor effort that will be seen to better advantage on cable , especially considering its barely feature-length running time of one hour .",0 +5290,"there's an epic here , but you have to put it together yourself .",0 +3337,neatly constructed thriller .,1 +5342,. . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman .,0 +6826,"johnson has , in his first film , set himself a task he is not nearly up to .",0 +6401,"egoyan's movie is too complicated to sustain involvement , and , if you'll excuse a little critical heresy , too intellectually ambitious .",0 +432,"a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last .",1 +390,"one of the best films i have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense .",1 +2137,"it is amusing , and that's all it needs to be .",1 +2597,"the performances are immaculate , with roussillon providing comic relief .",1 +4377,one of the most depressing movie-going experiences i can think of is to sit through about 90 minutes of a so-called 'comedy' and not laugh once .,0 +58,it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultural specificity .,1 +335,"a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships .",1 +5276,this is the first full scale wwii flick from hong kong's john woo . he's not good with people .,0 +126,jones has tackled a meaty subject and drawn engaging characters while peppering the pages with memorable zingers .,1 +3745,"though uniformly well acted , especially by young ballesta and galan ( a first-time actor ) , writer/director achero manas's film is schematic and obvious .",0 +1435,the film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality .,1 +1943,it works its magic with such exuberance and passion that the film's length becomes a part of its fun .,1 +4100,it just didn't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on ( or be entertained by ) .,0 +1682,seldom has a movie so closely matched the spirit of a man and his work .,1 +486,hands down the year's most thought-provoking film . but it pays a price for its intricate intellectual gamesmanship .,1 +4816,"apparently , romantic comedy with a fresh point of view just doesn't figure in the present hollywood program .",0 +1848,"a depressing confirmation of everything those of us who don't object to the description "" unelected "" have suspected all along : george w . bush is an incurious , uncharismatic , overgrown frat boy with a mean streak a mile wide .",1 +4370,"for the most part , i spy was an amusing lark that will probably rank as one of murphy's better performances in one of his lesser-praised movies .",0 +2882,"shot largely in small rooms , the film has a gentle , unforced intimacy that never becomes claustrophobic .",1 +4210,"there is an almost poignant dimension to the way that every major stunt seagal's character . . . performs is shot from behind , as if it could fool us into thinking that we're not watching a double .",0 +3159,"implicitly acknowledges and celebrates the glorious chicanery and self-delusion of this most american of businesses , and for that reason it may be the most oddly honest hollywood document of all .",1 +931,digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world .,1 +6545,the marquis de sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be .,0 +1661,"it's a sweet , laugh-a-minute crowd pleaser that lifts your spirits as well as the corners of your mouth .",1 +5740,"however sincere it may be , the rising place never quite justifies its own existence .",0 +5664,a incompetência de marcus adams como roteirista só é superada por sua péssima direção .,0 +2278,"a slick , well-oiled machine , exquisitely polished and upholstered .",1 +5416,"much like its easily dismissive take on the upscale lifestyle , there isn't much there here .",0 +5301,it's sweet . . . but just a little bit too precious at the start and a little too familiar at the end .,0 +4294,"as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold .",0 +1377,"spielberg is the rare director who does not want to invite viewers to gawk at or applaud his special effects . he just wants them to be part of the action , the wallpaper of his chosen reality . here , thankfully , they are .",1 +4858,"with the dog days of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity .",0 +2542,"it's a film that's destined to win a wide summer audience through word-of-mouth reviews and , not far down the line , to find a place among the studio's animated classics .",1 +3741,"the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same people every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupidity , not warning anyone .",0 +3403,[d]oesn't bother being as cloying or preachy as equivalent evangelical christian movies -- maybe the filmmakers know that the likely audience will already be among the faithful .,1 +522,"an oddity , to be sure , but one that you might wind up remembering with a degree of affection rather than revulsion .",1 +7105,it's basically an overlong episode of tales from the crypt .,0 +6585,"usually when i get this much syrup , i like pancakes to go with it .",0 +1931,"it may scream low budget , but this charmer has a spirit that cannot be denied .",1 +1020,"sturdy , entertaining period drama . . . both caine and fraser have their moments .",1 +4152,time of favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation .,0 +3680,as saccharine as it is disposable .,0 +1873,"the film gets close to the chimps the same way goodall did , with a serious minded patience , respect and affection .",1 +5957,"suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters , this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by hollywood .",0 +1632,"soderbergh , like kubrick before him , may not touch the planet's skin , but understands the workings of its spirit .",1 +6854,"any film that doesn't even in passing mention political prisoners , poverty and the boat loads of people who try to escape the country is less a documentary and more propaganda by way of a valentine sealed with a kiss .",0 +3665,the concept is a hoot . the trailer is a riot . the movie is a dud .,0 +1371,"there is a kind of attentive concern that hoffman brings to his characters , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is time for their first public recital .",1 +2035,"an invaluable historical document thanks to the filmmaker's extraordinary access to massoud , whose charm , cultivation and devotion to his people are readily apparent .",1 +117,"on its own , big trouble could be considered a funny little film .",1 +6194,may puzzle his most ardent fans .,0 +3830,"it's all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it's all about the silences and if you're into that , have at it .",0 +6747,warmed-over hash .,0 +1169,boomers and their kids will have a barrie good time .,1 +1928,drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band .,1 +2951,"dazzling and sugar-sweet , a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex , scandal , and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver .",1 +3832,"it's a big idea , but the film itself is small and shriveled .",0 +6224,"sodden and glum , even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light .",0 +1969,those who don't entirely 'get' godard's distinctive discourse will still come away with a sense of his reserved but existential poignancy .,1 +1288,"there aren't too many films that can be as simultaneously funny , offbeat and heartwarming ( without a thick shmear of the goo , at least ) , but "" elling "" manages to do all three quite well , making it one of the year's most enjoyable releases .",1 +1822,it's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as the son's room .,1 +6851,"jaw-droppingly superficial , straining to get by on humor that is not even as daring as john ritter's glory days on three's company .",0 +2334,"efficient , suitably anonymous chiller .",1 +5549,not an objectionable or dull film ; it merely lacks everything except good intentions .,0 +2160,"in its dry and forceful way , it delivers the same message as jiri menzel's closely watched trains and danis tanovic's no man's land .",1 +5471,this may be the first cartoon ever to look as if it were being shown on the projection television screen of a sports bar .,0 +2184,deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world .,1 +3798,"the director , with his fake backdrops and stately pacing , never settles on a consistent tone .",0 +250,"an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad .",1 +6299,"when [de palma's] bad , he's really bad , and femme fatale ranks with the worst he has done .",0 +3501,"not only is undercover brother as funny , if not more so , than both austin powers films , but it's also one of the smarter , savvier spoofs to come along in some time .",1 +1680,"affectionately reminds us that , in any language , the huge stuff in life can usually be traced back to the little things .",1 +2799,"a recent favourite at sundance , this white-trash satire will inspire the affection of even those unlucky people who never owned a cassette of def leppard's pyromania .",1 +795,"in questioning the election process , payami graphically illustrates the problems of fledgling democracies , but also the strength and sense of freedom the iranian people already possess , with or without access to the ballot box .",1 +3543,". . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable .",1 +3961,newcomer helmer kevin donovan is hamstrung by a badly handled screenplay of what is really an amusing concept – a high-tech tux that transforms its wearer into a superman .,0 +3791,calculated swill .,0 +3691,"'in this poor remake of such a well loved classic , parker exposes the limitations of his skill and the basic flaws in his vision . '",0 +6899,it's surprisingly bland despite the heavy doses of weird performances and direction .,0 +5318,spy-vs . -spy action flick with antonio banderas and lucy liu never comes together .,0 +1142,"all the performances are top notch and , once you get through the accents , all or nothing becomes an emotional , though still positive , wrench of a sit .",1 +3746,"in execution , this clever idea is far less funny than the original , killers from space .",0 +4290,the thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes ( of which they'll get plenty ) fills me with revulsion .,0 +5196,"at first , the sight of a blind man directing a film is hilarious , but as the film goes on , the joke wears thin .",0 +4002,"oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between .",0 +2425,a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley .,1 +4851,not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans .,0 +2676,"upsetting and thought-provoking , the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them .",1 +6454,you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools .,0 +4491,sweet home alabama certainly won't be remembered as one of [witherspoon's] better films .,0 +2337,"entertains by providing good , lively company .",1 +3412,"if you can push on through the slow spots , you'll be rewarded with some fine acting .",1 +1957,"not a schlocky creature feature but something far more stylish and cerebral--and , hence , more chillingly effective .",1 +1459,davis . . . gets vivid performances from her cast and pulls off some deft ally mcbeal-style fantasy sequences .,1 +5384,"for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear .",0 +5280,"the movie attempts to mine laughs from a genre -- the gangster/crime comedy -- that wore out its welcome with audiences several years ago , and its cutesy reliance on movie-specific cliches isn't exactly endearing .",0 +5001,"as elegantly crafted as it often is , anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that , hampered by an undeveloped script , ultimately pulls up lame .",0 +3959,"although sensitive to a fault , it's often overwritten , with a surfeit of weighty revelations , flowery dialogue , and nostalgia for the past and roads not taken .",0 +1076,"whether our action-and-popcorn obsessed culture will embrace this engaging and literate psychodrama isn't much of a mystery , unfortunately .",1 +5625,"the effort is sincere and the results are honest , but the film is so bleak that it's hardly watchable .",0 +4677,"this is a good movie in spurts , but when it doesn't work , it's at important times .",0 +6757,sacrifices the value of its wealth of archival foot-age with its less-than-objective stance .,0 +3101,"with tightly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises .",1 +2581,"made me unintentionally famous — as the queasy-stomached critic who staggered from the theater and blacked out in the lobby . but believe it or not , it's one of the most beautiful , evocative works i've seen .",1 +973,an alternately fascinating and frustrating documentary .,1 +4281,"the film meant well in its horse tale about freedom , but wasn't able to reach the heart because it was too overbearing .",0 +3555,it's the humanizing stuff that will probably sink the film for anyone who doesn't think about percentages all day long .,0 +6116,"off the hook is overlong and not well-acted , but credit writer-producer-director adam watstein with finishing it at all .",0 +4364,"before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience .",0 +983,a fast paced and suspenseful argentinian thriller about the shadow side of play .,1 +826,"as bundy , michael reilly burke ( octopus 2 : river of fear ) has just the right amount of charisma and menace .",1 +315,[reno] delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion .,1 +1054,"despite the long running time , the pace never feels slack -- there's no scene that screams "" bathroom break ! """,1 +4763,the movie is so thoughtlessly assembled .,0 +1078,director nalin pan doesn't do much to weigh any arguments one way or the other . he simply presents his point of view that ayurveda works . no question .,1 +1937,"comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride .",1 +552,an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch .,1 +1538,son of the bride may be a good half-hour too long but comes replete with a flattering sense of mystery and quietness .,1 +3175,"texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare .",1 +2474,the film's welcome breeziness and some unbelievably hilarious moments -- most portraying the idiocy of the film industry -- make it mostly worth the trip .,1 +6565,passably entertaining but also mechanical and joyless .,0 +2884,"beautiful , cold , oddly colorful and just plain otherworldly , a freaky bit of art that's there to scare while we delight in the images .",1 +4177,"woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the "" saving private ryan "" battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ?",0 +7107,"a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless .",0 +6974,the movie is a little tired ; maybe the original inspiration has run its course .,0 +6249,the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list .,0 +2415,if this story must be told and retold -- and indeed it must -- then the grey zone is to be lauded for finding a new and ingenious angle .,1 +6669,the stories here suffer from the chosen format .,0 +6767,"one-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation . . . . stylistically , the movie is a disaster .",0 +6709,"if you collected all the moments of coherent dialogue , they still wouldn't add up to the time required to boil a four- minute egg .",0 +1137,"colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory .",1 +957,from blushing to gushing---imamura squirts the screen in ‘warm water under a red bridge',1 +2759,"the film is faithful to what one presumes are the book's twin premises -- that we become who we are on the backs of our parents , but we have no idea who they were at our age ; and that time is a fleeting and precious commodity no matter how old you are .",1 +6508,"if this dud had been made in the '70s , it would have been called the hills have antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins .",0 +1718,the modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases,1 +2756,transforms one of [shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy .,1 +353,what could have been a daytime soap opera is actually a compelling look at a young woman's tragic odyssey .,1 +2692,"as directed by dani kouyate of burkina faso , sia lacks visual flair . but kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast , and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie , no matter who runs them .",1 +5339,"it's not exactly worth the bucks to expend the full price for a date , but when it comes out on video , it's well worth a rental .",0 +5846,murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote .,0 +6882,the pacing is often way off and there are too many bona fide groaners among too few laughs .,0 +4456,"the problem is the needlessly poor quality of its archival prints and film footage . the images lack contrast , are murky and are frequently too dark to be decipherable .",0 +4864,"with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role .",0 +4058,"loud , chaotic and largely unfunny .",0 +6124,"while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house .",0 +120,"perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing , ' but it is . 'drumline' shows a level of young , black manhood that is funny , touching , smart and complicated .",1 +216,"bloody sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame , making it one of the best war movies ever made . it's a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can't possibly be enough .",1 +3222,"as a vehicle to savour binoche's skill , the film is well worthwhile .",1 +2594,"for the most part , it's a work of incendiary genius , steering clear of knee-jerk reactions and quick solutions .",1 +3393,"y tu mamá también is hilariously , gloriously alive , and quite often hotter than georgia asphalt .",1 +4572,i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes .,0 +5714,""" abandon "" will leave you wanting to abandon the theater .",0 +1748,what's surprising is how well it holds up in an era in which computer-generated images are the norm .,1 +1840,this is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it's hard to know what to praise first .,1 +2725,binoche and magimel are perfect in these roles .,1 +2085,. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still rules the epochs .,1 +6446,another useless recycling of a brutal mid-'70s american sports movie .,0 +7040,all the well-meaningness in the world can't erase the fact that the believer feels like a 12-step program for the jewish nazi .,0 +1851,"the film is a contrivance , as artificial as the video games japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence , but it's an enjoyable one .",1 +7011,despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles .,0 +2164,"murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier .",1 +3245,cool ? this movie is a snow emergency .,1 +2097,its vision of that awkward age when sex threatens to overwhelm everything else is acute enough to make everyone who has been there squirm with recognition .,1 +3401,"although what time offers tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful tone than his other films .",1 +2563,"the subtle strength of "" elling "" is that it never loses touch with the reality of the grim situation .",1 +4228,"adults will certainly want to spend their time in the theater thinking up grocery lists and ways to tell their kids how not to act like pinocchio . as for children , they won't enjoy the movie at all .",0 +5172,"forget the misleading title , what's with the unexplained baboon cameo ?",0 +3012,"though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting .",1 +5406,"pure of intention and passably diverting , his secret life is light , innocuous and unremarkable .",0 +101,"building slowly and subtly , the film , sporting a breezy spontaneity and realistically drawn characterizations , develops into a significant character study that is both moving and wise .",1 +333,"while this gentle and affecting melodrama will have luvvies in raptures , it's far too slight and introspective to appeal to anything wider than a niche audience .",1 +5020,a manipulative feminist empowerment tale thinly posing as a serious drama about spousal abuse .,0 +3873,the cartoon is about as true to the spirit of the festival of lights as mr . deeds was to that of frank capra .,0 +4616,only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate .,0 +5717,a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques .,0 +5390,sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ?,0 +2770,"it may not be "" last tango in paris "" but . . .",1 +317,"a splendid entertainment , young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience .",1 +6183,a feel-good movie that doesn't give you enough to feel good about .,0 +2182,a fun ride .,1 +3122,the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams .,1 +5323,the iditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did .,0 +6958,"it's inoffensive , cheerful , built to inspire the young people , set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery , it's about as exciting as a sunburn .",0 +1011,"blessed with two fine , nuanced lead performances .",1 +3180,"intensely romantic , thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery .",1 +6982,"the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .",0 +4025,"[it's] a prison soccer movie starring charismatic tough guy vinnie jones , but it had too much spitting for me to enjoy .",0 +3398,"the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved . . . this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture .",1 +7095,"while the material is slight , the movie is better than you might think .",0 +278,"as a singular character study , it's perfect . it's also the year's sweetest movie .",1 +6202,"be forewarned , if you're depressed about anything before watching this film , you may just end up trying to drown yourself in a lake afterwards .",0 +3638,"elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one .",0 +6697,only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of elizabeth berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm .,0 +7106,"except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made .",0 +3315,ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar .,1 +6730,and people make fun of me for liking showgirls .,0 +50,people cinema at its finest .,1 +1426,if you open yourself up to mr . reggio's theory of this imagery as the movie's set . . . it can impart an almost visceral sense of dislocation and change .,1 +3735,the romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as believable as it should be .,0 +399,"a beguiling , slow-moving parable about the collision of past and present on a remote seacoast in iran .",1 +266,a very funny romantic comedy about two skittish new york middle-agers who stumble into a relationship and then struggle furiously with their fears and foibles .,1 +4229,a slow-moving police-procedural thriller that takes its title all too literally .,0 +4384,"an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity .",0 +556,as lively an account as seinfeld is deadpan .,1 +2513,"an artful , intelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre .",1 +6633,"[janey] forgets about her other obligations , leading to a tragedy which is somehow guessable from the first few minutes , maybe because it echoes the by now intolerable morbidity of so many recent movies .",0 +37,"skins has a desolate air , but eyre , a native american raised by white parents , manages to infuse the rocky path to sibling reconciliation with flashes of warmth and gentle humor .",1 +4762,it's the funniest american comedy since graffiti bridge .,0 +6151,"even film silliness needs a little gravity , beyond good hair and humping .",0 +1780,"a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats .",1 +1478,offers an interesting look at the rapidly changing face of beijing .,1 +5382,"given the fact that virtually no one is bound to show up at theatres for it , the project should have been made for the tube .",0 +3410,it will delight newcomers to the story and those who know it from bygone days .,1 +3552,an odd drama set in the world of lingerie models and bar dancers in the midwest that held my interest precisely because it didn't try to .,1 +1235,familiar but utterly delightful .,1 +6550,a sincere but dramatically conflicted gay coming-of-age tale .,0 +3979,"there is no psychology here , and no real narrative logic -- just a series of carefully choreographed atrocities , which become strangely impersonal and abstract .",0 +1166,an inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of vietnamese refugees living in u . s . relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975 .,1 +5623,"despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum .",0 +6481,the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work .,0 +307,to get at the root psychology of this film would require many sessions on the couch of dr . freud .,1 +77,mazel tov to a film about a family's joyous life acting on the yiddish stage .,1 +4638,"welles groupie/scholar peter bogdanovich took a long time to do it , but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant william randolph hearst .",0 +2538,great character interaction .,1 +855,a uniquely sensual metaphorical dramatization of sexual obsession that spends a bit too much time on its fairly ludicrous plot .,1 +2260,a very good film sits in the place where a masterpiece should be .,1 +5048,it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism .,0 +6931,with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer/director/producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry .,0 +4161,what happens when something goes bump in the night and nobody cares ?,0 +5911,"it's a film that hinges on its casting , and glover really doesn't fit the part .",0 +638,"whether kiss is a future cult classic or destined to be completely forgotten is open to question , but the risk-takers in the crowd should check it out and form their own opinion .",1 +3153,a compelling motion picture that illustrates an american tragedy .,1 +5263,the master of disguise is awful . it's pauly shore awful . don't say you weren't warned .,0 +3540,"it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert .",1 +1536,"maid in manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road . . . but as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations , the movie passes inspection .",1 +6799,"is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film ? i don't think so . nothing wrong with performances here , but the whiney characters bugged me .",0 +541,it's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most american representations of castro .,1 +5791,"solaris "" is a shapeless inconsequential move relying on the viewer to do most of the work .",0 +6514,a wannabe comedy of manners about a brainy prep-school kid with a mrs . robinson complex founders on its own preciousness -- and squanders its beautiful women .,0 +1804,'tobey maguire is a poster boy for the geek generation . ',1 +4805,"sadly , 'garth' hasn't progressed as nicely as 'wayne . '",0 +7055,high crimes miscasts nearly every leading character .,0 +4599,its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up .,0 +2420,"by the time it ends in a rush of sequins , flashbulbs , blaring brass and back-stabbing babes , it has said plenty about how show business has infiltrated every corner of society -- and not always for the better .",1 +4345,kapur's contradictory feelings about his material result in a movie that works against itself .,0 +1595,its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads .,1 +2894,"nakata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects .",1 +5621,"the new faces are interesting , but the old story isn't , especially when it starts to seem more improvised than scripted .",0 +845,this is a superior horror flick .,1 +3089,. . . rogers's mouth never stops shut about the war between the sexes and how to win the battle .,1 +3708,"i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché .",0 +2549,a modestly surprising movie .,1 +3426,"this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce .",1 +3057,the writing is clever and the cast is appealing .,1 +4010,"for a movie about the power of poetry and passion , there is precious little of either .",0 +3724,"when 'science fiction' takes advantage of the fact that its intended audience hasn't yet had much science , it does a disservice to the audience and to the genre .",0 +434,"300 years of russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent , seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness .",1 +2673,a classic fairy tale that perfectly captures the wonders and worries of childhood in a way that few movies have ever approached .,1 +3452,"the performances are strong , though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times .",1 +5413,"yes , spirited away is a triumph of imagination , but it's also a failure of storytelling .",0 +2540,"the chateau belongs to rudd , whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting french malapropisms . . . is a nonstop hoot .",1 +1210,"[d]espite its familiar subject matter , ice age is consistently amusing and engrossing . . .",1 +4703,"the actors pull out all the stops in nearly every scene , but to diminishing effect . the characters never change .",0 +1809,"most impressive , though , is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds .",1 +6956,chelsea walls is a case of too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe .,0 +3451,cube's charisma and chemistry compensate for corniness and cliche .,1 +2281,"drawing on an irresistible , languid romanticism , byler reveals the ways in which a sultry evening or a beer-fueled afternoon in the sun can inspire even the most retiring heart to venture forth .",1 +5795,beautifully filmed and well acted . . . but admittedly problematic in its narrative specifics .,0 +2432,"this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful .",1 +4236,"there's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging .",0 +4265,"behind the glitz , hollywood is sordid and disgusting . quelle surprise !",0 +4005,the good girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming .,0 +1727,hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in burdette's dialogue .,1 +6157,friday after next has the same problem that next friday did -- it's called where's chris tucker when you need him ?,0 +3515,steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate manhattan denizens--especially the a * * holes .,1 +6706,"let's hope -- shall we ? -- that the 'true story' by which all the queen's men is allegedly "" inspired "" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen .",0 +6743,it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal .,0 +2607,"nohe's documentary about the event is sympathetic without being gullible : he isn't blind to the silliness , but also captures moments of spontaneous creativity and authentic co-operative interaction .",1 +2527,better than the tepid star trek : insurrection ; falls short of first contact because the villain couldn't pick the lint off borg queen alice krige's cape ; and finishes half a parsec ( a nose ) ahead of generations .,1 +5227,"what's surprising about this traditional thriller , moderately successful but not completely satisfying , is exactly how genteel and unsurprising the execution turns out to be .",0 +6875,rice is too pedestrian a filmmaker to bring any edge or personality to the rising place that would set it apart from other deep south stories .,0 +6283,""" men in black ii , "" has all the earmarks of a sequel . the story is less vibrant , the jokes are a little lukewarm , but will anyone really care ?",0 +1908,"legendary irish writer brendan behan's memoir , borstal boy , has been given a loving screen transferral .",1 +6828,"those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals .",0 +3748,. . . about as exciting to watch as two last-place basketball teams playing one another on the final day of the season .,0 +4860,a negligible british comedy .,0 +7082,too many improbabilities and rose-colored situations temper what could've been an impacting film .,0 +1318,". . . a haunting vision , with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations .",1 +3611,the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste but little clear memory of its operational mechanics .,0 +1750,"a fantastic premise anchors this movie , but what it needs is either a more rigid , blair witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format , or a more straightforward , dramatic treatment , with all the grandiosity that that implies .",1 +2535,"taken outside the context of the current political climate ( see : terrorists are more evil than ever ! ) , the sum of all fears is simply a well-made and satisfying thriller .",1 +1193,"lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely without stickiness .",1 +6450,can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality .,0 +4087,"largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers .",0 +5695,it's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film .,0 +1022,"on this tricky topic , tadpole is very much a step in the right direction , with its blend of frankness , civility and compassion .",1 +5195,all too familiar . . . basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when 'angels with dirty faces' appeared in 1938 .,0 +1627,this is one of the year's best films .,1 +618,"for movie lovers as well as opera lovers , tosca is a real treat .",1 +2460,solondz creates some effective moments of discomfort for character and viewer alike .,1 +2113,"it's all stitched together with energy , intelligence and verve , enhanced by a surplus of vintage archive footage .",1 +4192,there's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long .,0 +5530,jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films .,0 +177,"wonder , hope and magic can never escape the heart of the boy when the right movie comes along , especially if it begins with the name of star wars",1 +3295,sexy and romantic .,1 +1529,"a solidly constructed , entertaining thriller that stops short of true inspiration .",1 +4937,a spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged .,0 +3313,[a] smarter and much funnier version of the old police academy flicks .,1 +6703,". . . too slow , too boring , and occasionally annoying .",0 +2314,[majidi] makes us think twice about immigrants we see around us every day .,1 +1471,unflinchingly bleak and desperate,1 +5799,"by the time you reach the finale , you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing .",0 +2722,"each punch seen through prison bars , the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs . man as brother-man vs . the man .",1 +4300,"a bizarre piece of work , with premise and dialogue at the level of kids' television and plot threads as morose as teen pregnancy , rape and suspected murder",0 +6544,it appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up .,0 +4798,"between bedroom scenes , viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap .",0 +6884,barrels along at the start before becoming mired in sentimentality .,0 +772,"most haunting about "" fence "" is its conclusion , when we hear the ultimate fate of these girls and realize , much to our dismay , that this really did happen . noyce's greatest mistake is thinking that we needed sweeping , dramatic , hollywood moments to keep us",1 +1586,"it's a technically superb film , shining with all the usual spielberg flair , expertly utilizing the talents of his top-notch creative team .",1 +5515,"watching the chemistry between freeman and judd , however , almost makes this movie worth seeing . almost .",0 +1190,a disturbing and frighteningly evocative assembly of imagery and hypnotic music composed by philip glass .,1 +2970,the movie is . . . very funny as you peek at it through the fingers in front of your eyes .,1 +6029,the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles .,0 +4884,the irony is that this film's cast is uniformly superb ; their performances could have -- should have -- been allowed to stand on their own .,0 +3846,the big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing .,0 +1254,behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art .,1 +5765,"whenever you think you've seen the end of the movie , we cut to a new scene , which also appears to be the end . but , no , we get another scene , and then another . you begin to long for the end credits as the desert does for rain .",0 +3998,"this one is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics .",0 +159,"although occasionally static to the point of resembling a stage play , the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs .",1 +217,"lovely and amazing is holofcener's deep , uncompromising curtsy to women she knows , and very likely is . when all is said and done , she loves them to pieces -- and so , i trust , will you .",1 +5835,no cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces wild .,0 +644,it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster .,1 +2932,"it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today .",1 +3516,entertaining despite its one-joke premise with the thesis that women from venus and men from mars can indeed get together .,1 +4999,the material and the production itself are little more than routine .,0 +4405,"oops , she's really done it this time . that chirpy songbird britney spears has popped up with more mindless drivel .",0 +5562,"de niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to clint eastwood in the lazy bloodwork . but like bruce springsteen's gone-to-pot asbury park , new jersey , this sad-sack waste of a movie is a city of ruins .",0 +2344,"thanks to the château's balance of whimsicality , narrative discipline and serious improvisation , almost every relationship and personality in the film yields surprises .",1 +6864,it's all surface psychodramatics .,0 +3355,rifkin's references are . . . impeccable throughout .,1 +5334,the ring just left me cold and wet like i was out in the seattle drizzle without rainwear .,0 +34,that death is merely a transition is a common tenet in the world's religions . this deeply spiritual film taps into the meaning and consolation in afterlife communications .,1 +5275,"a live-action cartoon , a fast-moving and cheerfully simplistic 88 minutes of exaggerated action put together with the preteen boy in mind .",0 +4916,fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur .,0 +3972,"to call the other side of heaven "" appalling "" would be to underestimate just how dangerous entertainments like it can be .",0 +5198,[a] mess .,0 +2430,"a movie that both thrills the eye and , in its over-the-top way , touches the heart .",1 +4237,"passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings .",0 +3549,"not everyone will welcome or accept the trials of henry kissinger as faithful portraiture , but few can argue that the debate it joins is a necessary and timely one .",1 +2332,"a thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale , standard , connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world .",1 +6252,tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar .,0 +2323,the film is delicately narrated by martin landau and directed with sensitivity and skill by dana janklowicz-mann .,1 +172,most of crush is a clever and captivating romantic comedy with a welcome pinch of tartness .,1 +5508,"this series should have died long ago , but they keep bringing it back another day as punishment for paying money to see the last james bond movie .",0 +4660,"not counting a few gross-out comedies i've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes .",0 +4134,the name says it all . jackass is a vulgar and cheap-looking version of candid camera staged for the marquis de sade set .,0 +6837,"the premise for this kegger comedy probably sounded brilliant four six-packs and a pitcher of margaritas in , but the film must have been written . . . in the thrall of a vicious hangover .",0 +976,a psychologically rich and suspenseful moral thriller with a stellar performance by al pacino .,1 +1144,that the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy .,1 +5763,"stealing harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : a few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious .",0 +6451,under 15 ? a giggle a minute . over age 15 ? big fat waste of time .,0 +6045,"a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie .",0 +1828,ferrara's strongest and most touching movie of recent years .,1 +6370,believability wasn't one of the film's virtues .,0 +1485,"while tattoo borrows heavily from both seven and the silence of the lambs , it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in .",1 +107,heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's moral ascension .,1 +3820,"for all of its insights into the dream world of teen life , and its electronic expression through cyber culture , the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time .",0 +5856,"la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido .",0 +3667,can't seem to get anywhere near the story's center .,0 +46,"greene delivers a typically solid performance in a role that is a bit of a departure from the noble characters he has played in the past , and he is matched by schweig , who carries the film on his broad , handsome shoulders .",1 +3662,"helmer devito . . . attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge .",0 +1596,"the movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest , lived-in glow .",1 +762,"it has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out .",1 +2411,"quando tiros em columbine acerta o alvo ( com o perdão do trocadilho ) , não há como negar o brilhantismo da argumentação de seu diretor .",1 +794,"when compared to the usual , more somber festival entries , davis' highly personal brand of romantic comedy is a tart , smart breath of fresh air that stands out from the pack even if the picture itself is somewhat problematic .",1 +196,"a serviceable euro-trash action extravaganza , with a decent sense of humor and plenty of things that go boom — handguns , bmws and seaside chateaus .",1 +5551,a movie that's about as overbearing and over-the-top as the family it depicts .,0 +6483,the sad thing about knockaround guys is its lame aspiration for grasping the coolness vibes when in fact the film isn't as flippant or slick as it thinks it is .,0 +5601,de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back .,0 +4568,i'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : this erotic cannibal movie is boring .,0 +2906,"the wonderful combination of the sweetness and the extraordinary technical accomplishments of the first film are maintained , but its overall impact falls a little flat with a storyline that never quite delivers the original magic .",1 +6996,these characters become wearisome .,0 +1367,"bogdanovich puts history in perspective and , via kirsten dunst's remarkable performance , he showcases davies as a young woman of great charm , generosity and diplomacy .",1 +930,"the film may not hit as hard as some of the better drug-related pictures , but it still manages to get a few punches in .",1 +2335,this beautifully animated epic is never dull .,1 +4262,. . . the last time i saw a theater full of people constantly checking their watches was during my sats .,0 +2022,"while insomnia is in many ways a conventional , even predictable remake , nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends ( it ) stimulating depth .",1 +6543,"feels like nothing quite so much as a middle-aged moviemaker's attempt to surround himself with beautiful , half-naked women .",0 +5151,"as is most commonly case with projects such noble and lofty ambitions , the film is less poetic than simply pretentious .",0 +494,"it's a wise and powerful tale of race and culture forcefully told , with superb performances throughout .",1 +1150,it finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice .,1 +6069,a living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange . the fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point .,0 +5905,"in a big corner office in hell , satan is throwing up his hands in surrender , is firing his r&d people , and has decided he will just screen the master of disguise 24/7 .",0 +3809,. . . the kind of movie you see because the theater has air conditioning .,0 +1771,"some body will take you places you haven't been , and also places you have .",1 +2445,"a bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception , which , while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces , is still very much worth seeing .",1 +715,"a wry , affectionate delight .",1 +5975,the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once .,0 +1977,"still rapturous after all these years , cinema paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love .",1 +3797,[a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment .,0 +3456,"the gorgeously elaborate continuation of "" the lord of the rings "" trilogy is so huge that a column of words cannot adequately describe co-writer/director peter jackson's expanded vision of j . r . r . tolkien's middle-earth .",1 +2570,i liked this film a lot . . .,1 +2521,"this big screen caper has a good bark , far from being a bow-wow .",1 +2166,a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility .,1 +2060,"the woodman seems to have directly influenced this girl-meets-girl love story , but even more reassuring is how its makers actually seem to understand what made allen's romantic comedies so pertinent and enduring .",1 +734,a genuinely moving and wisely unsentimental drama .,1 +6478,"bluto blutarsky , we miss you .",0 +5127,"yes , 4ever is harmless in the extreme and it'll mute your kids for nearly 80 minutes , but why not just treat the little yard apes to the real deal and take them to spirited away ?",0 +5965,"choppy , overlong documentary about 'the lifestyle . '",0 +4493,"the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace doesn't organize it with any particular insight .",0 +884,as tricky and satisfying as any of david mamet's airless cinematic shell games .,1 +926,hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being .,1 +6519,we haven't seen such hilarity since say it isn't so !,0 +2120,"were it not for a sentimental resolution that explains way more about cal than does the movie or the character any good , freundlich's world traveler might have been one of the more daring and surprising american movies of the year .",1 +3894,a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . .,0 +6398,"worthless , from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames .",0 +3899,john leguizamo may be a dramatic actor -- just not in this movie .,0 +803,takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze .,1 +4923,an often unfunny romp .,0 +5716,"goldbacher draws on an elegant visual sense and a talent for easy , seductive pacing . . . but she and writing partner laurence coriat don't manage an equally assured narrative coinage .",0 +288,"as if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges , kathryn bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness . her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant .",1 +377,"highly irritating at first , mr . koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results .",1 +2508,"the asylum material is gripping , as are the scenes of jia with his family .",1 +4186,"so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned .",0 +3965,"jam-packed with literally bruising jokes . every five minutes or so , someone gets clocked .",0 +5079,"stupid , infantile , redundant , sloppy , over-the-top , and amateurish . yep , it's "" waking up in reno . "" go back to sleep .",0 +3749,does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of richard nixon .,0 +6642,a humorless journey into a philosophical void .,0 +2962,"this tenth feature is a big deal , indeed -- at least the third-best , and maybe even a notch above the previous runner-up , nicholas meyer's star trek vi : the undiscovered country .",1 +5912,"one of the more irritating cartoons you will see this , or any , year .",0 +763,mordantly funny and intimately knowing . . .,1 +293,"film can't quite maintain its initial momentum , but remains sporadically funny throughout .",1 +1470,"often demented in a good way , but it is an uneven film for the most part .",1 +1481,". . . a solid , unassuming drama .",1 +6452,what you end up getting is the vertical limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between .,0 +2820,"creeps you out in high style , even if nakata did it better .",1 +1547,". . . tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character , an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope .",1 +42,it's like going to a house party and watching the host defend himself against a frothing ex-girlfriend . you don't want to call the cops . you want to call domino's .,1 +4336,"has not so much been written as assembled , frankenstein-like , out of other , marginally better shoot-em-ups .",0 +6389,there are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film . it's makes a better travelogue than movie .,0 +7016,"like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all .",0 +4200,odd and weird .,0 +4751,"[green is] the comedy equivalent of saddam hussein , and i'm just about ready to go to the u . n . and ask permission for a preemptive strike .",0 +2983,"a very well-made , funny and entertaining picture .",1 +7033,"what is 100% missing here is a script of even the most elemental literacy , an inkling of genuine wit , and anything resembling acting .",0 +3187,a comedy-drama of nearly epic proportions rooted in a sincere performance by the title character undergoing midlife crisis .,1 +1953,at its best ( and it does have some very funny sequences ) looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be .,1 +4635,"it briefly flirts with player masochism , but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely .",0 +2910,a surprisingly funny movie .,1 +3796,"when perry fists a bull at the moore farm , it's only a matter of time before he gets the upper hand in matters of the heart .",0 +3435,"land , people and narrative flow together in a stark portrait of motherhood deferred and desire explored .",1 +1706,"directing with a sure and measured hand , [haneke] steers clear of the sensational and offers instead an unflinching and objective look at a decidedly perverse pathology .",1 +6855,comes across as a fairly weak retooling .,0 +1170,"even though many of these guys are less than adorable ( their lamentations are pretty much self-centered ) , there's something vital about the movie .",1 +5516,"nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns .",0 +6880,the chocolate factory without charlie .,0 +4978,not exactly the bees knees,0 +3287,a polished and vastly entertaining caper film that puts the sting back into the con .,1 +3091,. . . fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist's work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film .,1 +4369,an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie .,0 +142,a compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds .,1 +388,it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up .,1 +6534,a terrible movie that some people will nevertheless find moving .,0 +3292,a joyous occasion,1 +1861,damon brings the proper conviction to his role as [jason bourne] .,1 +4837,"frankly , it's pretty stupid . i had more fun with ben stiller's zoolander , which i thought was rather clever . but there's plenty to offend everyone . . .",0 +4956,it's quite an achievement to set and shoot a movie at the cannes film festival and yet fail to capture its visual appeal or its atmosphere .,0 +1857,an average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains .,1 +1482,the bottom line is the piece works brilliantly .,1 +1930,"this time out , [sade] is an unsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested .",1 +3772,"despite terrific special effects and funnier gags , harry potter and the chamber of secrets finds a way to make j . k . rowling's marvelous series into a deadly bore .",0 +2769,"despite a story predictable enough to make the sound of music play like a nail-biting thriller , its heart is so much in the right place it is difficult to get really peeved at it .",1 +558,"an inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love , communal discord , and justice unfolds .",1 +3602,"sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't .",0 +6994,"i doubt anyone will remember the picture by the time christmas really rolls around , but maybe it'll be on video by then .",0 +508,"even if you can't pronounce "" gyro "" correctly , you'll appreciate much of vardalos' humor , which transcends ethnic boundaries .",1 +4531,"it's not the worst comedy of the year , but it certainly won't win any honors .",0 +1512,i have a new favorite musical -- and i'm not even a fan of the genre,1 +4243,"it's hard to quibble with a flick boasting this many genuine cackles , but notorious c . h . o . still feels like a promising work-in-progress .",0 +4941,"it's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that hollywood isn't laughing with us , folks . it's laughing at us .",0 +6979,"high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley judd .",0 +1534,"if nothing else , this movie introduces a promising , unusual kind of psychological horror .",1 +621,"though the aboriginal aspect lends the ending an extraordinary poignancy , and the story itself could be played out in any working class community in the nation .",1 +1976,noyce films it more as a shocking history lesson than as drama .,1 +4575,the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish .,0 +403,"pete's screenplay manages to find that real natural , even-flowing tone that few movies are able to accomplish .",1 +4269,"there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture .",0 +6032,"aptly named , this shimmering , beautifully costumed and filmed production doesn't work for me .",0 +3674,"an inept , tedious spoof of '70s kung fu pictures , it contains almost enough chuckles for a three-minute sketch , and no more .",0 +4580,koepp's screenplay isn't nearly surprising or clever enough to sustain a reasonable degree of suspense on its own .,0 +3143,smarter than its commercials make it seem .,1 +6925,"as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor .",0 +3609,"feels aimless for much of its running time , until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives , leaving questions in its wake .",0 +4335,plays like a glossy melodrama that occasionally verges on camp .,0 +2523,farrell . . . thankfully manages to outshine the role and successfully plays the foil to willis's world-weary colonel .,1 +4823,the moviegoing equivalent of going to a dinner party and being forced to watch the host and hostess's home video of their baby's birth .,0 +527,"a gentle blend of present day testimonials , surviving footage of burstein and his family performing , historical archives , and telling stills .",1 +4833,"mattei so completely loses himself to the film's circular structure to ever offer any insightful discourse on , well , love in the time of money .",0 +3702,glazed with a tawdry b-movie scum .,0 +3048,it's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . .,1 +1356,"if the plot seems a bit on the skinny side , that's because panic room is interested in nothing more than sucking you in…and making you sweat .",1 +166,but this is lohman's film . her performance moves between heartbreak and rebellion as she continually tries to accommodate to fit in and gain the unconditional love she seeks .,1 +392,"the film is painfully authentic , and the performances of the young players are utterly convincing .",1 +614,"there are times when you wish that the movie had worked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fantasy .",1 +2926,"scherfig , the writer-director , has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar . yes , soar .",1 +3765,"here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior .",0 +4271,"samira makhmalbaf's new film blackboards is much like the ethos of a stream of consciousness , although , it's unfortunate for the viewer that the thoughts and reflections coming through are torpid and banal",0 +6343,fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense .,0 +3013,an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre .,1 +823,"the complex , politically charged tapestry of contemporary chinese life this exciting new filmmaker has brought to the screen is like nothing we westerners have seen before .",1 +6621,"confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please , and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses , nor their characters , deserve .",0 +5059,some body smacks of exhibitionism more than it does cathartic truth telling .,0 +4592,"offers very little genuine romance and even fewer laughs . . . a sad sitcom of a movie , largely devoid of charm .",0 +5583,godawful boring slug of a movie .,0 +4131,"the characters seem one-dimensional , and the film is superficial and will probably be of interest primarily to its target audience .",0 +1004,"for the most part , it works beautifully as a movie without sacrificing the integrity of the opera .",1 +4511,"this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless .",0 +2600,spy kids 2 also happens to be that rarity among sequels : it actually improves upon the original hit movie .,1 +5115,"4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly .",0 +3751,. . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie .,0 +4630,it's deep-sixed by a compulsion to catalog every bodily fluids gag in there's something about mary and devise a parallel clone-gag .,0 +830,"it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru .",1 +6282,a movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between highlander and lolita .,0 +4080,"so stupid , so ill-conceived , so badly drawn , it created whole new levels of ugly .",0 +4008,". . . an unimaginative , nasty , glibly cynical piece of work .",0 +5495,"just like every other seagal movie , only louder and without that silly ponytail .",0 +561,the film is one of the year's best .,1 +6425,all analyze that proves is that there is really only one movie's worth of decent gags to be gleaned from the premise .,0 +6418,"is "" ballistic "" worth the price of admission ? absolutely not . it sucked . would i see it again ? please see previous answer .",0 +1365,"just what makes us happy , anyway ?",1 +1008,what elevates the movie above the run-of-the-mill singles blender is its surreal sense of humor and technological finish .,1 +4302,"this is no "" waterboy ! """,0 +1864,"feature debuter d . j . caruso directs a crack ensemble cast , bringing screenwriter tony gayton's narcotics noir to life .",1 +5545,"this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well .",0 +2907,". . . planos fijos , tomas largas , un ritmo pausado y una sutil observación de sus personajes , sin estridencias ni grandes revelaciones .",1 +3317,what makes the movie a comedy is the way it avoids the more serious emotions involved .,1 +4579,"dong never pushes for insights beyond the superficial tensions of the dynamic he's dissecting , and the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation .",0 +6088,"[johnnie to and wai ka fai are] sure to find an enthusiastic audience among american action-adventure buffs , but the film's interests may be too narrow to attract crossover viewers .",0 +1220,"boisterous , heartfelt comedy .",1 +2039,wonderful fencing scenes and an exciting plot make this an eminently engrossing film .,1 +5075,"a morality tale whose thought-provoking potential is hampered by a made-for-tv look , rigid performances and an asinine 'twist' that brazenly rips off the sixth sense .",0 +274,"slow and ponderous , but rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion , sacrifice , and christian love in the face of political corruption .",1 +5071,jaglom offers the none-too-original premise that everyone involved with moviemaking is a con artist and a liar .,0 +2610,"if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of "" the isle "" you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else .",1 +2994,"mr . parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence , composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor , or an absurdist workplace sitcom .",1 +5156,burns' fifth beer-soaked film feels in almost every possible way -- from the writing and direction to the soggy performances -- tossed off .,0 +5923,"ozpetek offers an aids subtext , skims over the realities of gay sex , and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an all-inclusive world where uptight , middle class bores like antonia can feel good about themselves .",0 +3461,manages to be wholesome and subversive at the same time .,1 +6722,"[t]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them .",0 +3610,we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again .,0 +4402,the movie makes absolutely no sense . its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question : since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb ?,0 +6019,"the movie wavers between hallmark card sentimentality and goofy , life-affirming moments straight out of a cellular phone commercial .",0 +4473,holden caulfield did it better .,0 +3240,an escapist confection that's pure entertainment .,1 +6025,"a stupid , derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense .",0 +5850,"the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden .",0 +2938,"an impressive debut for first-time writer-director mark romanek , especially considering his background is in music video .",1 +2428,fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy .,1 +5666,"[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepford wives mentality doesn't work in a modern context .",0 +4041,"'men in black ii creates a new threat for the mib , but recycles the same premise .",0 +2482,it's one thing to read about or rail against the ongoing - and unprecedented - construction project going on over our heads . it's quite another to feel physically caught up in the process .,1 +6193,nothing but an episode of smackdown ! in period costume and with a bigger budget .,0 +4298,the film is really not so much bad as bland .,0 +2247,"this is one of mr . chabrol's subtlest works , but also one of his most uncanny .",1 +6705,clare peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little american pie-like irreverence .,0 +6708,yet another weepy southern bore-athon .,0 +1021,"the early and middle passages are surprising in how much they engage and even touch us . this is not a classical dramatic animated feature , nor a hip , contemporary , in-jokey one . it's sort of in-between , and it works .",1 +5571,the package in which this fascinating -- and timely -- content comes wrapped is disappointingly generic .,0 +959,marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary .,1 +1524,"barney has created a tour de force that is weird , wacky and wonderful .",1 +5180,"christina ricci comedy about sympathy , hypocrisy and love is a misfire .",0 +810,"hatfield and hicks make the oddest of couples , and in this sense the movie becomes a study of the gambles of the publishing world , offering a case study that exists apart from all the movie's political ramifications .",1 +4397,"it plods along methodically , somehow under the assumption that its "" dead wife communicating from beyond the grave "" framework is even remotely new or interesting .",0 +604,"a solid , psychological action film from hong kong .",1 +3021,"the enjoyable undercover brother , a zany mix of saturday night live-style parody , '70s blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild , dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy .",1 +3408,"one of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning .",1 +4924,"it's another stale , kill-by-numbers flick , complete with blade-thin characters and terrible , pun-laden dialogue .",0 +4880,nothing more than a mediocre trifle .,0 +2565,"spinning a web of dazzling entertainment may be overstating it , but "" spider-man "" certainly delivers the goods .",1 +2828,ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie .,1 +3360,"if mr . zhang's subject matter is , to some degree at least , quintessentially american , his approach to storytelling might be called iranian .",1 +154,"steers , in his feature film debut , has created a brilliant motion picture .",1 +1149,a thought-provoking picture .,1 +2960,offers a breath of the fresh air of true sophistication .,1 +5811,"please , someone , stop eric schaeffer before he makes another film .",0 +5599,"though certainly original in form , altar boys requires a taste for swamp thing-type animation , doubled with a deafening score .",0 +6635,"directed in a flashy , empty sub-music video style by a director so self-possessed he actually adds a period to his first name",0 +6836,the best way to hope for any chance of enjoying this film is by lowering your expectations . then lower them a bit more .,0 +4006,"fessenden continues to do interesting work , and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget . but the problem with wendigo , for all its effective moments , isn't really one of resources .",0 +5402,so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic .,0 +3664,the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off .,0 +2312,will warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it .,1 +2299,an engaging overview of johnson's eccentric career .,1 +2229,"offers an unusual opportunity to observe the inequities in the death penalty , not just the inherent immorality but also the haphazard administration of it and public misperception of how the whole thing works .",1 +5960,"it's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull , nerdy folks that inhabit cherish .",0 +3891,"the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting .",0 +6363,"as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired .",0 +1854,"dog soldiers doesn't transcend genre -- it embraces it , energizes it and takes big bloody chomps out of it .",1 +2162,a carefully structured scream of consciousness that is tortured and unsettling--but unquestionably alive .,1 +3097,"the director , mark pellington , does a terrific job conjuring up a sinister , menacing atmosphere though unfortunately all the story gives us is flashing red lights , a rattling noise , and a bump on the head .",1 +7083,"in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant .",0 +4915,there isn't one moment in the film that surprises or delights .,0 +3957,"affleck merely creates an outline for a role he still needs to grow into , a role that ford effortlessly filled with authority .",0 +6135,ihops don't pile on this much syrup .,0 +5367,. . . too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film .,0 +2721,another trumpet blast that there may be a new mexican cinema a-bornin' .,1 +157,"altogether , this is successful as a film , while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece .",1 +3806,"on the whole , the movie lacks wit , feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality .",0 +4866,it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt !,0 +1557,"though filmed partly in canada , paid in full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the reagan years .",1 +1278,"it looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships .",1 +4055,"shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme .",0 +7017,shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors . . .,0 +4530,the obligatory break-ups and hook-ups don't seem to have much emotional impact on the characters .,0 +3015,this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot .,1 +4919,"no aspirations to social import inform the movie version . this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars .",0 +2909,robert harmon's less-is-more approach delivers real bump-in -the-night chills -- his greatest triumph is keeping the creepy crawlies hidden in the film's thick shadows .,1 +5560,will be far more interesting to the soderbergh faithful than it will be to the casual moviegoer who might be lured in by julia roberts . . .,0 +4574,an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength .,0 +116,it's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience .,1 +6668,"there is something in full frontal , i guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see .",0 +5739,a movie in which laughter and self-exploitation merge into jolly soft-porn 'empowerment . ',0 +265,"it strikes hardest… when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . fifty years after the fact , the world's political situation seems little different , and [director phillip] noyce brings out the allegory with remarkable skill .",1 +5498,hollywood ending just isn't very funny .,0 +876,denver should not get the first and last look at one of the most triumphant performances of vanessa redgrave's career . it deserves to be seen everywhere .,1 +3642,"city by the sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving : it's careful , conscientious and makes no major mistakes . but what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing .",0 +4822,it's hard to tell with all the crashing and banging where the salesmanship ends and the movie begins .,0 +469,"it's an unusual , thoughtful bio-drama with a rich subject and some fantastic moments and scenes .",1 +1402,a film that's flawed and brilliant in equal measure .,1 +1585,claude miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications .,1 +5855,"sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a rosily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississippi delta undermine this adaptation .",0 +2715,an engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary .,1 +2915,"brown sugar signals director rick famuyiwa's emergence as an articulate , grown-up voice in african-american cinema .",1 +2258,"the piano teacher is not an easy film . it forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling .",1 +4783,"the connected stories of breitbart and hanussen are actually fascinating , but the filmmaking in invincible is such that the movie does not do them justice .",0 +5134,you'll just have your head in your hands wondering why lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery .,0 +3548,i just loved every minute of this film .,1 +797,a deeply felt and vividly detailed story about newcomers in a strange new world .,1 +2832,"it is a challenging film , if not always a narratively cohesive one .",1 +5472,"glib , satirical documentary that fudges facts , makes facile points and engages in the cinematic equivalent of tabloid journalism .",0 +6890,"a grating , emaciated flick .",0 +6074,"high crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ marine/legal mystery , and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff , nearly subliminally , as the old-hat province of male intrigue .",0 +4454,"they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right .",0 +5481,"if you liked the 1982 film then , you'll still like it now .",0 +4425,paxton's uneven directorial debut fails to unlock the full potential of what is in many ways a fresh and dramatically substantial spin on the genre .,0 +531,"don't judge this one too soon - it's a dark , gritty story but it takes off in totally unexpected directions and keeps on going .",1 +5685,no amount of blood and disintegrating vampire cadavers can obscure this movie's lack of ideas .,0 +986,intriguing and downright intoxicating .,1 +5817,rarely has sex on screen been so aggressively anti-erotic .,0 +2780,another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre .,1 +2988,"the funny thing is , i didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit .",1 +778,a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 .,1 +3668,"scooby dooby doo / and shaggy too / you both look and sound great . / but daphne , you're too buff / fred thinks he's tough / and velma - wow , you've lost weight !",0 +817,"i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's garbage .",1 +4381,"the cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious , untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate .",0 +506,"it makes compelling , provocative and prescient viewing .",1 +6352,"its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously , but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare .",0 +1691,the perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide .,1 +2913,throws in enough clever and unexpected twists to make the formula feel fresh .,1 +5886,"the humor isn't as sharp , the effects not as innovative , nor the story as imaginative as in the original . but it could have been worse .",0 +4911,"even in this less-than-magic kingdom , reese rules .",0 +5951,"liman , of swingers and go , makes his big-budget action film debut something of a clunker as he delivers a long , low-heat chase , interrupted by a middling car chase .",0 +5925,"hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't .",0 +5345,"[lee] treats his audience the same way that jim brown treats his women -- as dumb , credulous , unassuming , subordinate subjects . and lee seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception .",0 +6883,"theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ?",0 +5292,"the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year .",0 +518,"even in its most tedious scenes , russian ark is mesmerizing .",1 +2273,maryam is more timely now than ever .,1 +366,an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era .,1 +3260,the minor figures surrounding [bobby] . . . form a gritty urban mosaic .,1 +5191,"super troopers is an odd amalgam of comedy genres , existing somewhere between the often literal riffs of early zucker brothers/abrahams films , and the decidedly foul stylings of their post-modern contemporaries , the farrelly brothers .",0 +2919,"lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documents the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name .",1 +6778,done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment .,0 +2201,paid in full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks .,1 +6411,the actors are forced to grapple with hazy motivations that never come into focus .,0 +2063,part of the charm of satin rouge is that it avoids the obvious with humour and lightness .,1 +1096,the beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor .,1 +3001,a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart .,1 +2023,"this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer .",1 +5391,". . . there's a choppy , surface-effect feeling to the whole enterprise .",0 +6188,phoned-in business as usual .,0 +1833,allen shows he can outgag any of those young whippersnappers making moving pictures today .,1 +3271,"when you think you've figured out bielinsky's great game , that's when you're in the most trouble : he's the con , and you're just the mark .",1 +5781,"make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess .",0 +2464,may be spoofing an easy target -- those old '50's giant creature features -- but . . . it acknowledges and celebrates their cheesiness as the reason why people get a kick out of watching them today .,1 +864,"methodical , measured , and gently tedious in its comedy , secret ballot is a purposefully reductive movie -- which may be why it's so successful at lodging itself in the brain .",1 +1855,. . . either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not .,1 +6310,"as dumb and cheesy as they may be , the cartoons look almost shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy , supposed family-friendly comedy .",0 +3818,a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground .,0 +2013,"if you're down for a silly hack-and-slash flick , you can do no wrong with jason x .",1 +6593,this is a film tailor-made for those who when they were in high school would choose the cliff-notes over reading a full-length classic .,0 +3215,""" cremaster 3 "" should come with the warning "" for serious film buffs only ! """,1 +2943,"based on a devilishly witty script by heather mcgowan and niels mueller , the film gets great laughs , but never at the expense of its characters",1 +1665,the magic ( and original running time ) of ace japanimator hayao miyazaki's spirited away survives intact in bv's re-voiced version .,1 +875,"barry convinces us he's a dangerous , secretly unhinged guy who could easily have killed a president because it made him feel powerful .",1 +5016,you'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy .,0 +1229,a beguiling splash of pastel colors and prankish comedy from disney .,1 +1951,"sandra nettelbeck beautifully orchestrates the transformation of the chilly , neurotic , and self-absorbed martha as her heart begins to open .",1 +4560,the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takes place during spring break .,0 +4208,"they presume their audience won't sit still for a sociology lesson , however entertainingly presented , so they trot out the conventional science-fiction elements of bug-eyed monsters and futuristic women in skimpy clothes .",0 +4048,"the filmmakers juggle and juxtapose three story lines but fail to come up with one cogent point , unless it's that life stinks , especially for sensitive married women who really love other women .",0 +5581,"at a time when we've learned the hard way just how complex international terrorism is , collateral damage paints an absurdly simplistic picture .",0 +5242,a generic international version of a typical american horror film .,0 +5522,". . . if you're just in the mood for a fun -- but bad -- movie , you might want to catch freaks as a matinee .",0 +2501,"it's predictable , but it jumps through the expected hoops with style and even some depth .",1 +1056,"after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history .",1 +896,much smarter and more attentive than it first sets out to be .,1 +6723,"in the spirit of the season , i assign one bright shining star to roberto benigni's pinocchio -- but i guarantee that no wise men will be following after it .",0 +3406,"the reason to see "" sade "" lay with the chemistry and complex relationship between the marquis ( auteil ) and emilie ( le besco ) .",1 +1338,"the 3-d vistas from orbit , with the space station suspended like a huge set of wind chimes over the great blue globe , are stanzas of breathtaking , awe-inspiring visual poetry .",1 +4050,the movie is virtually without context -- journalistic or historical . what's worse is that pelosi knows it .,0 +5927,"a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .",0 +611,as refreshing as a drink from a woodland stream .,1 +4090,"for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking .",0 +2971,"i would be shocked if there was actually one correct interpretation , but that shouldn't make the movie or the discussion any less enjoyable .",1 +1334,"foster nails the role , giving a tight , focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling .",1 +1823,"as a belated nod to some neglected all-stars , standing in the shadows of motown is cultural history of the best kind : informative , revealing and richly entertaining .",1 +1466,the emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma .,1 +549,a quiet family drama with a little bit of romance and a dose of darkness .,1 +4066,if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over .,0 +1138,"as the two leads , lathan and diggs are charming and have chemistry both as friends and lovers .",1 +3853,. . . the movie is just a plain old monster .,0 +4504,"hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire .",0 +5365,everything was as superficial as the forced new jersey lowbrow accent uma had .,0 +941,it helps that lil bow wow . . . tones down his pint-sized gangsta act to play someone who resembles a real kid .,1 +528,"the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you find yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other carmen before her .",1 +13,"even if you don't understand what on earth is going on , this is a movie that will stimulate hours of post viewing discussion , if only to be reminded of who did what to whom and why .",1 +3358,a well-made and often lovely depiction of the mysteries of friendship .,1 +4052,this ludicrous film is predictable at every turn .,0 +1722,"sorvino is delightful in the central role . she nearly glows with enthusiasm , sensuality and a conniving wit .",1 +3217,"inventive , fun , intoxicatingly sexy , violent , self-indulgent and maddening .",1 +5596,"fincher takes no apparent joy in making movies , and he gives none to the audience .",0 +3663,visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay .,0 +3054,"it is risky , intelligent , romantic and rapturous from start to finish .",1 +713,"mana gives us compelling , damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt .",1 +4339,the story the movie tells is of brian de palma's addiction to the junk-calorie suspense tropes that have all but ruined his career .,0 +6121,it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen .,0 +732,'like a child with an important message to tell . . . [skins'] faults are easy to forgive because the intentions are lofty . ',1 +215,for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the dark places of our national psyche .,1 +1693,p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equalizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out joys in our lives that we never knew were possible .,1 +499,"though mama takes a bit too long to find its rhythm and a third-act plot development is somewhat melodramatic , its ribald humor and touching nostalgia are sure to please anyone in search of a jules and jim for the new millennium .",1 +6611,pap invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of god in the fifth trek flick .,0 +4157,this time kaufman's imagination has failed him .,0 +3279,"you'll be left with the sensation of having just witnessed a great performance and , perhaps , give in to the urge to get on your feet and shake it .",1 +3870,"once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back .",0 +6618,"the cold and dreary weather is a perfect metaphor for the movie itself , which contains few laughs and not much drama .",0 +4746,"dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery .",0 +2175,easily the most thoughtful fictional examination of the root causes of anti-semitism ever seen on screen .,1 +3134,"lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that brown played in american culture as an athlete , a movie star , and an image of black indomitability .",1 +1499,"the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense .",1 +5056,"it's unfortunate that wallace , who wrote gibson's braveheart as well as the recent pearl harbor , has such an irrepressible passion for sappy situations and dialogue .",0 +6390,"while there's likely very little crossover appeal to those without much interest in the elizabethans ( as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo's dumbed-down tactics ) , much ado about something is an amicable endeavor .",0 +5970,"on its own , it's not very interesting . as a remake , it's a pale imitation .",0 +3901,"whereas last year's exemplary sexy beast seemed to revitalize the british gangster movie , this equally brutal outing merely sustains it .",0 +4600,"[creates] the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama .",0 +2131,many insightful moments .,1 +6041,"when seagal appeared in an orange prison jumpsuit , i wanted to stand up in the theater and shout , 'hey , kool-aid ! '",0 +5035,the movie is as padded as allen's jelly belly .,0 +2690,"rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , daring , inventive and refreshingly unusual .",1 +3583,"it's also curious to note that this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust , is easily as bad at a fraction the budget .",0 +4971,overall the film feels like a low-budget tv pilot that could not find a buyer to play it on the tube .,0 +1878,"if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago .",1 +4124,going to the website may be just as fun ( and scary ) as going to the film .,0 +6515,"after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and sticky .",0 +4506,you'd be hard put to find a movie character more unattractive or odorous [than leon] .,0 +35,"a highly personal look at the effects of living a dysfunctionally privileged lifestyle , and by the end , we only wish we could have spent more time in its world .",1 +1863,poignant and funny .,1 +1436,"stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination .",1 +3311,close enough in spirit to its freewheeling trash-cinema roots to be a breath of fresh air .,1 +2151,"stuffed to the brim with ideas , american instigator michael moore's film is a rambling examination of american gun culture that uses his usual modus operandi of crucifixion through juxtaposition .",1 +3518,"even if you're an agnostic carnivore , you can enjoy much of jonah simply , and gratefully , as laugh-out-loud lunacy with a pronounced monty pythonesque flavor .",1 +3766,crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls .,0 +1130,"though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial .",1 +2384,"may take its sweet time to get wherever it's going , but if you have the patience for it , you won't feel like it's wasted yours .",1 +2786,what it lacks in originality it makes up for in intelligence and b-grade stylishness .,1 +939,"the whole cast looks to be having so much fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tossing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breezes by .",1 +3182,refreshing .,1 +4904,would that greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility .,0 +6380,the fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it .,0 +951,"run , don't walk , to see this barbed and bracing comedy on the big screen .",1 +5776,"interminably bleak , to say nothing of boring .",0 +2587,monte cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds .,1 +5393,"an achingly enthralling premise , the film is hindered by uneven dialogue and plot lapses .",0 +2101,"a fascinating examination of the joyous , turbulent self-discovery made by a proper , middle-aged woman .",1 +3195,"an inventive , absorbing movie that's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist .",1 +5570,leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion .,0 +3960,the scriptwriters are no less a menace to society than the film's characters .,0 +6970,five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .,0 +5,the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength .,1 +3152,"remarkable for its excellent storytelling , its economical , compressed characterisations and for its profound humanity , it's an adventure story and history lesson all in one .",1 +6623,"problem is , we have no idea what in creation is going on .",0 +3653,[sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions .,0 +3814,one of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends .,0 +3454,"my little eye is the best little "" horror "" movie i've seen in years .",1 +724,"an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation .",1 +2011,"we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic charm in want to put for that effort , and "" i",0 +3483,a winning piece of work filled with love for the movies of the 1960s .,1 +4097,every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . something like scrubbing the toilet . or emptying rat traps . or doing last year's taxes with your ex-wife .,0 +2008,a chilling movie without oppressive gore .,1 +5427,just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny .,0 +2402,knows how to make our imagination wonder .,1 +3362,"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are lacking .",1 +6350,"the film's trailer also looked like crap , so crap is what i was expecting .",0 +4684,"it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary .",0 +2866,"exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming .",1 +5505,it's a documentary that says that the alternate sexuality meant to set you free may require so much relationship maintenance that celibacy can start looking good .,0 +5158,"the stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality , but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious .",0 +4529,an encouraging effort from mccrudden,0 +2545,"this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem .",1 +1223,a poignant and gently humorous parable that loves its characters and communicates something rather beautiful about human nature .,1 +3984,"somewhere in the middle , the film compels , as demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems , but the field of roughage dominates .",0 +1107,"a powerful and telling story that examines forbidden love , racial tension , and other issues that are as valid today as they were in the 1950s .",1 +6651,"typical animé , with cheapo animation ( like saturday morning tv in the '60s ) , a complex sword-and-sorcery plot and characters who all have big round eyes and japanese names .",0 +4929,. . . has virtually no script at all . . .,0 +1988,"it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise .",1 +766,"its direction , its script , and weaver's performance as a vaguely discontented woman of substance make for a mildly entertaining 77 minutes , if that's what you're in the mood for .",1 +687,"grant carries the day with impeccable comic timing , raffish charm and piercing intellect .",1 +436,"beautifully shot , delicately scored and powered by a set of heartfelt performances , it's a lyrical endeavour .",1 +1212,"this version moves beyond the original's nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema's inability to stand in for true , lived experience .",1 +2772,occasionally amateurishly made but a winsome cast and nice dialogue keeps it going .,1 +5638,"flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent .",0 +6109,"a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original .",0 +7096,screenwriters scott abbott and michael petroni have turned rice's complex akasha into a cartoon monster .,0 +5528,"outside of burger's desire to make some kind of film , it's really unclear why this project was undertaken",0 +4467,"[t]his slop doesn't even have potential as a cult film , as it's too loud to shout insults at the screen .",0 +3071,"unlike most anime , whose most ardent fans outside japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes , metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile .",1 +4585,extremely bad .,0 +3318,true tale of courage -- and complicity -- at auschwitz is a harrowing drama that tries to tell of the unspeakable .,1 +3060,[an] absorbing documentary .,1 +5956,"the venezuelans say things like "" si , pretty much "" and "" por favor , go home "" when talking to americans . that's muy loco , but no more ridiculous than most of the rest of "" dragonfly . """,0 +5572,propelled not by characters but by caricatures .,0 +4772,this 90-minute dud could pass for mike tyson's e ! true hollywood story .,0 +4883,"once one experiences mr . haneke's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one's mouth , and little else .",0 +1477,changing lanes is an anomaly for a hollywood movie ; it's a well-written and occasionally challenging social drama that actually has something interesting to say .,1 +2848,an extraordinary dramatic experience .,1 +720,"if it seems like a minor miracle that its septuagenarian star is young enough to be the nonagenarian filmmaker's son , more incredible still are the clear-eyed boldness and quiet irony with which actor and director take on life's urgent questions .",1 +6414,too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility .,0 +6079,"at every opportunity to do something clever , the film goes right over the edge and kills every sense of believability . . . all you have left is a no-surprise series of explosions and violence while banderas looks like he's not trying to laugh at how bad it",0 +6625,aimed squarely at the least demanding of demographic groups : very small children who will be delighted simply to spend more time with familiar cartoon characters .,0 +532,"a hard look at one man's occupational angst and its subsequent reinvention , a terrifying study of bourgeois desperation worthy of claude chabrol .",1 +4516,"with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable "" formula 51 "" is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .",0 +3558,"its and pieces of the hot chick are so hilarious , and schneider's performance is so fine , it's a real shame that so much of the movie -- again , as in the animal -- is a slapdash mess .",0 +130,works as pretty contagious fun .,1 +3365,"claude chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements .",1 +4853,"by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious .",0 +1658,"it's a scattershot affair , but when it hits its mark it's brilliant .",1 +3514,"if s&m seems like a strange route to true love , maybe it is , but it's to this film's ( and its makers' ) credit that we believe that that's exactly what these two people need to find each other -- and themselves .",1 +2080,stevens' vibrant creative instincts are the difference between this and countless other flicks about guys and dolls .,1 +968,"that storytelling has value cannot be denied . not even solondz's thirst for controversy , sketchy characters and immature provocations can fully succeed at cheapening it .",1 +197,"'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit",1 +1231,"williams creates a stunning , taxi driver-esque portrayal of a man teetering on the edge of sanity .",1 +6718,there is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time .,0 +2348,"when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm .",1 +6886,"the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material .",0 +5546,two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity .,0 +2498,adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of orlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book .,1 +6914,new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous .,0 +912,"a bilingual charmer , just like the woman who inspired it",1 +5193,"star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty .",0 +5738,"strong filmmaking requires a clear sense of purpose , and in that oh-so-important category , the four feathers comes up short .",0 +4476,"shallow , noisy and pretentious .",0 +4468,. . . a weak and ineffective ghost story without a conclusion or pay off .,0 +997,"the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema .",1 +1216,"a directorial tour de force by bernard rose , ivans xtc . is one of this year's very best pictures .",1 +4396,…passable enough for a shoot-out in the o . k . court house of life type of flick . strictly middle of the road .,0 +1959,"pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film . what results is the best performance from either in years .",1 +3659,"some movies can get by without being funny simply by structuring the scenes as if they were jokes : a setup , delivery and payoff . stealing harvard can't even do that much . each scene immediately succumbs to gravity and plummets to earth .",0 +1846,the best animated feature to hit theaters since beauty and the beast 11 years ago .,1 +1508,exudes the fizz of a busby berkeley musical and the visceral excitement of a sports extravaganza .,1 +2476,the film's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality .,1 +4295,. . . this movie has a glossy coat of action movie excess while remaining heartless at its core .,0 +5081,[a] stuporously solemn film .,0 +2728,the film runs on a little longer than it needs to -- muccino either doesn't notice when his story ends or just can't tear himself away from the characters -- but it's smooth and professional .,1 +6421,fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references .,0 +1907,"an absurdist comedy about alienation , separation and loss .",1 +731,worse than 'silence of the lambs' better than 'hannibal',1 +309,a creaky staircase gothic .,1 +5287,"yes , i have given this movie a rating of zero . but fans of the show should not consider this a diss . consider it 'perfection . '",0 +121,"if you're not totally weirded- out by the notion of cinema as community-therapy spectacle , quitting hits home with disorienting force .",1 +917,features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film .,1 +2670,"in a summer of clones , harvard man is something rare and riveting : a wild ride that relies on more than special effects .",1 +3639,"a very familiar tale , one that's been told by countless filmmakers about italian- , chinese- , irish- , latin- , indian- , russian- and other hyphenate american young men struggling to balance conflicting cultural messages .",0 +2785,"until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes , wendigo , larry fessenden's spooky new thriller , is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films .",1 +2500,all three women deliver remarkable performances .,1 +2499,heartwarming and gently comic even as the film breaks your heart .,1 +1731,"sometimes charming , sometimes infuriating , this argentinean 'dramedy' succeeds mainly on the shoulders of its actors .",1 +3068,[breheny's] lensing of the new zealand and cook island locations captures both the beauty of the land and the people .,1 +1450,brilliantly explores the conflict between following one's heart and following the demands of tradition .,1 +3030,"moretti . . . is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and , as it turns out , more fragile -- than happiness .",1 +4452,"dissing a bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid , but when it has the temerity to run over two hours , you feel like winding up with a kick .",0 +6290,pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle .,0 +208,an extraordinary swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that bille august does best .,1 +66,"the film's almost unbearable portrait of sadness and grief transcends its specific story to speak to the ways in which need , history and presumption tangle , and sometimes destroy , blood ties .",1 +4038,a dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so . the movie is without intent .,0 +3603,"sheridan seems terrified of the book's irreverent energy , and scotches most of its élan , humor , bile , and irony .",0 +2761,a startling and fresh examination of how the bike still remains an ambiguous icon in chinese society .,1 +4802,"good for a few unintentional laughs , "" extreme ops "" was obviously made for the "" xxx "" crowd , people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting , writing , and direction .",0 +7022,"when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement .",0 +445,"you can fire a torpedo through some of clancy's holes , and the scripters don't deserve any oscars . but the nerve-raked acting , the crackle of lines , the impressive stagings of hardware , make for some robust and scary entertainment .",1 +809,"if anything , the film is doing something of a public service -- shedding light on a group of extremely talented musicians who might otherwise go unnoticed and underappreciated by music fans .",1 +1677,it has a subtle way of getting under your skin and sticking with you long after it's over .,1 +3140,what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents .,1 +6301,"the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold .",0 +4293,"the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away .",0 +5720,"vaguely interesting , but it's just too too much .",0 +3843,"schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies , and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character .",0 +5401,this low-rent -- and even lower-wit -- rip-off of the farrelly brothers' oeuvre gets way too mushy -- and in a relatively short amount of time .,0 +1017,"a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-director anthony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production .",1 +4276,"during the tuxedo's 90 minutes of screen time , there isn't one true 'chan moment' .",0 +4733,we may get the full visceral impact of a ruthless army on the warpath but no sense of the devilish complexity of the balkans conflict .,0 +4724,"a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable .",0 +2362,"add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director .",1 +2135,it won't bust your gut -- and it's not intended to -- it's merely a blandly cinematic surgical examination of what makes a joke a joke .,1 +6957,"there is no entry portal in the rules of attraction , and i spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow , selfish , greedy characters .",0 +750,"with few respites , marshall keeps the energy humming , and his edits , unlike those in moulin rouge , are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it .",1 +2143,yakusho and shimizu . . . create engaging characterizations in imamura's lively and enjoyable cultural mix .,1 +3582,"the doofus-on- the-loose banter of welcome to collinwood has a cocky , after-hours loopiness to it . and as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content isn't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is .",0 +4155,"even by the intentionally low standards of frat-boy humor , sorority boys is a bowser .",0 +6707,"go , girls , right down the reality drain .",0 +811,"too much of storytelling moves away from solondz's social critique , casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries .",1 +1985,the story is smart and entirely charming in intent and execution .,1 +5069,"shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage .",0 +6902,"i felt sad for lise not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example .",0 +2058,undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos .,1 +3947,"if hill isn't quite his generation's don siegel ( or robert aldrich ) , it's because there's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it's all bluster and cliché .",0 +2705,"none of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in another film : characterization matters less than atmosphere .",1 +5696,"this rather unfocused , all-over-the-map movie would be a lot better if it pared down its plots and characters to a few rather than dozens . . . or if it were subtler . . . or if it had a sense of humor .",0 +1163,the immersive powers of the giant screen and its hyper-realistic images are put to perfect use in the breathtakingly beautiful outer-space documentary space station 3d .,1 +7001,hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity .,0 +6628,this is really just another genre picture .,0 +4321,big fat liar is just futile silliness looking to tap into the kiddie sensibilities .,0 +6237,. . . salaciously simplistic .,0 +2885,the film's snags and stumblings are more than compensated for by its wryly subversive tone .,1 +5843,who needs love like this ?,0 +2171,rodriguez does a splendid job of racial profiling hollywood style--casting excellent latin actors of all ages--a trend long overdue .,1 +3250,"shattering , devastating documentary on two maladjusted teens in a downward narcotized spiral . extraordinary debut from josh koury .",1 +269,"passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .",1 +1030,"spectacularly beautiful , not to mention mysterious , sensual , emotionally intense , and replete with virtuoso throat-singing .",1 +3404,"an elegant work , food of love is as consistently engaging as it is revealing .",1 +1304,you will likely prefer to keep on watching .,1 +2319,[broomfield] uncovers a story powerful enough to leave the screen sizzling with intrigue .,1 +6302,"it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness .",0 +7010,"narratively , trouble every day is a plodding mess .",0 +4726,"occasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma .",0 +4375,"unfortunately , heartbreak hospital wants to convey the same kind of haughtiness in its own sketchy material but this territory has already been explored previously with better aplomb and sardonic wit .",0 +4826,i hated every minute of it .,0 +209,"the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly .",1 +4059,a bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401 ( k ) statement .,0 +4222,"sorvino makes the princess seem smug and cartoonish , and the film only really comes alive when poor hermocrates and leontine pathetically compare notes about their budding amours .",0 +1059,slight but enjoyable documentary .,1 +1460,"it's a pleasure to see seinfeld griping about the biz with buddies chris rock , garry shandling and colin quinn .",1 +1154,"an absorbing , slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true .",1 +2599,"director-writer bille august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , letting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger .",1 +203,"an intelligent , multi-layered and profoundly humanist ( not to mention gently political ) meditation on the values of knowledge , education , and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement .",1 +544,"if you're as happy listening to movies as you are watching them , and the slow parade of human frailty fascinates you , then you're at the right film .",1 +2939,woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos .,1 +5072,"what will , most likely , turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002 .",0 +710,"while the now 72-year-old robert evans been slowed down by a stroke , he has at least one more story to tell : his own .",1 +362,"in an era where big stars and high production values are standard procedure , narc strikes a defiantly retro chord , and outpaces its contemporaries with daring and verve .",1 +1629,i'm not generally a fan of vegetables but this batch is pretty cute .,1 +3025,"[taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion .",1 +6440,there are plot holes big enough for shamu the killer whale to swim through .,0 +1238,"the byplay and bickering between the now spy-savvy siblings , carmen ( vega ) and juni ( sabara ) cortez , anchor the film in a very real and amusing give-and-take .",1 +4839,"it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical .",0 +2668,"a movie i loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance .",1 +1173,"it is nature against progress . in fessenden's horror trilogy , this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale .",1 +699,the closest thing to the experience of space travel,1 +4206,"so earnest and well-meaning , and so stocked with talent , that you almost forget the sheer , ponderous awfulness of its script .",0 +1066,"it's never laugh-out-loud funny , but it is frequently amusing .",1 +324,splendidly illustrates the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity .,1 +5304,in terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused .,0 +4461,"as violent , profane and exploitative as the most offensive action flick you've ever seen .",0 +7025,"ultimately . . . the movie is too heady for children , and too preachy for adults .",0 +3566,the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face .,0 +6512,"[morgan] , judd and franklin can't save the script , rooted in a novel by joseph finder , from some opportunism .",0 +4976,"squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations , burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare .",0 +5507,"too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize , and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay .",0 +3344,"the last kiss will probably never achieve the popularity of my big fat greek wedding , but its provocative central wedding sequence has far more impact .",1 +6898,a mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird masterpiece theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being .,0 +1685,"chalk it up to my adoration for both de niro and murphy , but i had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flaws .",1 +2630,"even these tales of just seven children seem at times too many , although in reality they are not enough . every child's story is what matters . this film can only point the way -- but thank goodness for this signpost .",1 +2172,a chick flick for guys .,1 +1387,"the leaping story line , shaped by director peter kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions , shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits .",1 +2225,"you can almost see mendes and company getting together before a single frame had been shot and collectively vowing , 'this is going to be something really good . ' and it is .",1 +139,"a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation .",1 +442,"with an unflappable air of decadent urbanity , everett remains a perfect wildean actor , and a relaxed firth displays impeccable comic skill .",1 +2300,"a grittily beautiful film that looks , sounds , and feels more like an extended , open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story .",1 +6824,"schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standard issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfying .",0 +4333,"splashes its drama all over the screen , subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured , but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings .",0 +176,"there's a disreputable air about the whole thing , and that's what makes it irresistible .",1 +1982,the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true .,1 +3458,"there is a real subject here , and it is handled with intelligence and care .",1 +6825,"if it were any more of a turkey , it would gobble in dolby digital stereo . if nothing else , "" rollerball "" 2002 may go down in cinema history as the only movie ever in which the rest of the cast was outshined by ll cool j .",0 +602,"not only is it a charming , funny and beautifully crafted import , it uses very little dialogue , making it relatively effortless to read and follow the action at the same time .",1 +2975,a knowing sense of humor and a lot of warmth ignite son of the bride .,1 +6789,feels strangely hollow at its emotional core .,0 +302,"while not quite "" shrek "" or monsters , inc . "" , it's not too bad . it's worth taking the kids to .",1 +3321,"pull[s] off the rare trick of recreating not only the look of a certain era , but also the feel .",1 +3591,"there's a scientific law to be discerned here that producers would be well to heed : mediocre movies start to drag as soon as the action speeds up ; when the explosions start , they fall to pieces .",0 +6517,"i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno .",0 +6251,the script feels as if it started to explore the obvious voyeuristic potential of 'hypertime' but then backed off when the producers saw the grosses for spy kids .,0 +5174,"the video work is so grainy and rough , so dependent on being 'naturalistic' rather than carefully lit and set up , that it's exhausting to watch .",0 +5653,"[i]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life , chances are you've already seen this kind of thing .",0 +141,a good piece of work more often than not .,1 +2859,"the film is a blunt indictment , part of a perhaps surreal campaign to bring kissinger to trial for crimes against humanity .",1 +3106,steers refreshingly clear of the usual cliches .,1 +6870,"i'm not saying that ice age doesn't have some fairly pretty pictures , but there's not enough substance in the story to actually give them life .",0 +6677,"on a cutting room floor somewhere lies . . . footage that might have made no such thing a trenchant , ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating misfire .",0 +5990,"an acceptable way to pass a little over an hour with moviegoers ages 8-10 , but it's unlikely to inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald's , let alone some savvy street activism .",0 +2539,plays out with a dogged and eventually winning squareness that would make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel .,1 +3468,. . . a powerful sequel and one of the best films of the year .,1 +2012,"intelligent , caustic take on a great writer and dubious human being .",1 +1725,"rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of yiddish culture and language .",1 +6525,"sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks .",0 +5593,looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights .,0 +3562,a well-crafted letdown .,0 +4138,the only fun part of the movie is playing the obvious game . you try to guess the order in which the kids in the house will be gored .,0 +5398,"the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life .",0 +5123,"a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters .",0 +3544,"hatosy . . . portrays young brendan with his usual intelligence and subtlety , not to mention a convincing brogue .",1 +4178,the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling .,0 +6415,"the band performances featured in drumline are red hot . . . [but] from a mere story point of view , the film's ice cold .",0 +1362,"i found the ring moderately absorbing , largely for its elegantly colorful look and sound .",1 +1615,"if mostly martha is mostly unsurprising , it's still a sweet , even delectable diversion .",1 +1553,has enough gun battles and throwaway humor to cover up the yawning chasm where the plot should be .,1 +6600,"as self-aware movies go , who is cletis tout ? is clever enough , though thin writing proves its undoing .",0 +3787,"the production values are up there . the use of cgi and digital ink-and-paint make the thing look really slick . the voices are fine as well . the problem , it is with most of these things , is the script .",0 +1014,it's good to see michael caine whipping out the dirty words and punching people in the stomach again .,1 +5221,"though clearly well-intentioned , this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted .",0 +2507,real women have curves wears its empowerment on its sleeve but even its worst harangues are easy to swallow thanks to remarkable performances by ferrera and ontiveros .,1 +827,"captivates as it shows excess in business and pleasure , allowing us to find the small , human moments , and leaving off with a grand whimper .",1 +6906,"most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved",0 +783,"this is cool , slick stuff , ready to quench the thirst of an audience that misses the summer blockbusters .",1 +2792,"one of those rare , exhilarating cinematic delights that gets even better in hindsight , as you mull over its every nuance in your mind .",1 +5788,the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor .,0 +2824,my big fat greek wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor .,1 +851,"dogtown and z-boys more than exposes the roots of the skateboarding boom that would become "" the punk kids' revolution . """,1 +2283,alan and his fellow survivors are idiosyncratic enough to lift the movie above its playwriting 101 premise .,1 +849,"no sophomore slump for director sam mendes , who segues from oscar winner to oscar-winning potential with a smooth sleight of hand .",1 +3465,"compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph .",1 +3994,"lanie's professional success means she must be a failure at life , because she's driven by ambition and doesn't know how to have fun .",0 +5094,"'dragonfly' dwells on crossing-over mumbo jumbo , manipulative sentimentality , and sappy dialogue .",0 +6484,execrable .,0 +2639,"the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time .",1 +1702,the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . .,1 +4401,"while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire .",0 +3918,it won't be long before you'll spy i spy at a video store near you .,0 +5424,"well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wheels .",0 +3675,"it's not a bad plot ; but , unfortunately , the movie is nowhere near as refined as all the classic dramas it borrows from .",0 +6773,if only merchant paid more attention the story .,0 +6816,a high-minded snoozer .,0 +21,a very funny movie .,1 +1580,one-of-a-kind near-masterpiece .,1 +5803,"[javier bardem is] one of the few reasons to watch the film , which director gerardo vera has drenched in swoony music and fever-pitched melodrama .",0 +5771,poor ben bratt couldn't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions .,0 +890,the biggest problem with this movie is that it's not nearly long enough .,1 +4591,"it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic .",0 +2320,"'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . '",1 +3522,a small movie with a big heart .,1 +6500,"it does nothing new with the old story , except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28k modem .",0 +1728,a true-blue delight .,1 +4563,"it's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense .",0 +4626,another rent installment for the ian fleming estate .,0 +3379,"rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut .",1 +2876,""" home movie "" is a sweet treasure and something well worth your time .",1 +225,"a reminder that beyond all the hype and recent digital glitz , spielberg knows how to tell us about people .",1 +6744,imagine the james woods character from videodrome making a home movie of audrey rose and showing it to the kid from the sixth sense and you've imagined the ring .,0 +5928,"god is great , the movie's not .",0 +1344,"tends to pile too many "" serious issues "" on its plate at times , yet remains fairly light , always entertaining , and smartly written .",1 +4505,even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor .,0 +4527,"drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story .",0 +5067,"this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same .",0 +3923,the film's tone and pacing are off almost from the get-go .,0 +3285,fantastic !,1 +4889,the ending is a cop-out . what happens to john q ? i don't have an i am sam clue .,0 +5881,stay away . far away .,0 +4450,"whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it's an unhappy situation all around .",0 +4790,a prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp .,0 +3763,". . . expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse , turning into a black hole of dullness , from which no interesting concept can escape .",0 +1219,one of those exceedingly rare films in which the talk alone is enough to keep us involved .,1 +2421,"a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort .",1 +5341,"this is a fragmented film , once a good idea that was followed by the bad idea to turn it into a movie .",0 +4771,"the result is good gossip , entertainingly delivered , yet with a distinctly musty odour , its expiry date long gone .",0 +975,smith finds amusing juxtapositions that justify his exercise .,1 +5742,"call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any movie with a life-affirming message .",0 +5240,"lazy , miserable and smug . this is one of the biggest disappointments of the year .",0 +5753,looks and feels like a project better suited for the small screen .,0 +4117,falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funny .,0 +6445,this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows .,0 +553,"isn't quite the equal of woo's best earlier work , but it's easily his finest american film . . . comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his hong kong films .",1 +6125,"needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey .",0 +5480,a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .,0 +585,"dark , resonant , inventively detailed and packed with fleet turns of plot and a feast of visual amazement .",1 +162,the paradiso's rusted-out ruin and ultimate collapse during the film's final ( restored ) third…emotionally belittle a cinema classic . sometimes shorter is better .,1 +4431,"lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert .",0 +4775,"such a premise is ripe for all manner of lunacy , but kaufman and gondry rarely seem sure of where it should go .",0 +6270,an excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay .,0 +3306,"as a girl-meets-girl romantic comedy , kissing jessica steinis quirky , charming and often hilarious . yet it's not quite the genre-busting film it's been hyped to be because it plays everything too safe .",1 +7008,quick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ?,0 +4819,"i know we're not supposed to take it seriously , but i can't shake the thought that undercover brother missed an opportunity to strongly present some profound social commentary .",0 +5996,"hardly makes the kind of points egoyan wanted to make , nor does it exist as the kind of monument he wanted to build , to victims whose voices have never gained the ears of the world .",0 +813,do we really need a 77-minute film to tell us exactly why a romantic relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman doesn't work ?,1 +2257,me without you has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood .,1 +600,hardly a film that comes along every day .,1 +4524,"despite the pyrotechnics , narc is strictly by the book .",0 +5349,"the story of trouble every day . . . is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film , and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustrating difficult .",0 +605,but this is not a movie about an inhuman monster ; it's about a very human one .,1 +4742,an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie .,0 +4313,"portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama .",0 +1098,atom egoyan has conjured up a multilayered work that tackles any number of fascinating issues,1 +4195,"far-fetched premise , convoluted plot , and thematic mumbo jumbo about destiny and redemptive love .",0 +2000,"tim allen is great in his role but never hogs the scenes from his fellow cast , as there are plenty of laughs and good lines for everyone in this comedy .",1 +6942,like the chelsea's denizens . . . burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste .,0 +2978,"workmanlike , maybe , but still a film with all the elements that made the other three great , scary times at the movies .",1 +1010,. . . digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations .,1 +4423,"a 93-minute condensation of a 26-episode tv series , with all of the pitfalls of such you'd expect .",0 +464,plummer steals the show without resorting to camp as nicholas' wounded and wounding uncle ralph . it's a great performance and a reminder of dickens' grandeur .,1 +1157,"[a] rare , beautiful film .",1 +5709,doesn't add up to much .,0 +2052,enticing and often funny documentary .,1 +2234,"i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold .",1 +4655,"violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining .",0 +1779,". . . plenty of warmth to go around , with music and laughter and the love of family .",1 +1601,"who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quirky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodshed .",1 +6100,"what we have here isn't a disaster , exactly , but a very handsomely produced let-down .",0 +211,"fast , frantic and fun , but also soon forgotten",1 +6190,you know that ten bucks you'd spend on a ticket ? just send it to cranky . we don't get paid enough to sit through crap like this .,0 +6569,"who are 'they' ? well , they're 'they' . they're the unnamed , easily substitutable forces that serve as whatever terror the heroes of horror movies try to avoid . they exist for hushed lines like "" they're back ! "" , "" they're out there ! "" and "" they're coming ! """,0 +5144,the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness .,0 +2043,steve irwin's method is ernest hemmingway at accelerated speed and volume .,1 +5759,"watchable up until the point where the situations and the dialogue spin hopelessly out of control -- that is to say , when carol kane appears on the screen .",0 +2254,"an exhilarating futuristic thriller-noir , minority report twists the best of technology around a gripping story , delivering a riveting , pulse intensifying escapist adventure of the first order",1 +118,there's no reason to miss interview with the assassin,1 +4274,it's sort of a 21st century morality play with a latino hip hop beat . but the second half of the movie really goes downhill .,0 +5586,"the film has a few cute ideas and several modest chuckles but it isn't exactly kiddie-friendly… alas , santa is more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho and the snowman ( who never gets to play that flute ) has all the charm of a meltdown .",0 +3513,"a worthwhile documentary , whether you're into rap or not , even if it may still leave you wanting more answers as the credits roll .",1 +3577,"it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy .",0 +2852,gently humorous and touching .,1 +6849,this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring,0 +4933,"a static and sugary little half-hour , after-school special about interfaith understanding , stretched out to 90 minutes .",0 +3183,"as relationships shift , director robert j . siegel allows the characters to inhabit their world without cleaving to a narrative arc .",1 +2071,"the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them .",1 +6561,"though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before .",0 +4393,the problematic characters and overly convenient plot twists foul up shum's good intentions .,0 +881,"it's a fine , focused piece of work that reopens an interesting controversy and never succumbs to sensationalism .",1 +6538,a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be .,0 +6043,. . . what a banal bore the preachy circuit turns out to be,0 +3658,"to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy .",0 +3440,"it's a talking head documentary , but a great one .",1 +1865,"[shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit , purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count .",1 +2851,"the acting in pauline and paulette is good all round , but what really sets the film apart is debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons .",1 +2793,"katz uses archival footage , horrifying documents of lynchings , still photographs and charming old reel-to-reel recordings of meeropol entertaining his children to create his song history , but most powerful of all is the song itself",1 +5587,"j . lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie , although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear : she's a pretty woman , but she's no working girl .",0 +5967,schneidermeister . . . makin' a fool of himself . . . losin' his fan base . . .,0 +911,"reminiscent of alfred hitchcock's thrillers , most of the scary parts in 'signs' occur while waiting for things to happen .",1 +2205,the large-format film is well suited to capture these musicians in full regalia and the incredible imax sound system lets you feel the beat down to your toes .,1 +2711,"a highly watchable , giggly little story with a sweet edge to it .",1 +4490,"sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .",0 +6407,"wasabi is slight fare indeed , with the entire project having the feel of something tossed off quickly ( like one of hubert's punches ) , but it should go down smoothly enough with popcorn .",0 +4175,"blessed with immense physical prowess he may well be , but ahola is simply not an actor . and in truth , cruel as it may sound , he makes arnold schwarzenegger look like spencer tracy .",0 +3273,jagger the actor is someone you want to see again .,1 +3303,"the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy .",1 +2305,a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory .,1 +5539,"if you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright , then blood work is for you .",0 +5165,"the movie doesn't generate a lot of energy . it is dark , brooding and slow , and takes its central idea way too seriously .",0 +4532,a loquacious and dreary piece of business .,0 +1474,"like many western action films , this thriller is too loud and thoroughly overbearing , but its heartfelt concern about north korea's recent past and south korea's future adds a much needed moral weight .",1 +2034,"at times auto focus feels so distant you might as well be watching it through a telescope . yet in its own aloof , unreachable way it's so fascinating you won't be able to look away for a second .",1 +4127,a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 .,0 +5676,dilbert without the right-on satiric humor .,0 +3336,. . . a well-observed and disturbing little movie,1 +2189,"stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .",1 +1228,"elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of passions , love .",1 +6371,"comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire .",0 +5360,"nijinsky says , 'i know how to suffer' and if you see this film you'll know too .",0 +2625,a wildly entertaining scan of evans' career .,1 +5475,could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes .,0 +1689,"the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids .",1 +987,"nair doesn't use [monsoon wedding] to lament the loss of culture . instead , she sees it as a chance to revitalize what is and always has been remarkable about clung-to traditions .",1 +5277,"see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died .",0 +4428,"the movie is a desperate miscalculation . it gives poor dana carvey nothing to do that is really funny , and then expects us to laugh because he acts so goofy all the time .",0 +1507,"ludicrous , but director carl franklin adds enough flourishes and freak-outs to make it entertaining .",1 +6355,some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations .,0 +356,"the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates .",1 +3075,"if you like peace , you'll like promises .",1 +4219,"contains all the substance of a twinkie -- easy to swallow , but scarcely nourishing .",0 +6028,the plot is so predictable and sentimental that viewers are likely to lose interest before sandrine and her goats walk off into the sunset .,0 +2637,"we get an image of big papa spanning history , rather than suspending it .",1 +935,deliberately and skillfully uses ambiguity to suggest possibilities which imbue the theme with added depth and resonance .,1 +312,"maybe it is formula filmmaking , but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is .",1 +6016,festers in just such a dungpile that you'd swear you were watching monkeys flinging their feces at you .,0 +1527,"roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck – few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project .",1 +3823,"a few nonbelievers may rethink their attitudes when they see the joy the characters take in this creed , but skeptics aren't likely to enter the theater .",0 +2192,"it remains to be seen whether statham can move beyond the crime-land action genre , but then again , who says he has to ?",1 +4181,"this hastily mounted production exists only to capitalize on hopkins' inclination to play hannibal lecter again , even though harris has no immediate inclination to provide a fourth book .",0 +5730,"a sham construct based on theory , sleight-of-hand , and ill-wrought hypothesis .",0 +1932,"yeah , these flicks are just that damn good . isn't it great ?",1 +6184,"in the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes , director roger kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor of . . . outrageous gags .",0 +3500,[ferrera] has the charisma of a young woman who knows how to hold the screen .,1 +2586,ferrara directs the entire film with the kind of detachment that makes any given frame look like a family's custom-made christmas card .,1 +4797,. . . delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story .,0 +6786,stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed .,0 +5045,the worst kind of independent ; the one where actors play dress down hicks and ponderously mope around trying to strike lightning as captured by their 1970s predecessors,0 +4495,snipes is both a snore and utter tripe .,0 +595,"it will not appeal to the impatient , but those who like long books and movies will admire the way it accumulates power and depth .",1 +6871,"offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life .",0 +6488,"this pep-talk for faith , hope and charity does little to offend , but if saccharine earnestness were a crime , the film's producers would be in the clink for life .",0 +7070,entertainment more disposable than hanna-barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were .,0 +1898,uneven but a lot of fun .,1 +5600,irwin and his director never come up with an adequate reason why we should pay money for what we can get on television for free .,0 +4917,the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness .,0 +4803,"this movie is so bad , that it's almost worth seeing because it's so bad .",0 +2806,"the sentimental script has problems , but the actors pick up the slack .",1 +3827,"i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him .",0 +3286,"the main story . . . is compelling enough , but it's difficult to shrug off the annoyance of that chatty fish .",1 +1277,"rouge is less about a superficial midlife crisis than it is about the need to stay in touch with your own skin , at 18 or 80 .",1 +6228,a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie .,0 +2214,"it may not be a huge cut of above the rest , but i enjoyed barbershop . it's a funny little movie with clever dialogue and likeable characters .",1 +2483,"a fresh , entertaining comedy that looks at relationships minus traditional gender roles .",1 +6800,"what we get in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's badder than bad .",0 +423,daring and beautifully made .,1 +1348,"this is so de palma . if you love him , you'll like it . if you don't . . . well , skip to another review .",1 +3424,hard to resist .,1 +4508,"producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that "" they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . "" ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway",0 +4944,sam mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out .,0 +2569,in the end there is one word that best describes this film : honest .,1 +425,". . . is there a deeper , more direct connection between these women , one that spans time and reveals meaning ? you bet there is and it's what makes this rather convoluted journey worth taking .",1 +26,the film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers .,1 +4471,more whiny downer than corruscating commentary .,0 +291,family fare .,1 +1445,the premise of jason x is silly but strangely believable .,1 +2167,darkly funny and frequently insightful .,1 +1026,a subtle and well-crafted ( for the most part ) chiller .,1 +6949,"in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine .",0 +1574,an appealingly juvenile trifle that delivers its share of laughs and smiles .,1 +3864,the latest adam sandler assault and possibly the worst film of the year .,0 +2928,"evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes .",1 +5972,"eventually , they will have a showdown , but , by then , your senses are as mushy as peas and you don't care who fires the winning shot .",0 +5689,"imagine kevin smith , the blasphemous bad boy of suburban jersey , if he were stripped of most of his budget and all of his sense of humor . the result might look like vulgar .",0 +2366,this bracingly truthful antidote to hollywood teenage movies that slather clearasil over the blemishes of youth captures the combustible mixture of a chafing inner loneliness and desperate grandiosity that tend to characterize puberty .,1 +5786,sensitive though not quite revelatory documentary .,0 +5258,"i can only imagine one thing worse than kevin spacey trying on an irish accent , and that's sultry linda fiorentino doing the same thing .",0 +2584,a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastrophe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurotic romantic comedy in cinema history .,1 +1654,"the hook is the drama within the drama , as an unsolved murder and an unresolved moral conflict jockey for the spotlight .",1 +2084,"a breezy romantic comedy that has the punch of a good sitcom , while offering exceptionally well-detailed characters .",1 +2763,much of what we see is horrible but it's also undeniably exceedingly clever .,1 +387,"piercingly affecting . . . while clearly a manipulative film , emerges as powerful rather than cloying .",1 +2969,"using an endearing cast , writer/director dover kosashvili takes a slightly dark look at relationships , both sexual and kindred .",1 +3312,like these russo guys lookin' for their mamet instead found their sturges .,1 +2611,"a powerful , inflammatory film about religion that dares to question an ancient faith , and about hatred that offers no easy , comfortable resolution .",1 +6922,clayburgh and tambor are charming performers ; neither of them deserves eric schaeffer .,0 +2017,". . . the story , like ravel's bolero , builds to a crescendo that encompasses many more paths than we started with .",1 +72,"it's tough to watch , but it's a fantastic movie .",1 +1249,cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors .,1 +6156,even the hastily and amateurishly drawn animation cannot engage .,0 +4700,i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy .,0 +4282,"as an actor , the rock is aptly named .",0 +200,a masterpiece four years in the making .,1 +3145,"all the pieces fall together without much surprise , but little moments give it a boost .",1 +575,"an enjoyable , if occasionally flawed , experiment .",1 +168,[scherfig] has made a movie that will leave you wondering about the characters' lives after the clever credits roll .,1 +1714,"evokes a palpable sense of disconnection , made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones .",1 +2313,"creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget .",1 +3950,"a dull , dumb and derivative horror film .",0 +329,"in a normal screen process , these bromides would be barely enough to sustain an interstitial program on the discovery channel . but in imax 3-d , the clichés disappear into the vertiginous perspectives opened up by the photography .",1 +2264,at heart the movie is a deftly wrought suspense yarn whose richer shadings work as coloring rather than substance .,1 +746,kept aloft largely by a comically adept ensemble .,1 +256,"this is a movie that refreshes the mind and spirit along with the body , so original is its content , look , and style .",1 +6542,"the movie spends more time with schneider than with newcomer mcadams , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his .",0 +5756,though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression .,0 +4451,the skills of a calculus major at m . i . t . are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy who is cletis tout ?,0 +1234,"a taut , sobering film .",1 +475,"it might be 'easier' to watch on video at home , but that shouldn't stop die-hard french film connoisseurs from going out and enjoying the big-screen experience .",1 +1760,"this fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality , creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives the lady and the duke something of a theatrical air .",1 +3450,". . . a somber film , almost completely unrelieved by any comedy beyond the wistful everyday ironies of the working poor .",1 +6354,"the movie is so contrived , nonsensical and formulaic that , come to think of it , the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it .",0 +3027,the wanton slipperiness of * corpus and its amiable jerking and reshaping of physical time and space would make it a great piece to watch with kids and use to introduce video as art .,1 +6909,forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore .,0 +3188,a mischievous visual style and oodles of charm make 'cherish' a very good ( but not great ) movie .,1 +2839,"featuring a dangerously seductive performance from the great daniel auteuil , "" sade "" covers the same period as kaufmann's "" quills "" with more unsettlingly realistic results .",1 +563,"it's excessively quirky and a little underconfident in its delivery , but otherwise this is the best 'old neighborhood' project since christopher walken kinda romanced cyndi lauper in the opportunists .",1 +2298,the rare imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour .,1 +3354,"it's soulful and unslick , and that's apparently just what [aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career .",1 +1112,"despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience .",1 +4081,"my precious new star wars movie is a lumbering , wheezy drag . . .",0 +5348,"like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .",0 +4867,"the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack .",0 +3862,"i still can't relate to stuart : he's a mouse , for cryin' out loud , and all he does is milk it with despondent eyes and whine that nobody treats him human enough .",0 +3669,"in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest .",0 +1233,"a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic , the work of a genuine and singular artist .",1 +5006,"it's the element of condescension , as the filmmakers look down on their working-class subjects from their lofty perch , that finally makes sex with strangers , which opens today in the new york metropolitan area , so distasteful .",0 +6253,"perfectly enjoyable , instantly forgettable , nothing to write home about .",0 +2259,"borrows a bit from the classics "" wait until dark "" and "" extremities "" . . . but in terms of its style , the movie is in a class by itself .",1 +1410,"seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but .",1 +4112,"it's push-the-limits teen comedy , the type written by people who can't come up with legitimate funny , and it's used so extensively that good bits are hopelessly overshadowed .",0 +2981,"holy mad maniac in a mask , splat-man ! good old-fashioned slash-and-hack is back !",1 +3177,the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la,1 +1446,"coy but exhilarating , with really solid performances by ving rhames and wesley snipes .",1 +6917,"the punch lines that miss , unfortunately , outnumber the hits by three-to-one . but death to smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end .",0 +5958,"at its best , queen is campy fun like the vincent price horror classics of the '60s . at its worst , it implodes in a series of very bad special effects .",0 +5091,borrows from other movies like it in the most ordinary and obvious fashion .,0 +3643,"things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content .",0 +6098,not just unlikable . disturbing . disgusting . without any redeeming value whatsoever .,0 +767,"nair's cast is so large it's altman-esque , but she deftly spins the multiple stories in a vibrant and intoxicating fashion .",1 +1247,"others , more attuned to the anarchist maxim that 'the urge to destroy is also a creative urge' , or more willing to see with their own eyes , will find morrison's iconoclastic uses of technology to be liberating .",1 +777,"it's jagger's bone-dry , mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite .",1 +2414,"try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of kaufman's approach , somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment .",1 +1222,"functions as both a revealing look at the collaborative process and a timely , tongue-in-cheek profile of the corporate circus that is the recording industry in the current climate of mergers and downsizing .",1 +1573,"windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live .",1 +6656,what can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log ?,0 +4239,sometimes makes less sense than the bruckheimeresque american action flicks it emulates .,0 +1673,the chateau cleverly probes the cross-cultural differences between gauls and yanks .,1 +3911,"starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter .",0 +3569,"there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it .",0 +540,a beautiful paean to a time long past .,1 +5399,"the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children .",0 +2633,"a positively thrilling combination of ethnography and all the intrigue , betrayal , deceit and murder of a shakespearean tragedy or a juicy soap opera .",1 +4238,""" feardotcom "" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel , but it simply becomes a routine shocker .",0 +5011,"it takes a certain kind of horror movie to qualify as 'worse than expected , ' but ghost ship somehow manages to do exactly that .",0 +1583,"on its own cinematic terms , it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist byatt .",1 +4062,it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high .,0 +5672,marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue .,0 +5574,"you come away thinking not only that kate isn't very bright , but that she hasn't been worth caring about and that maybe she , janine and molly -- an all-woman dysfunctional family -- deserve one another .",0 +3654,i wonder what the reaction of israelis will be to this supposedly evenhanded presentation .,0 +2209,a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not .,1 +2528,about as big a crowdpleaser as they possibly come .,1 +2089,"there's nothing like love to give a movie a b-12 shot , and cq shimmers with it .",1 +477,a sports movie with action that's exciting on the field and a story you care about off it .,1 +1994,"a memorable experience that , like many of his works , presents weighty issues colorfully wrapped up in his own idiosyncratic strain of kitschy goodwill .",1 +5113,the film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film .,0 +6742,"like a can of 2-day old coke . you can taste it , but there's no fizz .",0 +3704,best described as i know what you did last winter .,0 +2774,"this film is not a love letter for the slain rappers , it's a taunt -a call for justice for two crimes from which many of us have not yet recovered .",1 +1753,"light , cute and forgettable .",1 +6453,'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates .,0 +2360,"mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated characters be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human .",1 +5314,"all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion .",0 +780,"the level of maturity displayed by this 33-year-old first-time feature director is astonishing , considering her inexperience and her subject matter .",1 +5008,"a lot of talent is wasted in this crass , low-wattage endeavor .",0 +2194,. . . quite good at providing some good old fashioned spooks .,1 +2782,"by the end of no such thing the audience , like beatrice , has a watchful affection for the monster .",1 +2847,"it's surprisingly decent , particularly for a tenth installment in a series .",1 +1425,"bursting through the constraints of its source , this is one adapted- from-television movie that actually looks as if it belongs on the big screen .",1 +3345,if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you .,1 +3477,"often hilarious , well-shot and , importantly , entertaining , hell house is a fascinating document of an event that has to be seen to be believed .",1 +6797,"it's tough , astringent , darkly funny and . . . well , it's also generic , untidy , condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning .",0 +1803,"more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it .",1 +137,its rawness and vitality give it considerable punch .,1 +4485,nights feels more like a quickie tv special than a feature film . . . it's not even a tv special you'd bother watching past the second commercial break .,0 +2277,full of surprises .,1 +1119,"for those who like quirky , slightly strange french films , this is a must !",1 +913,"it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad .",1 +2459,". . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , slow scenes . but something seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps .",1 +1598,"the best thing the film does is to show us not only what that mind looks like , but how the creative process itself operates .",1 +857,"one of the best examples of how to treat a subject , you're not fully aware is being examined , much like a photo of yourself you didn't know was being taken .",1 +1063,"romantic comedy and dogme 95 filmmaking may seem odd bedfellows , but they turn out to be delightfully compatible here .",1 +301,"the inhospitability of the land emphasizes the spare precision of the narratives and helps to give them an atavistic power , as if they were tales that had been handed down since the beginning of time .",1 +2047,"sure , i hated myself in the morning . but then again , i hate myself most mornings . i still like moonlight mile , better judgment be damned .",1 +759,[barry] gives assassin a disquieting authority .,1 +28,"director kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic landscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth .",1 +4752,"ninety minutes of viva castro ! can be as tiresome as 9 seconds of jesse helms' anti- castro rhetoric , which are included",0 +295,"assayas' ambitious , sometimes beautiful adaptation of jacques chardonne's novel .",1 +2831,"hey , happy ! is many things -- stoner midnight flick , sci-fi deconstruction , gay fantasia -- but above all it's a love story as sanguine as its title .",1 +6842,ends up offering nothing more than the latest schwarzenegger or stallone flick would .,0 +4607,the kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea .,0 +1834,it's refreshing to see a romance this smart .,1 +2930,"the director , steven shainberg , has succeeded by focusing intently on his characters , making them quirky individuals rather than figures of fun .",1 +174,"i don't know precisely what to make of steven soderbergh's full frontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it .",1 +2861,"the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little story in the process .",1 +190,this is one of those war movies that focuses on human interaction rather than battle and action sequences . . . and it's all the stronger because of it .,1 +6409,"everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste .",0 +3812,this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour .,0 +1097,quietly engaging .,1 +5021,"the film didn't move me one way or the other , but it was an honest effort and if you want to see a flick about telemarketers this one will due .",0 +2990,"there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling .",1 +3790,it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition .,0 +6567,"solaris is rigid and evasive in ways that soderbergh's best films , "" erin brockovich , "" "" out of sight "" and "" ocean's eleven , "" never were .",0 +52,"steven soderbergh's digital video experiment is a clever and cutting , quick and dirty look at modern living and movie life .",1 +2795,"as a director , mr . ratliff wisely rejects the temptation to make fun of his subjects .",1 +6885,overburdened with complicated plotting and banal dialogue,0 +1729,otto-sallies has a real filmmaker's eye .,1 +2198,"sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite , but sometimes it must have seemed to frida kahlo as if her life did , too .",1 +220,"it's a testament to de niro and director michael caton-jones that by movie's end , we accept the characters and the film , flaws and all .",1 +682,"it was filled with shootings , beatings , and more cussing than you could shake a stick at .",1 +3759,this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired .,0 +241,"though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music , the film is designed to make viewers of all ages , cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance .",1 +6,"apesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter .",1 +5557,"as spent screen series go , star trek : nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink .",0 +736,"a new film from bill plympton , the animation master , is always welcome .",1 +4136,"nemesis suffers from a paunchy midsection , several plodding action sequences and a wickedly undramatic central theme .",0 +502,"it's rare to find a film that dazzles the eye , challenges the brain , and satisfies our lust for fast-paced action , but minority report delivers all that and a whole lot more .",1 +1974,"though the plot is predictable , the movie never feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters .",1 +7052,the film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's production design .,0 +1230,"a hugely rewarding experience that's every bit as enlightening , insightful and entertaining as grant's two best films -- four weddings and a funeral and bridget jones's diary .",1 +3799,two-bit potboiler .,0 +2255,"austin powers in goldmember is a cinematic car wreck , a catastrophic collision of tastelessness and gall that nevertheless will leave fans clamoring for another ride .",1 +5074,"stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about .",0 +3086,rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart .,1 +2696,a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know .,1 +675,"while centered on the life experiences of a particular theatrical family , this marvelous documentary touches -- ever so gracefully -- on the entire history of the yiddish theater , both in america and israel .",1 +5285,"by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived .",0 +3906,"just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing .",0 +6203,there's nothing interesting in unfaithful whatsoever .,0 +6247,"any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it .",0 +6793,it's young guns meets goodfellas in this easily skippable hayseeds-vs . -greaseballs mob action-comedy .,0 +1936,"a thoughtful , provocative , insistently humanizing film .",1 +4244,barry sonnenfeld owes frank the pug big time,0 +6144,might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper .,0 +64,"nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book .",1 +67,"payne constructs a hilarious ode to middle america and middle age with this unlikely odyssey , featuring a pathetic , endearing hero who is all too human .",1 +4800,"for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown .",0 +73,exciting documentary .,1 +2357,"one feels the dimming of a certain ambition , but in its place a sweetness , clarity and emotional openness that recalls the classics of early italian neorealism .",1 +5267,"the movie's plot is almost entirely witless and inane , carrying every gag two or three times beyond its limit to sustain a laugh .",0 +152,"goofy , nutty , consistently funny . and educational !",1 +321,"one of the finest , most humane and important holocaust movies ever made .",1 +4078,wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your lives !,0 +4633,"we could have expected a little more human being , and a little less product .",0 +1122,"so fiendishly cunning that even the most jaded cinema audiences will leave the auditorium feeling dizzy , confused , and totally disorientated . not to mention absolutely refreshed .",1 +6967,uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth .,0 +3903,"there are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church , synagogue or temple doesn't mean you have to check your brain at the door . the same should go for movie theaters .",0 +310,"though its story is only surface deep , the visuals and enveloping sounds of blue crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see .",1 +559,"enjoyably fast-moving , hard-hitting documentary .",1 +4365,strictly a 'guy's film' in the worst sense of the expression .,0 +5547,why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ?,0 +5494,"this re-do is so dumb and so exploitative in its violence that , ironically , it becomes everything that the rather clumsy original was railing against .",0 +5705,"the furious coherence that [deniro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself , which feels , as it plods toward the end , less like a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing .",0 +3890,"if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna .",0 +2141,brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her best to keep up with him .,1 +5194,"caso você sinta necessidade de sair da sala antes do término da projeção , não se preocupe : ninguém lhe enviará penas simbolizando covardia .",0 +3020,"a provocative movie about loss , anger , greed , jealousy , sickness and love .",1 +606,a marvel like none you've seen .,1 +2444,if your taste runs to 'difficult' films you absolutely can't miss it .,1 +5458,"lisa rinzler's cinematography may be lovely , but love liza's tale itself virtually collapses into an inhalant blackout , maintaining consciousness just long enough to achieve callow pretension .",0 +4154,fails to convince the audience that these brats will ever be anything more than losers .,0 +990,"although jackson is doubtless reserving the darkest hours for the return of the king , we long for a greater sense of urgency in the here and now of the two towers .",1 +2302,cho's latest comic set isn't as sharp or as fresh as i'm the one that i want . . . but it's still damn funny stuff .,1 +2655,"as if trying to grab a lump of play-doh , the harder that liman tries to squeeze his story , the more details slip out between his fingers .",1 +4074,"lástima por schwarzenegger , pero es hora de que deje la estafeta a las nuevas generaciones .",0 +4324,all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto .,0 +2691,this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative .,1 +843,"in all , this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been .",1 +4879,"maybe it's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a little more than this .",0 +1618,"a bowel-curdling , heart-stopping recipe for terror .",1 +6528,"this one is certainly well-meaning , but it's also simple-minded and contrived .",0 +183,you will emerge with a clearer view of how the gears of justice grind on and the death report comes to share airtime alongside the farm report .,1 +3081,"perfectly pitched between comedy and tragedy , hope and despair , about schmidt instead comes far closer than many movies to expressing the way many of us live -- someplace between consuming self-absorption and insistently demanding otherness .",1 +4382,"though frida is easier to swallow than julie taymor's preposterous titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio .",0 +2104,"the vivid lead performances sustain interest and empathy , but the journey is far more interesting than the final destination .",1 +4588,it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw .,0 +2933,"a funny , triumphant , and moving documentary .",1 +2555,"watching haneke's film is , aptly enough , a challenge and a punishment . but watching huppert , a great actress tearing into a landmark role , is riveting .",1 +3174,"an uncomfortable experience , but one as brave and challenging as you could possibly expect these days from american cinema .",1 +790,"the movie is brilliant , really . it is philosophy , illustrated through everyday events .",1 +6485,even after 90 minutes of playing opposite each other bullock and grant still look ill at ease sharing the same scene . what should have been a painless time-killer becomes instead a grating endurance test .,0 +1635,"while guzmán frustratingly refuses to give pinochet's crimes a political context , his distance from the material is mostly admirable .",1 +589,the script manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar .,1 +5002,"like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six .",0 +2961,the kind of sense of humor that derives from a workman's grasp of pun and entendre and its attendant need to constantly draw attention to itself .,1 +6928,"it's not a film to be taken literally on any level , but its focus always appears questionable .",0 +3916,the only surprise is that heavyweights joel silver and robert zemeckis agreed to produce this ; i assume the director has pictures of them cavorting in ladies' underwear .,0 +4037,director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .,0 +697,"devotees of star trek ii : the wrath of khan will feel a nagging sense of deja vu , and the grandeur of the best next generation episodes is lacking .",1 +2149,a great comedy filmmaker knows great comedy needn't always make us laugh . tim story's not there yet - but 'barbershop' shows he's on his way .,1 +3265,"with 'bowling for columbine , ' michael moore gives us the perfect starting point for a national conversation about guns , violence , and fear .",1 +2246,a compelling portrait of moral emptiness,1 +3734,most of the movie is so deadly dull that watching the proverbial paint dry would be a welcome improvement .,0 +4121,curling may be a unique sport but men with brooms is distinctly ordinary .,0 +2112,a story about intelligent high school students that deals with first love sweetly but also seriously . it is also beautifully acted .,1 +385,combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration .,1 +1397,"from both a great and a terrible story , mr . nelson has made a film that is an undeniably worthy and devastating experience .",1 +2451,"for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie .",1 +4183,"several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante .",0 +4593,another boorish movie from the i-heard-a-joke- at-a-frat-party school of screenwriting .,0 +2232,a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present .,1 +4950,"uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions .",0 +5518,"a gorgeous , somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising .",0 +2341,"depending upon your reaction to this movie , you may never again be able to look at a red felt sharpie pen without disgust , a thrill , or the giggles .",1 +5073,cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them .,0 +6646,"an allegory concerning the chronically mixed signals african american professionals get about overachieving could be intriguing , but the supernatural trappings only obscure the message .",0 +3165,"it is a film that will have people walking out halfway through , will encourage others to stand up and applaud , and will , undoubtedly , leave both camps engaged in a ferocious debate for years to come .",1 +3109,"the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough .",1 +4308,"as gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character , there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy , clean-cut dahmer ( jeremy renner ) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge .",0 +3169,"a sharp and quick documentary that is funny and pithy , while illuminating an era of theatrical comedy that , while past , really isn't .",1 +3259,what makes this film special is serry's ability to take what is essentially a contained family conflict and put it into a much larger historical context .,1 +3532,"the whole is quite entertaining , but despite its virtues , there is an unsettled feeling to the film .",1 +5612,a cautionary tale about the folly of superficiality that is itself endlessly superficial .,0 +3914,"despite the fact that this film wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be , it's still not a good movie",0 +1880,"not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved , and daniel radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as harry , but the film conjures the magic of author j . k . rowling's books .",1 +4657,"despite her relentless vim and winsome facial symmetry , witherspoon is just too dialed-up to be america's sweetheart .",0 +3677,"this is sandler running on empty , repeating what he's already done way too often .",0 +3554,the colorful masseur wastes its time on mood rather than riding with the inherent absurdity of ganesh's rise up the social ladder .,0 +2957,"an overly familiar scenario is made fresh by an intelligent screenplay and gripping performances in this low-budget , video-shot , debut indie effort .",1 +1322,"rich in atmosphere of the post-war art world , it manages to instruct without reeking of research library dust .",1 +2736,""" 13 conversations "" holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point .",1 +1569,"brings to a spectacular completion one of the most complex , generous and subversive artworks of the last decade .",1 +4026,"the problem with this film is that it's forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot . had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent , we all could have stopped watching long ago .",0 +2470,sharp edges and a deep vein of sadness run through its otherwise comic narrative .,1 +3858,troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal .,0 +7021,does what should seem impossible : it makes serial killer jeffrey dahmer boring .,0 +2821,"proves a servicable world war ii drama that can't totally hide its contrivances , but it at least calls attention to a problem hollywood too long has ignored .",1 +2842,it's virtually impossible to like any of these despicable characters .,1 +4843,those unfamiliar with mormon traditions may find the singles ward occasionally bewildering .,0 +5010,shallow .,0 +3753,sandra bullock's best dramatic performance to date ( is ) almost enough to lift ( this ) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser . . . above its paint-by-numbers plot .,0 +5333,"flat , but with a revelatory performance by michelle williams .",0 +3133,"conceptually brilliant . . . plays like a living-room war of the worlds , gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown .",1 +2810,"the setting is so cool that it chills the characters , reducing our emotional stake in the outcome of "" intacto's "" dangerous and seductively stylish game .",1 +3328,"it has the ability to offend and put off everyone , but it holds you with its outrageousness .",1 +4122,mildly entertaining .,0 +3171,manages to be both hugely entertaining and uplifting .,1 +2140,"sweetly sexy , funny and touching .",1 +6246,the movie's biggest shocks come from seeing former nymphette juliette lewis playing a salt-of-the-earth mommy named minnie and watching slim travel incognito in a ridiculous wig no respectable halloween costume shop would ever try to sell .,0 +2980,"smith is careful not to make fun of these curious owners of architectural oddities . instead , he shows them the respect they are due .",1 +785,"cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in .",1 +812,"most consumers of lo mein and general tso's chicken barely give a thought to the folks who prepare and deliver it , so , hopefully , this film will attach a human face to all those little steaming cartons .",1 +948,like other great documentaries . . . this goes after one truth ( the ford administration's complicity in tearing 'orphans' from their mothers ) and stumbles upon others even more compelling .,1 +671,"the wonder of mostly martha is the performance of gedeck , who makes martha enormously endearing .",1 +2671,"if a horror movie's primary goal is to frighten and disturb , then they works spectacularly well . . . a shiver-inducing , nerve-rattling ride .",1 +4710,this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy .,0 +415,this is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years .,1 +2327,michael moore's latest documentary about america's thirst for violence is his best film yet . . .,1 +143,"invigorating , surreal , and resonant with a rainbow of emotion .",1 +5897,"the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack .",0 +1329,there was time on that second round to see the subtleties of ramsay's portrait of grief .,1 +7034,"serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour .",0 +6552,its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing .,0 +4435,"impostor doesn't do much with its template , despite a remarkably strong cast .",0 +7062,"proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot , expertly cast , paced with crisp professionalism . . . and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report .",0 +6076,"a silly , self-indulgent film about a silly , self-indulgent filmmaker .",0 +4792,it might be the first sci-fi comedy that could benefit from a three's company-style laugh track .,0 +1712,fans of nijinsky will savor every minute of cox's work .,1 +191,"stevens has a flair for dialogue comedy , the film operates nicely off the element of surprise , and the large cast is solid .",1 +3740,". . . while certainly clever in spots , this too-long , spoofy update of shakespeare's macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention .",0 +78,"these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that .",1 +49,"stanley kwan has directed not only one of the best gay love stories ever made , but one of the best love stories of any stripe .",1 +6926,"for most movies , 84 minutes is short , but this one feels like a life sentence .",0 +1033,"although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , "" orange county "" is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be .",1 +2742,the cast is top-notch and i predict there will be plenty of female audience members drooling over michael idemoto as michael .,1 +6353,"an "" o bruin , where art thou ? "" -style cross-country adventure . . . it has sporadic bursts of liveliness , some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack .",0 +4107,"deuces wild treads heavily into romeo and juliet/west side story territory , where it plainly has no business going .",0 +5103,really dumb but occasionally really funny .,0 +4148,"goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab .",0 +2708,"katz's documentary doesn't have much panache , but with material this rich it doesn't need it .",1 +5082,the film ultimately offers nothing more than people in an urban jungle needing other people to survive . . .,0 +3597,"if you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride .",0 +6134,the film is way too full of itself ; it's stuffy and pretentious in a give-me-an-oscar kind of way .,0 +5752,"it's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel , but the result is more puzzling than unsettling .",0 +5922,the ga-zillionth airhead movie about a wife in distress who resorts to desperate measures .,0 +1162,a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son's home after decades away .,1 +4740,"adrift , bentley and hudson stare and sniffle , respectively , as ledger attempts , in vain , to prove that movie-star intensity can overcome bad hair design .",0 +6067,"miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness .",0 +800,"captures that perverse element of the kafkaesque where identity , overnight , is robbed and replaced with a persecuted "" other . """,1 +4392,a by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise .,0 +1034,"there's no conversion effort , much of the writing is genuinely witty and both stars are appealing enough to probably have a good shot at a hollywood career , if they want one .",1 +7060,"'butterfingered' is the word for the big-fisted direction of jez butterworth , who manages to blast even the smallest sensitivities from the romance with his clamorous approach .",0 +6139,tiresomely derivative and hammily acted .,0 +4715,"well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .",0 +2376,isabelle huppert excels as the enigmatic mika and anna mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries .,1 +6507,"as exciting as all this exoticism might sound to the typical pax viewer , the rest of us will be lulled into a coma .",0 +43,contrasting the original ringu with the current americanized adaptation is akin to comparing the evil dead with evil dead ii,1 +5223,a dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness .,0 +5940,a suffocating rape-payback horror show that hinges on the subgenre's most enabling victim . . . and an ebullient affection for industrial-model meat freezers .,0 +5885,"it's also clear from the start that the transporter is running purely on adrenaline , and once the initial high wears off , the film's shortcomings start to shine through .",0 +3997,"an overblown clunker full of bad jokes , howling cliches and by-the-numbers action sequences .",0 +6548,it's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit .,0 +4687,"in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh .",0 +160,"full of bland hotels , highways , parking lots , with some glimpses of nature and family warmth , time out is a discreet moan of despair about entrapment in the maze of modern life .",1 +2699,it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elements .,1 +7076,"so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program .",0 +1896,a genuine mind-bender .,1 +1091,"while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious .",1 +6441,"unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression .",0 +3361,pray has really done his subject justice .,1 +478,it's never dull and always looks good .,1 +3967,"it's played in the most straight-faced fashion , with little humor to lighten things up . the heavy-handed film is almost laughable as a consequence .",0 +4602,"the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why .",0 +1972,"a mix of gritty realism , crisp storytelling and radiant compassion that effortlessly draws you in .",1 +354,"a fine , rousing , g-rated family film , aimed mainly at little kids but with plenty of entertainment value to keep grown-ups from squirming in their seats .",1 +5962,the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense .,0 +6601,"the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low .",0 +4603,no amount of good acting is enough to save oleander's uninspired story .,0 +993,"mostly works because of the universal themes , earnest performances . . . and excellent use of music by india's popular gulzar and jagjit singh .",1 +2336,there's nothing more satisfying during a summer of event movies than a spy thriller like the bourne identity that's packed with just as much intelligence as action .,1 +4629,". . . one big laugh , three or four mild giggles , and a whole lot of not much else .",0 +5049,"the plot combines the blues brothers and almost famous ( but with bears , and a g rating ) , with an excruciating dollop of disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure .",0 +1369,i am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson .,1 +6903,tsai may be ploughing the same furrow once too often .,0 +5543,this dramatically shaky contest of wills only reiterates the old hollywood saw : evil is interesting and good is boring .,0 +1383,"you won't like roger , but you will quickly recognize him . and that's a big part of why we go to the movies .",1 +3266,spiderman rocks,1 +6179,"when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game .",0 +6001,"according to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances .",0 +5769,"though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter .",0 +5643,"it's as if you're watching a movie that was made in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has become even weaker .",0 +483,a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs .,1 +351,there's a lot of tooth in roger dodger . but what's nice is that there's a casual intelligence that permeates the script .,1 +2564,terrific casting and solid execution give all three stories life .,1 +2117,"it's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen .",1 +1114,"a slam-bang extravaganza that is all about a wild-and-woolly , wall-to-wall good time .",1 +6293,"who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze .",0 +5784,"this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable .",0 +7088,"dragonfly has no atmosphere , no tension -- nothing but costner , flailing away . it's a buggy drag .",0 +5605,"filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water .",0 +1648,troubling and powerful .,1 +3599,". . . generically , forgettably pleasant from start to finish .",0 +4553,"loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin .",0 +651,"what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance .",1 +5409,two tedious acts light on great scares and a good surprise ending .,0 +4642,"pryor lite , with half the demons , half the daring , much less talent , many fewer laughs .",0 +2352,roman polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'shindler's list' - it is more than merely a holocaust movie .,1 +2886,"transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games .",1 +6087,"kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . )",0 +1568,"beresford nicely mixes in as much humor as pathos to take us on his sentimental journey of the heart . it really is a shame that more won't get an opportunity to embrace small , sweet 'evelyn . '",1 +6540,"whatever eyre's failings as a dramatist , he deserves credit for bringing audiences into this hard and bitter place .",0 +5014,"hey everybody , wanna watch a movie in which a guy dressed as a children's party clown gets violently gang-raped ? i didn't think so .",0 +3567,"though catch me if you can isn't badly made , the fun slowly leaks out of the movie .",0 +1109,"writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times , clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza .",1 +4722,"busy urban comedy is clearly not zhang's forte , his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy .",0 +4447,what might have emerged as hilarious lunacy in the hands of woody allen or mel brooks ( at least during their '70s heyday ) comes across as lame and sophomoric in this debut indie feature .,0 +4614,"yes , i suppose it's lovely that cal works out his issues with his dad and comes to terms with his picture-perfect life -- but world traveler gave me no reason to care , so i didn't .",0 +1637,a moving and weighty depiction of one family's attempts to heal after the death of a child .,1 +6189,should have been someone else-,0 +904,"watching this film , what we feel isn't mainly suspense or excitement . the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia .",1 +3220,[fessenden] is much more into ambiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills,1 +3956,too timid to bring a sense of closure to an ugly chapter of the twentieth century .,0 +5474,"although no pastry is violated , this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts , boobs , unmentionables -- without much success .",0 +3333,"in the affable maid in manhattan , jennifer lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm , the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly a-list players .",1 +2898,"it's hard to imagine anybody ever being "" in the mood "" to view a movie as harrowing and painful as the grey zone , but it's equally hard to imagine anybody being able to tear their eyes away from the screen once it's started .",1 +115,"not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted .",1 +3254,a literate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 .,1 +1395,"frailty isn't as gory or explicit . but in its child-centered , claustrophobic context , it can be just as frightening and disturbing -- even punishing .",1 +934,"gooding is the energetic frontman , and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm , even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences .",1 +6416,a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame .,0 +592,"williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role .",1 +2150,"with or without the sex , a wonderful tale of love and destiny , told well by a master storyteller",1 +4385,"parker probably thinks he's shaking up a classic the way kenneth branagh and baz luhrmann have , but this half-hearted messing-about just makes us miss wilde's still-contemporary play .",0 +7072,van wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag . ' at least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch .,0 +6287,"slap her - she's not funny ! no french people were harmed during the making of this movie , but they were insulted and the audience was put through torture for an hour and a half .",0 +1599,the film was immensely enjoyable thanks to great performances by both steve buscemi and rosario dawson . . .,1 +6843,"kids who are into this thornberry stuff will probably be in wedgie heaven . anyone else who may , for whatever reason , be thinking about going to see this movie is hereby given fair warning .",0 +5214,a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self… this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people .,0 +1707,"so unassuming and pure of heart , you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell 'safe ! '",1 +3471,richard gere and diane lane put in fine performances as does french actor oliver martinez .,1 +4277,"this is a throwaway , junk-food movie whose rap soundtrack was better tended to than the film itself .",0 +6503,"the people in abc africa are treated as docile , mostly wordless ethnographic extras .",0 +5226,one of those decades-spanning historical epics that strives to be intimate and socially encompassing but fails to do justice to either effort in three hours of screen time .,0 +1146,"half submarine flick , half ghost story , all in one criminally neglected film",1 +3867,"as aimless as an old pickup skidding completely out of control on a long patch of black ice , the movie makes two hours feel like four .",0 +3908,veers uncomfortably close to pro-serb propaganda .,0 +5466,"a low-budget affair , tadpole was shot on digital video , and the images often look smeary and blurry , to the point of distraction . then again , in a better movie , you might not have noticed .",0 +5338,"a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . '",0 +1981,wang xiaoshuai directs this intricately structured and well-realized drama that presents a fascinating glimpse of urban life and the class warfare that embroils two young men .,1 +5138,"the movie is so resolutely cobbled together out of older movies that it even uses a totally unnecessary prologue , just because it seems obligatory .",0 +4266,"less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins .",0 +2718,"'barbershop "" is a good-hearted ensemble comedy with a variety of quirky characters and an engaging story .",1 +4309,"it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the original .",0 +5185,a really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film .,0 +738,"charming and witty , it's also somewhat clumsy .",1 +3561,an opportunity missed .,0 +5842,"at times , the suspense is palpable , but by the end there's a sense that the crux of the mystery hinges on a technicality that strains credulity and leaves the viewer haunted by the waste of potential .",0 +4998,get out your pooper-scoopers .,0 +1049,it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde's classic satire .,1 +3982,"we never feel anything for these characters , and as a result the film is basically just a curiosity .",0 +6295,more tiring than anything .,0 +2155,"making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it , though chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror .",1 +2394,it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .,1 +3157,"gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character , a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory , self-hating , self-destructive ways .",1 +1579,"hilarious , touching and wonderfully dyspeptic .",1 +4046,coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit .,0 +206,"it's about individual moments of mood , and an aimlessness that's actually sort of amazing .",1 +4400,a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise .,0 +3275,"there is no solace here , no entertainment value , merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us .",1 +6070,the whole film has this sneaky feel to it – as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product .,0 +5411,"as [the characters] get more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound .",0 +2066,"deep intelligence and a warm , enveloping affection breathe out of every frame .",1 +6341,it's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the national basketball association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy lil' bow wow .,0 +572,what's really so appealing about the characters is their resemblance to everyday children .,1 +1608,"where this was lazy but enjoyable , a formula comedy redeemed by its stars , that is even lazier and far less enjoyable .",1 +4057,"just another disjointed , fairly predictable psychological thriller .",0 +2001,"thanks to ice cube , benjamins feels an awful lot like friday in miami .",1 +4054,an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years .,0 +3270,"the film benefits greatly from a less manic tone than its predecessor , as cho appears to have settled comfortably into her skin .",1 +2640,"it's a good film -- not a classic , but odd , entertaining and authentic .",1 +6054,"there's no real reason to see it , and no real reason not to .",0 +828,"zany , exuberantly irreverent animated space adventure .",1 +3045,"it doesn't make for great cinema , but it is interesting to see where one's imagination will lead when given the opportunity .",1 +5642,the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines .,0 +79,"it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . '",1 +5410,the only entertainment you'll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them .,0 +1145,much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep .,1 +1647,"as action-adventure , this space-based homage to robert louis stevenson's treasure island fires on all plasma conduits .",1 +3437,"parts of the film feel a bit too much like an infomercial for ram dass's latest book aimed at the boomer demographic . but mostly it's a work that , with humor , warmth , and intelligence , captures a life interestingly lived .",1 +6077,"howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject .",0 +4793,a less-than-thrilling thriller .,0 +150,the film grows on you . and how .,1 +3974,adam sandler's 8 crazy nights is 75 wasted minutes of sandler as the voice-over hero in columbia pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie .,0 +6889,"[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment .",0 +357,. . . the plot weaves us into a complex web .,1 +1989,a flawed but engrossing thriller .,1 +2227,it's an experience in understanding a unique culture that is presented with universal appeal .,1 +5783,"everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .",0 +5611,"puportedly "" based on true events , "" a convolution of language that suggests it's impossible to claim that it is "" based on a true story "" with a straight face .",0 +5511,"why sit through a crummy , wannabe-hip crime comedy that refers incessantly to old movies , when you could just rent those movies instead , let alone seek out a respectable new one ?",0 +4514,"it leers , offering next to little insight into its intriguing subject .",0 +727,"it's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot .",1 +1332,"it provides the grand , intelligent entertainment of a superior cast playing smart people amid a compelling plot .",1 +7066,an artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art .,0 +6806,"no movement , no yuks , not much of anything .",0 +4322,"while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work .",0 +1012,a modest masterpiece .,1 +840,"some of the visual flourishes are a little too obvious , but restrained and subtle storytelling , and fine performances make this delicate coming-of-age tale a treat .",1 +1887,"has far more energy , wit and warmth than should be expected from any movie with a "" 2 "" at the end of its title .",1 +3472,"this may be dover kosashvili's feature directing debut , but it looks an awful lot like life -- gritty , awkward and ironic .",1 +6318,love liza is a festival film that would have been better off staying on the festival circuit .,0 +86,evokes a little of the fear that parents have for the possible futures of their children--and the sometimes bad choices mothers and fathers make in the interests of doing them good .,1 +2433,"performances are potent , and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving .",1 +409,labute's careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering .,1 +1140,"i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe .",1 +1782,australian filmmaker david flatman uses the huge-screen format to make an old-fashioned nature film that educates viewers with words and pictures while entertaining them .,1 +4562,"it's an earnest debut full of heartfelt performances , but is ultimately let down by a story that is all too predictable .",0 +5584,despite the surface attractions -- conrad l . hall's cinematography will likely be nominated for an oscar next year -- there's something impressive and yet lacking about everything .,0 +4191,"the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad .",0 +1552,like a poor man's you can count on me,1 +1031,japanese director shohei imamura's latest film is an odd but ultimately satisfying blend of the sophomoric and the sublime .,1 +5554,"about as enjoyable , i would imagine , as searching for a quarter in a giant pile of elephant feces . . . positively dreadful .",0 +5251,seagal is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what's left of his passe' chopsocky glory .,0 +4787,[a] rather thinly-conceived movie .,0 +4685,"a "" home alone "" film that is staged like "" rosemary's baby , "" but is not as well-conceived as either of those films .",0 +6278,interesting and thoroughly unfaithful version of carmen,0 +3732,"while this one gets off with a good natured warning , future lizard endeavors will need to adhere more closely to the laws of laughter",0 +2522,"an intelligent , moving and invigorating film .",1 +84,it's a great deal of sizzle and very little steak . but what spectacular sizzle it is ! . . . in this incarnation its fizz is infectious .,1 +6913,it is just too bad the film's story does not live up to its style .,0 +1405,"[gai] comes closer to any actress i can remember to personifying independence in its purest and , yes , most intimidating form .",1 +1991,like a less dizzily gorgeous companion to mr . wong's in the mood for love -- very much a hong kong movie despite its mainland setting .,1 +1198,"this charming but slight tale has warmth , wit and interesting characters compassionately portrayed .",1 +650,"as part of mr . dong's continuing exploration of homosexuality in america , family fundamentals is an earnest study in despair .",1 +1715,"this is a winning ensemble comedy that shows canadians can put gentle laughs and equally gentle sentiments on the button , just as easily as their counterparts anywhere else in the world .",1 +2317,"by candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music , [jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity .",1 +4458,the title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere .,0 +694,the film will appeal to discovery channel fans and will surely widen the perspective of those of us who see the continent through rose-colored glasses .,1 +1323,an excellent romp that boasts both a heart and a mind .,1 +1672,it never fails to engage us .,1 +2684,smart and taut .,1 +4446,it's difficult for a longtime admirer of his work to not be swept up in invincible and overlook its drawbacks .,0 +3526,"the climactic events are so well realized that you may forget all about the original conflict , just like the movie does",1 +476,it's great escapist fun that recreates a place and time that will never happen again .,1 +4749,"in his role of observer of the scene , lawrence sounds whiny and defensive , as if his life-altering experiences made him bitter and less mature .",0 +2621,"a weird , arresting little ride .",1 +1186,"if it tried to do anything more , it would fail and perhaps explode , but at this level of manic whimsy , it is just about right .",1 +2905,"if there's nothing fresh about wannabes , which was written by mr . demeo , who produced and directed the film with charles a . addessi , much of the time the movie feels authentic .",1 +4259,"the most remarkable ( and frustrating ) thing about world traveler , which opens today in manhattan , is that its protagonist , after being an object of intense scrutiny for 104 minutes , remains a complete blank .",0 +3884,exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise .,0 +2879,"wiseman is patient and uncompromising , letting his camera observe and record the lives of women torn apart by a legacy of abuse .",1 +667,"the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days .",1 +6209,"however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny .",0 +7064,"while the new film is much more eye-catching than its blood-drenched stephen norrington-directed predecessor , the new script by the returning david s . goyer is much sillier .",0 +1265,"much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of don king , sonny miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic .",1 +1282,"a touching , sophisticated film that almost seems like a documentary in the way it captures an italian immigrant family on the brink of major changes .",1 +656,"the film delivers what it promises : a look at the "" wild ride "" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops , cell phones and sketchy business plans .",1 +6549,a rambling ensemble piece with loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel .,0 +1850,"the increasingly diverse french director has created a film that one can honestly describe as looking , sounding and simply feeling like no other film in recent history .",1 +3907,"it has the air of a surprisingly juvenile lark , a pop-influenced prank whose charms are immediately apparent and wear thin with repetition .",0 +4990,"for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . '",0 +6280,less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is .,0 +4368,this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own .,0 +4690,"lucas has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s .",0 +2237,"it's somewhat clumsy and too lethargically paced -- but its story about a mysterious creature with psychic abilities offers a solid build-up , a terrific climax , and some nice chills along the way .",1 +2801,"confessions may not be a straightforward bio , nor does it offer much in the way of barris' motivations , but the film is an oddly fascinating depiction of an architect of pop culture .",1 +468,maelstrom is a deliberately unsteady mixture of stylistic elements .,1 +1624,"about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological .",1 +5178,"writer/director john mckay ignites some charming chemistry between kate and jed but , when he veers into sodden melodrama , punctuated by violins , it's disastrous and kate's jealous female friends become downright despicable .",0 +1967,eric byler's nuanced pic avoids easy sentiments and explanations . . .,1 +3307,"it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee .",1 +6127,the rock has a great presence but one battle after another is not the same as one battle followed by killer cgi effects .,0 +6171,"like a grinning jack o' lantern , its apparent glee is derived from a lobotomy , having had all its vital essence scooped out and discarded .",0 +2648,"a powerful , chilling , and affecting study of one man's dying fall .",1 +969,a terrific insider look at the star-making machinery of tinseltown .,1 +1206,hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .,1 +5893,this rough trade punch-and-judy act didn't play well then and it plays worse now .,0 +745,"mr . deeds is sure to give you a lot of laughs in this simple , sweet and romantic comedy .",1 +6358,"bears is bad . not 'terrible filmmaking' bad , but more like , 'i once had a nightmare like this , and it's now coming true' bad .",0 +5230,"i can't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents . . .",0 +2816,"a shimmeringly lovely coming-of-age portrait , shot in artful , watery tones of blue , green and brown .",1 +3371,"it's the kind of movie that , aside from robert altman , spike lee , the coen brothers and a few others , our moviemakers don't make often enough .",1 +6845,"a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid .",0 +2827,"k-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories , but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of man confronting the demons of his own fear and paranoia .",1 +3647,"a boring , formulaic mix of serial killers and stalk'n'slash .",0 +3496,"looking aristocratic , luminous yet careworn in jane hamilton's exemplary costumes , rampling gives a performance that could not be improved upon .",1 +5254,"with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd .",0 +3161,"the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there .",1 +5412,"complete lack of originality , cleverness or even visible effort",0 +125,pray's film works well and will appeal even to those who aren't too familiar with turntablism .,1 +5265,"despite some strong performances , never rises above the level of a telanovela .",0 +4465,"limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly .",0 +5669,a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter .,0 +3264,"this illuminating documentary transcends our preconceived vision of the holy land and its inhabitants , revealing the human complexities beneath .",1 +4913,"a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad .",0 +1422,"the film is darkly atmospheric , with herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath hearst's forced avuncular chortles .",1 +3418,"extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten .",1 +2917,the difference between cho and most comics is that her confidence in her material is merited .,1 +6286,"a fragile framework upon which to hang broad , mildly fleshed-out characters that seem to have been conjured up only 10 minutes prior to filming .",0 +4926,"worth seeing once , but its charm quickly fades .",0 +36,absorbing character study by andré turpin .,1 +562,"a mostly believable , refreshingly low-key and quietly inspirational little sports drama .",1 +4212,. . . standard guns versus martial arts cliche with little new added .,0 +4636,"it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound .",0 +3634,. . . tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in the film industry .,0 +4106,"the film has the thrown-together feel of a summer-camp talent show : hastily written , underrehearsed , arbitrarily plotted and filled with crude humor and vulgar innuendo .",0 +6267,the rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey .,0 +6602,too much of the humor falls flat .,0 +1274,"culkin , who's in virtually every scene , shines as a young man who uses sarcastic lies like a shield .",1 +1385,a quietly reflective and melancholy new zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life .,1 +5302,"director george hickenlooper has had some success with documentaries , but here his sense of story and his juvenile camera movements smack of a film school undergrad , and his maudlin ending might not have gotten him into film school in the first place .",0 +768,"the salton sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety .",1 +1588,"it's not life-affirming — its vulgar and mean , but i liked it .",1 +16,the all-french cast is marveilleux .,1 +5392,"just like the deli sandwich : lots of ham , lots of cheese , with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after ( or during ) consumption of its second half .",0 +6472,a clichéd and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men .,0 +6535,"very special effects , brilliantly bold colors and heightened reality can't hide the giant achilles' heel in "" stuart little 2 "" : there's just no story , folks .",0 +5029,too bad kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up .,0 +5976,"it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination .",0 +3742,tries to work in the same vein as the brilliance of animal house but instead comes closer to the failure of the third revenge of the nerds sequel .,0 +128,"suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits .",1 +334,"a stirring , funny and finally transporting re-imagining of beauty and the beast and 1930s horror films",1 +3126,the best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites .,1 +628,an enjoyable comedy of lingual and cultural differences… the château is a film -- full of life and small delights -- that has all the wiggling energy of young kitten .,1 +2902,discursive but oddly riveting documentary .,1 +5042,"if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta .",0 +4896,"in addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry .",0 +164,"the script's snazzy dialogue establishes a realistic atmosphere that involves us in the unfolding crisis , but the lazy plotting ensures that little of our emotional investment pays off .",1 +4734,you can thank me for this . i saw juwanna mann so you don't have to .,0 +5582,"bray is completely at sea ; with nothing but a savage garden music video on his resume , he has no clue about making a movie .",0 +161,"its compelling mix of trial movie , escape movie and unexpected fable ensures the film never feels draggy .",1 +3489,"children may not understand everything that happens -- i'm not sure even miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated , and undoubtedly delighted .",1 +2901,ford deserves to be remembered at oscar time for crafting this wonderful portrait of a conflicted soldier .,1 +381,the gags are often a stitch .,1 +3069,"despite its faults , gangs excels in spectacle and pacing .",1 +2188,one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie .,1 +4128,"ostensibly celebrates middle-aged girl power , even as it presents friendship between women as pathetic , dysfunctional and destructive .",0 +6856,"i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .",0 +5652,it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer .,0 +3304,"overall , interesting as a documentary -- but not very imaxy .",1 +3813,much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset .,0 +4053,"it should be doing a lot of things , but doesn't .",0 +1342,""" home movie "" is the film equivalent of a lovingly rendered coffee table book .",1 +2582,"'film aficionados cannot help but love cinema paradiso , whether the original version or new director's cut . '",1 +6324,"i'm sure the filmmaker would disagree , but , honestly , i don't see the point . it's a visual rorschach test and i must have failed .",0 +3712,so putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film .,0 +6150,it's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even jason x . . . look positively shakesperean by comparison .,0 +6153,"the filmmakers are playing to the big boys in new york and l . a . to that end , they mock the kind of folks they don't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers don't care to understand , either .",0 +2295,"denis forges out of the theories of class- based rage and sisterly obsession a razor-sided tuning fork that rings with cultural , sexual and social discord .",1 +297,"neither the funniest film that eddie murphy nor robert de niro has ever made , showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while . before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon , anyway .",1 +3769,i cry for i spy -- or i would if this latest and laziest imaginable of all vintage-tv spinoffs were capable of engendering an emotional response of any kind .,0 +4548,an uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection .,0 +2377,just the labour involved in creating the layered richness of the imagery in this chiaroscuro of madness and light is astonishing .,1 +6641,"[serry] wants to blend politics and drama , an admirable ambition . it's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one .",0 +5216,. . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity .,0 +6947,there is a difference between movies with the courage to go over the top and movies that don't care about being stupid,0 +6724,the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun .,0 +2204,"time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness .",1 +3466,". . . it's as comprehensible as any dummies guide , something even non-techies can enjoy .",1 +1790,"the culmination of everyone's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form [in "" last dance "" ] .",1 +5019,"if you've ever entertained the notion of doing what the title of this film implies , what sex with strangers actually shows may put you off the idea forever .",0 +594,"tadpole may be one of the most appealing movies ever made about an otherwise appalling , and downright creepy , subject -- a teenage boy in love with his stepmother .",1 +2261,"the movie is hardly a masterpiece , but it does mark ms . bullock's best work in some time .",1 +5422,murder by numbers just doesn't add up .,0 +277,"more intimate than spectacular , e . t . is carried less by wow factors than by its funny , moving yarn that holds up well after two decades .",1 +5796,this is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience .,0 +6510,"undone by its overly complicated and derivative screenplay , the glacier-paced direction and the stereotypical characters .",0 +2126,almost peerlessly unsettling .,1 +2292,"like the film's almost anthropologically detailed realization of early-'80s suburbia , it's significant without being overstated .",1 +2178,"a creepy , intermittently powerful study of a self-destructive man . . . about as unsettling to watch as an exploratory medical procedure or an autopsy .",1 +3210,fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way . . . that feels very human and very true to life .,1 +1515,"although devoid of objectivity and full of nostalgic comments from the now middle-aged participants , dogtown and z-boys has a compelling story to tell .",1 +7002,a subtle variation on i spit on your grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men .,0 +1472,"antwone fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but , with few exceptions , it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it .",1 +1110,remarkably accessible and affecting .,1 +212,"not so much a movie as a picture book for the big screen . this isn't my favorite in the series , still i enjoyed it enough to recommend .",1 +3422,gives everyone something to shout about .,1 +1690,"humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days .",1 +38,"world traveler might not go anywhere new , or arrive anyplace special , but it's certainly an honest attempt to get at something .",1 +6366,"while certainly more naturalistic than its australian counterpart , amari's film falls short in building the drama of lilia's journey .",0 +2484,a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn .,1 +3755,a film so tedious that it is impossible to care whether that boast is true or not .,0 +5861,exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable .,0 +298,you should pay nine bucks for this : because you can hear about suffering afghan refugees on the news and still be unaffected . dramas like this make it human .,1 +865,writer/director alexander payne ( election ) and his co-writer jim taylor brilliantly employ their quirky and fearless ability to look american angst in the eye and end up laughing .,1 +6163,"the pairing does sound promising in theory . . . but their lack of chemistry makes eddie murphy and robert deniro in showtime look like old , familiar vaudeville partners .",0 +1180,""" spider-man is better than any summer blockbuster we had to endure last summer , and hopefully , sets the tone for a summer of good stuff . if you're a comic fan , you can't miss it . if you're not , you'll still have a good time . """,1 +1368,"emerges as something rare , an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one .",1 +2174,"a fine production with splendid singing by angela gheorghiu , ruggero raimondi , and roberto alagna .",1 +974,a compelling spanish film about the withering effects of jealousy in the life of a young monarch whose sexual passion for her husband becomes an obsession .,1 +4061,"while there's something intrinsically funny about sir anthony hopkins saying 'get in the car , bitch , ' this jerry bruckheimer production has little else to offer",0 +5525,"what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once .",0 +6728,"it's a glorified sitcom , and a long , unfunny one at that .",0 +3795,a straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality .,0 +4520,"characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs .",0 +6137,"while the ensemble player who gained notice in guy ritchie's lock , stock and two smoking barrels and snatch has the bod , he's unlikely to become a household name on the basis of his first starring vehicle .",0 +6159,"simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn .",0 +4844,"even with its $50-million us budget , pinocchio never quite achieves the feel of a fanciful motion picture .",0 +6140,a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties .,0 +554,"a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale .",1 +4767,"broomfield's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all , and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient .",0 +3539,demonstrates a vivid imagination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces .,1 +6417,lawrence should stick to his day job . he's a better actor than a standup comedian .,0 +6136,this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater,0 +316,it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything .,1 +515,there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade .,1 +2067,"despite its title , punch-drunk love is never heavy-handed . the jabs it employs are short , carefully placed and dead-center .",1 +76,succeeds only because bullock and grant were made to share the silver screen .,1 +2315,"romanek keeps the film constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score .",1 +5058,it's an awfully derivative story .,0 +326,"like kissing jessica stein , amy's orgasm has a key strength in its willingness to explore its principal characters with honesty , insight and humor .",1 +4114,"sad nonsense , this . but not without cheesy fun factor .",0 +472,a must see for all sides of the political spectrum,1 +1799,"the movie's ripe , enrapturing beauty will tempt those willing to probe its inscrutable mysteries .",1 +435,"though it is by no means his best work , laissez-passer is a distinguished and distinctive effort by a bona-fide master , a fascinating film replete with rewards to be had by all willing to make the effort to reap them .",1 +2536,"lan yu seems altogether too slight to be called any kind of masterpiece . it is , however , a completely honest , open-hearted film that should appeal to anyone willing to succumb to it .",1 +1468,a macabre and very stylized swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters .,1 +5279,"the main characters are simply named the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort .",0 +5822,"even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship .",0 +4709,"this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh .",0 +4043,"britney spears' phoniness is nothing compared to the movie's contrived , lame screenplay and listless direction .",0 +2857,"a generous , inspiring film that unfolds with grace and humor and gradually becomes a testament to faith .",1 +349,"[city] reminds us how realistically nuanced a robert de niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'analyze this' ( 1999 ) and 'analyze that , ' promised ( or threatened ) for later this year .",1 +4027,"stale , futile scenario .",0 +2650,one of the smartest takes on singles culture i've seen in a long time .,1 +629,"when a movie has stuck around for this long , you know there's something there . it's that good .",1 +1738,"the best part about "" gangs "" was daniel day-lewis .",1 +2370,one hour photo is an intriguing snapshot of one man and his delusions ; it's just too bad it doesn't have more flashes of insight .,1 +7085,"the only thing that could possibly make them less interesting than they already are is for them to get full montied into a scrappy , jovial team .",0 +6111,a ponderous meditation on love that feels significantly longer than its relatively scant 97 minutes .,0 +5160,"to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved .",0 +4433,possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another .,0 +2130,just watch bettany strut his stuff . you'll know a star when you see one .,1 +5064,"this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it .",0 +3889,"expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery .",0 +773,a rip-roaring comedy action fest that'll put hairs on your chest .,1 +769,it's unlikely we'll see a better thriller this year .,1 +3019,"de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brilliantly personified by michel piccoli .",1 +4366,"tom green and an ivy league college should never appear together on a marquee , especially when the payoff is an unschooled comedy like stealing harvard , which fails to keep 80 minutes from seeming like 800 .",0 +6811,the talented and clever robert rodriguez perhaps put a little too much heart into his first film and didn't reserve enough for his second .,0 +654,"the cast , collectively a successful example of the lovable-loser protagonist , shows deft comic timing .",1 +4925,the movie eventually snaps under the strain of its plot contrivances and its need to reassure .,0 +6331,"although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film .",0 +5478,winds up feeling like lots of other quirky movies that try to score hipness points with young adults .,0 +347,an intense and effective film about loneliness and the chilly anonymity of the environments where so many of us spend so much of our time .,1 +5394,a benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion .,0 +4828,"the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot .",0 +2737,too sincere to exploit its subjects and too honest to manipulate its audience .,1 +1739,"phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene's prose , and it's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american .",1 +2628,"for all its plot twists , and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down , blood work is a strong , character-oriented piece .",1 +4757,"the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here .",0 +5963,mark me down as a non-believer in werewolf films that are not serious and rely on stupidity as a substitute for humor .,0 +4072,plays like a bad blend of an overripe episode of tv's dawson's creek and a recycled and dumbed-down version of love story .,0 +4489,comedy troupe broken lizard's first movie is very funny but too concerned with giving us a plot .,0 +2757,"collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't .",1 +5306,a reworking of die hard and cliffhanger but it's nowhere near as exciting as either .,0 +3080,"though not for everyone , the guys is a somber trip worth taking .",1 +5877,kapur weighs down the tale with bogus profundities .,0 +6710,"if they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands i kept looking for the last exit from brooklyn .",0 +1824,"the best didacticism is one carried by a strong sense of humanism , and bertrand tavernier's oft-brilliant safe conduct ( "" laissez-passer "" ) wears its heart on its sleeve .",1 +6177,[a] poorly executed comedy .,0 +6056,toward the end sum of all fears morphs into a mundane '70s disaster flick .,0 +6737,"despite impeccable acting . . . and a script that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preposterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end .",0 +1480,"more mature than fatal attraction , more complete than indecent proposal and more relevant than 9 ½ weeks , unfaithful is at once intimate and universal cinema .",1 +786,a sly dissection of the inanities of the contemporary music business and a rather sad story of the difficulties of artistic collaboration .,1 +3046,"mr . clooney , mr . kaufman and all their collaborators are entitled to take a deep bow for fashioning an engrossing entertainment out of an almost sure-fire prescription for a critical and commercial disaster .",1 +5300,"feel bad for king , who's honestly trying , and schwartzman , who's shot himself in the foot .",0 +3621,a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring .,0 +5831,anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going .,0 +41,"a fascinating , bombshell documentary that should shame americans , regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with kissinger . should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike .",1 +2627,"a typically observant , carefully nuanced and intimate french coming-of-age film that is an encouraging debut feature but has a needlessly downbeat ending that is too heavy for all that has preceded it .",1 +4314,"imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma .",0 +3427,what begins as a film in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant .,1 +819,allen's underestimated charm delivers more goodies than lumps of coal .,1 +2156,very well written and directed with brutal honesty and respect for its audience .,1 +3205,"in death to smoochy , we don't get williams' usual tear and a smile , just sneers and bile , and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing .",1 +3291,"once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . .",1 +5627,"as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile .",0 +5145,i'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here .,0 +1709,one can't deny its seriousness and quality .,1 +749,"it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh .",1 +509,an irresistible combination of a rousing good story set on a truly grand scale .,1 +3958,"in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast .",0 +5848,"i saw knockaround guys yesterday , and already the details have faded like photographs from the spanish-american war . . . it's so unmemorable that it turned my ballpoint notes to invisible ink .",0 +6518,"the characters , cast in impossibly contrived situations , are totally estranged from reality .",0 +2304,"deflated ending aside , there's much to recommend the film .",1 +2948,"despite what anyone believes about the goal of its makers , the show . . . represents a spectacular piece of theater , and there's no denying the talent of the creative forces behind it .",1 +2407,"as a director , paxton is surprisingly brilliant , deftly sewing together what could have been a confusing and horrifying vision into an intense and engrossing head-trip .",1 +3135,"made to be jaglomized is the cannes film festival , the annual riviera spree of flesh , buzz , blab and money . the charming result is festival in cannes .",1 +4825,obstacles are too easily overcome and there isn't much in the way of character development in the script .,0 +4708,"not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well .",0 +4871,it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious .,0 +624,"even if invincible is not quite the career peak that the pianist is for roman polanski , it demonstrates that werner herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse , marvelously twisted shapes history has taken .",1 +688,this is pretty dicey material . but some unexpected zigs and zags help .,1 +270,mel gibson fights the good fight in vietnam in director randall wallace's flag-waving war flick with a core of decency .,1 +2856,"may lack the pungent bite of its title , but it's an enjoyable trifle nonetheless .",1 +4153,the drama discloses almost nothing .,0 +5293,"not only unfunny , but downright repellent .",0 +5116,the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .,0 +2458,here is a vh1 behind the music special that has something a little more special behind it : music that didn't sell many records but helped change a nation .,1 +2837,"a real audience-pleaser that will strike a chord with anyone who's ever waited in a doctor's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office .",1 +1018,a small movie with a big impact .,1 +612,writer/director mark romanek spotlights the underlying caste system in america . it's a scathing portrayal .,1 +2617,"there is a fabric of complex ideas here , and feelings that profoundly deepen them .",1 +3103,"it's got some pretentious eye-rolling moments and it didn't entirely grab me , but there's stuff here to like .",1 +4356,it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens,0 +5887,the sweetest thing is expressly for idiots who don't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance .,0 +5234,long time dead ? not nearly long enough .,0 +5330,horrendously amateurish filmmaking that is plainly dull and visually ugly when it isn't incomprehensible .,0 +4303,"although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action .",0 +1870,melodrama with a message .,1 +1755,the best of the pierce brosnan james bond films to date .,1 +1526,"apart from anything else , this is one of the best-sustained ideas i have ever seen on the screen .",1 +3481,richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings .,1 +6394,the premise itself is just sooooo tired . pair that with really poor comedic writing . . . and you've got a huge mess .,0 +5852,"spousal abuse is a major problem in contemporary society , but the film reduces this domestic tragedy to florid melodrama .",0 +2161,"an undeniably gorgeous , terminally smitten document of a troubadour , his acolytes , and the triumph of his band .",1 +6470,how much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [françois and michèle's] relationship depends a lot on how interesting and likable you find them .,0 +1452,a fascinating case study of flower-power liberation -- and the price that was paid for it .,1 +4748,"the problems of the people in love in the time of money are hardly specific to their era . they just have problems , which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way .",0 +6817,"the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal .",0 +5107,it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong .,0 +5051,"comes off as a long , laborious whine , the bellyaching of a paranoid and unlikable man .",0 +3507,full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000,1 +842,"khouri manages , with terrific flair , to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum .",1 +5431,confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it .,0 +3063,"at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two .",1 +1388,"lan yu is at times too restrained , yet there are moments it captures the erotics of intimacy in a way that makes most american love stories look downright unfree .",1 +5026,"ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing .",0 +61,"by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and giving it humor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing .",1 +4147,a fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them .,0 +3510,director rob marshall went out gunning to make a great one .,1 +4445,starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .,0 +1218,"the new insomnia is a surprisingly faithful remake of its chilly predecessor , and when it does elect to head off in its own direction , it employs changes that fit it well rather than ones that were imposed for the sake of commercial sensibilities .",1 +4258,"unless you are in dire need of a diesel fix , there is no real reason to see it . wait for video -- and then don't rent it .",0 +5633,this thing is virtually unwatchable .,0 +5797,a feeble tootsie knockoff .,0 +1241,"witherspoon puts to rest her valley-girl image , but it's dench who really steals the show .",1 +6368,the script has less spice than a rat burger and the rock's fighting skills are more in line with steven seagal .,0 +1506,"she may not be real , but the laughs are .",1 +2466,what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness .,1 +3786,resurrection has the dubious distinction of being a really bad imitation of the really bad blair witch project .,0 +2181,"presents a side of contemporary chinese life that many outsiders will be surprised to know exists , and does so with an artistry that also smacks of revelation .",1 +3855,what could have been right at home as a nifty plot line in steven soderbergh's traffic fails to arrive at any satisfying destination .,0 +6004,this romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in .,0 +299,you never know where changing lanes is going to take you but it's a heck of a ride . samuel l . jackson is one of the best actors there is .,1 +5871,eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants .,0 +1929,"the story is a rather simplistic one : grief drives her , love drives him , and a second chance to find love in the most unlikely place - it struck a chord in me .",1 +5268,"feels at times like a giant commercial for universal studios , where much of the action takes place .",0 +1616,"it's no surprise that as a director washington demands and receives excellent performances , from himself and from newcomer derek luke .",1 +6271,"obvious , obnoxious and didactic burlesque .",0 +5468,"plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on "" the simpsons "" has .",0 +2032,"though a capable thriller , somewhere along the way k-19 jettisoned some crucial drama .",1 +3364,the story and structure are well-honed . fresnadillo's dark and jolting images have a way of plying into your subconscious like the nightmare you had a week ago that won't go away .,1 +6614,"not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days , but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired .",0 +87,a stylistic romp that's always fun to watch .,1 +1636,"a love for films shines through each frame and the era is recreated with obvious affection , scored to perfection with some tasty boogaloo beats .",1 +2365,provide[s] nail-biting suspense and credible characters without relying on technology-of-the-moment technique or pretentious dialogue .,1 +463,"as the dominant christine , sylvie testud is icily brilliant .",1 +3325,a wonderful character-based comedy .,1 +3123,the film often achieves a mesmerizing poetry .,1 +6480,"for a film about explosions and death and spies , "" ballistic : ecks vs . sever "" seems as safe as a children's film . well , in some of those , the mother deer even dies .",0 +6661,it gets old quickly . watch barbershop again if you're in need of a cube fix--this isn't worth sitting through .,0 +1044,"in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works .",1 +4094,". . little action , almost no suspense or believable tension , one-dimensional characters up the wazoo and sets that can only be described as sci-fi generic .",0 +4973,"the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows .",0 +3976,manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane .,0 +6438,a puppy dog so desperate for attention it nearly breaks its little neck trying to perform entertaining tricks .,0 +4096,a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity .,0 +3331,"i won't argue with anyone who calls 'slackers' dumb , insulting , or childish . . . but i laughed so much that i didn't mind .",1 +1763,it is so refreshing to see robin williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years .,1 +3587,"[it's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of american chai , despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view .",0 +6046,"the movie's downfall is to substitute plot for personality . it doesn't really know or care about the characters , and uses them as markers for a series of preordained events .",0 +4009,"meandering , sub-aquatic mess : it's so bad it's good , but only if you slide in on a freebie .",0 +6187,"it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through .",0 +4245,a singularly off-putting romantic comedy .,0 +340,there are moments of hilarity to be had .,1 +2800,"a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty .",1 +5225,a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans .,0 +653,"the importance of being earnest , so thick with wit it plays like a reading from bartlett's familiar quotations",1 +416,"as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth .",1 +4768,"resident evil is what comes from taking john carpenter's ghosts of mars and eliminating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year .",0 +4848,"bogs down badly as we absorb jia's moody , bad-boy behavior which he portrays himself in a one-note performance .",0 +2114,robinson's web of suspense matches the page-turning frenzy that clancy creates .,1 +6966,the film apparently takes place in a fantasy world where people in hotel hallways recite poetry in voice-over instead of speaking to each other .,0 +2530,haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration .,1 +5837,plays like john le carré with a couple of burnt-out cylinders .,0 +3036,"if you're in the mood for a bollywood film , here's one for you .",1 +6879,i spied with my little eye . . . a mediocre collection of cookie-cutter action scenes and occasionally inspired dialogue bits,0 +4846,a fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special .,0 +4173,"claims to sort the bad guys from the good , which is its essential problem .",0 +3073,bennett's dramatization of her personal descent into post-breakup perdition has a morbid appeal that's tough to shake .,1 +4850,"it jumps around with little logic or continuity , presenting backstage bytes of information that never amount to a satisfying complete picture of this particular , anciently demanding métier .",0 +5356,"an ugly , pointless , stupid movie .",0 +4658,"the master of disguise is funny--not "" ha ha "" funny , "" dead circus performer "" funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides .",0 +5902,a great script brought down by lousy direction . same guy with both hats . big mistake .,0 +1476,"between them , de niro and murphy make showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season .",1 +3139,throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment .,1 +4350,. . . hopefully it'll be at the dollar theatres by the time christmas rolls around . wait to see it then .,0 +560,"the son of the bride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline , which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues . this movie is to be cherished .",1 +4284,"an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson .",0 +3988,"brainless , but enjoyably over-the-top , the retro gang melodrama , deuces wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism .",0 +2858,"by presenting an impossible romance in an impossible world , pumpkin dares us to say why either is impossible -- which forces us to confront what's possible and what we might do to make it so .",1 +3296,"you come away from his film overwhelmed , hopeful and , perhaps paradoxically , illuminated .",1 +6430,city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery .,0 +5559,trying to make head or tail of the story in the hip-hop indie snipes is enough to give you brain strain -- and the pay-off is negligible .,0 +4352,"definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the roman colosseum .",0 +1178,"easier to respect than enthuse over , andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing .",1 +344,an endearingly offbeat romantic comedy with a great meet-cute gimmick .,1 +6868,"a film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this isn't .",0 +2401,"the real star of this movie is the score , as in the songs translate well to film , and it's really well directed .",1 +784,"it's a smartly directed , grown-up film of ideas .",1 +3118,"a somewhat crudely constructed but gripping , questing look at a person so racked with self-loathing , he becomes an enemy to his own race .",1 +3283,"this romantic thriller is steeped in the atmosphere of wartime england , and ably captures the speech patterns , moral codes and ideals of the 1940s .",1 +2051,raimi and his team couldn't have done any better in bringing the story of spider-man to the big screen .,1 +124,"more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again .",1 +1578,"rabbit-proof fence will probably make you angry . but it will just as likely make you weep , and it will do so in a way that doesn't make you feel like a sucker .",1 +7092,"this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better .",0 +5122,the very simple story seems too simple and the working out of the plot almost arbitrary .,0 +2844,"see scratch for the history , see scratch for the music , see scratch for a lesson in scratching , but , most of all , see it for the passion .",1 +1141,touché !,1 +799,"chris columbus' sequel is faster , livelier and a good deal funnier than his original .",1 +167,"anchored by a terrific performance by abbass , satin rouge shows that the idea of women's self-actualization knows few continental divides .",1 +870,the cat's meow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . .,1 +507,"a perceptive , good-natured movie .",1 +4221,"the plot grows thin soon , and you find yourself praying for a quick resolution .",0 +3572,"writhing under dialogue like 'you're from two different worlds' and 'tonight the maid is a lie and this , this is who you are , ' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability .",0 +5628,"call me a cold-hearted curmudgeon for not being able to enjoy a mindless action movie , but i believe a movie can be mindless without being the peak of all things insipid .",0 +4035,"the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance .",0 +6700,"an unremittingly ugly movie to look at , listen to , and think about , it is quite possibly the sturdiest example yet of why the dv revolution has cheapened the artistry of making a film .",0 +8,kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope .,1 +5000,`matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy .,0 +1900,there is truth here,1 +1448,jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives .,1 +3953,the film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed crudup out of pre-9/11 new york and onto a cross-country road trip of the homeric kind .,0 +5060,"the story is predictable , the jokes are typical sandler fare , and the romance with ryder is puzzling .",0 +493,"the pain , loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating , biting and witty feature written by charlie kaufman and his twin brother , donald , and directed by spike jonze .",1 +6487,some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema .,0 +1353,provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust .,1 +5205,"benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow .",0 +3497,despite its flaws . . . belinsky is still able to create an engaging story that keeps you guessing at almost every turn .,1 +1826,"don't plan on the perfect ending , but sweet home alabama hits the mark with critics who escaped from a small town life .",1 +1349,"a fast , funny , highly enjoyable movie .",1 +5153,"as the sulking , moody male hustler in the title role , [franco] has all of dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence , but none of his sweetness and vulnerability .",0 +1129,"whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . if horses could fly , this is surely what they'd look like .",1 +6307,"the emperor's club is one of those films that possesses all the good intentions in the world , but . . .",0 +4811,"though ganesh is successful in a midlevel sort of way , there's nothing so striking or fascinating or metaphorically significant about his career as to rate two hours of our attention .",0 +701,"although estela bravo's documentary is cloyingly hagiographic in its portrait of cuban leader fidel castro , it's still a guilty pleasure to watch .",1 +1242,the cast is uniformly excellent and relaxed .,1 +3150,"both lead performances are oscar-size . quaid is utterly fearless as the tortured husband living a painful lie , and moore wonderfully underplays the long-suffering heroine with an unflappable '50s dignity somewhere between jane wyman and june cleaver .",1 +6266,"will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted .",0 +978,tender yet lacerating and darkly funny fable .,1 +3656,admirably ambitious but self-indulgent .,0 +4457,"it's a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out 'amateur' in almost every frame .",0 +655,"this is unusual , food-for-thought cinema that's as entertaining as it is instructive .",1 +6051,not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad news bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate .,0 +4807,"rifkin no doubt fancies himself something of a hubert selby jr . , but there isn't an ounce of honest poetry in his entire script ; it's simply crude and unrelentingly exploitative .",0 +3777,"remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ? when the twist endings were actually surprising ? when the violence actually shocked ? when the heroes were actually under 40 ? sadly , as blood work proves , that was a long , long time ago .",0 +5722,"after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial .",0 +1394,"much has been written about those years when the psychedelic '60s grooved over into the gay '70s , but words don't really do the era justice . you have to see it .",1 +2778,"a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries .",1 +4,"some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options .",1 +4422,"something akin to a japanese alice through the looking glass , except that it seems to take itself far more seriously .",0 +6313,"like an afterschool special with costumes by gianni versace , mad love looks better than it feels .",0 +6987,a meatballs for the bare-midriff generation .,0 +4275,the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line .,0 +6344,"lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered .",0 +6014,"the biggest problem i have ( other than the very sluggish pace ) is we never really see her esther blossom as an actress , even though her talent is supposed to be growing .",0 +5858,"pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal .",0 +1197,a certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents .,1 +2541,"continually challenges perceptions of guilt and innocence , of good guys and bad , and asks us whether a noble end can justify evil means .",1 +1762,a realistically terrifying movie that puts another notch in the belt of the long list of renegade-cop tales .,1 +6671,as pedestrian as they come .,0 +4946,'this movie sucks . ',0 +2724,"despite besson's high-profile name being wasabi's big selling point , there is no doubt that krawczyk deserves a huge amount of the credit for the film's thoroughly winning tone .",1 +565,"though it flirts with bathos and pathos and the further oprahfication of the world as we know it , it still cuts all the way down to broken bone .",1 +1124,"some of the most ravaging , gut-wrenching , frightening war scenes since "" saving private ryan "" have been recreated by john woo in this little-known story of native americans and their role in the second great war .",1 +5387,"a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work .",0 +4162,"while holm is terrific as both men and hjejle quite appealing , the film fails to make the most out of the intriguing premise .",0 +3370,"it's a compelling and horrifying story , and the laramie project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does , in fact , still happen in america .",1 +719,"makes the case for a strong education and good teachers being more valuable in the way they help increase an average student's self-esteem , and not strictly in the knowledge imparted .",1 +5966,"time stands still in more ways that one in clockstoppers , a sci-fi thriller as lazy as it is interminable .",0 +1774,"highbrow self-appointed guardians of culture need not apply , but those who loved cool as ice have at last found a worthy follow-up .",1 +1634,spend your benjamins on a matinee .,1 +4719,eight legged freaks ? no big hairy deal .,0 +1751,münch's genuine insight makes the film's occasional overindulgence forgivable .,1 +2215,"the touch is generally light enough and the performances , for the most part , credible .",1 +6316,"it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death .",0 +2477,"like kubrick , soderbergh isn't afraid to try any genre and to do it his own way .",1 +6040,the country bears wastes an exceptionally good idea . but the movie that doesn't really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences,0 +5687,"there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked .",0 +2393,"i'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version , but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes .",1 +539,"huppert gives erika a persona that is so intriguing that you find yourself staring hypnotically at her , trying to understand her and wondering if she'll crack .",1 +6666,an overwrought taiwanese soaper about three people and their mixed-up relationship .,0 +3034,"this rush to profits has created a predictably efficient piece of business notable largely for its overwhelming creepiness , for an eagerness to create images you wish you hadn't seen , which , in this day and age , is of course the point .",1 +2984,a movie for 11-year-old boys with sports dreams of their own and the preteen girls who worship lil' bow wow .,1 +6557,"there's something unintentionally comic in the film's drumbeat about authenticity , given the stale plot and pornographic way the film revels in swank apartments , clothes and parties .",0 +2115,an amused indictment of jaglom's own profession .,1 +2102,"a conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in ireland over a man's right to raise his own children .",1 +6650,"like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause .",0 +1533,"for devotees of french cinema , safe conduct is so rich with period minutiae it's like dying and going to celluloid heaven .",1 +1439,"in the end , punch-drunk love is one of those films that i wanted to like much more than i actually did . sometimes , that's enough .",1 +2680,"a stunning piece of visual poetry that will , hopefully , be remembered as one of the most important stories to be told in australia's film history .",1 +3690,it's been 20 years since 48 hrs . made eddie murphy a movie star and the man hasn't aged a day . but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old .,0 +2118,"birthday girl doesn't try to surprise us with plot twists , but rather seems to enjoy its own transparency .",1 +100,a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the right thing .,1 +1335,"a delicious , quirky movie with a terrific screenplay and fanciful direction by michael gondry .",1 +4419,"naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep .",0 +5148,"when in doubt , the film ratchets up the stirring soundtrack , throws in a fish-out-of-water gag and lets the cliched dialogue rip . or else a doggie winks .",0 +2173,"chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer .",1 +980,"elling , portrayed with quiet fastidiousness by per christian ellefsen , is a truly singular character , one whose frailties are only slightly magnified versions of the ones that vex nearly everyone .",1 +1894,"intriguing and beautiful film , but those of you who read the book are likely to be disappointed .",1 +214,could this be the first major studio production shot on video tape instead of film ?,1 +6698,the result is an 'action film' mired in stasis .,0 +2219,an entertaining documentary that freshly considers arguments the bard's immortal plays were written by somebody else .,1 +6435,diane lane shines in unfaithful . almost everything else is wan .,0 +1306,"a breezy , diverting , conventional , well-acted tale of two men locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-cat .",1 +5895,the plot convolutions ultimately add up to nothing more than jerking the audience's chain .,0 +1467,arteta paints a picture of lives lived in a state of quiet desperation .,1 +3064,feeling like a dope has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens .,1 +2422,u . s . audiences may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts .,1 +1498,"contrived as this may sound , mr . rose's updating works surprisingly well .",1 +2867,a brutally dry satire of middle american numbness .,1 +2475,"this is a very funny , heartwarming film . it has fun with the quirks of family life , but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect .",1 +2700,"a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance .",1 +3498,"if a big musical number like 'praise the lord , he's the god of second chances' doesn't put you off , this will be an enjoyable choice for younger kids .",1 +4413,"slack and uninspired , and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth .",0 +7036,"the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory .",0 +2807,"while maintaining the appearance of clinical objectivity , this sad , occasionally horrifying but often inspiring film is among wiseman's warmest .",1 +5659,the somber pacing and lack of dramatic fireworks make green dragon seem more like medicine than entertainment .,0 +5395,"the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises .",0 +1061,a gem of a movie .,1 +148,"that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film .",1 +5838,. . . one resurrection too many .,0 +3160,"although life or something like it is very much in the mold of feel-good movies , the cast and director stephen herek's polished direction pour delightfully piquant wine from aged bottles .",1 +3178,"best indie of the year , so far .",1 +3353,"subversive , meditative , clinical and poetic , the piano teacher is a daring work of genius .",1 +5098,"written , flatly , by david kendall and directed , barely , by there's something about mary co-writer ed decter .",0 +6338,"wouldn't it be funny if a bunch of allied soldiers went undercover as women in a german factory during world war ii ? um , no . but here's a movie about it anyway .",0 +1581,miller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary .,1 +685,"though few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog's works , invincible shows he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film .",1 +643,"if cinema had been around to capture the chaos of france in the 1790's , one imagines the result would look like something like this .",1 +6474,"in his determination to lighten the heavy subject matter , silberling also , to a certain extent , trivializes the movie with too many nervous gags and pratfalls .",0 +5050,"the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , isn't much fun without the highs and lows .",0 +5096,the issue of faith is not explored very deeply,0 +3044,this examination of aquatic life off the shores of the baja california peninsula of mexico offers an engrossing way to demonstrate the virtues of the imax format .,1 +1611,"the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact .",1 +1456,"as the story moves inexorably through its seven day timeframe , the picture becomes increasingly mesmerizing .",1 +545,"poetic , heartbreaking .",1 +1168,a coming-of-age movie that hollywood wouldn't have the guts to make .,1 +1184,campanella's competent direction and his excellent cast overcome the obstacles of a predictable outcome and a screenplay that glosses over rafael's evolution .,1 +2094,for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue .,1 +69,"about schmidt is nicholson's goofy , heartfelt , mesmerizing king lear .",1 +4863,full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in .,0 +4488,"with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm .",0 +5997,"i spy is an embarrassment , a monotonous , disjointed jumble of borrowed plot points and situations . it's as flat as an open can of pop left sitting in the sun .",0 +6377,disturbingly superficial in its approach to the material .,0 +1123,"max pokes , provokes , takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve . . . as far as art is concerned , it's mission accomplished .",1 +89,"britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway .",1 +3082,a well-rounded tribute to a man whose achievements -- and complexities -- reached far beyond the end zone .,1 +1257,it seems like i have been waiting my whole life for this movie and now i can't wait for the sequel .,1 +5773,"while the mystery unravels , the characters respond by hitting on each other .",0 +4779,"'carente de imaginación , mal dirigida , peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance , es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'",0 +617,"terrific as nadia , a russian mail-order bride who comes to america speaking not a word of english , it's kidman who holds the film together with a supremely kittenish performance that gradually accumulates more layers .",1 +2216,"even if you don't think [kissinger's] any more guilty of criminal activity than most contemporary statesmen , he'd sure make a courtroom trial great fun to watch .",1 +6235,"sweet gentle jesus , did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history ?",0 +7009,"directors harry gantz and joe gantz have chosen a fascinating subject matter , but the couples exposing themselves aren't all that interesting .",0 +4953,"fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .",0 +1903,it's the kind of effectively creepy-scary thriller that has you fixating on a far corner of the screen at times because your nerves just can't take it any more .,1 +393,"call this the full monty on ice , the underdog sports team formula redux .",1 +3758,this is not one of the movies you'd want to watch if you only had a week to live .,0 +4439,a selection of scenes in search of a movie .,0 +6334,"the cumulative effect of watching this 65-minute trifle is rather like being trapped while some weird relative trots out the video he took of the family vacation to stonehenge . before long , you're desperate for the evening to end .",0 +5556,avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book .,0 +3124,"fortunately , elling never gets too cloying thanks to the actors' perfect comic timing and sweet , genuine chemistry .",1 +635,"while not for every taste , this often very funny collegiate gross-out comedy goes a long way toward restoring the luster of the national lampoon film franchise , too long reduced to direct-to-video irrelevancy .",1 +420,director peter kosminsky gives these women a forum to demonstrate their acting 'chops' and they take full advantage .,1 +6657,"as 'chick flicks' go , this one is pretty miserable , resorting to string-pulling rather than legitimate character development and intelligent plotting .",0 +4083,"flotsam in the sea of moviemaking , not big enough for us to worry about it causing significant harm and not smelly enough to bother despising .",0 +963,tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here .,1 +5880,"a little too ponderous to work as shallow entertainment , not remotely incisive enough to qualify as drama , monsoon wedding serves mostly to whet one's appetite for the bollywood films .",0 +3308,"you needn't be steeped in '50s sociology , pop culture or movie lore to appreciate the emotional depth of haynes' work . though haynes' style apes films from the period . . . its message is not rooted in that decade .",1 +4776,it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived .,0 +6857,"talkiness isn't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark .",0 +3557,a movie to forget,0 +6119,"slap me , i saw this movie .",0 +995,best enjoyed as a work of fiction inspired by real-life events . those seeking a definitive account of eisenstein's life would do better elsewhere .,1 +6814,has all the depth of a wading pool .,0 +964,"human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem .",1 +6877,"reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness .",0 +2612,"this is a startling film that gives you a fascinating , albeit depressing view of iranian rural life close to the iraqi border .",1 +47,"the film is a fierce dance of destruction . its flame-like , roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude .",1 +4589,"for all the writhing and wailing , tears , rage and opium overdoses , there's no sense of actual passion being washed away in love's dissolution .",0 +748,a charmer from belgium .,1 +6082,"given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done .",0 +891,"if ayurveda can help us return to a sane regimen of eating , sleeping and stress-reducing contemplation , it is clearly a good thing .",1 +2675,a keep-'em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters .,1 +4967,"boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas .",0 +5150,there's not a fresh idea at the core of this tale .,0 +1883,it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs .,1 +5943,the only thing that distinguishes a randall wallace film from any other is the fact that there is nothing distinguishing in a randall wallace film .,0 +804,"bon appétit ! just like a splendid meal , red dragon satisfies – from its ripe recipe , inspiring ingredients , certified cuisine and palatable presentation .",1 +2088,together writer-director danny verete's three tales comprise a powerful and reasonably fulfilling gestalt .,1 +1195,"if borstal boy isn't especially realistic , it is an engaging nostalgia piece .",1 +1128,"graças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens .",1 +5031,"every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy .",0 +417,a lot smarter than your average bond .,1 +5101,"supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . alas , getting there is not even half the interest .",0 +2687,"this chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit , as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare .",1 +6222,[u]nrelentingly stupid .,0 +4840,"doesn't deliver a great story , nor is the action as gripping as in past seagal films .",0 +1940,"fast and funny , an action cartoon that's suspenseful enough for older kids but not too scary for the school-age crowd .",1 +5969,a movie like the guys is why film criticism can be considered work .,0 +2055,not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur .,1 +2077,"though nijinsky's words grow increasingly disturbed , the film maintains a beguiling serenity and poise that make it accessible for a non-narrative feature .",1 +6750,"the notion of deleting emotion from people , even in an advanced prozac nation , is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed equilibrium becomes a concept doofus .",0 +1550,"a whole lot foul , freaky and funny .",1 +1871,"this is one of the most visually stunning and thematically moving epics in recent memory , and in spite of numerous minor flaws , scorsese's best in more than a decade .",1 +6175,the whole affair is as predictable as can be .,0 +1934,a hidden-agenda drama that shouts classic french nuance .,1 +1416,despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed .,1 +6530,"this is a particularly toxic little bonbon , palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few .",0 +6038,oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material,0 +4621,nothing more substantial than a fitfully clever doodle .,0 +6511,becomes the last thing you would expect from a film with this title or indeed from any plympton film : boring .,0 +4676,"instead of letting the laughs come as they may , lawrence unleashes his trademark misogyny -- er , comedy -- like a human volcano or an overflowing septic tank , take your pick .",0 +3131,"sayles has a knack for casting , often resurrecting performers who rarely work in movies now . . . and drawing flavorful performances from bland actors .",1 +4988,"a free-for-all of half-baked thoughts , clumsily used visual tricks and self-indulgent actor moments .",0 +2369,a devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism .,1 +1258,much monkeyfun for all .,1 +2823,huppert and girardot give performances of exceptional honesty .,1 +1879,cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with considerable brio .,1 +5231,"this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing .",0 +994,"despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle .",1 +6269,there ain't a lot more painful than an unfunny movie that thinks it's hilarious .,0 +5164,an ultra-low-budget indie debut that smacks more of good intentions than talent .,0 +1530,a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script .,1 +5176,"nair stuffs the film with dancing , henna , ornamentation , and group song , but her narrative clichés and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera .",0 +4769,roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion .,0 +2270,"mike white's deft combination of serious subject matter and dark , funny humor make "" "" the good girl "" a film worth watching .",1 +2787,watching beanie and his gang put together his slasher video from spare parts and borrowed materials is as much fun as it must have been for them to make it .,1 +1117,"the entire movie has a truncated feeling , but what's available is lovely and lovable .",1 +2200,"never mind whether you buy the stuff about barris being a cia hit man . the kooky yet shadowy vision clooney sustains throughout is daring , inventive and impressive .",1 +3007,"there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out .",1 +1990,"a strong first act and absolutely , inescapably gorgeous , skyscraper-trapeze motion of the amazing spider-man .",1 +4875,has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags .,0 +2698,has its share of arresting images .,1 +3051,"more honest about alzheimer's disease , i think , than iris .",1 +5181,"occasionally funny , sometimes inspiring , often boring .",0 +781,"the film's sharp , often mischievous sense of humor will catch some off guard . . .",1 +5337,"the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten .",0 +6259,"meyjes focuses too much on max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured , dull artist and monster-in-the- making .",0 +3939,did the film inform and educate me ? yes . did it move me to care about what happened in 1915 armenia ? no . and that is where ararat went astray .,0 +3848,"like life on the island , the movie grows boring despite the scenery .",0 +6042,"anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity .",0 +350,"in many ways , reminiscent of 1992's unforgiven which also utilized the scintillating force of its actors to draw out the menace of its sparse dialogue .",1 +5816,"it's better suited for the history or biography channel , but there's no arguing the tone of the movie - it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and questions on your mind .",0 +6783,"the most memorable moment was when green threw medical equipment at a window ; not because it was particularly funny , but because i had a serious urge to grab the old lady at the end of my aisle's walker and toss it at the screen in frustration .",0 +5947,"showtime isn't particularly assaultive , but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase , explosion or gunfight again .",0 +582,"metaphors abound , but it is easy to take this film at face value and enjoy its slightly humorous and tender story .",1 +5751,"john carlen's script is full of unhappy , two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling .",0 +5862,"while [hill] has learned new tricks , the tricks alone are not enough to salvage this lifeless boxing film .",0 +897,"maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad .",1 +4522,gibney and jarecki just want to string the bastard up .,0 +6362,"all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin .",0 +2626,about the best thing you could say about narc is that it's a rock-solid little genre picture . whether you like it or not is basically a matter of taste .,1 +5257,"ritchie's film is easier to swallow than wertmuller's polemical allegory , but it's self-defeatingly decorous .",0 +4031,may cause you to bite your tongue to keep from laughing at the ridiculous dialog or the oh-so convenient plot twists .,0 +4666,"it follows the blair witch formula for an hour , in which we're told something creepy and vague is in the works , and then it goes awry in the final 30 minutes .",0 +2967,"this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi .",1 +2531,"[moore's] better at fingering problems than finding solutions . but though he only scratches the surface , at least he provides a strong itch to explore more .",1 +192,"maggie smith as the ya-ya member with the o2-tank will absolutely crack you up with her crass , then gasp for gas , verbal deportment .",1 +5432,the milieu is wholly unconvincing . . . and the histrionics reach a truly annoying pitch .,0 +282,"charles' entertaining film chronicles seinfeld's return to stand-up comedy after the wrap of his legendary sitcom , alongside wannabe comic adams' attempts to get his shot at the big time .",1 +1815,"sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante .",1 +292,adaptation is simply brilliant .,1 +1457,[woo's] most resonant film since the killer .,1 +789,easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year .,1 +3445,"a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .",1 +1918,worth the effort to watch .,1 +1268,. . . one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers i've seen in quite a long time .,1 +652,"an enormously entertaining movie , like nothing we've ever seen before , and yet completely familiar .",1 +4905,"shot perhaps 'artistically' with handheld cameras and apparently no movie lights by joaquin baca-asay , the low-budget production swings annoyingly between vertigo and opacity .",0 +5620,"it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence .",0 +5520,"russell lacks the visual panache , the comic touch , and perhaps the budget of sommers's title-bout features .",0 +6096,"none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor .",0 +453,"few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury , and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as nesbitt's cooper looks when the bullets stop flying .",1 +6872,the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots .,0 +4246,"the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay .",0 +1041,"famuyiwa's feature deals with its subject matter in a tasteful , intelligent manner , rather than forcing us to endure every plot contrivance that the cliché-riddled genre can offer .",1 +3179,"none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting isn't , either , and you wouldn't turn down a big bowl of that , would you ?",1 +4261,"will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr . besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms . shu is an institution , but american audiences will probably find it familiar and insufficiently cathartic .",0 +883,"a compelling journey . . . and "" his best friend remembers "" is up there with the finest of specials .",1 +503,"yakusho , as always , is wonderful as the long-faced sad sack . . . and his chemistry with shimizu is very believable .",1 +5908,"whatever the movie's sentimental , hypocritical lessons about sexism , its true colors come out in various wet t-shirt and shower scenes .",0 +4680,dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material .,0 +369,"[næs] directed the stage version of elling , and gets fine performances from his two leads who originated the characters on stage .",1 +3816,"[allen's] been making piffle for a long while , and hollywood ending may be his way of saying that piffle is all that the airhead movie business deserves from him right now .",0 +6294,""" not really as bad as you might think ! """,0 +4104,"however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release .",0 +3637,"it's dumb , but more importantly , it's just not scary .",0 +1594,"byler reveals his characters in a way that intrigues and even fascinates us , and he never reduces the situation to simple melodrama .",1 +5847,"we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas .",0 +2603,"berling and béart . . . continue to impress , and isabelle huppert . . . again shows uncanny skill in getting under the skin of her characters .",1 +1703,'enigma' is the kind of engaging historical drama that hollywood appears to have given up on in favor of sentimental war movies in the vein of 'we were soldiers . ',1 +999,wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic message .,1 +3710,"certainly beautiful to look at , but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic .",0 +6576,technically and artistically inept .,0 +7093,its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who hasn't been living under a rock ( since sept . 11 ) .,0 +207,"a witty , whimsical feature debut .",1 +6195,just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .,0 +1805,"while this movie , by necessity , lacks fellowship's heart , two towers outdoes its spectacle .",1 +6008,"the filmmaker ascends , literally , to the olympus of the art world , but he would have done well to end this flawed , dazzling series with the raising of something other than his own cremaster .",0 +5613,the comedy is nonexistent .,0 +1370,"[ "" take care of my cat "" ] is an honestly nice little film that takes us on an examination of young adult life in urban south korea through the hearts and minds of the five principals .",1 +188,"an amusing , breezily apolitical documentary about life on the campaign trail .",1 +6458,"if there's a heaven for bad movies , deuces wild is on its way .",0 +3878,kurys seems intimidated by both her subject matter and the period trappings of this debut venture into the heritage business .,0 +3825,the title trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller .,0 +1807,". . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams .",1 +2346,"a sensitive , moving , brilliantly constructed work .",1 +1283,"medem may have disrobed most of the cast , leaving their bodies exposed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sex and lucia is so alluring .",1 +25,"a vivid , sometimes surreal , glimpse into the mysteries of human behavior .",1 +1576,"for more than two decades mr . nachtwey has traveled to places in the world devastated by war , famine and poverty and documented the cruelty and suffering he has found with an devastating , eloquent clarity .",1 +1350,bouquet gives a performance that is masterly .,1 +6619,the movie is a mess from start to finish .,0 +1264,"a triumph , a film that hews out a world and carries us effortlessly from darkness to light .",1 +1764,"although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two .",1 +6998,"nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle .",0 +5128,watching the film is like reading a times portrait of grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it .,0 +3627,"the movie resolutely avoids all the comic possibilities of its situation , and becomes one more dumb high school comedy about sex gags and prom dates .",0 +905,"hoffman notches in the nuances of pain , but his smart , edgy voice and waddling profile ( emphasized here ) accent the humor of wilson's plight , and that saves his pathos from drippiness .",1 +2817,"a movie that's just plain awful but still manages to entertain on a guilty-pleasure , so-bad-it's-funny level .",1 +2368,"an incredibly low-rent danish film , it brings a group of people together in a sweet and charming way , if a little convenient",1 +5023,". . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs .",0 +5206,"whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer , unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting .",0 +4199,"ice age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies , and that makes for some glacial pacing early on .",0 +7006,it's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie . and it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it .,0 +4888,it's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original .,0 +5043,yet another entry in the sentimental oh-those-wacky-brits genre that was ushered in by the full monty and is still straining to produce another smash hit .,0 +5099,"it's the kind of movie you can't quite recommend because it is all windup and not much of a pitch , yet you can't bring yourself to dislike it .",0 +754,the result is mesmerizing -- filled with menace and squalor .,1 +2158,the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment .,1 +4682,"eddie murphy and owen wilson have a cute partnership in i spy , but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good .",0 +1664,rare birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable .,1 +1770,""" austin powers in goldmember "" has the right stuff for silly summer entertainment and has enough laughs to sustain interest to the end .",1 +1604,"with a confrontational stance , todd solondz takes aim on political correctness and suburban families .",1 +259,it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental 'picture shows . ',1 +588,a moving story of determination and the human spirit .,1 +380,insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years !,1 +446,overall very good for what it's trying to do .,1 +5986,"white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else .",0 +3986,collapses after 30 minutes into a slap-happy series of adolescent violence .,0 +1897,there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . .,1 +1225,the magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances .,1 +2835,"while undisputed isn't exactly a high , it is a gripping , tidy little movie that takes mr . hill higher than he's been in a while .",1 +838,"you won't believe much of it , but you will laugh at the audacity , at the who's who casting and the sheer insanity of it all .",1 +3115,a dream cast of solid female talent who build a seamless ensemble . there isn't a weak or careless performance amongst them .,1 +1902,"a canny , derivative , wildly gruesome portrait of a london sociopath who's the scariest of sadists .",1 +4707,"after several scenes of this tacky nonsense , you'll be wistful for the testosterone-charged wizardry of jerry bruckheimer productions , especially because half past dead is like the rock on a wal-mart budget .",0 +6986,"as with too many studio pics , plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure .",0 +4323,works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making,0 +1393,"how i killed my father would be a rarity in hollywood . it's an actor's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones .",1 +4550,a sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards .,0 +1736,"hugely entertaining from start to finish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corrupt and hedonistic weasels .",1 +7065,"mild , meandering teen flick .",0 +3211,the visuals alone make metropolis worth seeing .,1 +5758,"mostly , shafer and co-writer gregory hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint , or a sense of humor .",0 +2069,"as the movie traces mr . brown's athletic exploits , it is impossible not to be awed by the power and grace of one of the greatest natural sportsmen of modern times .",1 +6840,"there isn't nearly enough fun here , despite the presence of some appealing ingredients .",0 +6891,"a hideous , confusing spectacle , one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future rice adaptations .",0 +5448,well-meant but unoriginal .,0 +1829,ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . ',1 +6035,"with virtually no interesting elements for an audience to focus on , chelsea walls is a triple-espresso endurance challenge .",0 +2595,a rigorously structured and exquisitely filmed drama about a father and son connection that is a brief shooting star of love .,1 +5946,"a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks .",0 +1882,"a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense , intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies , plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics .",1 +1746,"the film has an infectious enthusiasm and we're touched by the film's conviction that all life centered on that place , that time and that sport .",1 +5542,"loud , silly , stupid and pointless .",0 +2256,"an incredibly thoughtful , deeply meditative picture that neatly and effectively captures the debilitating grief felt in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks .",1 +906,"by not averting his eyes , solondz forces us to consider the unthinkable , the unacceptable , the unmentionable .",1 +1352,"all leather pants & augmented boobs , hawn is hilarious as she tries to resuscitate the fun-loving libertine lost somewhere inside the conservative , handbag-clutching sarandon .",1 +332,"this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be .",1 +2510,goes a long way on hedonistic gusto .,1 +3095,"a mess , but it's a sincere mess .",1 +1227,there has been much puzzlement among critics about what the election symbolizes . i believe the message is in the messenger : the agent is a woman .,1 +5900,"unless there are zoning ordinances to protect your community from the dullest science fiction , impostor is opening today at a theater near you .",0 +4301,"hey arnold ! is now stretched to barely feature length , with a little more attention paid to the animation . still , the updated dickensian sensibility of writer craig bartlett's story is appealing .",0 +2096,george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension .,1 +1720,both deeply weird and charmingly dear .,1 +894,his work transcends the boy-meets-girl posturing of typical love stories .,1 +1040,"it's this memory-as-identity obviation that gives secret life its intermittent unease , reaffirming that long-held illusions are indeed reality , and that erasing them recasts the self .",1 +456,"this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force .",1 +1853,"the appearance of treebeard and gollum's expanded role will either have you loving what you're seeing , or rolling your eyes . i loved it ! gollum's 'performance' is incredible !",1 +3004,the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing .,1 +373,"this sensitive , smart , savvy , compelling coming-of-age drama delves into the passive-aggressive psychology of co-dependence and the struggle for self-esteem .",1 +336,a good documentary can make interesting a subject you thought would leave you cold . a case in point : doug pray's scratch .,1 +4307,"well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull .",0 +412,". . . a good , if not entirely fresh , look at war .",1 +3801,nicks and steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try .,0 +2266,"majidi's poetic love story is a ravishing consciousness-raiser , if a bit draggy at times .",1 +6210,"whereas the extremely competent hitman films such as pulp fiction and get shorty resonate a sardonic verve to their caustic purpose for existing , who is cletis tout ? is an inexpressible and drab wannabe looking for that exact niche .",0 +1493,"this kind of hands-on storytelling is ultimately what makes shanghai ghetto move beyond a good , dry , reliable textbook and what allows it to rank with its worthy predecessors .",1 +5397,. . . hokey art house pretension .,0 +6976,demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack .,0 +4610,"sometimes , fond memories should stay in the past : a lesson this film teaches all too well .",0 +372,"other than the slightly flawed ( and fairly unbelievable ) finale , everything else is top shelf .",1 +397,"hard , endearing , caring , warm . bring tissues .",1 +6944,"with little visible talent and no energy , colin hanks is in bad need of major acting lessons and maybe a little coffee .",0 +6403,""" the road paved with good intentions leads to the video store """,0 +3444,it trusts the story it sets out to tell .,1 +6335,this one aims for the toilet and scores a direct hit .,0 +5328,"if you believe any of this , i can make you a real deal on leftover enron stock that will double in value a week from friday .",0 +2163,"ash wednesday is not edward burns' best film , but it is a good and ambitious film . and it marks him as one of the most interesting writer/directors working today .",1 +6110,"wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd , but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time .",0 +318,"in addition to hoffman's powerful acting clinic , this is that rare drama that offers a thoughtful and rewarding glimpse into the sort of heartache everyone has felt , or will feel someday .",1 +1628,"in imax in short , it's just as wonderful on the big screen .",1 +5336,"expect to be reminded of other , better films , especially seven , which director william malone slavishly copies .",0 +252,"on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play .",1 +4328,". . . an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler .",0 +131,we want the funk - and this movie's got it .,1 +3775,"entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics , but through the perverse pleasure of watching disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel .",0 +4831,exactly what you'd expect from a guy named kaos .,0 +4525,"no new plot conceptions or environmental changes , just different bodies for sharp objects to rip through .",0 +933,"there's not much to fatale , outside of its stylish surprises . . . but that's ok .",1 +4145,"meandering and glacially paced , and often just plain dull .",0 +5055,"astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild .",0 +4205,the christ allegory doesn't work because there is no foundation for it,0 +6340,"this mild-mannered farce , directed by one of its writers , john c . walsh , is corny in a way that bespeaks an expiration date passed a long time ago .",0 +2733,"almost every scene in this film is a gem that could stand alone , a perfectly realized observation of mood , behavior and intent .",1 +1313,"a worthy addition to the cinematic canon , which , at last count , numbered 52 different versions .",1 +3834,"instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust .",0 +6833,writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ',0 +6704,"it's sweet , harmless , dumb , occasionally funny and about as compelling as a fishing show .",0 +1312,"that rare film whose real-life basis is , in fact , so interesting that no embellishment is needed .",1 +4020,[hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing serving sara isn't even halfway through .,0 +1687,"the message is that even the most unlikely can link together to conquer all kinds of obstacles , whether they be of nature , of man or of one another .",1 +1862,"good movie . good actress . but if you expect light romantic comedy , good gosh , will you be shocked .",1 +3243,"think of it as gidget , only with muscles and a lot more smarts , but just as endearing and easy to watch .",1 +6024,"children of the century , though well dressed and well made , ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers .",0 +5386,more of an intriguing curiosity than a gripping thriller .,0 +2653,"good actors have a radar for juicy roles -- there's a plethora of characters in this picture , and not one of them is flat .",1 +1843,"as a thoughtful and unflinching examination of an alternative lifestyle , sex with strangers is a success .",1 +899,has it ever been possible to say that williams has truly inhabited a character ? it is now .,1 +787,secretary is just too original to be ignored .,1 +6813,"after sitting through this sloppy , made-for-movie comedy special , it makes me wonder if lawrence hates criticism so much that he refuses to evaluate his own work .",0 +2766,". . . begins with promise , but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot .",1 +1740,"works because , for the most part , it avoids the stupid cliches and formulaic potholes that befall its brethren .",1 +4679,its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper .,0 +5514,"philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess .",0 +5294,"despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine .",0 +6612,"you come away wishing , though , that the movie spent a lot less time trying to make a credible case for reports from the afterlife and a lot more time on the romantic urgency that's at the center of the story .",0 +2010,"ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis .",1 +460,"scotland looks wonderful , the fans are often funny fanatics , the showdown sure beats a bad day of golf .",1 +6911,"the film has too many spots where it's on slippery footing , but is acceptable entertainment for the entire family and one that's especially fit for the kiddies .",0 +3883,dreary tale of middle-class angst,0 +5503,the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels .,0 +4073,any attempts at nuance given by the capable cast is drowned out by director jon purdy's sledgehammer sap .,0 +3716,"weighted down with slow , uninvolving storytelling and flat acting .",0 +4732,"nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas , and showtime is crammed full of them .",0 +533,"a dark , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation .",1 +3737,"with a story as bizarre and mysterious as this , you don't want to be worrying about whether the ineffectual broomfield is going to have the courage to knock on that door .",0 +924,the result is something quite fresh and delightful .,1 +6771,the movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments .,0 +1906,". . . has freaky scenes where the crew wonder if they're ghosts imagining themselves as alive . it's a sly wink to the others without becoming a postmodern joke , made creepy by its "" men in a sardine can "" warped logic .",1 +3323,"lasker's canny , meditative script distances sex and love , as byron and luther . . . realize they can't get no satisfaction without the latter .",1 +1309,a stunning and overwhelmingly cogent case for kissinger as a calculating war criminal .,1 +6927,"a road trip that will get you thinking , 'are we there yet ? '",0 +5246,"while hollywood ending has its share of belly laughs ( including a knockout of a closing line ) , the movie winds up feeling like a great missed opportunity .",0 +6907,"safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hit the entertainment bull's-eye .",0 +898,this is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party .,1 +258,director david jacobson gives dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims .,1 +3164,"as warm as it is wise , deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer , providing an experience that is richer than anticipated .",1 +4932,"sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction .",0 +2826,"for all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters , the heart of the film rests in the relationship between sullivan and his son .",1 +4735,"oversexed , at times overwrought comedy/drama that offers little insight into the experience of being forty , female and single .",0 +22,imagine a scenario where bergman approaches swedish fatalism using gary larson's far side humor,1 +1572,"hailed as a clever exercise in neo-hitchcockianism , this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately chabrolian .",1 +4997,"nicolas cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray , and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career .",0 +3925,as steamy as last week's pork dumplings .,0 +735,"this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times .",1 +6274,it tells its story in a flat manner and leaves you with the impression that you should have gotten more out of it than you did .,0 +1025,"enormously likable , partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd .",1 +4351,"his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level .",0 +2272,the actors are fantastic . they are what makes it worth the trip to the theatre .,1 +839,"if you sometimes like to go to the movies to have fun , wasabi is a good place to start .",1 +1027,k-19 : the widowmaker is a great yarn .,1 +3305,"like smoke signals , the film is also imbued with strong themes of familial ties and spirituality that are powerful and moving without stooping to base melodrama",1 +6030,"initially gripping , eventually cloying pow drama .",0 +4727,this movie is about the worst thing chan has done in the united states .,0 +3473,australia : land beyond time is an enjoyable big movie primarily because australia is a weirdly beautiful place .,1 +4786,predictably soulless techno-tripe .,0 +281,"a sensitive , cultivated treatment of greene's work as well as a remarkably faithful one .",1 +5823,"abandon spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . the only problem is that , by the end , no one in the audience or the film seems to really care .",0 +692,"even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers , old schoolers and current innovators , scratch is great fun , full of the kind of energy it's documenting .",1 +4060,it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love .,0 +5955,"it's all very cute , though not terribly funny if you're more than six years old .",0 +4992,screenwriter dan schneider and director shawn levy substitute volume and primary colors for humor and bite .,0 +6172,"lacks the spirit of the previous two , and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck .",0 +808,the film is an enjoyable family film -- pretty much aimed at any youngster who loves horses .,1 +487,an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . .,1 +6753,"[two] fairly dull -- contrasting and interlocking stories about miserable scandinavian settlers in 18th-century canada , and yuppie sailboaters in the here and now .",0 +641,a riveting documentary .,1 +2802,"a graceful , contemplative film that gradually and artfully draws us into a world where the personal and the political get fatally intertwined .",1 +5369,"seriously , rent the disney version .",0 +6588,"when the first few villians are introduced as "" spider "" and "" snake "" you know you're in for a real winner , creativity at its peak .",0 +4808,"a disaster of a drama , saved only by its winged assailants .",0 +4115,what an embarrassment .,0 +3940,"a broad , melodramatic estrogen opera that's pretty toxic in its own right .",0 +402,"an entertaining , colorful , action-filled crime story with an intimate heart .",1 +4605,this painfully unfunny farce traffics in tired stereotypes and encumbers itself with complications . . . that have no bearing on the story .,0 +6047,"it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff .",0 +3402,old-form moviemaking at its best .,1 +6973,. . . a boring parade of talking heads and technical gibberish that will do little to advance the linux cause .,0 +4441,"too long , and larded with exposition , this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community .",0 +2385,"' . . . both hokey and super-cool , and definitely not in a hurry , so sit back , relax and have a few laughs while the little ones get a fuzzy treat . '",1 +5711,"watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures .",0 +6546,lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned .,0 +2868,"payne has created a beautiful canvas , and nicholson proves once again that he's the best brush in the business .",1 +5974,no doubt the star and everyone else involved had their hearts in the right place . where their heads were is anyone's guess .,0 +3396,"it proves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study .",1 +5804,"such a fine idea for a film , and such a stultifying , lifeless execution .",0 +2897,"here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . but taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot , the queen of the damned cannot be said to suck .",1 +6272,. . . they missed the boat .,0 +6937,denzel washington's efforts are sunk by all the sanctimony .,0 +1045,"director lee has a true cinematic knack , but it's also nice to see a movie with its heart so thoroughly , unabashedly on its sleeve .",1 +1363,"this film seems thirsty for reflection , itself taking on adolescent qualities .",1 +3803,"despite the holes in the story and the somewhat predictable plot , moments of the movie caused me to jump in my chair . . .",0 +6624,"bad company leaves a bad taste , not only because of its bad-luck timing , but also the staleness of its script .",0 +3695,weiss and speck never make a convincing case for the relevance of these two 20th-century footnotes .,0 +1789,a visual spectacle full of stunning images and effects .,1 +3506,"a thriller whose style , structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story , you cannot separate them .",1 +491,"'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '",1 +6431,"the exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors .",0 +859,"in a summer overrun with movies dominated by cgi aliens and super heroes , it revigorates the mind to see a feature that concentrates on people , a project in which the script and characters hold sway .",1 +6060,imagine if you will a tony hawk skating video interspliced with footage from behind enemy lines and set to jersey shore techno .,0 +4534,i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes .,0 +5827,mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we saw in glitter here in wisegirls .,0 +3971,the hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone .,0 +5766,kung pow seems like some futile concoction that was developed hastily after oedekerk and his fellow moviemakers got through crashing a college keg party .,0 +1884,"engrossing and affecting , if ultimately not quite satisfying .",1 +4555,"frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting .",0 +6772,'wouldn't it be nice if all guys got a taste of what it's like on the other side of the bra ? ',0 +5857,one of the worst movies of the year .,0 +371,"a b-movie you can sit through , enjoy on a certain level and then forget .",1 +4729,"the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold .",0 +7039,what a great shame that such a talented director as chen kaige has chosen to make his english-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted .,0 +4597,feels more like a rejected x-files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening .,0 +5062,"the soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot .",0 +3394,the most ingenious film comedy since being john malkovich .,1 +3802,the stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny .,0 +6081,"earnest but earthbound . . . a slow , soggy , soporific , visually dank crime melodrama/character study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast .",0 +2805,"if not a home run , then at least a solid base hit .",1 +6291,"the master of disguise may have made a great saturday night live sketch , but a great movie it is not .",0 +5703,"an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .",0 +6599,"if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam .",0 +7069,"blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation .",0 +743,"grenier is terrific , bringing an unforced , rapid-fire delivery to toback's heidegger- and nietzsche-referencing dialogue .",1 +3913,". . . has about 3/4th the fun of its spry 2001 predecessor — but it's a rushed , slapdash , sequel-for-the-sake- of-a-sequel with less than half the plot and ingenuity .",0 +5821,an uneven look into a grim future that doesn't come close to the level of intelligence and visual splendour that can be seen in other films based on philip k . dick stories .,0 +6551,the movie's vision of a white american zealously spreading a puritanical brand of christianity to south seas islanders is one only a true believer could relish .,0 +2386,"the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal .",1 +2968,the directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge,1 +5602,"return to never land is much more p . c . than the original version ( no more racist portraits of indians , for instance ) , but the excitement is missing .",0 +557,"while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix .",1 +452,"a perfectly respectable , perfectly inoffensive , easily forgettable film .",1 +5297,"a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .",0 +1415,"against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine .",1 +2963,viveka seldahl and sven wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget .,1 +3951,the adventures of pluto nash is a whole lot of nada .,0 +6676,even die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge .,0 +3930,a film that suffers because of its many excesses .,0 +501,the drama is played out with such aching beauty and truth that it brings tears to your eyes .,1 +2057,a fast-moving and remarkable film that appears destined to become a landmark in japanese animation .,1 +6992,"by the miserable standards to which the slasher genre has sunk , . . . actually pretty good . of course , by more objective measurements it's still quite bad .",0 +2330,a film with contemporary political resonance illustrated by a winning family story .,1 +140,"both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy , what time is it there ? may prove to be [tsai's] masterpiece .",1 +4320,the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man .,0 +319,"even if it pushes its agenda too forcefully , this remains a film about something , one that attempts and often achieves a level of connection and concern .",1 +6296,"too intensely focused on the travails of being hal hartley to function as pastiche , no such thing is hartley's least accessible screed yet .",0 +5798,"donovan . . . squanders his main asset , jackie chan , and fumbles the vital action sequences .",0 +1381,in visual fertility treasure planet rivals the top japanese animations of recent vintage .,1 +1403,""" the ring "" is pretty much an english-language copy of the film that inspired it , and it carries the same strengths and flaws .",1 +601,"uplifting , funny and wise .",1 +3902,the film's hero is a bore and his innocence soon becomes a questionable kind of inexcusable dumb innocence .,0 +796,"newton draws our attention like a magnet , and acts circles around her better known co-star , mark wahlberg .",1 +2044,with the prospect of films like kangaroo jack about to burst across america's winter movie screens it's a pleasure to have a film like the hours as an alternative .,1 +2147,"shiri is an action film that delivers on the promise of excitement , but it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience .",1 +3969,the pool drowned me in boredom .,0 +6904,". . . the good and different idea [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend "" never again . """,0 +6770,". . . although this idea is "" new "" the results are tired .",0 +2222,". . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarrely original .",1 +6679,"the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had .",0 +127,a stirring road movie .,1 +2972,"too often , son of the bride becomes an exercise in trying to predict when a preordained "" big moment "" will occur and not "" if . """,1 +3235,"tully is worth a look for its true-to-life characters , its sensitive acting , its unadorned view of rural life and the subtle direction of first-timer hilary birmingham .",1 +231,"one of the smarter offerings the horror genre has produced in recent memory , even if it's far tamer than advertised .",1 +2760,a historical epic with the courage of its convictions about both scope and detail .,1 +5548,"like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone . you leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt , but no new friends .",0 +5860,"swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then .",0 +65,"i admired it , particularly that unexpected downer of an ending .",1 +1717,delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information .,1 +529,"the vitality of the actors keeps the intensity of the film high , even as the strafings blend together .",1 +5093,"' . . . the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well . . . but quite frankly , scoob and shag don't eat enough during the film . '",0 +3383,"nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable , warm water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy .",1 +3107,about nowhere kids who appropriated turfs as they found them and become self-made celebrity athletes -- a low-down version of the american dream .,1 +649,the pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of steven spielberg's schindler's list . but mr . polanski creates images even more haunting than those in mr . spielberg's 1993 classic .,1 +1912,"what might have been readily dismissed as the tiresome rant of an aging filmmaker still thumbing his nose at convention takes a surprising , subtle turn at the midway point .",1 +5066,"illiterate , often inert sci-fi action thriller .",0 +6009,"it's not that kung pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk's impish augmentation .",0 +740,"seldahl's barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down , first by passion and then by illness .",1 +1847,an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum .,1 +5787,the movie's heavy-handed screenplay navigates a fast fade into pomposity and pretentiousness .,0 +627,"expands the limits of what a film can be , taking us into the lives of women to whom we might not give a second look if we passed them on the street .",1 +2681,it's been made with an innocent yet fervid conviction that our hollywood has all but lost .,1 +3927,draggin' about dragons,0 +1792,"jones . . . makes a great impression as the writer-director of this little $1 . 8 million charmer , which may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking but has a huge heart .",1 +2959,"though writer/director bart freundlich's film ultimately becomes a simplistic story about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship , it has some special qualities and the soulful gravity of crudup's anchoring performance .",1 +7089,it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch .,0 +4013,"there's something with potential here , but the movie decides , like lavinia , to go the conservative route .",0 +521,a charming romantic comedy that is by far the lightest dogme film and among the most enjoyable .,1 +3789,kim ki-deok seems to have in mind an ( emotionally at least ) adolescent audience demanding regular shocks and bouts of barely defensible sexual violence to keep it interested .,0 +6901,"too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette .",0 +6049,"no such thing is sort of a minimalist beauty and the beast , but in this case the beast should definitely get top billing . robert john burke as the monster horns in and steals the show .",0 +271,a tremendous piece of work .,1 +2379,"what one is left with , even after the most awful acts are committed , is an overwhelming sadness that feels as if it has made its way into your very bloodstream .",1 +663,"the continued good chemistry between carmen and juni is what keeps this slightly disappointing sequel going , with enough amusing banter -- blessedly curse-free -- to keep both kids and parents entertained .",1 +6241,"i'm convinced i could keep a family of five blind , crippled , amish people alive in this situation better than these british soldiers do at keeping themselves kicking .",0 +2014,one of [jaglom's] better efforts -- a wry and sometime bitter movie about love .,1 +1074,"a difficult , absorbing film that manages to convey more substance despite its repetitions and inconsistencies than do most films than are far more pointed and clear .",1 +2598,"an amusing and unexpectedly insightful examination of sexual jealousy , resentment and the fine line between passion and pretence .",1 +4949,"too slow , too long and too little happens .",0 +4665,no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .,0 +1185,". . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role .",1 +234,"the way the roundelay of partners functions , and the interplay within partnerships and among partnerships and the general air of gator-bashing are consistently delightful .",1 +862,succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture .,1 +378,reveals how important our special talents can be when put in service of of others . it also shows how deeply felt emotions can draw people together across the walls that might otherwise separate them .,1 +3407,you live the mood rather than savour the story .,1 +7058,there's nothing remotely topical or sexy here .,0 +4311,a somewhat disappointing and meandering saga .,0 +4723,". . . a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge . . . the filmmakers' paws , sad to say , were all over this "" un-bear-able "" project !",0 +2710,the movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances .,1 +5973,"if this is cinema , i pledge allegiance to cagney and lacey .",0 +920,"allen se atreve a atacar , a atacarse y nos ofrece gags que van de la sonrisa a la risa de larga duración",1 +1923,"every dance becomes about seduction , where backstabbing and betrayals are celebrated , and sex is currency .",1 +5077,at best this is a film for the under-7 crowd . but it would be better to wait for the video . and a very rainy day .,0 +1546,"there's an energy to y tu mamá también . much of it comes from the brave , uninhibited performances by its lead actors .",1 +3162,lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy .,1 +1559,"a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "" memento """,1 +4474,"there's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination .",0 +6847,"just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else .",0 +1895,martyr gets royally screwed and comes back for more .,1 +1696,"as a film director , labute continues to improve .",1 +4900,a complete waste of time .,0 +94,graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies .,1 +696,leigh's film is full of memorable performances from top to bottom .,1 +910,life on the rez is no picnic : this picture shows you why .,1 +6636,"an easy watch , except for the annoying demeanour of its lead character .",0 +5065,"a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore .",0 +4453,"when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence .",0 +4662,that such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year's worst cinematic tragedies .,0 +4391,"hey arnold ! the movie could have been made 40 years ago , and parents' appreciation of it may depend on whether they consider that a good thing .",0 +6745,"yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war , let alone conscious of each other's existence .",0 +1768,"…an eerily suspenseful , deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller .",1 +3852,julia is played with exasperating blandness by laura regan .,0 +1741,"nair and writer laura cahill dare to build a movie around some flawed but rather unexceptional women , emerging with a fine character study that's short on plot but rich in the tiny revelations of real life .",1 +2571,"it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on .",1 +136,"it's a good film , but it falls short of its aspiration to be a true 'epic' .",1 +6220,"like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet .",0 +716,moving and vibrant .,1 +4632,"this little film is so slovenly done , so primitive in technique , that it can't really be called animation .",0 +2434,"davis is funny , charming and quirky in her feature film acting debut as amy .",1 +1289,"works because we're never sure if ohlinger's on the level or merely a dying , delusional man trying to get into the history books before he croaks .",1 +18,harmless fun .,1 +7100,the movie is too amateurishly square to make the most of its own ironic implications .,0 +4841,"entertaining enough , but nothing new",0 +6225,"will only satisfy those who can't tell the difference between the good , the bad and the ugly .",0 +6461,"only a few minutes elapse before the daddy of all slashers arrives , still with the boiler suit and white mask , which look remarkably clean for a guy who has been mass-murdering since 1978 but has never been seen doing laundry .",0 +6285,"the high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous , the acting is robotically italicized , and truth-in-advertising hounds take note : there's very little hustling on view .",0 +287,"a smart , witty follow-up .",1 +1841,"a burst of color , music , and dance that only the most practiced curmudgeon could fail to crack a smile at .",1 +1676,"washington overcomes the script's flaws and envelops the audience in his character's anguish , anger and frustration .",1 +6735,"too much of the movie feels contrived , as if the filmmakers were worried the story wouldn't work without all those gimmicks .",0 +6873,"this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions .",0 +444,"writer/director joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic .",1 +6869,"with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp .",0 +5379,"why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one .",0 +2667,attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage .,1 +6713,a yawn-provoking little farm melodrama .,0 +4897,"more successful at relating history than in creating an emotionally complex , dramatically satisfying heroine",0 +6893,"as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality .",0 +6603,"while glover , the irrepressible eccentric of river's edge , dead man and back to the future , is perfect casting for the role , he represents bartleby's main overall flaw .",0 +5396,"the streets , shot by cinematographer michael ballhaus , may be as authentic as they are mean , but it is nearly impossible to care about what happens on them .",0 +5509,"although . . . visually striking and slickly staged , it's also cold , grey , antiseptic and emotionally desiccated .",0 +5142,one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch .,0 +5614,"director elie chouraqui , who co-wrote the script , catches the chaotic horror of war , but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear-jerking demands of soap opera ?",0 +3921,most folks with a real stake in the american sexual landscape will find it either moderately amusing or just plain irrelevant .,0 +3409,a solid piece of journalistic work that draws a picture of a man for whom political expedience became a deadly foreign policy .,1 +1396,a worthwhile way to spend two hours .,1 +5097,"the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own .",0 +7056,"steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen .",0 +681,"mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness .",1 +6560,no telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie .,0 +6801,"spirit is a visual treat , and it takes chances that are bold by studio standards , but it lacks a strong narrative .",0 +3935,equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and farenheit 451 .,0 +1845,. . . a trashy little bit of fluff stuffed with enjoyable performances and a bewildering sense of self-importance,1 +4133,a cockeyed shot all the way .,0 +4902,the isolated moments of creative insanity finally are lost in the thin soup of canned humor .,0 +6469,the original wasn't a good movie but this remake makes it look like a masterpiece !,0 +488,"george clooney , in his first directorial effort , presents this utterly ridiculous shaggy dog story as one of the most creative , energetic and original comedies to hit the screen in years .",1 +607,"the film's plot may be shallow , but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots .",1 +3332,an incredibly clever and superbly paced caper filled with scams within scams within scams .,1 +4918,a bit of an unwieldy mess .,0 +6490,"it's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie , directed by scott kalvert , about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches , gratuitous violence , or empty machismo .",0 +5506,a film that loses sight of its own story .,0 +2144,toes the fine line between cheese and earnestness remarkably well ; everything is delivered with such conviction that it's hard not to be carried away .,1 +3088,an absorbing and unsettling psychological drama .,1 +2964,. . . breathes surprising new life into the familiar by amalgamating genres and adding true human complexity to its not-so-stock characters .,1 +543,"blade ii merges bits and pieces from fighting games , wire fu , horror movies , mystery , james bond , wrestling , sci-fi and anime into one big bloody stew .",1 +2908,"if it's unnerving suspense you're after -- you'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for .",1 +4331,"there's something deeply creepy about never again , a new arrow in schaeffer's quiver of ineptitudes .",0 +1926,"the messy emotions raging throughout this three-hour effort are instantly recognizable , allowing the film to paradoxically feel familiar and foreign at the same time .",1 +2922,"a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this film , whose meaning and impact is sadly heightened by current world events .",1 +1745,"same song , second verse , coulda been better , but it coulda been worse .",1 +1643,. . . a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking .,1 +608,. . . there are enough moments of heartbreaking honesty to keep one glued to the screen .,1 +1490,"i was amused and entertained by the unfolding of bielinsky's cleverly constructed scenario , and greatly impressed by the skill of the actors involved in the enterprise .",1 +330,a fleet-footed and pleasingly upbeat family diversion .,1 +6579,"there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them .",0 +1070,"is truth stranger than fiction ? in [screenwriter] charlie kaufman's world , truth and fiction are equally strange , and his for the taking .",1 +145,"frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who , in spite of all that he's witnessed , remains surprisingly idealistic , and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him .",1 +4164,"the plot is plastered with one hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults .",0 +1298,"a searing , epic treatment of a nationwide blight that seems to be , horrifyingly , ever on the rise .",1 +4353,"it believes it's revealing some great human truths , when , in reality , it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile .",0 +3098,"like an episode of mtv's undressed , with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance . . . indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper .",1 +93,"argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .",1 +4017,the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers .,0 +2731,"a violent initiation rite for the audience , as much as it is for angelique , the [opening] dance guarantees karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women .",1 +2228,"the hours , a delicately crafted film , is an impressive achievement in spite of a river of sadness that pours into every frame .",1 +4417,"frank capra played this story straight . but the 2002 film doesn't really believe in it , and breaks the mood with absurdly inappropriate 'comedy' scenes .",0 +5219,"like the tuck family themselves , this movie just goes on and on and on and on",0 +3074,"i like it . there is a freedom to watching stunts that are this crude , this fast-paced and this insane .",1 +5777,"the only thing to fear about "" fear dot com "" is hitting your head on the theater seat in front of you when you doze off thirty minutes into the film .",0 +903,"an energetic , violent movie with a momentum that never lets up .",1 +219,watstein handily directs and edits around his screenplay's sappier elements . . . and sustains off the hook's buildup with remarkable assuredness for a first-timer .,1 +6769,the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .,0 +1744,"it's not like having a real film of nijinsky , but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered .",1 +5984,worthy of the gong .,0 +3977,". . . plot holes so large and obvious a marching band might as well be stomping through them in clown clothes , playing a college football fight song on untuned instruments .",0 +684,"gives us a lot to chew on , but not all of it has been properly digested .",1 +5619,"a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something .",0 +4373,there's no getting around the fact that this is revenge of the nerds revisited -- again .,0 +4717,a real snooze .,0 +5909,". . . unspeakably , unbearably dull , featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted .",0 +2665,"opening with some contrived banter , cliches and some loose ends , the screenplay only comes into its own in the second half .",1 +1079,that rara avis : the intelligent romantic comedy with actual ideas on its mind .,1 +6626,"the pacing is deadly , the narration helps little and naipaul , a juicy writer , is negated .",0 +943,"a fascinating , unnerving examination of the delusions of one unstable man .",1 +355,"[the digital effects] reminded me of terry gilliam's rudimentary old monty python cartoons , in which he would cut out figures from drawings and photographs and paste them together .",1 +6762,it's lazy for a movie to avoid solving one problem by trying to distract us with the solution to another .,0 +4678,"nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release .",0 +2054,proves that some movie formulas don't need messing with -- like the big-bug movie .,1 +6727,the talk-heavy film plays like one of robert altman's lesser works .,0 +4075,what's missing is what we call the 'wow' factor .,0 +2,"even if the naipaul original remains the real masterpiece , the movie possesses its own languorous charm .",1 +6242,a big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on .,0 +5654,an incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic .,0 +3446,"it's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s .",1 +5175,simone is not a bad film . it just doesn't have anything really interesting to say .,0 +3043,boisterous and daft documentary .,1 +496,the beautifully choreographed kitchen ballet is simple but absorbing .,1 +960,it's always fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work .,1 +848,"i've never seen or heard anything quite like this film , and i recommend it for its originality alone .",1 +2004,tuck everlasting achieves a delicate balance of romantic innocence and philosophical depth .,1 +1801,this may be burns's strongest film since the brothers mcmullen .,1 +3488,". . . even if you've never heard of chaplin , you'll still be glued to the screen .",1 +6178,"trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "" gadzooks ! """,0 +5211,"anyway , for one reason or another , crush turns into a dire drama partway through . after that , it just gets stupid and maudlin . too bad , but thanks to some lovely comedic moments and several fine performances , it's not a total loss .",0 +569,"talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quite worth seeing .",1 +5452,has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strung-together tv episodes .,0 +6378,a very depressing movie of many missed opportunities .,0 +1341,"qutting may be a flawed film , but it is nothing if not sincere .",1 +2986,"the volatile dynamics of female friendship is the subject of this unhurried , low-key film that is so off-hollywood that it seems positively french in its rhythms and resonance .",1 +5090,"the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief .",0 +1893,what makes the movie special is its utter sincerity .,1 +1005,"a deceivingly simple film , one that grows in power in retrospect .",1 +1793,"[shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream hollywood , while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision .",1 +113,an ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation .,1 +6765,"despite its visual virtuosity , 'naqoyqatsi' is banal in its message and the choice of material to convey it .",0 +4247,barely goes beyond comic book status .,0 +2306,this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre .,1 +4644,"i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes .",0 +4873,"star trek was kind of terrific once , but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy .",0 +3282,vividly conveys both the pitfalls and the pleasures of over-the-top love .,1 +4827,"lyne's latest , the erotic thriller unfaithful , further demonstrates just how far his storytelling skills have eroded .",0 +6820,"'lovely and amazing , ' unhappily , is neither . . . excessively strained and contrived .",0 +609,"tsai has a well-deserved reputation as one of the cinema world's great visual stylists , and in this film , every shot enhances the excellent performances .",1 +6505,the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat .,0 +6218,you . . . get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone .,0 +5532,there is more than one joke about putting the toilet seat down . and that should tell you everything you need to know about all the queen's men .,0 +5362,"while american adobo has its heart ( and its palate ) in the right place , its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy , even .",0 +2073,"a fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . certainly the big finish wasn't something galinsky and hawley could have planned for . . . but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps .",1 +1215,"blisteringly rude , scarily funny , sorrowfully sympathetic to the damage it surveys , the film has in kieran culkin a pitch-perfect holden .",1 +3983,showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment . those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves . but ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as mr . de niro .,0 +3236,"it's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast .",1 +3537,writer-director burger imaginatively fans the embers of a dormant national grief and curiosity that has calcified into chronic cynicism and fear .,1 +5358,always destined to be measured against anthony asquith's acclaimed 1952 screen adaptation .,0 +2855,"the charm of revolution os is rather the way it introduces you to new , fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers .",1 +5640,an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work .,0 +6333,"if you've got a house full of tots -- don't worry , this will be on video long before they grow up and you can wait till then .",0 +7048,what's next ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ?,0 +2732,""" the emperor's new clothes "" begins with a simple plan . . . . well , at least that's the plan .",1 +1325,i had more fun watching spy than i had with most of the big summer movies .,1 +6339,"solondz is without doubt an artist of uncompromising vision , but that vision is beginning to feel , if not morally bankrupt , at least terribly monotonous .",0 +3963,it's one long bore .,0 +2410,a richly imagined and admirably mature work from a gifted director who definitely has something on his mind .,1 +6058,"mandel holland's direction is uninspired , and his scripting unsurprising , but the performances by phifer and black are ultimately winning . you'll find yourself wishing that you and they were in another movie .",0 +3005,"what full frontal lacks in thematic coherence it largely makes up for as loosey-goosey , experimental entertainment . still , i'm not quite sure what the point is…",1 +3299,feral and uncomfortable .,1 +6670,"though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation .",0 +6640,"whether it's the worst movie of 2002 , i can't say for sure : memories of rollerball have faded , and i skipped country bears . but this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title .",0 +7051,"equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid .",0 +6822,one of the worst movies of the year . . . . watching it was painful .,0 +2423,"it may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week tv movie , but a song for martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses seldahl and wollter .",1 +3490,"merely as a technical , logistical feat , russian ark marks a cinematic milestone .",1 +3391,a flawed film but an admirable one that tries to immerse us in a world of artistic abandon and political madness and very nearly succeeds .,1 +3594,director tom shadyac and star kevin costner glumly mishandle the story's promising premise of a physician who needs to heal himself .,0 +5450,"the only way to tolerate this insipid , brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers .",0 +5497,"when [reno] lets her radical flag fly , taking angry potshots at george w . bush , henry kissinger , larry king , et al . , reno devolves into a laugh-free lecture .",0 +2771,"the real charm of this trifle is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stallone in a hot sake half-sleep .",1 +3534,"a mostly intelligent , engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser .",1 +5691,conforms itself with creating a game of 'who's who' . . . where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences .,0 +5558,"an inconsequential , barely there bit of piffle .",0 +6731,alternately frustrating and rewarding .,0 +3190,"in some ways , lagaan is quintessential bollywood . except it's much , much better .",1 +4310,master of disguise runs for only 71 minutes and feels like three hours .,0 +6486,"sit through this one , and you won't need a magic watch to stop time ; your dvd player will do it for you .",0 +123,"despite its old-hat set-up and predictable plot , empire still has enough moments to keep it entertaining .",1 +3860,. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels .,0 +6356,"sc2 is an autopilot hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic christmas spirit , yet it's geared toward an audience full of masters of both .",0 +4552,a grand fart coming from a director beginning to resemble someone's crazy french grandfather .,0 +3113,much of this slick and sprightly cgi feature is sufficiently funny to amuse even the most resolutely unreligious parents who escort their little ones to megaplex screenings .,1 +6537,don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk .,0 +3214,"inherently caustic and oddly whimsical , 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 .",1 +2398,maybe thomas wolfe was right : you can't go home again .,1 +6980,"what's the most positive thing that can be said about the new rob schneider vehicle ? well , it's not as pathetic as the animal .",0 +5853,"from its nauseating spinning credits sequence to a very talented but underutilized supporting cast , bartleby squanders as much as it gives out .",0 +5405,the dark and bittersweet twist feels strange as things turn nasty and tragic during the final third of the film . first-timer john mckay is never able to pull it back on course .,0 +5009,"this is a monumental achievement in practically every facet of inept filmmaking : joyless , idiotic , annoying , heavy-handed , visually atrocious , and often downright creepy .",0 +2934,"cuaron repeatedly , perversely undercuts the joie de vivre even as he creates it , giving the movie a mournful undercurrent that places the good-time shenanigans in welcome perspective .",1 +4120,the film has a childlike quality about it . but the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass .,0 +4674,"plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights .",0 +405,"despite an overwrought ending , the film works as well as it does because of the performances .",1 +2028,"the film's greatest asset is how much it's not just another connect-the-dots , spy-on-the-run picture .",1 +5658,"a little less extreme than in the past , with longer exposition sequences between them , and with fewer gags to break the tedium .",0 +3251,the combination of lightness and strictness in this instance gives italian for beginners an amiable aimlessness that keeps it from seeming predictably formulaic .,1 +3414,"the attraction between these two marginal characters is complex from the start -- and , refreshingly , stays that way .",1 +567,the quality of the art combined with the humor and intelligence of the script allow the filmmakers to present the biblical message of forgiveness without it ever becoming preachy or syrupy .,1 +3596,"takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker .",0 +1455,"it's up to you to decide whether to admire these people's dedication to their cause or be repelled by their dogmatism , manipulativeness and narrow , fearful view of american life .",1 +2252,"like leon , it's frustrating and still oddly likable .",1 +4379,fails to bring as much to the table .,0 +114,"it's the best film of the year so far , the benchmark against which all other best picture contenders should be measured .",1 +967,"whether or not you're enlightened by any of derrida's lectures on "" the other "" and "" the self , "" derrida is an undeniably fascinating and playful fellow .",1 +2561,an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece .,1 +276,most of the things that made the original men in black such a pleasure are still there .,1 +6405,"unfortunately , as a writer , mr . montias isn't nearly as good to his crew as he is as a director or actor .",0 +3550,there are moments it can be heart-rending in an honest and unaffected ( and gentle ) way .,1 +6052,"the actresses may have worked up a back story for the women they portray so convincingly , but viewers don't get enough of that background for the characters to be involving as individuals rather than types .",0 +932,"sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .",1 +104,an enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race .,1 +3614,"hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script .",0 +1577,it's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn .,1 +5259,it's everything you don't go to the movies for .,0 +3280,visually captivating .,1 +3757,"die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with .",0 +90,"a culture-clash comedy that , in addition to being very funny , captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling american in europe .",1 +439,"those who love cinema paradiso will find the new scenes interesting , but few will find the movie improved .",1 +5013,the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil .,0 +2285,"the filmmakers wisely decided to let crocodile hunter steve irwin do what he does best , and fashion a story around him .",1 +2717,"there are so few films about the plight of american indians in modern america that skins comes as a welcome , if downbeat , missive from a forgotten front .",1 +3981,[seems] even more uselessly redundant and shamelessly money-grubbing than most third-rate horror sequels .,0 +2505,"would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can ? do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body ? if you answered yes , by all means enjoy the new guy .",1 +5434,'the château is never quite able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ',0 +5808,"a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée .",0 +4404,"has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to , but its energy can't compare to the wit , humor and snappy dialogue of the original . if i want music , i'll buy the soundtrack . if i want a real movie , i'll buy the criterion dvd .",0 +6681,"none of this sounds promising and , indeed , the first half of sorority boys is as appalling as any 'comedy' to ever spill from a projector's lens .",0 +5095,"a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless .",0 +4378,"snoots will no doubt rally to its cause , trotting out threadbare standbys like 'masterpiece' and 'triumph' and all that malarkey , but rarely does an established filmmaker so ardently waste viewers' time with a gobbler like this .",0 +1213,it treats ana's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film .,1 +1183,"[russell] makes good b movies ( the mask , the blob ) , and the scorpion king more than ably meets those standards .",1 +6057,i found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays .,0 +3010,"while the isle is both preposterous and thoroughly misogynistic , its vistas are incredibly beautiful to look at .",1 +5147,"when it comes to the battle of hollywood vs . woo , it looks like woo's a p . o . w .",0 +4590,the sweetest thing leaves a bitter taste .,0 +6499,"nothing here seems as funny as it did in analyze this , not even joe viterelli as de niro's right-hand goombah .",0 +6128,verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies .,0 +6200,"possession is in the end an honorable , interesting failure . it falls far short of poetry , but it's not bad prose .",0 +3641,"what ensues are much blood-splattering , mass drug-induced bowel evacuations , and none-too-funny commentary on the cultural distinctions between americans and brits .",0 +6197,"the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected .",0 +2701,"dense , exhilarating documentary .",1 +6953,neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored .,0 +4383,"it's hard to care about a film that proposes as epic tragedy the plight of a callow rich boy who is forced to choose between his beautiful , self-satisfied 22-year-old girlfriend and an equally beautiful , self-satisfied 18-year-old mistress .",0 +2224,what makes it worth watching is quaid's performance .,1 +3433,the performances are an absolute joy .,1 +5162,"if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish .",0 +5541,"unfortunately , contrived plotting , stereotyped characters and woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart .",0 +4367,a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell .,0 +5088,this flat run at a hip-hop tootsie is so poorly paced you could fit all of pootie tang in between its punchlines .,0 +2519,"unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow .",1 +4342,a film that plays things so nice 'n safe as to often play like a milquetoast movie of the week blown up for the big screen .,0 +83,the amazing film work is so convincing that by movies' end you'll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others .,1 +3090,"a work of extraordinary journalism , but it is also a work of deft and subtle poetry .",1 +1002,director nancy savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could .,1 +4357,". . . for all its social and political potential , state property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful .",0 +4781,"opens as promising as any war/adventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama , better suited for a movie titled "" glory : a soldier's story . """,0 +4442,"rambles on in a disjointed , substandard fashion from one poorly executed action sequence to the next .",0 +1979,an edgy thriller that delivers a surprising punch .,1 +2825,"with amazing finesse , the film shadows heidi's trip back to vietnam and the city where her mother , mai thi kim , still lives .",1 +5444,"it feels like a community theater production of a great broadway play : even at its best , it will never hold a candle to the original .",0 +31,"expect no major discoveries , nor any stylish sizzle , but the film sits with square conviction and touching good sense on the experience of its women .",1 +4361,"a pint-sized 'goodfellas' designed to appeal to the younger set , it's not a very good movie in any objective sense , but it does mostly hold one's interest .",0 +149,haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed .,1 +6531,""" the kid stays in the picture "" is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat .",0 +2947,it all adds up to good fun .,1 +2427,"anchored by friel and williams's exceptional performances , the film's power lies in its complexity . nothing is black and white .",1 +1891,"like mike doesn't win any points for originality . it does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style , and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism .",1 +513,soderbergh skims the fat from the 1972 film . what's left is a rich stew of longing .,1 +5681,"if there was any doubt that peter o'fallon didn't have an original bone in his body , a rumor of angels should dispel it .",0 +4540,whether quitting will prove absorbing to american audiences is debatable .,0 +6011,"whenever its story isn't bogged down by idiocy involving the cia and a lost u . s . satellite , hunter -- starring irwin and his american wife/colleague , terri -- is a movie children should enjoy .",0 +3731,"fear permeates the whole of stortelling , todd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique .",0 +3241,"not only a coming-of-age story and cautionary parable , but also a perfectly rendered period piece .",1 +4810,more trifle than triumph .,0 +1927,"although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness , those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime .",1 +4079,"stephen earnhart's documentary is a decomposition of healthy eccentric inspiration and ambition – wearing a cloak of unsentimental , straightforward text – when it's really an exercise in gross romanticization of the delusional personality type .",0 +4617,the most surprising thing about this film is that they are actually releasing it into theaters .,0 +4251,its appeal will probably limited to lds church members and undemanding armchair tourists .,0 +4842,it's so badly made on every level that i'm actually having a hard time believing people were paid to make it .,0 +3207,a gripping documentary that reveals how deep the antagonism lies in war-torn jerusalem .,1 +6962,below is well below expectations .,0 +5046,a full-frontal attack on audience patience .,0 +6207,"amid the cliché and foreshadowing , cage manages a degree of casual realism . . . that is routinely dynamited by blethyn .",0 +6005,"rock's stand-up magic wanes . hopkins , squarely fills the screen . action - mechanical .",0 +6804,"the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , overheated pathos and long , wistful gazes .",0 +1892,"arliss howard's ambitious , moving , and adventurous directorial debut , big bad love , meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws .",1 +5266,every conceivable mistake a director could make in filming opera has been perpetrated here .,0 +1037,"it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit .",1 +2059,"a slick , engrossing melodrama .",1 +4001,more of a career curio than a major work .,0 +5024,it uses the pain and violence of war as background material for color .,0 +914,the charms of the lead performances allow us to forget most of the film's problems .,1 +484,"spectacular in every sense of the word , even if you don' t know an orc from a uruk-hai .",1 +3011,one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this year .,1 +1866,the movie starts with a legend and ends with a story that is so far-fetched it would be impossible to believe if it weren't true . this is the stuff that disney movies are made of .,1 +2183,"a strong script , powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of wladyslaw szpilman , who is not only a pianist , but a good human being .",1 +5350,"a long , dull procession of despair , set to cello music culled from a minimalist funeral .",0 +7004,deserves high marks for political courage but barely gets by on its artistic merits .,0 +1055,"together , miller , kuras and the actresses make personal velocity into an intricate , intimate and intelligent journey .",1 +2275,"much of the lady and the duke is about quiet , decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes .",1 +5919,"well , it does go on forever .",0 +2328,a quirky comedy set in newfoundland that cleverly captures the dry wit that's so prevalent on the rock .,1 +1267,""" birthday girl "" is an actor's movie first and foremost .",1 +3678,"the only thing worse than your substandard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound .",0 +7075,nothing about the film -- with the possible exception of elizabeth hurley's breasts -- is authentic .,0 +5513,"impostor has a handful of thrilling moments and a couple of good performances , but the movie doesn't quite fly . for starters , the story is just too slim .",0 +3815,"the result , however well-intentioned , is ironically just the sort of disposable , kitchen-sink homage that illustrates why the whole is so often less than the sum of its parts in today's hollywood .",0 +1587,"remember the kind of movie we were hoping "" ecks vs . sever "" or "" xxx "" was going to be ? this is it .",1 +3419,one of [herzog's] least inspired works .,1 +6066,the type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name .,0 +2159,it has more than a few moments that are insightful enough to be fondly remembered in the endlessly challenging maze of moviegoing .,1 +3378,"ramsay is clearly extraordinarily talented , and based on three short films and two features , here's betting her third feature will be something to behold .",1 +4256,viewers will need all the luck they can muster just figuring out who's who in this pretentious mess .,0 +2873,"narc may not get an 'a' for originality , but it wears its b-movie heritage like a badge of honor .",1 +6685,so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it .,0 +2303,"whatever complaints i might have , i'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor's club any time .",1 +5114,"sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes , masturbation jokes , and racist japanese jokes .",0 +17,"it's [ricci's] best work yet , this girl-woman who sincerely believes she can thwart the world's misery with blind good will .",1 +5224,'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck .,0 +3434,"tully is in many ways the perfect festival film : a calm , self-assured portrait of small town regret , love , duty and friendship that appeals to the storytelling instincts of a slightly more literate filmgoing audience .",1 +1134,"the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension .",1 +2529,"this humbling little film , fueled by the light comedic work of zhao benshan and the delicate ways of dong jie , is just the sort for those moviegoers who complain that 'they don't make movies like they used to anymore . '",1 +5296,""" the time machine "" is a movie that has no interest in itself . it doesn't believe in itself , it has no sense of humor…it's just plain bored .",0 +3655,"despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours .",0 +6572,it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .,0 +2493,a fascinating documentary about the long and eventful spiritual journey of the guru who helped launch the new age .,1 +962,"good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing .",1 +4736,the only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies .,0 +5501,"at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow .",0 +4912,"its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers .",0 +4426,obvious,0 +5891,constantly slips from the grasp of its maker .,0 +4854,"at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .",0 +3828,it's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent electra rebellion .,0 +4890,maudlin and melodramatic we expected . boring we didn't .,0 +4698,'opening up' the play more has partly closed it down .,0 +2809,"it's fun , splashy and entertainingly nasty .",1 +5575,"static , repetitive , muddy and blurry , hey arnold ! would seem to have a lock on the title of ugliest movie of the year .",0 +2364,"although mainstream american movies tend to exploit the familiar , every once in a while a film arrives from the margin that gives viewers a chance to learn , to grow , to travel .",1 +2465,"this new time machine is hardly perfect… yet it proves surprisingly serviceable . even at its worst , it's not half-bad .",1 +854,i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again,1 +4546,"as with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type , more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script , which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else .",0 +2830,a gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema,1 +6158,a movie that seems motivated more by a desire to match mortarboards with dead poets society and good will hunting than by its own story .,0 +6516,"there's a solid woman- finding-herself story somewhere in here , but you'd have to dig pretty deep to uncover it .",0 +2443,it's refreshing to see a movie that embraces its old-fashioned themes and in the process comes out looking like something wholly original .,1 +237,a delightful entree in the tradition of food movies .,1 +1575,"although made on a shoestring and unevenly acted , conjures a lynch-like vision of the rotting underbelly of middle america .",1 +5467,"i'm not sure which is worse : the poor acting by the ensemble cast , the flat dialogue by vincent r . nebrida or the gutless direction by laurice guillen .",0 +3228,"bluer than the atlantic and more biologically detailed than an autopsy , the movie . . . is , also , frequently hilarious .",1 +2309,"while it would be easy to give crush the new title of two weddings and a funeral , it's a far more thoughtful film than any slice of hugh grant whimsy .",1 +2463,"a breathtaking adventure for all ages , spirit tells its poignant and uplifting story in a stunning fusion of music and images .",1 +5177,the chateau . . . is less concerned with cultural and political issues than doting on its eccentric characters .,0 +3560,"[lin chung's] voice is rather unexceptional , even irritating ( at least to this western ear ) , making it awfully hard to buy the impetus for the complicated love triangle that develops between the three central characters .",0 +4691,animated drivel meant to enhance the self-image of drooling idiots .,0 +6429,"fans of plympton's shorts may marginally enjoy the film , but it is doubtful this listless feature will win him any new viewers .",0 +4596,"a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups .",0 +5449,"a wildly erratic drama with sequences that make you wince in embarrassment and others , thanks to the actors , that are quite touching .",0 +1052,"birthday girl is an amusing joy ride , with some surprisingly violent moments .",1 +4586,this is a train wreck of an action film -- a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed james bond into the mindless xxx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs .,0 +3033,everyone should be able to appreciate the wonderful cinematography and naturalistic acting .,1 +6059,there's not one decent performance from the cast and not one clever line of dialogue .,0 +3136,"marvelous , merry and , yes , melancholy film .",1 +1960,"precocious smarter-than-thou wayward teen struggles to rebel against his oppressive , right-wing , propriety-obsessed family . anyone else seen this before ?",1 +1800,it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart,1 +1035,"shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs , if you will -- that beneath the familiar , funny surface is a far bigger , far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to earth for harvesting purposes .",1 +4847,"though there are many tense scenes in trapped , they prove more distressing than suspenseful .",0 +6367,a coarse and stupid gross-out .,0 +4538,feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work .,0 +1835,caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely .,1 +2206,"a fine film , but it would be a lot better if it stuck to betty fisher and left out the other stories .",1 +6123,"since the movie is based on a nicholas sparks best seller , you know death is lurking around the corner , just waiting to spoil things .",0 +3206,"believes so fervently in humanity that it feels almost anachronistic , and it is too cute by half . but arriving at a particularly dark moment in history , it offers flickering reminders of the ties that bind us .",1 +5824,this tuxedo . . . should have been sent back to the tailor for some major alterations .,0 +4305,ruh-roh ! romething's really wrong with this ricture !,0 +7000,"it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast .",0 +2604,a slight but sweet film .,1 +4380,"when you resurrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ?",0 +1631,"a time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain .",1 +5299,a not-so-divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood with a hefty helping of re-fried green tomatoes .,0 +1336,"a crisp psychological drama [and] a fascinating little thriller that would have been perfect for an old "" twilight zone "" episode .",1 +4018,automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf .,0 +6834,"with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie .",0 +5663,has its charming quirks and its dull spots .,0 +6143,"weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car .",0 +6672,"if this is the danish idea of a good time , prospective tourists might want to consider a different destination -- some jolly country embroiled in a bloody civil war , perhaps .",0 +4627,charlize chases kevin with a gun . courtney chases stuart with a cell phone . the sound of gunfire and cell phones ringing .,0 +5840,"this is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives .",0 +3874,"the film is directed by wally wolodarsky from a script by joe jarvis and greg coolidge . these are names to remember , in order to avoid them in the future .",0 +6312,"it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd .",0 +2413,it's anchored by splendid performances from an honored screen veteran and a sparkling newcomer who instantly transform themselves into a believable mother/daughter pair .,1 +4412,"a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum .",0 +5888,"returning aggressively to his formula of dimwitted comedy and even dimmer characters , sandler , who also executive produces , has made a film that makes previous vehicles look smart and sassy .",0 +3636,"theological matters aside , the movie is so clumsily sentimental and ineptly directed it may leave you speaking in tongues .",0 +5346,i could have used my two hours better watching being john malkovich again .,0 +4437,[t]he ideas of revolution #9 are more compelling than the execution,0 +5807,"a horror movie with seriously dumb characters , which somewhat dilutes the pleasure of watching them stalked by creepy-crawly bug things that live only in the darkness .",0 +5245,exhibits the shallow sensationalism characteristic of soap opera . . . more salacious telenovela than serious drama .,0 +2339,a deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams .,1 +1111,"it picked me up , swung me around , and dropped me back in my seat with more emotional force than any other recent film .",1 +756,brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day .,1 +2107,"no wonder they're talking about "" talk to her . "" it's astonishing .",1 +1787,"a witty , low-key romantic comedy .",1 +3078,a piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness .,1 +7086,"lacking gravitas , macdowell is a placeholder for grief , and ergo this sloppy drama is an empty vessel . leave these flowers unpicked -- they're dead on the vine .",0 +5187,the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not .,0 +4817,"despite juliet stevenon's attempt to bring cohesion to pamela's emotional roller coaster life , it is not enough to give the film the substance it so desperately needs .",0 +2490,"a drama of great power , yet some members of the audience will leave the theater believing they have seen a comedy .",1 +4232,"a depraved , incoherent , instantly disposable piece of hackery .",0 +530,"not only a reminder of how they used to make movies , but also how they sometimes still can be made .",1 +5719,"shaky close-ups of turkey-on-rolls , stubbly chins , liver spots , red noses and the filmmakers new bobbed do draw easy chuckles but lead nowhere .",0 +304,"it may not be particularly innovative , but the film's crisp , unaffected style and air of gentle longing make it unexpectedly rewarding .",1 +4970,"a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set .",0 +6037,well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons .,0 +6716,"this would-be 'james bond for the extreme generation' pic is one big , dumb action movie . stress 'dumb . '",0 +512,nicely serves as an examination of a society in transition .,1 +5890,so much about the film is loopy and ludicrous . . . that it could have been a hoot in a bad-movie way if the laborious pacing and endless exposition had been tightened .,0 +1950,morvern rocks .,1 +4283,"further sad evidence that tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run , has turned out to be a one-trick pony -- a maker of softheaded metaphysical claptrap .",0 +3111,a heartening tale of small victories and enduring hope .,1 +5004,"blue crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky "" pretty woman "" retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought .",0 +5400,comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief .,0 +5443,"imagine the cleanflicks version of 'love story , ' with ali macgraw's profanities replaced by romance-novel platitudes .",0 +4517,needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism .,0 +4033,a story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material .,0 +5517,"it's hard to like a film about a guy who is utterly unlikeable , and shiner , starring michael caine as an aging british boxing promoter desperate for a taste of fame and fortune , is certainly that .",0 +5993,"it's hard to believe that a relationship like holly and marina's could survive the hothouse emotions of teendom , and its longevity gets more inexplicable as the characterizations turn more crassly reductive .",0 +182,"an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller .",1 +3525,"faithful without being forceful , sad without being shrill , "" a walk to remember "" succeeds through sincerity .",1 +2815,i admired this work a lot .,1 +5591,the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion .,0 +6078,"this miserable excuse of a movie runs on empty , believing flatbush machismo will get it through .",0 +3028,one fantastic ( and educational ) documentary .,1 +3389,"whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen .",1 +4326,obvious politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chances that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic .,0 +6759,i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment .,0 +4479,real-life strongman ahola lacks the charisma and ability to carry the film on his admittedly broad shoulders .,0 +3338,"singer/composer bryan adams contributes a slew of songs — a few potential hits , a few more simply intrusive to the story — but the whole package certainly captures the intended , er , spirit of the piece .",1 +5106,"this is as lax and limp a comedy as i've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material .",0 +6989,the niftiest trick perpetrated by the importance of being earnest is the alchemical transmogrification of wilde into austen--and a hollywood-ized austen at that .,0 +40,"what enlivens this film , beyond the astute direction of cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors , is a note of defiance over social dictates .",1 +4014,"it's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss . rather , pity anyone who sees this mishmash .",0 +253,"this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success .",1 +6315,reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish .,0 +1697,"if the real-life story is genuinely inspirational , the movie stirs us as well .",1 +2874,"i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old .",1 +6615,devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .,0 +4000,". . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world .",0 +2520,"we admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears , our sympathies .",1 +1620,"cool gadgets and creatures keep this fresh . not as good as the original , but what is . . .",1 +6085,"it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype .",0 +5445,"the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing .",0 +505,the sentimental cliches mar an otherwise excellent film . 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 .,1 +7019,"the film was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) .",0 +2534,"stephen rea , aidan quinn , and alan bates play desmond's legal eagles , and when joined by brosnan , the sight of this grandiloquent quartet lolling in pretty irish settings is a pleasant enough thing , 'tis .",1 +2632,"' . . . a great , participatory spectator sport . '",1 +6039,the element of surprise might be the only thing femme fatale has going for it .,0 +5743,"an enigmatic film that's too clever for its own good , it's a conundrum not worth solving .",0 +481,"watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power .",1 +2776,"if this movie leaves you cool , it also leaves you intriguingly contemplative .",1 +6219,"the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of "" 7th heaven . """,0 +5563,"although the sequel has all the outward elements of the original , the first film's lovely flakiness is gone , replaced by the forced funniness found in the dullest kiddie flicks .",0 +1505,"it's mostly a pleasure to watch . and the reason for that is a self-aware , often self-mocking , intelligence .",1 +4994,as it stands it's an opera movie for the buffs .,0 +5047,calling this movie brainless would be paying it a compliment : it's more like entertainment for trolls .,0 +3480,"what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .",1 +394,"this is a smart movie that knows its classical music , knows its freud and knows its sade .",1 +1786,"caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness . . . but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty .",1 +431,"stands as one of the year's most intriguing movie experiences , letting its imagery speak for it while it forces you to ponder anew what a movie can be .",1 +6423,"oft-described as the antidote to american pie-type sex comedies , it actually has a bundle in common with them , as the film diffuses every opportunity for a breakthrough",0 +5135,"although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league .",0 +1069,"there's real visual charge to the filmmaking , and a strong erotic spark to the most crucial lip-reading sequence .",1 +6991,the film's center will not hold .,0 +3093,"in the director's cut , the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush , all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes .",1 +5084,"the whole damn thing is ripe for the jerry springer crowd . it's all pretty cynical and condescending , too .",0 +4123,"a bland , obnoxious 88-minute infomercial for universal studios and its ancillary products .",0 +6232,"american chai encourages rueful laughter at stereotypes only an indian-american would recognize . and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new .",0 +6244,"like a medium-grade network sitcom--mostly inoffensive , fitfully amusing , but ultimately so weightless that a decent draft in the auditorium might blow it off the screen .",0 +1721,the movie understands like few others how the depth and breadth of emotional intimacy give the physical act all of its meaning and most of its pleasure .,1 +3705,pompous and garbled .,0 +1733,"you really have to salute writer-director haneke ( he adapted elfriede jelinek's novel ) for making a film that isn't nearly as graphic but much more powerful , brutally shocking and difficult to watch .",1 +4584,"even as i valiantly struggled to remain interested , or at least conscious , i could feel my eyelids . . . getting . . . very . . . heavy . . .",0 +6887,"twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career , clint eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him . big time .",0 +2865,"that dogged good will of the parents and 'vain' jia's defoliation of ego , make the film touching despite some doldrums .",1 +1211,"[it] has the feel of a summer popcorn movie . nothing too deep or substantial . explosions , jokes , and sexual innuendoes abound .",1 +4225,"too often , the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance .",0 +4416,i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art .,0 +3715,"in the end , tuck everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived : too much to do , too little time to do it in .",0 +4424,"it feels like very light errol morris , focusing on eccentricity but failing , ultimately , to make something bigger out of its scrapbook of oddballs .",0 +5054,"if it's another regurgitated action movie you're after , there's no better film than half past dead .",0 +3185,"morton is , as usual , brilliant .",1 +867,"a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale .",1 +6456,"[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes .",0 +3213,"it's sweet , funny , charming , and completely delightful .",1 +6790,really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length .,0 +81,makes an aborbing if arguable case for the man's greatness .,1 +6379,a movie that can't get sufficient distance from leroy's delusions to escape their maudlin influence .,0 +3428,"both grant and hoult carry the movie because they are believable as people -- flawed , assured of the wrong things , and scared to admit how much they may really need the company of others .",1 +1798,"a sweet-natured reconsideration of one of san francisco's most vital , if least widely recognized , creative fountainheads .",1 +6397,mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from stock character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination .,0 +6524,a synthesis of cliches and absurdities that seems positively decadent in its cinematic flash and emptiness .,0 +20,"it may be a somewhat backhanded compliment to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it also happens to be the movie's most admirable quality",1 +5665,"as conceived by mr . schaeffer , christopher and grace are little more than collections of quirky traits lifted from a screenwriter's outline and thrown at actors charged with the impossible task of making them jell .",0 +6214,"the film falls short on tension , eloquence , spiritual challenge -- things that have made the original new testament stories so compelling for 20 centuries .",0 +3329,[fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller .,1 +7050,"at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion .",0 +922,at its best early on as it plays the culture clashes between the brothers .,1 +725,"sure , it's more of the same , but as the film proves , that's not always a bad thing .",1 +3685,"kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera .",0 +1639,"hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema .",1 +2557,"while cherish doesn't completely survive its tonal transformation from dark comedy to suspense thriller , it's got just enough charm and appealing character quirks to forgive that still serious problem .",1 +1084,"the work of an artist tormented by his heritage , using his storytelling ability to honor the many faceless victims .",1 +1852,the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films .,1 +3369,it manages to squeeze by on angelina jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy .,1 +4030,"the unceasing sadism is so graphically excessive , the director just ends up exposing his own obsession .",0 +3822,it isn't that stealing harvard is a horrible movie—if only it were that grand a failure ! it's just that it's so not-at-all-good . and i expect much more from a talent as outstanding as director bruce mcculloch .,0 +1666,a glorious mess .,1 +1386,"every once in a while , a movie will come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy",1 +6212,like a soft drink that's been sitting open too long : it's too much syrup and not enough fizz .,0 +5068,qualities that were once amusing are becoming irritating .,0 +3999,"shatner is probably the funniest person in the film , which gives you an idea just how bad it was .",0 +4286,"for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless .",0 +3533,jackson is always watchable .,1 +771,"the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess built into it .",1 +5971,a picture as erratic as its central character .,0 +548,"like brosnan's performance , evelyn comes from the heart .",1 +5590,"doesn't offer much besides glib soullessness , raunchy language and a series of brutal set pieces . . . that raise the bar on stylized screen violence .",0 +4163,plays like an unbalanced mixture of graphic combat footage and almost saccharine domestic interludes that are pure hollywood .,0 +1374,it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worth a look .,1 +1009,the sheer joy and pride they took in their work -- and in each other -- shines through every frame .,1 +2949,"everything about the quiet american is good , except its timing .",1 +44,"fans of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart .",1 +4209,"the director and her capable cast appear to be caught in a heady whirl of new age-inspired good intentions , but the spell they cast isn't the least bit mesmerizing .",0 +4681,"with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here .",0 +6169,"most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave .",0 +163,a captivating coming-of-age story that may also be the first narrative film to be truly informed by the wireless age .,1 +751,i couldn't recommend this film more .,1 +3363,"bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love .",1 +2914,despite its many infuriating flaws -- not the least of which is amy's self-absorbed personality -- amy's o's honesty will win you over .,1 +6031,"confusion is one of my least favourite emotions , especially when i have to put up with 146 minutes of it .",0 +4267,do not see this film .,0 +5463,"a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made .",0 +6132,"the most horrific movie experience i've had since "" can't stop the music . "" it may as well be called "" jar-jar binks : the movie . "" it's that painful .",0 +5873,ah-nuld's action hero days might be over .,0 +4007,"it is bad , but certainly not without merit as entertainment .",0 +1176,"a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality .",1 +798,falls neatly into the category of good stupid fun .,1 +6424,[a] slummer .,0 +260,"the wwii drama is well plotted , visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear .",1 +2615,"this isn't a stand up and cheer flick ; it's a sit down and ponder affair . and thanks to kline's superbly nuanced performance , that pondering is highly pleasurable .",1 +51,"one of the funniest motion pictures of the year , but . . . also one of the most curiously depressing .",1 +4481,"every bit as bogus as most disney live action family movies are -- no real plot , no real conflict , no real point .",0 +5291,"part comedy , part drama , the movie winds up accomplishing neither in full , and leaves us feeling touched and amused by several moments and ideas , but nevertheless dissatisfied with the movie as a whole .",0 +1196,"warm in its loving yet unforgivingly inconsistent depiction of everyday people , relaxed in its perfect quiet pace and proud in its message . i loved this film .",1 +4738,what might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors .,0 +1259,"bourne , jason bourne . he can scale a building like a super hero , he can out-stealth any agent , he'll get the girl . he's super spy !",1 +5896,"alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick .",0 +6226,"the animation and game phenomenon that peaked about three years ago is actually dying a slow death , if the poor quality of pokemon 4 ever is any indication .",0 +5535,a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in brooklyn circa 1958 .,0 +5110,you could easily mistake it for a sketchy work-in-progress that was inexplicably rushed to the megaplexes before its time .,0 +129,effective but too-tepid biopic,1 +4881,the best that can be said about the work here of scottish director ritchie . . . is that he obviously doesn't have his heart in it .,0 +3706,the gantzes' interviews tend to let the guys off the hook .,0 +3031,its adult themes of familial separation and societal betrayal are head and shoulders above much of the director's previous popcorn work .,1 +2139,"the movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle .",1 +6230,"este é apenas mais um ( longo ) episódio do programa da mtv . a única diferença é que , desta vez , a paramount teve o mau gosto de exibi-lo nos cinemas .",0 +4510,degenerates into hogwash .,0 +6536,shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom .,0 +3536,"it takes this never-ending confusion and hatred , puts a human face on it , evokes shame among all who are party to it and even promotes understanding .",1 +5945,a tv episode inflated past its natural length .,0 +3377,astonishing . . . [frames] profound ethical and philosophical questions in the form of dazzling pop entertainment .,1 +5295,"the actors improvise and scream their way around this movie directionless , lacking any of the rollicking dark humor so necessary to make this kind of idea work on screen .",0 +5039,". . . post-september 11 , "" the sum of all fears "" seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .",0 +2578,"( wendigo is ) why we go to the cinema : to be fed through the eye , the heart , the mind .",1 +4699,"even by dumb action-movie standards , ballistic : ecks vs . sever is a dumb action movie .",0 +1570,a superbly acted and funny/gritty fable of the humanizing of one woman at the hands of the unseen forces of fate .,1 +6412,"plodding , poorly written , murky and weakly acted , the picture feels as if everyone making it lost their movie mojo .",0 +764,a soul-stirring documentary about the israeli/palestinian conflict as revealed through the eyes of some children who remain curious about each other against all odds .,1 +841,mr . spielberg and his company just want you to enjoy yourselves without feeling conned . and they succeed merrily at their noble endeavor .,1 +4942,. . . a pretentious mess . . .,0 +7077,this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon .,0 +2400,dolgin and franco fashion a fascinating portrait of a vietnamese-born youngster who eagerly and easily assimilated as an all-american girl with a brand new name in southern tennessee .,1 +3872,"not really a thriller so much as a movie for teens to laugh , groan and hiss at .",0 +3087,"smart , provocative and blisteringly funny .",1 +3457,"a perverse little truffle , dainty psychological terror on the outside with a creamy filling of familial jealousy and unrepentant domestic psychopathy .",1 +2095,nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionally plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering little of his intellectual rigor or creative composure .,1 +1428,among the many pleasures are the lively intelligence of the artists and their perceptiveness about their own situations .,1 +80,strange and beautiful film .,1 +5139,"mark wahlberg . . . may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat , but as a character he's dry , dry , dry .",0 +3085,speaks eloquently about the symbiotic relationship between art and life .,1 +3297,it's fairly self-aware in its dumbness .,1 +1302,horns and halos benefits from serendipity but also reminds us of our own responsibility to question what is told as the truth .,1 +4218,"has all the hallmarks of a movie designed strictly for children's home video , a market so insatiable it absorbs all manner of lame entertainment , as long as 3-year-olds find it diverting .",0 +97,thoroughly enjoyable .,1 +4639,so verbally flatfooted and so emotionally predictable or bland that it plays like the standard made-for-tv movie .,0 +4327,clever but not especially compelling .,0 +6858,wildly incompetent but brilliantly named half past dead -- or for seagal pessimists : totally past his prime .,0 +923,"the subtitled costume drama is set in a remote african empire before cell phones , guns , and the internal combustion engine , but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow .",1 +3256,another best of the year selection .,1 +2390,"where janice beard falters in its recycled aspects , implausibility , and sags in pace , it rises in its courageousness , and comedic employment .",1 +2748,will certainly appeal to asian cult cinema fans and asiaphiles interested to see what all the fuss is about .,1 +4869,a sequence of ridiculous shoot-'em-up scenes .,0 +6808,one of the most highly-praised disappointments i've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time .,0 +3592,every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv .,0 +226,"manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer .",1 +7029,the entire movie is filled with deja vu moments .,0 +6699,"due to stodgy , soap opera-ish dialogue , the rest of the cast comes across as stick figures reading lines from a teleprompter .",0 +4663,"the movie barely makes sense , with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks .",0 +6383,sitting through the last reel ( spoiler alert ! ) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his halloween trip to the haunted house .,0 +2110,there has to be a few advantages to never growing old . like being able to hit on a 15-year old when you're over 100 .,1 +395,"this is a good script , good dialogue , funny even for adults . the characters are interesting and often very creatively constructed from figure to backstory . the film will play equally well on both the standard and giant screens .",1 +5018,"all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast .",0 +1437,a rarity among recent iranian films : it's a comedy full of gentle humor that chides the absurdity of its protagonist's plight .,1 +5761,this is amusing for about three minutes .,0 +3962,"eccentric enough to stave off doldrums , caruso's self-conscious debut is also eminently forgettable .",0 +3546,"this movie has a strong message about never giving up on a loved one , but it's not an easy movie to watch and will probably disturb many who see it .",1 +6166,like leafing through an album of photos accompanied by the sketchiest of captions .,0 +3932,"hopelessly inane , humorless and under-inspired .",0 +3966,""" an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . """,0 +2286,"greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force , and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill",1 +4622,madonna still can't act a lick .,0 +2152,"this is historical filmmaking without the balm of right-thinking ideology , either liberal or conservative . mr . scorsese's bravery and integrity in advancing this vision can hardly be underestimated .",1 +5453,"the film makes a tragic error by going on for too long , trying to mirror every subsequent event in chinese history : war , revolution , communism , etc .",0 +6191,"all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence .",0 +331,"irwin is so earnest that it's hard to resist his pleas to spare wildlife and respect their environs . there are far worse messages to teach a young audience , which will probably be perfectly happy with the sloppy slapstick comedy .",1 +247,"between the drama of cube ? s personal revelations regarding what the shop means in the big picture , iconic characters gambol fluidly through the story , with charming results .",1 +5540,"lame , haphazard teen comedy .",0 +3922,an exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound .,0 +2995,sayles has an eye for the ways people of different ethnicities talk to and about others outside the group .,1 +815,"earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many , many moments when we recognize even without the elizabethan prose , the play behind the thing .",1 +4659,chao was chen kaige's assistant for years in china . he has not learnt that storytelling is what the movies are about .,0 +3788,"like its parade of predecessors , this halloween is a gory slash-fest . it can't escape its past , and it doesn't want to .",0 +360,trades run-of-the-mill revulsion for extreme unease .,1 +2613,what jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level .,1 +1203,"it has its faults , but it is a kind , unapologetic , sweetheart of a movie , and mandy moore leaves a positive impression .",1 +1281,"throughout , mr . audiard's direction is fluid and quick .",1 +2524,"if you can read the subtitles ( the opera is sung in italian ) and you like 'masterpiece theatre' type costumes , you'll enjoy this movie .",1 +936,"the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome .",1 +4316,suffocated at conception by its munchausen-by-proxy mum . punish the vehicle to adore the star .,0 +5433,check your brain and your secret agent decoder ring at the door because you don't want to think too much about what's going on . the movie does has some entertainment value - how much depends on how well you like chris rock .,0 +6605,"kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper .",0 +391,"thankfully , the film , which skirts that rapidly deteriorating line between fantasy and reality . . . takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude even as it pushes the croc hunter agenda .",1 +3919,"take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera .",0 +6878,the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones .,0 +348,"sensitively examines general issues of race and justice among the poor , and specifically raises serious questions about the death penalty and asks what good the execution of a mentally challenged woman could possibly do .",1 +2580,"daughter from danang is a film that should be seen by all , especially those who aren't aware of , or have forgotten about the unmentioned victims of war .",1 +6257,"a fast-paced , glitzy but extremely silly piece .",0 +2382,"efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug .",1 +3470,the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning .,1 +2614,an intriguing and entertaining introduction to johnson .,1 +4545,"the irwins emerge unscathed , but the fictional footage is unconvincing and criminally badly acted .",0 +5332,rather less than the sum of its underventilated père-fils confrontations .,0 +1910,there are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip . igby goes down is one of those movies .,1 +74,cut through the layers of soap-opera emotion and you find a scathing portrayal of a powerful entity strangling the life out of the people who want to believe in it the most .,1 +2512,'alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures .,1 +1194,"sum "" is jack ryan's "" do-over . "" give credit to everyone from robinson down to the key grip that this bold move works . especially give credit to affleck .",1 +2645,"while the story does seem pretty unbelievable at times , it's awfully entertaining to watch .",1 +1357,"while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current .",1 +2940,jacquot's tosca is a treat .,1 +1099,"it's endlessly inventive , consistently intelligent and sickeningly savage .",1 +972,"the film is powerful , accessible and funny . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well .",1 +6632,grant isn't cary and bullock isn't katherine .,0 +1000,the kind of trifle that date nights were invented for .,1 +1681,"jolie gives it that extra little something that makes it worth checking out at theaters , especially if you're in the mood for something more comfortable than challenging .",1 +239,"skin of man gets a few cheap shocks from its kids-in-peril theatrics , but it also taps into the primal fears of young people trying to cope with the mysterious and brutal nature of adults .",1 +1089,very predictable but still entertaining,1 +6746,"the movie , like bartleby , is something of a stiff -- an extra-dry office comedy that seems twice as long as its 83 minutes .",0 +361,a remarkable 179-minute meditation on the nature of revolution .,1 +5833,"although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke .",0 +2271,underachieves only in not taking the shakespeare parallels quite far enough .,1 +6674,"the most opaque , self-indulgent and just plain goofy an excuse for a movie as you can imagine .",0 +1380,10 minutes into the film you'll be white-knuckled and unable to look away .,1 +2196,". . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report .",1 +5351,"a lousy movie that's not merely unwatchable , but also unlistenable .",0 +2480,"even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene , in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia , it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon .",1 +4042,there's something fundamental missing from this story : something or someone to care about .,0 +6395,"sluggish , tonally uneven .",0 +5869,"the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie",0 +3542,"family portrait of need , neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking .",1 +5982,the lousy john q all but spits out denzel washington's fine performance in the title role .,0 +6015,. . . little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen .,0 +3792,"i suspect that you'll be as bored watching morvern callar as the characters are in it . if you go , pack your knitting needles .",0 +1674,top-notch action powers this romantic drama .,1 +5679,could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence .,0 +3952,a pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between xxx and vertical limit .,0 +193,"entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining !",1 +3964,how about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap ?,0 +2775,"this charming , thought-provoking new york fest of life and love has its rewards .",1 +3671,credibility levels are low and character development a non-starter .,0 +1092,"this is a gorgeous film - vivid with color , music and life . delight your senses and crash this wedding !",1 +4582,"give shapiro , goldman , and bolado credit for good intentions , but there's nothing here that they couldn't have done in half an hour .",0 +1788,"although largely a heavy-handed indictment of parental failings and the indifference of spanish social workers and legal system towards child abuse , the film retains ambiguities that make it well worth watching .",1 +879,"vividly demonstrates that the director of such hollywood blockbusters as patriot games can still turn out a small , personal film with an emotional wallop .",1 +774,a modestly made but profoundly moving documentary .,1 +6357,"often lingers just as long on the irrelevant as on the engaging , which gradually turns what time is it there ? into how long is this movie ?",0 +2326,"a "" black austin powers ? "" i prefer to think of it as "" pootie tang with a budget . "" sa da tay !",1 +5170,why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ?,0 +6627,"stealing harvard doesn't care about cleverness , wit or any other kind of intelligent humor .",0 +6562,"would've been nice if the screenwriters had trusted audiences to understand a complex story , and left off the film's predictable denouement . then nadia's birthday might not have been such a bad day after all .",0 +5552,a little objectivity could have gone a long way .,0 +520,brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .,1 +909,"brutally honest and told with humor and poignancy , which makes its message resonate .",1 +4185,the most excruciating 86 minutes one might sit through this summer that do not involve a dentist drill .,0 +238,""" the turntable is now outselling the electric guitar . . . """,1 +2193,"whether you like rap music or loathe it , you can't deny either the tragic loss of two young men in the prime of their talent or the power of this movie .",1 +7084,this loud and thoroughly obnoxious comedy about a pair of squabbling working-class spouses is a deeply unpleasant experience .,0 +2602,the powder blues and sun-splashed whites of tunis make an alluring backdrop for this sensuous and spirited tale of a prim widow who finds an unlikely release in belly-dancing clubs .,1 +6696,made by jackasses for jackasses .,0 +744,"even though we know the outcome , the seesawing of the general's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy .",1 +4036,feels like the grittiest movie that was ever made for the lifetime cable television network .,0 +4583,"the first question to ask about bad company is why anthony hopkins is in it . we assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low .",0 +5764,"an ambitiously naturalistic , albeit half-baked , drama about an abused , inner-city autistic teen .",0 +1716,"tells a fascinating , compelling story .",1 +5136,a minor picture with a major identity crisis -- it's sort of true and it's sort of bogus and it's ho-hum all the way through .,0 +5537,a handsome but unfulfilling suspense drama more suited to a quiet evening on pbs than a night out at an amc .,0 +5380,the cartoon that isn't really good enough to be on afternoon tv is now a movie that isn't really good enough to be in theaters .,0 +6981,generic thriller junk . teens only .,0 +4673,a ragbag of cliches .,0 +2869,"there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive throughout .",1 +2685,"a coda in every sense , the pinochet case splits time between a minute-by-minute account of the british court's extradition chess game and the regime's talking-head survivors .",1 +3225,an instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick .,1 +4914,"all the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject .",0 +3387,"an 83 minute document of a project which started in a muddle , seesawed back and forth between controlling interests multiple times , then found its sweet spot",1 +3316,"insomnia is one of the year's best films and pacino gives one of his most daring , and complicated , performances .",1 +5576,will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ?,0 +1291,"the saigon of 1952 is an uneasy mix of sensual delights and simmering violence , and the quiet american brings us right into the center of that world .",1 +3842,there's a disturbing 'great white hope' undertone to the other side of heaven that subtly undermines its message of christian love and compassion .,0 +1136,"the film is beautifully mounted , but , more to the point , the issues are subtly presented , managing to walk a fine line with regard to the question of joan's madness .",1 +1226,a bodice-ripper for intellectuals .,1 +6965,"i approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a raise .",0 +6921,has its moments -- and almost as many subplots .,0 +2074,"if you've the patience , there are great rewards here .",1 +1328,"the film aims to be funny , uplifting and moving , sometimes all at once . the extent to which it succeeds is impressive .",1 +916,"one of those rare films that seems as though it was written for no one , but somehow manages to convince almost everyone that it was put on the screen , just for them .",1 +2359,"this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned .",1 +3888,the code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute .,0 +1326,"karmen moves like rhythm itself , her lips chanting to the beat , her long , braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat .",1 +4791,"the story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed .",0 +4016,"it has the right approach and the right opening premise , but it lacks the zest and it goes for a plot twist instead of trusting the material .",0 +709,it certainly won't win any awards in the plot department but it sets out with no pretensions and delivers big time .,1 +674,stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation .,1 +2714,"a hip ride into hyper-time , clockstoppers is a lively and enjoyable adventure for all ages at any time .",1 +2956,a pleasant piece of escapist entertainment .,1 +7032,"feels like the work of an artist who is simply tired -- of fighting the same fights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form .",0 +4129,". . . a movie that , quite simply , shouldn't have been made .",0 +2629,tells ( the story ) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a matter of ( being ) in a shrugging mood .,1 +5700,this is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another .,0 +871,like old myths and wonder tales spun afresh .,1 +2403,"i had a dream that a smart comedy would come along to rescue me from a summer of teen-driven , toilet-humor codswallop , and its name was earnest .",1 +2127,there's just something about watching a squad of psychopathic underdogs whale the tar out of unsuspecting lawmen that reaches across time and distance .,1 +6155,an eccentric little comic/thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality .,0 +5793,"so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style .",0 +6755,"slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ?",0 +5770,"it will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary . but here's the real damn : it isn't funny , either .",0 +6968,to show these characters in the act and give them no feelings of remorse -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree .,0 +5671,"generic slasher-movie nonsense , but it's not without style .",0 +3946,even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort .,0 +5109,the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison .,0 +5690,what we get . . . is caddyshack crossed with the loyal order of raccoons .,0 +3644,"a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre .",0 +5588,characters wander into predictably treacherous situations even though they should know better .,0 +6154,"jason x is positively anti-darwinian : nine sequels and 400 years later , the teens are none the wiser and jason still kills on auto-pilot .",0 +2399,"a sloppy , amusing comedy that proceeds from a stunningly unoriginal premise .",1 +620,"the fact is that the screen is most alive when it seems most likely that broomfield's interviewees , or even himself , will not be for much longer .",1 +6630,originality is sorely lacking .,0 +5241,puts on airs of a hal hartley wannabe film -- without the vital comic ingredient of the hilarious writer-director himself .,0 +4071,"scarlet diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be .",0 +5864,a chiller resolutely without chills .,0 +3330,definitely worth 95 minutes of your time .,1 +5408,"an unremarkable , modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title .",0 +1285,"while there are times when the film's reach exceeds its grasp , the production works more often than it doesn't .",1 +3189,"i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and started doing nothing but reacting to it - feeling a part of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights .",1 +984,"while the filmmaking may be a bit disjointed , the subject matter is so fascinating that you won't care .",1 +6846,a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia,0 +3212,happily for mr . chin -- though unhappily for his subjects -- the invisible hand of the marketplace wrote a script that no human screenwriter could have hoped to match .,1 +1742,"a gracious , eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost .",1 +3588,horrid little propaganda film with fascinating connections not only to the serbs themselves but also to a network of american right-wing extremists .,0 +6946,"never does "" lilo & stitch "" reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as "" mulan "" or "" tarzan . """,0 +7014,"it's really just another silly hollywood action film , one among a multitude of simple-minded , yahoo-ing death shows .",0 +4523,you see robert de niro singing - and dancing to - west side story show tunes . choose your reaction : a . ) that sure is funny ! b . ) that sure is pathetic !,0 +2659,steers turns in a snappy screenplay that curls at the edges ; it's so clever you want to hate it . but he somehow pulls it off .,1 +3885,this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned .,0 +375,the philosophical musings of the dialogue jar against the tawdry soap opera antics of the film's action in a way that is surprisingly enjoyable .,1 +2108,"a distant , even sterile , yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of hogan's heroes star bob crane .",1 +1315,"all in all , a great party .",1 +2797,o Último suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional : a do drama familiar .,1 +2248,"what a concept , what an idea , what a thrill ride . this is a more fascinating look at the future than "" bladerunner "" and one of the most high-concept sci fi adventures attempted for the screen .",1 +2230,"an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years .",1 +3717,the thing looks like a made-for-home-video quickie .,0 +1359,a woman's pic directed with resonance by ilya chaiken .,1 +5331,. . . really horrible drek .,0 +6919,it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a rain coat shopping for cheap porn .,0 +3249,there's lots of cool stuff packed into espn's ultimate x .,1 +5883,"a vile , incoherent mess . . . a scummy ripoff of david cronenberg's brilliant 'videodrome . '",0 +3252,"a sly female empowerment movie , although not in a way anyone would expect .",1 +6196,"verbinski substitutes atmosphere for action , tedium for thrills .",0 +6971,. . . think of it as american pie on valium .,0 +619,"it's hard not to be seduced by [witherspoon's] charisma , even in this run-of-the-mill vehicle , because this girl knows how to drive it to the max .",1 +3711,not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were – i doubt it would be all that interesting .,0 +1710,"a stirring tribute to the bravery and dedication of the world's reporters who willingly walk into the nightmare of war not only to record the events for posterity , but to help us clearly see the world of our making .",1 +6587,"plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero .",0 +5085,"why come up with something even quasi-original , when you can pillage from shirley jackson , richard matheson . . . and puke up something like rose red ?",0 +1139,tailored to entertain !,1 +596,"flawed , but worth seeing for ambrose's performance .",1 +5647,"some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves .",0 +7041,i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot .,0 +6929,. . . stale and uninspired .,0 +2559,"contando com uma premissa curiosa , o filme mergulha o espectador em um clima de forte suspense , culminando em um desfecho que certamente fica na memória .",1 +5117,"according to wendigo , 'nature' loves the members of the upper class almost as much as they love themselves .",0 +2651,jacquot's strategy allows his cast the benefit of being able to give full performances . . . while demonstrating vividly that the beauty and power of the opera reside primarily in the music itself .,1 +3895,the movie is undone by a filmmaking methodology that's just experimental enough to alienate the mainstream audience while ringing cliched to hardened indie-heads .,0 +5373,"we're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments .",0 +4407,the only time 8 crazy nights comes close to hitting a comedic or satirical target is during the offbeat musical numbers .,0 +2781,"one of those movies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy good trash every now and then .",1 +4815,"anemic , pretentious .",0 +4671,"the 70-year-old godard has become , to judge from in praise of love , the sort of bitter old crank who sits behind his light meter and harangues the supposed injustices of the artistic world-at-large without doing all that much to correct them .",0 +383,"i complain all the time about seeing the same ideas repeated in films over and over again , but the bourne identity proves that a fresh take is always possible .",1 +6033,"if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish .",0 +3117,the movie sticks much closer to hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of high fidelity did .,1 +1811,"a witty , trenchant , wildly unsentimental but flawed look at the ins and outs of modern moviemaking .",1 +430,"nine queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece , but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head .",1 +62,a clever script and skilled actors bring new energy to the familiar topic of office politics .,1 +5080,"whatever about warning kids about the dangers of ouija boards , someone should dispense the same advice to film directors .",0 +5936,"despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . '",0 +1591,"a deftly entertaining film , smartly played and smartly directed .",1 +345,an experience so engrossing it is like being buried in a new environment .,1 +537,gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film .,1 +3943,"jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability .",0 +3841,derailed by bad writing and possibly also by some of that extensive post-production reworking to aim the film at young males in the throes of their first full flush of testosterone .,0 +3459,high crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience .,1 +1657,"thanks to haynes' absolute control of the film's mood , and buoyed by three terrific performances , far from heaven actually pulls off this stylistic juggling act .",1 +6099,everything -- even life on an aircraft carrier -- is sentimentalized .,0 +5565,"not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches .",0 +6693,isn't it a bit early in his career for director barry sonnenfeld to do a homage to himself ? and it's a lousy one at that .,0 +2395,"the performances of the children , untrained in acting , have an honesty and dignity that breaks your heart .",1 +1808,"leave it to the french to truly capture the terrifying angst of the modern working man without turning the film into a cheap thriller , a dumb comedy or a sappy melodrama .",1 +3116,"it suggests the wide-ranging effects of media manipulation , from the kind of reporting that is done by the supposedly liberal media . . . to the intimate and ultimately tragic heartache of maverick individuals like hatfield and hicks .",1 +3559,a bold ( and lovely ) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams .,0 +2021,a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich .,1 +2308,"i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie .",1 +4885,"soul is what's lacking in every character in this movie and , subsequently , the movie itself .",0 +4449,"not only does the thoroughly formulaic film represent totally exemplify middle-of-the-road mainstream , it also represents glossy hollywood at its laziest .",0 +4670,thin period piece .,0 +4464,"when the plot kicks in , the film loses credibility .",0 +850,"one of the most original american productions this year , you'll find yourself remembering this refreshing visit to a sunshine state .",1 +583,"hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people .",1 +5496,"first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction .",0 +673,a beautifully tooled action thriller about love and terrorism in korea .,1 +85,an indispensable peek at the art and the agony of making people laugh .,1 +1036,"like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake .",1 +3192,"[ "" safe conduct "" ] is a long movie at 163 minutes but it fills the time with drama , romance , tragedy , bravery , political intrigue , partisans and sabotage . viva le resistance !",1 +4907,"[director] byler may yet have a great movie in him , but charlotte sometimes is only half of one .",0 +6376,"it desperately wants to be a wacky , screwball comedy , but the most screwy thing here is how so many talented people were convinced to waste their time .",0 +1489,somehow ms . griffiths and mr . pryce bring off this wild welsh whimsy .,1 +6131,"well-meaning to a fault , antwone fisher manages the dubious feat of turning one man's triumph of will into everyman's romance comedy .",0 +3576,the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not .,0 +5456,most of the action setups are incoherent .,0 +3779,i don't even care that there's no plot in this antonio banderas-lucy liu faceoff . it's still terrible !,0 +4558,"the characters are so generic and the plot so bland that even as rogue cia assassins working for chris cooper's agency boss close in on the resourceful amnesiac , we don't feel much for damon/bourne or his predicament .",0 +648,"highlights are the terrific performances by christopher plummer , as the prime villain , and nathan lane as vincent crummles , the eccentric theater company manager .",1 +6089,"in gleefully , thumpingly hyperbolic terms , it covers just about every cliche in the compendium about crass , jaded movie types and the phony baloney movie biz .",0 +2406,"wilco fans will have a great time , and the movie should win the band a few new converts , too .",1 +3367,the level of acting elevates the material above pat inspirational status and gives it a sturdiness and solidity that we've long associated with washington the actor .,1 +5171,so exaggerated and broad that it comes off as annoying rather than charming .,0 +5994,may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .,0 +3709,there is not an ounce of honesty in the entire production .,0 +4959,"the film contains no good jokes , no good scenes , barely a moment when carvey's saturday night live-honed mimicry rises above the level of embarrassment .",0 +1984,"it further declares its director , zhang yang of shower , as a boldly experimental , contemporary stylist with a bright future .",1 +6533,a predictable and stereotypical little b-movie .,0 +6859,". . . instead go rent "" shakes the clown "" , a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great robin williams performance .",0 +2426,"return to never land is reliable , standard disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages .",1 +2268,"an incendiary , deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar ( and peculiarly venomous ) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy",1 +5949,"while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the film is never dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative .",0 +3382,this clever caper movie has twists worthy of david mamet and is enormous fun for thinking audiences .,1 +6349,"here , common sense flies out the window , along with the hail of bullets , none of which ever seem to hit sascha .",0 +4813,it's a road-trip drama with too many wrong turns .,0 +4455,"the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books .",0 +4279,it's hard to imagine another director ever making his wife look so bad in a major movie .,0 +3604,has all the right elements but completely fails to gel together .,0 +3453,it's a fun adventure movie for kids ( of all ages ) that like adventure .,1 +3469,"while the glass slipper doesn't quite fit , pumpkin is definitely a unique modern fairytale .",1 +2416,. . . understands that a generation defines its music as much as the music defines a generation .,1 +7030,demands too much of most viewers .,0 +6631,it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen .,0 +4003,the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained .,0 +5634,"the character is too forced and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and clayburgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix .",0 +2664,it is intensely personal and yet -- unlike quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times .,1 +2015,a zinger-filled crowd-pleaser that open-minded elvis fans ( but by no means all ) will have fun with .,1 +3865,little more than a well-mounted history lesson .,0 +6254,this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durable -- imitation .,0 +6072,it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel .,0 +3120,"films about loss , grief and recovery are pretty valuable these days . seen in that light , moonlight mile should strike a nerve in many .",1 +5070,"it stars schticky chris rock and stolid anthony hopkins , who seem barely in the same movie . their contrast is neither dramatic nor comic -- it's just a weird fizzle .",0 +5316,"a perfect example of rancid , well-intentioned , but shamelessly manipulative movie making .",0 +3615,you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie .,0 +6689,"there's no excuse for following up a delightful , well-crafted family film with a computer-generated cold fish .",0 +760,"it's not a classic spy-action or buddy movie , but it's entertaining enough and worth a look .",1 +2753,what better message than 'love thyself' could young women of any size receive ?,1 +950,collateral damage finally delivers the goods for schwarzenegger fans .,1 +202,"angel presents events partly from the perspective of aurelie and christelle , and infuses the film with the sensibility of a particularly nightmarish fairytale .",1 +5616,"the movie strains to stay on the light , comic side of the issue , despite the difficulty of doing so when dealing with the destruction of property and , potentially , of life itself .",0 +901,there's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all .,1 +3467,"it's burns' visuals , characters and his punchy dialogue , not his plot , that carry waydowntown .",1 +2065,"be prepared to cling to the edge of your seat , tense with suspense . the ring never lets you off the hook .",1 +5378,the sheer dumbness of the plot ( other than its one good idea ) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down .,0 +5678,like most movies about the pitfalls of bad behavior . . . circuit gets drawn into the party .,0 +5609,the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .,0 +4711,". . . a low rate annie featuring some kid who can't act , only echoes of jordan , and weirdo actor crispin glover screwing things up old school .",0 +4654,depressingly thin and exhaustingly contrived . only masochistic moviegoers need apply .,0 +5222,"let's issue a moratorium , effective immediately , on treacly films about inspirational prep-school professors and the children they so heartwarmingly motivate .",0 +6760,"home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice .",0 +645,it provides an honest look at a community striving to anchor itself in new grounds .,1 +98,"a terrific b movie -- in fact , the best in recent memory .",1 +1909,"though the film's scenario is certainly not earthshaking , this depiction of fluctuating female sexuality has two winning lead performances and charm to spare .",1 +1752,"[f]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative , the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels .",1 +5790,gets bogged down by an overly sillified plot and stop-and-start pacing .,0 +5359,"takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe , and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny .",0 +5027,"a quaint , romanticized rendering .",0 +4701,"dull and mechanical , kinda like a very goofy museum exhibit",0 +1491,the film's performances are thrilling .,1 +3429,"insomnia is involving . still , i thought it could have been more .",1 +5477,"every so often a film comes along that is so insanely stupid , so awful in so many ways that watching it leaves you giddy . half past dead is just such an achievement .",0 +5489,"yes they can swim , the title is merely anne-sophie birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through .",0 +525,the plot is so amusingly contrived and outlandish in its coincidences that no one could ever mistake it for anything resembling reality,1 +1082,"'the film is stark , straightforward and deadly . . . an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by . . . blasts of rage , and later , violent jealousy . '",1 +4065,about one in three gags in white's intermittently wise script hits its mark ; the rest are padding unashamedly appropriated from the teen-exploitation playbook .,0 +3584,". . . plays like a badly edited , 91-minute trailer ( and ) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going . in fact , it doesn't even seem like she tried .",0 +6577,"boy oh boy , it's a howler .",0 +3527,"a graceful , moving tribute to the courage of new york's finest and a nicely understated expression of the grief shared by the nation at their sacrifice .",1 +4972,like watching a dress rehearsal the week before the show goes up : everything's in place but something's just a little off-kilter .,0 +3395,"sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before .",1 +3694,"a few hours after you've seen it , you forget you've been to the movies .",0 +3840,"a few zingers aside , the writing is indifferent , and jordan brady's direction is prosaic .",0 +272,"overall , it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine , acerbic laughs .",1 +4460,"an ill-conceived jumble that's not scary , not smart and not engaging .",0 +6643,much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad .,0 +3352,"if you ignore the cliches and concentrate on city by the sea's interpersonal drama , it ain't half-bad .",1 +5271,"a boring , pretentious muddle that uses a sensational , real-life 19th-century crime as a metaphor for -- well , i'm not exactly sure what -- and has all the dramatic weight of a raindrop .",0 +2556,an engrossing iranian film about two itinerant teachers and some lost and desolate people they encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed .,1 +2973,if you dig on david mamet's mind tricks . . . rent this movie and enjoy !,1 +6309,punitively affirmational parable .,0 +3938,fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot !,0 +2688,the warm presence of zhao benshan makes the preposterous lying hero into something more than he reasonably should be .,1 +4497,"instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone .",0 +4623,"so clichéd that , at one point , they literally upset an apple cart .",0 +2678,this surreal gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of ecclesiastes . a rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers .,1 +6932,the major problem with windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character .,0 +280,"leave it to rohmer , now 82 , to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago .",1 +3879,there's only one way to kill michael myers for good : stop buying tickets to these movies .,0 +6805,"it's a film with an idea buried somewhere inside its fabric , but never clearly seen or felt .",0 +3944,the sequel has turned completely and irrevocably bizarre to the point of utter nonsense .,0 +229,"in scope , ambition and accomplishment , children of the century . . . takes kurys' career to a whole new level .",1 +5140,[siegel] and co-writers lisa bazadona and grace woodard have relied too much on convention in creating the characters who surround frankie .,0 +664,not since ghostbusters has a film used manhattan's architecture in such a gloriously goofy way .,1 +5814,"unfortunately , the picture failed to capture me . i found it slow , drab , and bordering on melodramatic .",0 +2287,an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story .,1 +6449,better to just call it abc kiarostami . for aids and africa are nothing more than part of the scenery .,0 +1652,"with three excellent principal singers , a youthful and good-looking diva and tenor and richly handsome locations , it's enough to make you wish jacquot had left well enough alone and just filmed the opera without all these distortions of perspective .",1 +3941,you expect more from director michael apted ( enigma ) and screenwriter nicholas kazan ( reversal of fortune ) than this cliche pileup .,0 +5388,"if routine action and jokes like this are your cup of tea , then pay your $8 and get ready for the big shear . this is one baaaaaaaaad movie .",0 +3176,"the heat of the moment prevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle .",1 +3067,"you wouldn't want to live waydowntown , but it is a hilarious place to visit .",1 +4329,"the ethos of the chelsea hotel may shape hawke's artistic aspirations , but he hasn't yet coordinated his own dv poetry with the beat he hears in his soul .",0 +5186,"there's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minutes , but kang tacks on three or four more endings .",0 +4664,"interesting , but not compelling .",0 +7090,the party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks . the rest of the film . . . is dudsville .,0 +1132,"all in all , the count of monte cristo is okay , but it is surely no classic , like the novel upon which it is based .",1 +6182,i can't remember the last time i saw a movie where i wanted so badly for the protagonist to fail .,0 +977,piccoli gives a superb performance full of deep feeling .,1 +4720,"roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut .",0 +4019,your taste for jonah - a veggie tales movie may well depend on your threshold for pop manifestations of the holy spirit .,0 +6221,"first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ?",0 +1958,"sly , sophisticated and surprising .",1 +6726,what could and should have been biting and droll is instead a tepid waste of time and talent .,0 +6027,"the rest of the plot is impossible to explain without blowing whatever tension there is , although it's more comedy than suspense de palma creates .",0 +1694,"the seaside splendor and shallow , beautiful people are nice to look at while you wait for the story to get going .",1 +6985,all the necessary exposition prevents the picture from rising above your generic sand 'n' sandal adventure .,0 +6392,"mcconaughey's fun to watch , the dragons are okay , not much fire in the script .",0 +2457,"as hugh grant says repeatedly throughout the movie , 'lovely ! brilliant ! '",1 +1308,"challenging , intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative . but it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle .",1 +3811,"to paraphrase a line from another dickens' novel , nicholas nickleby is too much like a fragment of an underdone potato .",0 +5622,"in the not-too-distant future , movies like ghost ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds . right now , they're merely signposts marking the slow , lingering death of imagination .",0 +6460,"it should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring .",0 +2293,a journey that is as difficult for the audience to take as it is for the protagonist -- yet it's potentially just as rewarding .,1 +6818,has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence,0 +868,"a thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people , seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause .",1 +6764,it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .,0 +5366,"as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all .",0 +3703,"i wish i could say "" thank god it's friday "" , but the truth of the matter is i was glad when it was over .",0 +6255,"a long-winded , predictable scenario .",0 +5718,"the secrets of time travel will have been discovered , indulged in and rejected as boring before i see this piece of crap again .",0 +2790,"cold , nervy and memorable .",1 +921,"gangs , despite the gravity of its subject matter , is often as fun to watch as a good spaghetti western .",1 +1126,"it has the charm of the original american road movies , feasting on the gorgeous , ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland .",1 +5567,"a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again .",0 +461,"while undercover brother is definitely one for the masses , it's also full of sharp , smart satire .",1 +6571,director clare kilner's debut is never as daft as it should have been .,0 +3520,kids should have a stirring time at this beautifully drawn movie . and adults will at least have a dream image of the west to savor whenever the film's lamer instincts are in the saddle .,1 +1250,"the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism",1 +5286,meandering and confusing .,0 +1072,for all its problems . . . the lady and the duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring . . . which proves that rohmer still has a sense of his audience .,1 +185,intimate and panoramic .,1 +6386,unwieldy contraption .,0 +6258,creepy but ultimately unsatisfying thriller .,0 +5203,"the leads are so unmemorable , despite several attempts at lengthy dialogue scenes , that one eventually resents having to inhale this gutter romancer's secondhand material .",0 +2025,"a smart , compelling drama .",1 +2297,"it is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias , especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise .",1 +2935,"on its own staggeringly unoriginal terms , this gender-bending comedy is generally quite funny .",1 +6807,"it's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary .",0 +4093,there is nothing redeeming about this movie .,0 +63,"the cast is phenomenal , especially the women .",1 +1295,"hey , who else needs a shower ?",1 +4730,"an earnest , heartrending look at the divide between religious fundamentalists and their gay relatives . it's also heavy-handed and devotes too much time to bigoted views .",0 +6701,"every time you look , sweet home alabama is taking another bummer of a wrong turn .",0 +411,"a tender and touching drama , based on the true story of a troubled african-american's quest to come to terms with his origins , reveals the yearning we all have in our hearts for acceptance within the family circle .",1 +5121,"jonah is only so-so . . . the addition of a biblical message will either improve the film for you , or it will lessen it .",0 +4770,"short and sweet , but also more than anything else slight… tadpole pulls back from the consequences of its own actions and revelations .",0 +3112,"it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .",1 +5041,"despite its sincere acting , signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype .",0 +1513,"'frailty "" starts out like a typical bible killer story , but it turns out to be significantly different ( and better ) than most films with this theme .",1 +1945,"the pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we , today , can prevent its tragic waste of life . here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life , his dignity and his music .",1 +2441,"beautifully shot against the frozen winter landscapes of grenoble and geneva , the film unfolds with all the mounting tension of an expert thriller , until the tragedy beneath it all gradually reveals itself .",1 +6554,a noble failure .,0 +1174,the ingenuity that parker displays in freshening the play is almost in a class with that of wilde himself .,1 +3146,it's a rare window on an artistic collaboration .,1 +2758,"though everything might be literate and smart , it never took off and always seemed static .",1 +615,"a good music documentary , probably one of the best since the last waltz .",1 +4983,a compendium of solondz's own worst instincts in under 90 minutes .,0 +2551,kaufman creates an eerie sense of not only being there at the time of these events but the very night matthew was killed .,1 +4968,"deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness .",0 +658,mark pellington's latest pop thriller is as kooky and overeager as it is spooky and subtly in love with myth .,1 +1276,"the story , like life , refuses to be simple , and the result is a compelling slice of awkward emotions .",1 +4713,"it is parochial , accessible to a chosen few , standoffish to everyone else , and smugly suggests a superior moral tone is more important than filmmaking skill",0 +2634,"as blunt as it is in depicting child abuse , el bola is a movie steeped in an ambiguity that lends its conflicts a symbolic resonance .",1 +6573,a great ensemble cast can't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar .,0 +4063,"trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all .",0 +3233,a surprisingly charming and even witty match for the best of hollywood's comic-book adaptations .,1 +6385,"the first hour is tedious though ford and neeson capably hold our interest , but its just not a thrilling movie .",0 +5352,"the result is a gaudy bag of stale candy , something from a halloween that died .",0 +1540,the action sequences are fun and reminiscent of combat scenes from the star wars series .,1 +5340,a film that clearly means to preach exclusively to the converted .,0 +3782,"sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff .",0 +1519,the tug of war that ensues is as much a snapshot of modern china in microcosm as it is a crash course in movie mythology .,1 +4766,"a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor .",0 +2509,an epic of grandeur and scale that's been decades gone from the popcorn pushing sound stages of hollywood .,1 +1514,"nothing denis has made before , like beau travil and nenette et boni , could prepare us for this gory , perverted , sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre .",1 +6664,"an earnest racial-issues picture that might have gotten respectful critical praise in a different era -- say , the '60s .",0 +2453,"defies logic , the laws of physics and almost anyone's willingness to believe in it . but darned if it doesn't also keep us riveted to our seats .",1 +2768,so unique and stubborn and charismatic that you want it to be better and more successful than it is .,1 +6138,not even the hanson brothers can save it,0 +2213,"the film is an earnest try at beachcombing verismo , but it would be even more indistinct than it is were it not for the striking , quietly vulnerable personality of ms . ambrose .",1 +6408,"the whole thing's fairly lame , making it par for the course for disney sequels .",0 +1980,"far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series .",1 +1407,"the movie has no respect for laws , political correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people .",1 +5289,"with a tighter editorial process and firmer direction this material could work , especially since the actresses in the lead roles are all more than competent , but as is , personal velocity seems to be idling in neutral .",0 +2378,"lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous , but abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth .",1 +5768,the film's most improbable feat ? it didn't go straight to video .,0 +205,while the plot follows a predictable connect-the-dots course . . . director john schultz colors the picture in some evocative shades .,1 +4675,"ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour .",0 +6774,the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .,0 +4573,. . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy .,0 +3128,returning director rob minkoff . . . and screenwriter bruce joel rubin . . . have done a fine job of updating white's dry wit to a new age .,1 +4421,the holiday message of the 37-minute santa vs . the snowman leaves a lot to be desired .,0 +6850,"godard uses his characters -- if that's not too glorified a term -- as art things , mouthpieces , visual motifs , blanks .",0 +5089,would benigni's italian pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster ?,0 +2408,"this starts off with a 1950's doris day feel and it gets very ugly , very fast . the first five minutes will have you talking 'til the end of the year !",1 +6323,never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance .,0 +7099,"finally coming down off of miramax's deep shelves after a couple of aborted attempts , waking up in reno makes a strong case for letting sleeping dogs lie .",0 +1766,"there's something auspicious , and daring , too , about the artistic instinct that pushes a majority-oriented director like steven spielberg to follow a . i . with this challenging report so liable to unnerve the majority .",1 +5261,this movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in retard 101 .,0 +4782,"a dark-as-pitch comedy that frequently veers into corny sentimentality , probably would not improve much after a therapeutic zap of shock treatment .",0 +5892,"even if it made its original release date last fall , it would've reeked of a been-there , done-that sameness .",0 +5859,"there's a heavy stench of 'been there , done that' hanging over the film . it's everything you'd expect -- but nothing more .",0 +742,"a mature , deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of russian history .",1 +996,"both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events , and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day , and of the thousands thereafter .",1 +5767,"what's next ? rob schneider , dana carvey and sarah michelle gellar in the philadelphia story ? david spade as citizen kane ?",0 +1408,"it's a square , sentimental drama that satisfies , as comfort food often can .",1 +2812,polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own world war ii experience in his signature style .,1 +5523,"this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray .",0 +1414,"it's an entertaining movie , and the effects , boosted to the size of a downtown hotel , will all but take you to outer space .",1 +5524,"the script's judgment and sense of weight is way , way off .",0 +878,"it's a lovely , eerie film that casts an odd , rapt spell .",1 +1121,"not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching .",1 +1019,"the performances of the four main actresses bring their characters to life . a little melodramatic , but with enough hope to keep you engaged .",1 +2544,it reaffirms life as it looks in the face of death .,1 +4151,"ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about "" chicago "" in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a",0 +1593,the tenderness of the piece is still intact .,1 +4288,"while the importance of being earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles , it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond wilde's wit and the actors' performances .",0 +1297,"real women may have many agendas , but it also will win you over , in a big way .",1 +6021,cedar somewhat defuses this provocative theme by submerging it in a hoary love triangle .,0 +455,zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast .,1 +835,the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit .,1 +327,"this cheery , down-to-earth film is warm with the cozy feeling of relaxing around old friends .",1 +5403,one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison .,0 +2585,"this is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the saturday matinee , and it still is .",1 +6238,"the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained .",0 +1528,the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers .,1 +4725,"this time mr . burns is trying something in the martin scorsese street-realist mode , but his self-regarding sentimentality trips him up again .",0 +882,very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary .,1 +2976,almodovar is an imaginative teacher of emotional intelligence in this engaging film about two men who discover what william james once called 'the gift of tears . ',1 +6686,"are monsters born , or made ?",0 +945,allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commercial yet inventive filmmaker .,1 +1818,"though jackson doesn't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees .",1 +1321,"the color sense of stuart little 2 is its most immediate and most obvious pleasure , but it would count for very little if the movie weren't as beautifully shaped and as delicately calibrated in tone as it is .",1 +5606,"in the end , the movie collapses on its shaky foundation despite the best efforts of director joe carnahan .",0 +7091,viewing this underdramatized but overstated film is like watching a transcript of a therapy session brought to humdrum life by some freudian puppet .,0 +4981,"i didn't find much fascination in the swinging . what they're doing is a matter of plumbing arrangements and mind games , of no erotic or sensuous charge . but that they are doing it is thought-provoking .",0 +2773,illuminating if overly talky documentary .,1 +568,"the film , despite the gratuitous cinematic distractions impressed upon it , is still good fun .",1 +5510,"a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j . m . barrie's peter pan .",0 +1262,the film has the courage of its convictions and excellent performances on its side .,1 +7074,basically a static series of semi-improvised ( and semi-coherent ) raps between the stars .,0 +639,"[cuarón has] created a substantive movie out of several cliched movie structures : the road movie , the coming-of-age movie , and the teenage sex comedy .",1 +576,a tour de force drama about the astonishingly pivotal role of imagination in the soulful development of two rowdy teenagers .,1 +5706,"utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film .",0 +3771,"it doesn't quite deserve the gong , but there are more fascinating acts than "" confessions of a dangerous mind . """,0 +5999,"shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about",0 +6479,"these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining .",0 +1064,griffin & co . manage to be spectacularly outrageous .,1 +6574,eight legged freaks falls flat as a spoof .,0 +7,superb production values & christian bale's charisma make up for a derivative plot .,1 +414,"an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids .",1 +1719,"zhang yimou delivers warm , genuine characters who lie not through dishonesty , but because they genuinely believe it's the only way to bring happiness to their loved ones .",1 +5688,goes on and on to the point of nausea .,0 +95,what makes esther kahn so demanding is that it progresses in such a low-key manner that it risks monotony . but it's worth the concentration .,1 +6437,"the actors are appealing , but elysian fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental .",0 +4641,"it's provocative stuff , but the speculative effort is hampered by taylor's cartoonish performance and the film's ill-considered notion that hitler's destiny was shaped by the most random of chances .",0 +6396,does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny .,0 +3892,it's easy to love robin tunney -- she's pretty and she can act -- but it gets harder and harder to understand her choices .,0 +3585,"louiso lets the movie dawdle in classic disaffected-indie-film mode , and brother hoffman's script stumbles over a late-inning twist that just doesn't make sense .",0 +358,"as surreal as a dream and as detailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming .",1 +3616,"[garbus] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation .",0 +4778,what 'blade runner' would've looked like as a low-budget series on a uhf channel .,0 +4372,"not everything in the film works , including its somewhat convenient ending .",0 +3905,there's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie . . . that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups .,0 +1484,"in spite of good housekeeping's unsavory characters and wwf mentality , this white trash war of the roses is a surprisingly engaging film .",1 +3780,comes off like a bad imitation of the bard .,0 +4667,whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black .,0 +96,anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a russian rocket should catch this imax offering .,1 +6245,i loved looking at this movie . i just didn't care as much for the story .,0 +459,"twohy's a good yarn-spinner , and ultimately the story compels .",1 +6372,queen of the damned is too long with too little going on .,0 +6275,amazingly lame .,0 +6934,no amount of nostalgia for carvey's glory days can disguise the fact that the new film is a lame kiddie flick and that carvey's considerable talents are wasted in it .,0 +6337,a rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade .,0 +4193,"reggio falls victim to relying on the very digital technology that he fervently scorns , creating a meandering , inarticulate and ultimately disappointing film .",0 +3499,i hope the movie is widely seen and debated with appropriate ferocity and thoughtfulness .,1 +3341,"with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .",1 +6327,"extreme oops - oops , ops , no matter how you spell it , it's still a mistake to go see it .",0 +187,"still pretentious and filled with subtext , but entertaining enough at 'face value' to recommend to anyone looking for something different .",1 +5264,an awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating .,0 +2695,"you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet .",1 +3058,trademark american triteness and simplicity are tossed out the window with the intelligent french drama that deftly explores the difficult relationship between a father and son .,1 +1889,""" punch-drunk love "" is a little like a chocolate milk moustache . . .",1 +5169,. . . a hollow joke told by a cinematic gymnast having too much fun embellishing the misanthropic tale to actually engage it .,0 +5436,"a great ending doesn't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending .",0 +4705,"skip this dreck , rent animal house and go back to the source .",0 +6559,"it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school .",0 +6815,"nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .",0 +5907,better at putting you to sleep than a sound machine .,0 +429,the wild thornberrys movie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate .,1 +3070,i was impressed by how many tit-for-tat retaliatory responses the filmmakers allow before pulling the plug on the conspirators and averting an american-russian armageddon .,1 +5668,simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time .,0 +711,"a lean , deftly shot , well-acted , weirdly retro thriller that recalls a raft of '60s and '70s european-set spy pictures .",1 +6457,"somehow we're meant to buy that this doting mother would shun her kids , travel to one of the most dangerous parts of the world , don fatigues and become g . i . jane .",0 +510,"neither quite a comedy nor a romance , more of an impish divertissement of themes that interest attal and gainsbourg -- they live together -- the film has a lot of charm .",1 +1831,"the camera soars above the globe in dazzling panoramic shots that make the most of the large-screen format , before swooping down on a string of exotic locales , scooping the whole world up in a joyous communal festival of rhythm .",1 +3366,nothing short of a masterpiece -- and a challenging one .,1 +7015,it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots .,0 +526,superbly photographed and staged by mendes with a series of riveting set pieces the likes of which mainstream audiences have rarely seen .,1 +4694,"its audacious ambitions sabotaged by pomposity , steven soderbergh's space opera emerges as a numbingly dull experience .",0 +2694,"the film may appear naked in its narrative form . . . but it goes deeper than that , to fundamental choices that include the complexity of the catholic doctrine",1 +2662,a winning comedy with its wry observations about long-lived friendships and the ways in which we all lose track of ourselves by trying to please others .,1 +2389,"a beautiful , entertaining two hours . you get the idea , though , that kapur intended the film to be more than that .",1 +153,"a subtle , humorous , illuminating study of politics , power and social mobility .",1 +6608,has all the complexity and realistic human behavior of an episode of general hospital .,0 +4088,"the words , 'frankly , my dear , i don't give a damn , ' have never been more appropriate .",0 +6277,"a tough go , but leigh's depth and rigor , and his skill at inspiring accomplished portrayals that are all the more impressive for their lack of showiness , offsets to a notable degree the film's often-mined and despairing milieu .",0 +2469,the komediant is a tale worth catching .,1 +1333,"the pinochet case is a searing album of remembrance from those who , having survived , suffered most .",1 +5212,everything is pegged into the groove of a new york dating comedy with 'issues' to simplify .,0 +2405,writer-director juan carlos fresnadillo makes a feature debut that is fully formed and remarkably assured .,1 +1024,"the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . couldn't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment .",1 +5189,there are many definitions of 'time waster' but this movie must surely be one of them .,0 +947,"if you're like me , a sucker for a good old fashion romance and someone who shamelessly loves to eat , then mostly martha offers all the perfect ingredients to more than satisfy your appetite .",1 +946,"while not quite a comedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging .",1 +6714,your stomach for heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn .,0 +400,charming and funny ( but ultimately silly ) movie .,1 +6133,to call this film a lump of coal would only be to flatter it .,0 +1127,"despite its shortcomings , girls can't swim represents an engaging and intimate first feature by a talented director to watch , and it's a worthy entry in the french coming-of-age genre .",1 +3385,"gorgeous scenes , masterful performances , but the sickly sweet gender normative narrative left an acrid test in this gourmet's mouth .",1 +1919,"visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality .",1 +6459,"shreve's graceful dual narrative gets clunky on the screen , and we keep getting torn away from the compelling historical tale to a less-compelling soap opera .",0 +3421,"maud and roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story , but labute pulls off a neater trick in possession : he makes language sexy .",1 +2870,"despite the film's bizarre developments , hoffman keeps us riveted with every painful nuance , unexpected flashes of dark comedy and the character's gripping humanity .",1 +752,"first and foremost . . . the reason to go see "" blue crush "" is the phenomenal , water-born cinematography by david hennings .",1 +6680,what [frei] gives us . . . is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows .,0 +2904,"just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years .",1 +6848,"when it's all wet , blue crush is highly enjoyable . when it's on dry land , though , this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper .",0 +992,. . . wise and elegiac . . .,1 +2381,"what bloody sunday lacks in clarity , it makes up for with a great , fiery passion .",1 +3399,serious and thoughtful .,1 +3652,walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm .,0 +5921,"one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in .",0 +2697,greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation .,1 +1935,"a vibrant , colorful , semimusical rendition .",1 +6866,"you really have to wonder how on earth anyone , anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this .",0 +4764,those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one .,0 +3850,mindless yet impressively lean spinoff of last summer's bloated effects fest the mummy returns .,0 +1765,i'd rather watch a rerun of the powerpuff girls,1 +1423,"the movie is our story as much as it is schmidt's , no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale .",1 +5442,simply a re-hash of the other seven films .,0 +5661,the script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair .,0 +3679,becomes a bit of a mishmash : a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't .,0 +3173,""" antwone fisher "" is an earnest , by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking .",1 +730,nothing can detract from the affection of that moral favorite : friends will be friends through thick and thin .,1 +4045,it's not just the vampires that are damned in queen of the damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate .,0 +7018,"its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off , with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film .",0 +6952,"jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed opera . in his first stab at the form , jacquot takes a slightly anarchic approach that works only sporadically .",0 +4477,"seems content to dog-paddle in the mediocre end of the pool , and it's a sad , sick sight .",0 +5778,. . . built on the premise that middle-class arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from tv reruns and supermarket tabloids .,0 +4105,observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom .,0 +3148,"it's hard to imagine anyone managing to steal a movie not only from charismatic rising star jake gyllenhaal but also from accomplished oscar winners susan sarandon , dustin hoffman and holly hunter , yet newcomer ellen pompeo pulls off the feat with aplomb .",1 +1606,it was only a matter of time before some savvy producer saw the potential success inherent in the mixture of bullock bubble and hugh goo .,1 +6476,"when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble .",0 +3229,"about schmidt belongs to nicholson . gone are the flamboyant mannerisms that are the trademark of several of his performances . as schmidt , nicholson walks with a slow , deliberate gait , chooses his words carefully and subdues his natural exuberance .",1 +2217,together [time out and human resources] establish mr . cantet as france's foremost cinematic poet of the workplace .,1 +5938,"divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy .",0 +1671,until its final minutes this is a perceptive study of two families in crisis -- and of two girls whose friendship is severely tested by bad luck and their own immaturity .,1 +1340,worth catching for griffiths' warm and winning central performance .,1 +6443,includes too much obvious padding .,0 +1544,"quiet , adult and just about more stately than any contemporary movie this year . . . a true study , a film with a questioning heart and mind that isn't afraid to admit it doesn't have all the answers .",1 +2245,"the overall effect is awe and affection -- and a strange urge to get on a board and , uh , shred , dude .",1 +5632,lawrence preaches strictly to the converted .,0 +782,the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast .,1 +535,"for decades we've marveled at disney's rendering of water , snow , flames and shadows in a hand-drawn animated world . prepare to marvel again .",1 +2985,"to some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés , an assassin's greatest hits . to others , it will remind them that hong kong action cinema is still alive and kicking .",1 +3335,"it's a strange film , one that was hard for me to warm up to .",1 +1670,"for a movie audience , the hours doesn't connect in a neat way , but introduces characters who illuminate mysteries of sex , duty and love .",1 +6963,"in any case , i would recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her since 1995's forget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes .",0 +6227,diaz wears out her welcome in her most charmless performance,0 +4119,"barely manages for but a few seconds over its seemingly eternal running time to pique your interest , your imagination , your empathy or anything , really , save your disgust and your indifference .",0 +2068,achieves a sort of filmic epiphany that revels in the true potential of the medium .,1 +6185,"the explosion essentially ruined -- or , rather , overpowered -- the fiction of the movie for me .",0 +485,"passion , melodrama , sorrow , laugther , and tears cascade over the screen effortlessly . . .",1 +4409,an awkward and indigestible movie .,0 +5737,there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming .,0 +6969,"been there , done that , liked it much better the first time around - when it was called the professional .",0 +1704,"it gets onto the screen just about as much of the novella as one could reasonably expect , and is engrossing and moving in its own right .",1 +255,"shamelessly resorting to pee-related sight gags that might even cause tom green a grimace ; still , myer's energy and the silliness of it all eventually prevail",1 +6374,the characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite james bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as the usual suspects .,0 +6924,moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured .,0 +1555,promises is one film that's truly deserving of its oscar nomination .,1 +3713,"this is for the most part a useless movie , even with a great director at the helm .",0 +1946,excellent performances from jacqueline bisset and martha plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama .,1 +6802,"amidst the action , the script carries arnold ( and the viewers ) into the forbidden zone of sympathizing with terrorist motivations by presenting the "" other side of the story . """,0 +3882,"it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction .",0 +404,"though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .",1 +1390,"a breezy blend of art , history , esoteric musings and philosophy .",1 +4343,"'god help us , but capra and cooper are rolling over in their graves . '",0 +5086,"we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle .",0 +2284,"the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle .",1 +3726,"about amy's cuteness , amy's career success ( she's a best-selling writer of self-help books who can't help herself ) , and amy's neuroses when it comes to men .",0 +1795,a beautifully observed character piece .,1 +4289,set in a 1986 harlem that doesn't look much like anywhere in new york .,0 +1156,the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies .,1 +1105,""" nicholas nickleby "" is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new "" a christmas carol "" out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero .",1 +4601,"is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo , double-pistoled , ballistic-pyrotechnic hong kong action aesthetic ?",0 +1589,"a brilliant , absurd collection of vignettes that , in their own idiosyncratic way , sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium .",1 +4224,less than fresh .,0 +3460,"a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv's big brother .",1 +1564,generally provides its target audience of youngsters enough stimulating eye and ear candy to make its moral medicine go down .,1 +637,"has enough wit , energy and geniality to please not only the fanatical adherents on either side , but also people who know nothing about the subject and think they're not interested .",1 +359,"it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness .",1 +4887,a valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the nba .,0 +401,can i admit xxx is as deep as a petri dish and as well-characterized as a telephone book but still say it was a guilty pleasure ?,1 +6365,"[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting .",0 +1756,"it is a likable story , told with competence .",1 +4878,boasts eye-catching art direction but has a forcefully quirky tone that quickly wears out its limited welcome .,0 +5729,"for something as splendid-looking as this particular film , the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash .",0 +1966,"one hour photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that finally get under your skin .",1 +365,"the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without killing its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appreciate .",1 +6568,"contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom .",0 +1619,"could use a little more humanity , but it never lacks in eye-popping visuals .",1 +2070,"although it's a bit smug and repetitive , this documentary engages your brain in a way few current films do .",1 +6306,i didn't laugh . i didn't smile . i survived .,0 +2925,"for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough .",1 +5959,"adults will wish the movie were less simplistic , obvious , clumsily plotted and shallowly characterized . but what are adults doing in the theater at all ?",0 +5533,"an uplifting , largely bogus story .",0 +3242,"a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass .",1 +832,"it's plotless , shapeless -- and yet , it must be admitted , not entirely humorless . indeed , the more outrageous bits achieve a shock-you-into-laughter intensity of almost dadaist proportions .",1 +228,an average coming-of-age tale elevated by the wholesome twist of a pesky mother interfering during her son's discovery of his homosexuality .,1 +7042,"the jokes are flat , and the action looks fake .",0 +755,an elegant film with often surprising twists and an intermingling of naiveté and sophistication .,1 +2325,"the comic performances are all spot on , especially lee ross's turn as ken .",1 +2849,"this ecologically minded , wildlife friendly film teaches good ethics while entertaining with its unconventionally wacky but loving family",1 +1244,"like mike is a winner for kids , and no doubt a winner for lil bow wow , who can now add movies to the list of things he does well .",1 +892,"a lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to grant , who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the atlantic love him .",1 +3996,just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name .,0 +4466,"harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality .",0 +2941,travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment .,1 +1165,"talk to her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it's hard to stop watching .",1 +2494,a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking .,1 +4696,"the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him .",0 +7104,it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions .,0 +1172,"it cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears , to be a girl in a world of boys , to be a boy truly in love with a girl , and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you .",1 +6649,"when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ?",0 +4564,"bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places .",0 +5926,"belongs in the too-hot-for-tv direct-to-video/dvd category , and this is why i have given it a one-star rating .",0 +1916,"the pianist is a fine valedictory work for polanski , made richer by his own experiences , making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain .",1 +1767,"even though it's common knowledge that park and his founding partner , yong kang , lost kozmo in the end , you can't help but get caught up in the thrill of the company's astonishing growth .",1 +1279,"satin rouge is not a new , or inventive , journey , but it's encouraging to see a three-dimensional , average , middle-aged woman's experience of self-discovery handled with such sensitivity .",1 +1663,"ranging from funny to shattering and featuring some of the year's best acting , personal velocity gathers plenty of dramatic momentum .",1 +339,a film of quiet power .,1 +2657,it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywood .,1 +2682,"if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care .",1 +3495,"it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance .",1 +2878,"although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense .",1 +6610,shankman . . . and screenwriter karen janszen bungle their way through the narrative as if it were a series of bible parables and not an actual story .,0 +3125,"exhilarating , funny and fun .",1 +5995,the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict .,0 +5779,"ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok .",0 +4784,"hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound .",0 +3995,"ultimately , the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly american abroad , and the too-frosty exterior ms . paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona is another liability .",0 +6393,a dreary indulgence .,0 +4824,. . . too dull to enjoy .,0 +5217,"it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain .",0 +647,campbell scott finds the ideal outlet for his flick-knife diction in the role of roger swanson .,1 +4389,there's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits .,0 +1856,"jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying .",1 +6101,"she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . .",0 +1692,"andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad .",1 +3718,"it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessarily shed more light on its subject than the popular predecessor .",0 +7098,a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality .,0 +4921,feels familiar and tired .,0 +32,"while not all transitions to adulthood are so fraught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can't swim .",1 +4268,not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie .,0 +3038,"what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors .",1 +2128,a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul .,1 +5108,"with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better .",0 +5564,much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster movie .,0 +4754,"frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music .",0 +5566,"the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven .",0 +2658,"as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle .",1 +5655,"that the chuck norris "" grenade gag "" occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is .",0 +3719,the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting .,0 +5748,will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting .,0 +4862,a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potency .,0 +5465,the exclamation point seems to be the only bit of glee you'll find in this dreary mess .,0 +580,"despite these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the characters in the emotional realities of middle age .",1 +4501,"the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 .",0 +4227,"an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow .",0 +5978,it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread .,0 +1761,"the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough .",1 +4669,a processed comedy chop suey .,0 +5624,it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script .,0 +3348,it's made with deftly unsettling genre flair .,1 +4927,"if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhere .",0 +4835,chan's stunts are limited and so embellished by editing that there's really not much of a sense of action or even action-comedy .,0 +3142,"an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values .",1 +5052,even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney .,0 +3274,"not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare .",1 +5597,"comes off like a rejected abc afterschool special , freshened up by the dunce of a screenwriting 101 class . . . . designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , "" crossroads "" instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns .",0 +2078,some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time .,1 +2709,some actors have so much charisma that you'd be happy to listen to them reading the phone book . hugh grant and sandra bullock are two such likeable actors .,1 +2121,what's so striking about jolie's performance is that she never lets her character become a caricature -- not even with that radioactive hair .,1 +6794,"just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love .",0 +700,a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well .,1 +3579,"perry's good and his is an interesting character , but "" serving sara "" hasn't much more to serve than silly fluff . nor is it a romantic comedy .",0 +56,"all comedy is subversive , but this unrelenting bleak insistence on opting out of any opportunity for finding meaning in relationships or work just becomes sad .",1 +1120,"a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama .",1 +2841,the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs .,1 +2203,the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity .,1 +6721,leaks treacle from every pore .,0 +4332,[plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy .,0 +3933,"a weird little movie that's amusing enough while you watch it , offering fine acting moments and pungent insights into modern l . a . 's show-biz and media subcultures . but it doesn't leave you with much .",0 +1901,"a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist .",1 +6660,it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth .,0 +2546,"exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce .",1 +5129,narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself .,0 +6148,"cinematic pyrotechnics aside , the only thing avary seems to care about are mean giggles and pulchritude . it makes sense that he went back to school to check out the girls -- his film is a frat boy's idea of a good time .",0 +5183,"in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life .",0 +4287,"collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly .",0 +3989,"it wraps up a classic mother/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new , at least it looks pretty .",0 +384,it confirms fincher's status as a film maker who artfully bends technical know-how to the service of psychological insight .,1 +322,"a distinguished and thoughtful film , marked by acute writing and a host of splendid performances .",1 +4443,it made me realize that we really haven't had a good cheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire .,0 +3608,"what's at stake in this film is nothing more than an obsolete , if irritating , notion of class .",0 +133,one of the funnier movies in town .,1 +2706,"has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre .",1 +3898,"do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor .",0 +3762,"it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center .",0 +5704,"its message has merit and , in the hands of a brutally honest individual like prophet jack , might have made a point or two regarding life .",0 +6020,"an empty , purposeless exercise .",0 +5637,"feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot .",0 +2461,audacious-impossible yet compelling . . .,1 +6432,"it's not a particularly good film , but neither is it a monsterous one .",0 +3570,slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by .,0 +6330,everything is off .,0 +6012,"after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be .",0 +4804,it would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun .,0 +1095,"boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy , kinky fun .",1 +4961,pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific flick .,0 +6692,"bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing , if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste .",0 +184,". . . while dark water isn't a complete wash ( no pun intended ) , watched side-by-side with ringu , it ultimately comes off as a pale successor .",1 +5775,chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum .,0 +3219,"doesn't do more than expand a tv show to movie length . however , it's pleasant enough and its ecological , pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome .",1 +1378,"the laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty , while russell and dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts , preciously exposed as history corners them .",1 +4082,"delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas .",0 +6665,"it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one .",0 +3571,"director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle .",0 +3340,"constantly touching , surprisingly funny , semi-surrealist exploration of the creative act .",1 +1364,"made-up lampoons the moviemaking process itself , while shining a not particularly flattering spotlight on america's skin-deep notions of pulchritude .",1 +7067,"more busy than exciting , more frantic than involving , more chaotic than entertaining .",0 +6404,"a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years .",0 +3859,the plot is paper-thin and the characters aren't interesting enough to watch them go about their daily activities for two whole hours .,0 +3502,gondry's direction is adequate . . . but what gives human nature its unique feel is kaufman's script .,1 +221,evokes the 19th century with a subtlety that is an object lesson in period filmmaking .,1 +4688,"rather than real figures , elling and kjell bjarne become symbolic characters whose actions are supposed to relate something about the naïf's encounter with the world .",0 +2936,elling builds gradually until you feel fully embraced by this gentle comedy .,1 +753,"the far future may be awesome to consider , but from period detail to matters of the heart , this film is most transporting when it stays put in the past .",1 +1411,the movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it .,1 +5419,it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it .,0 +2624,highly recommended as an engrossing story about a horrifying historical event and the elements which contributed to it .,1 +3381,"in my opinion , analyze that is not as funny or entertaining as analyze this , but it is a respectable sequel .",1 +2053,the film is often filled with a sense of pure wonderment and excitement not often seen in today's cinema du sarcasm,1 +6581,less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession .,0 +6905,"a frantic search for laughs , with a hit-to-miss ratio that doesn't exactly favour the audience .",0 +2452,"anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor should take pleasure in this crazed , joyous romp of a film .",1 +4156,"a ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative , of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking .",0 +1392,"a gripping movie , played with performances that are all understated and touching .",1 +7102,". . . grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces .",0 +2921,the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design .,1 +1361,". . . the gentle melding of drama and comedy makes "" what time is it there ? "" something the true film buff will enjoy .",1 +2704,"if you're willing to have fun with it , you won't feel cheated by the high infidelity of unfaithful .",1 +2944,"this is an exercise in chilling style , and twohy films the sub , inside and out , with an eye on preserving a sense of mystery .",1 +3881,"one problem with the movie , directed by joel schumacher , is that it jams too many prefabricated story elements into the running time .",0 +1131,"strip it of all its excess debris , and you'd have a 90-minute , four-star movie . as it is , it's too long and unfocused .",1 +2165,"a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages .",1 +3425,"while most films these days are about nothing , this film seems to be about everything that's plaguing the human spirit in a relentlessly globalizing world .",1 +6492,"proves a lovely trifle that , unfortunately , is a little too in love with its own cuteness .",0 +6819,"the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would still be beyond comprehension .",0 +2765,thurman and lewis are hilarious throughout .,1 +2854,"beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination , backed by sheer nerve .",1 +4270,es triste tener que decirles que lo único grato de la cinta es el cuerpo desnudo de la heather . . .,0 +106,"for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped . for a film that's being advertised as a comedy , sweet home alabama isn't as funny as you'd hoped .",1 +6048,death might be a release .,0 +1494,a dashing and absorbing outing with one of france's most inventive directors .,1 +6752,looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination .,0 +433,"a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger .",1 +311,"it's like rocky and bullwinkle on speed , but that's neither completely enlightening , nor does it catch the intensity of the movie's strangeness .",1 +2754,"miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet .",1 +6359,"patchy combination of soap opera , low-tech magic realism and , at times , ploddingly sociological commentary .",0 +6373,"the film has a nearly terminal case of the cutes , and it's neither as funny nor as charming as it thinks it is .",0 +3590,a tv style murder mystery with a few big screen moments ( including one that seems to be made for a different film altogether ) .,0 +5579,absolutely ( and unintentionally ) terrifying .,0 +1152,"though only 60 minutes long , the film is packed with information and impressions .",1 +2889,an engrossing portrait of uncompromising artists trying to create something original against the backdrop of a corporate music industry that only seems to care about the bottom line .,1 +1754,"if you love motown music , you'll love this documentary .",1 +1473,"the spaniel-eyed jean reno infuses hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool , wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart .",1 +2380,"it's amazingly perceptive in its subtle , supportive but unsentimental look at the marks family .",1 +6152,"this sade is hardly a perverse , dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama . he's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery , and the film seems as deflated as he does .",0 +5078,"a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones .",0 +2478,a romantic comedy that operates by the rules of its own self-contained universe .,1 +2747,"having never been a huge fan of dickens' 800-page novel , it surprised me how much pleasure i had watching mcgrath's version .",1 +5636,an undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cinematic .,0 +5746,the story and the friendship proceeds in such a way that you're watching a soap opera rather than a chronicle of the ups and downs that accompany lifelong friendships .,0 +4414,presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency .,0 +4011,""" my god , i'm behaving like an idiot ! "" yes , you are , ben kingsley .",0 +2623,"if you're not into the pokemon franchise , this fourth animated movie in four years won't convert you -- or even keep your eyes open . but fans should have fun meeting a brand-new pokemon called celebi .",1 +2371,will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them .,1 +1769,"almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like "" the addams family "" to everyone looking in . . . "" my big fat greek wedding "" comes from the heart . . .",1 +4028,"none of these characters resembles anyone you've ever met in real life , unless you happen to know annoyingly self-involved people who speak in glib sentences that could have only come from the pen of a screenwriter .",0 +6521,"sex ironically has little to do with the story , which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never , ever , leave a large dog alone with a toddler . but never mind all that ; the boobs are fantasti",0 +4535,one of the oddest and most inexplicable sequels in movie history .,0 +2838,the best thing i can say about this film is that i can't wait to see what the director does next .,1 +2503,what's most striking about this largely celebratory film . . . is the sense of isolation that permeates these bastions of individuality in an ikea world .,1 +5457,heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension .,0 +6844,"the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it .",0 +3692,the disjointed mess flows as naturally as jolie's hideous yellow 'do .,0 +4113,the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump .,0 +2749,the story has some nice twists but the ending and some of the back-story is a little tired . the performances are all solid ; it merely lacks originality to make it a great movie .,1 +5832,"that neither protagonist has a distinguishable condition hardly matters because both are just actory concoctions , defined by childlike dimness and a handful of quirks .",0 +5485,shocking only in that it reveals the filmmaker's bottomless pit of self-absorption .,0 +6013,"i would have preferred a transfer down the hall to mr . holland's class for the music , or to robin williams's lecture so i could listen to a teacher with humor , passion , and verve .",0 +1307,a fascinating glimpse into an insular world that gives the lie to many clichés and showcases a group of dedicated artists .,1 +2642,"day is not a great bond movie , but it is a good bond movie , which still makes it much better than your typical bond knock-offs .",1 +1310,"an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen .",1 +2467,those with an interest in new or singular sorts of film experiences will find what time is it there ? well worth the time .,1 +1486,broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force .,1 +1187,"fierce , glaring and unforgettable .",1 +7053,". . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of time . it's a trifle .",0 +1001,"this story still seems timely and important . and there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now , with older and wiser eyes , because we know what will happen after greene's story ends .",1 +6754,"the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors .",0 +3987,"at the very least , if you don't know anything about derrida when you walk into the theater , you won't know much more when you leave .",0 +5344,"beneath the uncanny , inevitable and seemingly shrewd facade of movie-biz farce . . . lies a plot cobbled together from largely flat and uncreative moments .",0 +5755,vile and tacky are the two best adjectives to describe ghost ship .,0 +2622,"if you don't flee , you might be seduced . if you don't laugh , flee .",1 +3170,warm and exotic .,1 +4196,"an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce .",0 +6003,i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject .,0 +718,absorbing and disturbing -- perhaps more disturbing than originally intended -- but a little clarity would have gone a long way .,1 +4557,"purports to be a hollywood satire but winds up as the kind of film that should be the target of something deeper and more engaging . oh , and more entertaining , too .",0 +2436,"sitting in the third row of the imax cinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carried the giant camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and hovering over some of the most not",1 +2142,"the movie is well crafted , and well executed . if you're paying attention , the "" big twists "" are pretty easy to guess - but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining .",1 +907,"if we sometimes need comforting fantasies about mental illness , we also need movies like tim mccann's revolution no . 9 .",1 +2186,"tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen like a true star .",1 +5208,"while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy .",0 +1373,"béart and berling are both superb , while huppert . . . is magnificent .",1 +6960,stale and clichéd to a fault .,0 +6055,"we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground .",0 +2661,i simply can't recommend it enough .,1 +1653,"unlike the speedy wham-bam effect of most hollywood offerings , character development -- and more importantly , character empathy -- is at the heart of italian for beginners .",1 +6097,"with all the sympathy , empathy and pity fogging up the screen . . . his secret life enters the land of unintentional melodrama and tiresome love triangles .",0 +519,"jackson tries to keep the plates spinning as best he can , but all the bouncing back and forth can't help but become a bit tedious -- even with the breathtaking landscapes and villainous varmints there to distract you from the ricocheting .",1 +500,"what's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'my stepdad's not mean , he's just adjusting' ?",1 +3650,a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft .,0 +1954,"it's a treat watching shaw , a british stage icon , melting under the heat of phocion's attentions .",1 +2677,an infectious cultural fable with a tasty balance of family drama and frenetic comedy .,1 +103,"[gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence , and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass .",1 +2952,"great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience .",1 +2350,"nicks sustains the level of exaggerated , stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit .",1 +6146,"since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche .",0 +4756,dramatically lackluster .,0 +4539,the title's lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is .,0 +4494,it's absolutely amazing how first-time director kevin donovan managed to find something new to add to the canon of chan . make chan's action sequences boring .,0 +6351,"told in scattered fashion , the movie only intermittently lives up to the stories and faces and music of the men who are its subject .",0 +4241,"in spite of featuring a script credited to no fewer than five writers , apparently nobody here bothered to check it twice .",0 +4624,the lack of opposing viewpoints soon grows tiresome -- the film feels more like a series of toasts at a testimonial dinner than a documentary .,0 +3041,blanchett's performance confirms her power once again .,1 +4594,"with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés .",0 +4051,"the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination , is a monument to bad in all its florid variety .",0 +886,"lauren ambrose comes alive under the attention from two strangers in town - with honest performances and realistic interaction between the characters , this is a coming-of-age story with a twist .",1 +4578,"this kind of dark comedy requires a delicate , surgical touch . but director danny devito and screenwriter adam resnick ( remember cabin boy ? ) just pound away .",0 +246,dogtown & z-boys evokes the blithe rebel fantasy with the kind of insouciance embedded in the sexy demise of james dean .,1 +3574,gets better after foster leaves that little room .,0 +6471,zigzag might have been richer and more observant if it were less densely plotted .,0 +2862,one of the best inside-show-biz yarns ever .,1 +4874,"far too clever by half , howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments , with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another .",0 +677,"it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise .",1 +6563,"cheap , vulgar dialogue and a plot that crawls along at a snail's pace .",0 +1266,"pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .",1 +6781,deuces wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like the wanderers and a bronx tale without cribbing any of their intelligence .,0 +955,. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal hannibal .,1 +3601,"the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take .",0 +303,"shanghai ghetto , much stranger than any fiction , brings this unknown slice of history affectingly to life .",1 +6620,it's a mindless action flick with a twist -- far better suited to video-viewing than the multiplex .,0 +4429,so relentlessly wholesome it made me want to swipe something .,0 +1351,it's both a necessary political work and a fascinating documentary . . .,1 +5207,painfully padded .,0 +1838,"an engaging , formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement .",1 +6173,"clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up .",0 +1320,"a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life .",1 +4895,"cherry orchard is badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a 'back story . '",0 +3373,[westbrook] makes a wonderful subject for the camera .,1 +6734,topkapi this is not .,0 +1062,"while the film is not entirely successful , it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work .",1 +3226,what it lacks in originality it makes up for in effective if cheap moments of fright and dread .,1 +2945,"the movie itself is far from disappointing , offering an original take on courtroom movies , a few nifty twists that are so crucial to the genre and another first-rate performance by top-billed star bruce willis .",1 +3893,it's both sitcomishly predictable and cloying in its attempts to be poignant .,0 +5439,"it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull .",0 +4964,the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place .,0 +5273,so brisk is wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe .,0 +2033,"possession is elizabeth barrett browning meets nancy drew , and it's directed by . . . neil labute . hmm .",1 +5989,"while you have to admit it's semi-amusing to watch robert deniro belt out "" when you're a jet , you're a jet all the way , "" it's equally distasteful to watch him sing the lyrics to "" tonight . """,0 +6785,gaghan . . . has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story .,0 +4272,doesn't really add up to much .,0 +5218,"it's super- violent , super-serious and super-stupid .",0 +1961,"the movie addresses a hungry need for pg-rated , nonthreatening family movies , but it doesn't go too much further .",1 +2804,"a remarkable movie with an unsatisfying ending , which is just the point .",1 +3630,"a cellophane-pop remake of the punk classic ladies and gentlemen , the fabulous stains . . . crossroads is never much worse than bland or better than inconsequential .",0 +5236,"if there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout , this is the one .",0 +4931,family togetherness takes a back seat to inter-family rivalry and workplace ambition… ; whole subplots have no explanation or even plot relevance .,0 +1610,fred schepisi's tale of four englishmen facing the prospect of their own mortality views youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point .,1 +6491,"though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear .",0 +290,combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why didn't hollywood think of this sooner ?,1 +2720,'blue crush' swims away with the sleeper movie of the summer award .,1 +1948,"triumph of love is a very silly movie , but the silliness has a pedigree .",1 +2674,gets under the skin of a man who has just lost his wife .,1 +6647,"acting , particularly by tambor , almost makes "" never again "" worthwhile , but [writer/director] schaeffer should follow his titular advice",0 +5238,the plan to make enough into ‘an inspiring tale of survival wrapped in the heart-pounding suspense of a stylish psychological thriller' has flopped as surely as a soufflé gone wrong .,0 +2438,"the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul's perspective .",1 +5868,lacks depth .,0 +6596,predictably melodramatic .,0 +2726,"with the film's striking ending , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved .",1 +7046,the film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously .,0 +6838,". . . has its moments , but ultimately , its curmudgeon doesn't quite make the cut of being placed on any list of favorites .",0 +4469,"the four feathers is definitely horse feathers , but if you go in knowing that , you might have fun in this cinematic sandbox .",0 +4533,"any reasonably creative eighth-grader could have written a more credible script , though with the same number of continuity errors .",0 +3504,"by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .",1 +305,kinnear's performance is a career-defining revelation .,1 +669,"a classy , sprightly spin on film .",1 +2450,"ms . seigner and mr . serrault bring fresh , unforced naturalism to their characters .",1 +6682,alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks .,0 +6062,"the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed .",0 +5598,any film featuring young children threatened by a terrorist bomb can no longer pass as mere entertainment .,0 +2233,"the new guy does have a heart . now , if it only had a brain .",1 +1821,"at once emotional and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld encounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary .",1 +3829,my own minority report is that it stinks .,0 +3824,"as it abruptly crosscuts among the five friends , it fails to lend the characters' individual stories enough dramatic resonance to make us care about them .",0 +4820,what the director can’ ; t do is make either of val kilmer’ ; s two personas interesting or worth caring about .,0 +6553,[crystal and de niro] manage to squeeze out some good laughs but not enough to make this silly con job sing .,0 +836,"with a large cast representing a broad cross-section , tavernier's film bounds along with the rat-a-tat energy of "" his girl friday , "" maintaining a light touch while tackling serious themes .",1 +3910,serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it .,0 +679,"perhaps the grossest movie ever made . funny , though .",1 +6597,the fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier .,0 +1612,a movie where story is almost an afterthought amidst a swirl of colors and inexplicable events .,1 +1876,simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad .,1 +30,"take care is nicely performed by a quintet of actresses , but nonetheless it drags during its 112-minute length .",1 +1417,"witty , vibrant , and intelligent .",1 +155,"wickedly funny , visually engrossing , never boring , this movie challenges us to think about the ways we consume pop culture .",1 +5459,what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get made ?,0 +5948,a sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like the ghost and mr . chicken .,0 +5232,"overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film .",0 +4354,"shunji iwai's all about lily chou chou is a beautifully shot , but ultimately flawed film about growing up in japan .",0 +4947,it's just hard to believe that a life like this can sound so dull .,0 +3380,"spider-man is in the same category as x-men - occasionally brilliant but mostly average , showing signs of potential for the sequels , but not giving us much this time around .",1 +3201,a wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films .,1 +2946,"pratfalls aside , barbershop gets its greatest play from the timeless spectacle of people really talking to each other .",1 +4648,"drags along in a dazed and enervated , drenched-in-the- past numbness .",0 +3234,"' . . . mafia , rap stars and hood rats butt their ugly heads in a regurgitation of cinematic violence that gives brutal birth to an unlikely , but likable , hero . '",1 +4609,less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan .,0 +1497,kudos to the most enchanting film of the year .,1 +5607,"rollerball is as bad as you think , and worse than you can imagine .",0 +5662,earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock .,0 +6749,"a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story .",0 +6320,"both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plenty of evidence here to indicate clooney might have better luck next time .",0 +3368,"the format gets used best . . . to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and bmx riders , whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups .",1 +1605,frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen .,1 +4462,"payami tries to raise some serious issues about iran's electoral process , but the result is a film that's about as subtle as a party political broadcast .",0 +6314,the director's many dodges and turns add up to little more than a screenful of gamesmanship that's low on both suspense and payoff .,0 +5491,"the movie is like a year late for tapping into our reality tv obsession , and even tardier for exploiting the novelty of the "" webcast . """,0 +3684,"big fat liar is little more than home alone raised to a new , self-deprecating level .",0 +6466,a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog .,0 +5076,that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout .,0 +1920,"even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate .",1 +6322,make like the title and dodge this one .,0 +4166,"the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy .",0 +5573,"de ayala is required to supply too much of the energy in a film that is , overall , far too staid for its subject matter .",0 +985,"with "" ichi the killer "" , takashi miike , japan's wildest filmmaker gives us a crime fighter carrying more emotional baggage than batman . . .",1 +1251,"painful to watch , but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances .",1 +4226,crummy,0 +1941,"measured against practically any like-themed film other than its oscar-sweeping franchise predecessor the silence of the lambs , red dragon rates as an exceptional thriller .",1 +4499,putting the primitive murderer inside a high-tech space station unleashes a pandora's box of special effects that run the gamut from cheesy to cheesier to cheesiest .,0 +1464,"those of you who don't believe in santa claus probably also think that sequels can never capture the magic of the original . well , this movie proves you wrong on both counts .",1 +406,a well paced and satisfying little drama that deserved better than a ‘direct-to-video' release .,1 +6447,"the low-budget full frontal was one of the year's murkiest , intentionally obscure and self-indulgent pictures , and solaris is its big-budget brother .",0 +4922,"pascale bailly's rom-com provides amélie's audrey tautou with another fabuleux destin -- i . e . , a banal spiritual quest .",0 +6199,it's a shame that the storyline and its underlying themes . . . finally seem so impersonal or even shallow .,0 +6036,"i guess it just goes to show that if you give a filmmaker an unlimited amount of phony blood , nothing good can happen .",0 +729,douglas mcgrath's nicholas nickleby does dickens as it should be done cinematically .,1 +6234,"reyes' directorial debut has good things to offer , but ultimately it's undone by a sloppy script",0 +591,"this warm and gentle romantic comedy has enough interesting characters to fill several movies , and its ample charms should win over the most hard-hearted cynics .",1 +4960,"the screenplay , co-written by director imogen kimmel , lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing .",0 +1723,. . . could easily be called the best korean film of 2002 .,1 +3541,the banter between calvin and his fellow barbers feels like a streetwise mclaughlin group . . . and never fails to entertain .,1 +2575,"poignant and moving , a walk to remember is an inspirational love story , capturing the innocence and idealism of that first encounter .",1 +2003,a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not .,1 +2992,secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion .,1 +3053,[a] satisfying niblet .,1 +6964,truly terrible .,0 +581,a frisky and fresh romantic comedy exporing sexual politics and the challenges of friendships between women .,1 +6712,"sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 .",0 +6229,"apparently kissing leads to suicide attempts and tragic deaths . marisa tomei is good , but just a kiss is just a mess .",0 +2899,". . . once the true impact of the day unfolds , the power of this movie is undeniable .",1 +6732,episode ii-- attack of the clones is a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight .,0 +4697,"deep down , i realized the harsh reality of my situation : i would leave the theater with a lower i . q . than when i had entered .",0 +6010,demeo is not without talent ; he just needs better material .,0 +1539,it's neither as romantic nor as thrilling as it should be . but it offers plenty to ponder and chew on as its unusual relationship slowly unfolds .,1 +3077,makmalbaf follows a resolutely realistic path in this uncompromising insight into the harsh existence of the kurdish refugees of iran's borderlands .,1 +5112,"cruel and inhuman cinematic punishment . . . simultaneously degrades its characters , its stars and its audience .",0 +5810,"de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal .",0 +2729,"writer-director's mehta's effort has tons of charm and the whimsy is in the mixture , the intoxicating masala , of cultures and film genres .",1 +4231,"even a hardened voyeur would require the patience of job to get through this interminable , shapeless documentary about the swinging subculture .",0 +908,"although german cooking does not come readily to mind when considering the world's best cuisine , mostly martha could make deutchland a popular destination for hungry tourists .",1 +1151,"as commander-in-chief of this film , bigelow demonstrates a breadth of vision and an attention to detail that propels her into the upper echelons of the directing world .",1 +6022,"cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy .",0 +4346,a minor-league soccer remake of the longest yard .,0 +2744,quite funny for the type of movie it is . . .,1 +4668,"doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez .",0 +3484,those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi .,1 +852,spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry .,1 +2485,it took 19 predecessors to get this ?,1 +4581,"it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from "" promising "" to "" interesting "" to "" familiar "" before landing squarely on "" stupid "" .",0 +5040,the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it .,0 +961,"peppering this urban study with references to norwegian folktales , villeneuve creates in maelstrom a world where the bizarre is credible and the real turns magical .",1 +4554,black-and-white and unrealistic .,0 +178,"buy is an accomplished actress , and this is a big , juicy role .",1 +3854,"instead of trying to bust some blondes , [diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad .",0 +5228,. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might .,0 +6923,the filmmakers needed more emphasis on the storytelling and less on the glamorous machine that thrusts the audience into a future they won't much care about .,0 +6502,"anyone who suffers through this film deserves , at the very least , a big box of consolation candy .",0 +3661,"if only it were , well , funnier .",0 +4374,"enigma is well-made , but it's just too dry and too placid .",0 +1660,the film jolts the laughs from the audience--as if by cattle prod .,1 +2496,""" what really happened ? "" is a question for philosophers , not filmmakers ; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience .",1 +2133,"ultimately too repellent to fully endear itself to american art house audiences , but it is notable for its stylistic austerity and forcefulness .",1 +5104,"tom shadyac has learned a bit more craft since directing adams , but he still lingers over every point until the slowest viewer grasps it .",0 +6582,a half-assed film .,0 +4714,"the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book .",0 +3298,[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even morality is reduced to an option by the ultimate mysteries of life and death .,1 +625,i love the opening scenes of a wintry new york city in 1899 . cinematic poetry showcases the city's old-world charm before machines change nearly everything .,1 +6653,"the film never gets over its own investment in conventional arrangements , in terms of love , age , gender , race , and class .",0 +7063,"unspools like a highbrow , low-key , 102-minute infomercial , blending entrepreneurial zeal with the testimony of satisfied customers .",0 +6606,"at a brief 42 minutes , we need more x and less blab .",0 +564,one of the greatest films i've ever seen .,1 +5015,"it's definitely not made for kids or their parents , for that matter , and i think even fans of sandler's comic taste may find it uninteresting .",0 +1214,"without ever becoming didactic , director carlos carrera expertly weaves this novelistic story of entangled interrelationships and complex morality .",1 +2269,"after making several adaptations of other writers' work , armenian-canadian director atom egoyan broached an original treatment of a deeply personal subject .",1 +1549,the terrific and bewilderingly underrated campbell scott gives a star performance that is nothing short of mesmerizing .,1 +1737,"yes , it's as good as you remember . in fact , even better .",1 +6941,"love may have been in the air onscreen , but i certainly wasn't feeling any of it .",0 +523,"for his first attempt at film noir , spielberg presents a fascinating but flawed look at the near future .",1 +7038,"kidman is really the only thing that's worth watching in birthday girl , a film by the stage-trained jez butterworth ( mojo ) that serves as yet another example of the sad decline of british comedies in the post-full monty world .",0 +2180,"you'll gasp appalled and laugh outraged and possibly , watching the spectacle of a promising young lad treading desperately in a nasty sea , shed an errant tear .",1 +6775,"it seems just a long , convoluted ploy to get men into drag -- period drag , no less .",0 +989,"it may be a no-brainer , but at least it's a funny no-brainer .",1 +3478,"saved from being merely way-cool by a basic , credible compassion .",1 +1366,sleek and arty .,1 +4280,"apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it .",0 +3309,"a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor .",1 +3485,"byler is too savvy a filmmaker to let this morph into a typical romantic triangle . instead , he focuses on the anguish that can develop when one mulls leaving the familiar to traverse uncharted ground .",1 +1802,"a charming , banter-filled comedy . . . one of those airy cinematic bon bons whose aims -- and by extension , accomplishments -- seem deceptively slight on the surface .",1 +4188,i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's .,0 +2347,"those prone to indignation need not apply ; those susceptible to blue hilarity , step right up .",1 +2223,"shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept ( aliens come to earth ) and infuses it into a rustic , realistic , and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion .",1 +6308,"it's a frightful vanity film that , no doubt , pays off what debt miramax felt they owed to benigni .",0 +6256,"feels like pieces a bunch of other , better movies slapped together .",0 +267,. . . a lesson in prehistoric hilarity .,1 +2031,"both heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . just a simple fable done in an artless sytle , but it's tremendously moving .",1 +7061,"bigelow offers some flashy twists and turns that occasionally fortify this turgid fable . but for the most part , the weight of water comes off as a two-way time-switching myopic mystery that stalls in its lackluster gear of emotional blandness .",0 +1830,it rapidly develops into a gut-wrenching examination of the way cultural differences and emotional expectations collide .,1 +1252,it's a masterpiece .,1 +490,"you emerge dazed , confused as to whether you've seen pornography or documentary .",1 +3006,"rain is a small treasure , enveloping the viewer in a literal and spiritual torpor that is anything but cathartic .",1 +7013,"the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is .",0 +5815,"for a film about action , ultimate x is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever , bogging down in a barrage of hype .",0 +5867,"yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "" superior "" friends , family . . .",0 +2579,"nicole holofcener's lovely and amazing , from her own screenplay , jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style .",1 +6950,"a movie that , rather than skip along the seine , more or less slogs its way through soggy paris , tongue uncomfortably in cheek .",0 +1189,one of the most exciting action films to come out of china in recent years .,1 +4637,"in its best moments , resembles a bad high school production of grease , without benefit of song .",0 +3517,stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens .,1 +2833,"leading a double life in an american film only comes to no good , but not here . matters play out realistically if not always fairly .",1 +5364,the problem with all of this : it's not really funny .,0 +5447,"solondz may be convinced that he has something significant to say , but he isn't talking a talk that appeals to me .",0 +3578,cacoyannis is perhaps too effective in creating an atmosphere of dust-caked stagnation and labored gentility .,0 +5343,this version of h . g . wells' time machine was directed by h . g . wells' great-grandson . they should have found orson welles' great-grandson .,0 +2958,it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .,1 +2210,"holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin .",1 +546,"hugh grant , who has a good line in charm , has never been more charming than in about a boy .",1 +3804,"the acting is just fine , but there's not enough substance here to sustain interest for the full 90 minutes , especially with the weak payoff .",0 +1043,"if you love the music , and i do , its hard to imagine having more fun watching a documentary . . .",1 +1922,"the acting , costumes , music , cinematography and sound are all astounding given the production's austere locales .",1 +5805,"too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging . . . the isle defies an easy categorization .",0 +1290,"a tender , heartfelt family drama .",1 +2016,"laced with liberal doses of dark humor , gorgeous exterior photography , and a stable-full of solid performances , no such thing is a fascinating little tale .",1 +1773,"this is a film well worth seeing , talking and singing heads and all .",1 +6126,the movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value .,0 +5981,a well made indieflick in need of some trims and a more chemistry between its stars .,0 +2739,"a cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope , and a story that's compelling and heartfelt -- even if the heart belongs to a big , four-legged herbivore .",1 +5702,nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy .,0 +1500,"one of the most haunting , viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory .",1 +2387,"a hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life .",1 +2920,"the best comedy concert movie i've seen since cho's previous concert comedy film , i'm the one that i want , in 2000 .",1 +3937,woody allen used to ridicule movies like hollywood ending . now he makes them .,0 +7054,serving sara doesn't serve up a whole lot of laughs .,0 +151,"what makes the movie work — to an admittedly limited extent — is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk .",1 +5872,"when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested .",0 +3900,"like many such biographical melodramas , it suffers from the awkwardness that results from adhering to the messiness of true stories .",0 +4882,the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland .,0 +6867,the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase 'fatal script error . ',0 +6556,"to enjoy this movie's sharp dialogue and delightful performance by jolie and burns , you have to gloss over the no sense ending .",0 +3693,"the story is naturally poignant , but first-time screenwriter paul pender overloads it with sugary bits of business .",0 +235,you walk out of the good girl with mixed emotions — disapproval of justine combined with a tinge of understanding for her actions .,1 +5747,"co-writer/director jonathan parker's attempts to fashion a brazil-like , hyper-real satire fall dreadfully short .",0 +1662,"the story that emerges has elements of romance , tragedy and even silent-movie comedy .",1 +4040,"human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard .",0 +3079,"not about scares but a mood in which an ominous , pervasive , and unknown threat lurks just below the proceedings and adds an almost constant mindset of suspense .",1 +7047,"a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience .",0 +1669,another entertaining romp from robert rodriguez .,1 +1791,you don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace . or both .,1 +1730,it is interesting and fun to see goodall and her chimpanzees on the bigger-than-life screen .,1 +370,"films are made of little moments . changing lanes tries for more . it doesn't reach them , but the effort is gratefully received .",1 +6591,"the only upside to all of this unpleasantness is , given its labor day weekend upload , feardotcom should log a minimal number of hits .",0 +1965,fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn .,1 +4427,first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on .,0 +2037,you'll end up moved .,1 +6792,"to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw .",0 +5863,"despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one .",0 +4559,"watching "" ending "" is too often like looking over the outdated clothes and plastic knickknacks at your neighbor's garage sale . you can't believe anyone would really buy this stuff .",0 +927,poignant if familiar story of a young person suspended between two cultures .,1 +3847,the film's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . it's just filler .,0 +3660,enduring love but exhausting cinema .,0 +4089,"mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor .",0 +6106,"much like robin williams , death to smoochy has already reached its expiration date .",0 +2191,one of the most slyly exquisite anti-adult movies ever made .,1 +5274,"twenty years later , reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery , but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fast-forward technology that he so stringently takes to task .",0 +2087,"i prefer soderbergh's concentration on his two lovers over tarkovsky's mostly male , mostly patriarchal debating societies .",1 +2109,"it has a way of seeping into your consciousness , with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at .",1 +325,the hypnotic imagery and fragmentary tale explore the connections between place and personal identity .,1 +6170,a very average science fiction film .,0 +3623,"it's always disappointing when a documentary fails to live up to -- or offer any new insight into -- its chosen topic . unfortunately , that's precisely what arthur dong's family fundamentals does .",0 +2716,this movie has the usual impossible stunts . . . but it has just as many scenes that are lean and tough enough to fit in any modern action movie .,1 +6497,"if the full monty was a freshman fluke , lucky break is [cattaneo] sophomore slump .",0 +60,"for those who are intrigued by politics of the '70s , the film is every bit as fascinating as it is flawed .",1 +1199,much of the movie's charm lies in the utter cuteness of stuart and margolo . their computer-animated faces are very expressive .,1 +5488,return to neverland manages to straddle the line between another classic for the company and just another run-of-the-mill disney sequel intended for the home video market .,0 +2515,"twenty years later , e . t . is still a cinematic touchstone .",1 +4651,abysmally pathetic,0 +2231,. . . a thoughtful what-if for the heart as well as the mind .,1 +5680,borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu .,0 +2999,"a huge box-office hit in korea , shiri is a must for genre fans .",1 +3831,"some elements of it really blow the big one , but other parts are decent .",0 +6972,"the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable .",0 +566,schütte's dramatic snapshot of the artist three days before his death offers an interesting bit of speculation as to the issues brecht faced as his life drew to a close .,1 +2492,"shanghai ghetto may not be as dramatic as roman polanski's the pianist , but its compassionate spirit soars every bit as high .",1 +4140,it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .,0 +3384,abderrahmane sissako's heremakono ( waiting for happiness ) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the west african coast struggling against foreign influences .,1 +6504,a film that will probably please people already fascinated by behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration .,0 +4250,"half of it is composed of snappy patter and pseudo-sophisticated cultural observations , while the remainder . . . would be more at home on a daytime television serial .",0 +4536,it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much norma rae and not enough pretty woman .,0 +7078,teen movies have really hit the skids .,0 +6644,a decidedly mixed bag .,0 +6142,"not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school "" cartoon "" .",0 +6192,too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped .,0 +4814,"kapur fails to give his audience a single character worth rooting for ( or worth rooting against , for that matter ) .",0 +244,"the case is a convincing one , and should give anyone with a conscience reason to pause .",1 +4349,"unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook .",0 +4834,"the film is like sitting in a downtown café , overhearing a bunch of typical late-twenty-somethings natter on about nothing , and desperately wishing you could change tables .",0 +3942,"while it's all quite tasteful to look at , the attention process tends to do a little fleeing of its own .",0 +6667,seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago .,0 +2591,"the movie's seams may show . . . but pellington gives "" mothman "" an irresistibly uncanny ambience that goes a long way toward keeping the picture compelling .",1 +5639,this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous .,0 +3276,"even when there are lulls , the emotions seem authentic , and the picture is so lovely toward the end . . . you almost don't notice the 129-minute running time .",1 +2202,a passionately inquisitive film determined to uncover the truth and hopefully inspire action .,1 +482,a jaw-droppingly beautiful work that upends nearly every cliché of japanese animation while delivering a more than satisfactory amount of carnage .,1 +3871,"borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy .",0 +5825,. . . silly humbuggery . . .,0 +1701,"triple x is a double agent , and he's one bad dude . when you've got the wildly popular vin diesel in the equation , it adds up to big box office bucks all but guaranteed .",1 +2249,an imaginative comedy/thriller .,1 +1461,my wife's plotting is nothing special ; it's the delivery that matters here .,1 +925,"it dares to be a little different , and that shading is what makes it worthwhile .",1 +5651,"as social exposé , skins has its heart in the right place , but that's not much to hang a soap opera on .",0 +10,"like its predecessor , it's no classic , but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption , one that families looking for a clean , kid-friendly outing should investigate .",1 +3463,"the film has just enough of everything -- re-enactments , archival footage , talking-head interviews -- and the music is simply sublime .",1 +1039,"the search for redemption makes for a touching love story , mainly because blanchett and ribisi compellingly tap into a spiritual aspect of their characters' suffering .",1 +6589,"some movies were made for the big screen , some for the small screen , and some , like ballistic : ecks vs . sever , were made for the palm screen .",0 +4125,dense and enigmatic . . . elusive . . . stagy and stilted,0 +998,its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story .,1 +722,"it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds .",1 +6690,both the crime story and the love story are unusual . but they don't fit well together and neither is well told .,0 +2803,"the delicious trimmings…arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute…with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two .",1 +2265,sayles is making a statement about the inability of dreams and aspirations to carry forward into the next generation .,1 +467,"it all plays out . . . like a high-end john hughes comedy , a kind of elder bueller's time out .",1 +4845,"kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .",0 +2656,"as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul .",1 +4891,"with minimal imagination , you could restage the whole thing in your bathtub .",0 +4358,nothing more than an amiable but unfocused bagatelle that plays like a loosely-connected string of acting-workshop exercises .,0 +233,. . . myers has turned his franchise into the movie version of an adolescent dirty-joke book done up in post-tarantino pop-culture riffs . . .,1 +5780,"if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash .",0 +1155,"a compelling pre-wwii drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message .",1 +4518,"though it goes further than both , anyone who has seen the hunger or cat people will find little new here , but a tasty performance from vincent gallo lifts this tale of cannibal lust above the ordinary .",0 +6288,gussied up with so many distracting special effects and visual party tricks that it's not clear whether we're supposed to shriek or laugh .,0 +5941,"despite suffering a sense-of-humour failure , the man who wrote rocky does not deserve to go down with a ship as leaky as this .",0 +3320,[anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense .,1 +887,stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film .,1 +6888,this is not a jackie chan movie . it's just a movie that happens to have jackie chan in it . and that makes all the difference .,0 +374,"alain choquart's camera barely stops moving , portraying both the turmoil of the time and giving conduct a perpetual sense of urgency , which , for a film that takes nearly three hours to unspool , is both funny and irritating .",1 +698,reggio and glass put on an intoxicating show .,1 +6791,slick piece of cross-promotion .,0 +379,"the movie ultimately relies a bit too heavily on grandstanding , emotional , rocky-like moments . . . but it's such a warm and charming package that you'll feel too happy to argue much .",1 +2649,confessions is without a doubt a memorable directorial debut from king hunk .,1 +3625,"the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes .",0 +2125,"it's not particularly subtle . . . however , it still manages to build to a terrifying , if obvious , conclusion .",1 +4252,"perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie .",0 +4500,gaping plot holes sink this 'sub'-standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .,0 +1418,amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances .,1 +6347,the pivotal narrative point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky .,0 +230,"there are moments in this account of the life of artist frida kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year . unfortunately , they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of kahlo's life imaginable .",1 +5155,"[tries] to parody a genre that's already a joke in the united states . the movie is the equivalent of french hip-hop , which also seems to play on a 10-year delay .",0 +3968,"preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure .",0 +6809,"an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . .",0 +5933,"[davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters .",0 +1609,"the crime matters less than the characters , although the filmmakers supply enough complications , close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us .",1 +3314,"director paul cox's unorthodox , abstract approach to visualizing nijinsky's diaries is both stimulating and demanding .",1 +4832,"men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . .",0 +438,"somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp .",1 +447,". . . a gleefully grungy , hilariously wicked black comedy . . .",1 +3432,"you wouldn't call the good girl a date movie ( an anti-date movie is more like it ) , but when it's good , it's good and horrid .",1 +2005,"you have to pay attention to follow all the stories , but they're each interesting . the movie is well shot and very tragic , and one to ponder after the credits roll .",1 +3289,. . . a polished and relatively sincere piece of escapism .,1 +5594,"just about all of the film is confusing on one level or another , making ararat far more demanding than it needs to be .",0 +6590,i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease .,0 +2419,salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a mexican icon .,1 +6823,"the humor is hinged on the belief that knees in the crotch , elbows in the face and spit in the eye are inherently funny .",0 +5935,"a gimmick in search of a movie : how to get carvey into as many silly costumes and deliver as many silly voices as possible , plot mechanics be damned .",0 +3926,"every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie !",0 +1644,"as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights .",1 +2029,"gangster no . 1 is solid , satisfying fare for adults .",1 +3551,"an offbeat , sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays .",1 +5644,"life or something like it has its share of high points , but it misses too many opportunities .",0 +3003,what sets this romantic comedy apart from most hollywood romantic comedies is its low-key way of tackling what seems like done-to-death material .,1 +6895,"all ends well , sort of , but the frenzied comic moments never click .",0 +4838,"an exceptionally dreary and overwrought bit of work , every bit as imperious as katzenberg's the prince of egypt from 1998 .",0 +6522,"the only camouflage carvey should now be considering is a paper bag to wear over his head when he goes out into public , to avoid being recognized as the man who bilked unsuspecting moviegoers .",0 +4656,director david fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it .,0 +2702,energetic and boldly provocative .,1 +5677,the film is flat .,0 +4567,"despite a blue-chip cast and a provocative title , writer-director peter mattei's first feature microwaves dull leftover romantic motifs basted in faux-contemporary gravy .",0 +1708,. . . a rich and intelligent film that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heart accomodates practical needs . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that may or may not qual,1 +3474,"director alfonso cuaron gets vivid , convincing performances from a fine cast , and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace , occasionally using an omniscient voice-over narrator in the manner of french new wave films .",1 +952,"the emperor's club , ruthless in its own placid way , finds one of our most conservative and hidebound movie-making traditions and gives it new texture , new relevance , new reality .",1 +6578,what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story .,0 +6683,low rent from frame one .,0 +2361,it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .,1 +3447,"whether seen on a 10-inch television screen or at your local multiplex , the edge-of-your-seat , educational antics of steve irwin are priceless entertainment .",1 +5988,"in between the icy stunts , the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do . '",0 +3738,"it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes .",0 +2218,". . . a vivid , thoughtful , unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll .",1 +2836,showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation .,1 +6777,"an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much energy or tension .",0 +3061,"elling really is about a couple of crazy guys , and it's therapeutic to laugh along with them .",1 +3163,you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt .,1 +6216,"ben affleck as jack ryan , tom clancy's intrepid hero ? ridiculous . what's next ? d . j . qualls as indiana jones ? or tom green as han solo ?",0 +1087,"aside from rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view , the lady and the duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art .",1 +721,"ultimate x is a ride , basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to espn the magazine .",1 +4526,"the film . . . presents classic moral-condundrum drama : what would you have done to survive ? the problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of auschwitz ii-birkenau .",0 +1651,a solid examination of the male midlife crisis .,1 +1147,"gaunt , silver-haired and leonine , [harris] brings a tragic dimension and savage full-bodied wit and cunning to the aging sandeman .",1 +5899,"the film's final hour , where nearly all the previous unseen material resides , is unconvincing soap opera that tornatore was right to cut .",0 +4285,it wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7 . 00 .,0 +5937,"several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in "" unfaithful . "" why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me .",0 +1376,"if director michael dowse only superficially understands his characters , he doesn't hold them in contempt .",1 +3230,"it's a hoot watching the rock chomp on jumbo ants , pull an arrow out of his back , and leap unscathed through raging fire !",1 +5713,"the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end .",0 +2779,the beauty of alexander payne's ode to the everyman is in the details .,1 +2435,handsome and sophisticated approach to the workplace romantic comedy .,1 +3505,"if you're part of her targeted audience , you'll cheer . otherwise , maybe .",1 +3119,"it ain't art , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains .",1 +5991,a tedious parable about honesty and good sportsmanship .,0 +551,"a triumph of art direction over narrative , but what art direction !",1 +4483,"i walked away not really know who "" they "" were , what "" they "" looked like . why "" they "" were here and what "" they "" wanted and quite honestly , i didn't care .",0 +1106,"spider-man is about growing strange hairs , getting a more mature body , and finding it necessary to hide new secretions from the parental units .",1 +942,goldmember is funny enough to justify the embarrassment of bringing a barf bag to the moviehouse .,1 +3915,"journalistically dubious , inept and often lethally dull .",0 +3156,"its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser .",1 +112,"to honestly address the flaws inherent in how medical aid is made available to american workers , a more balanced or fair portrayal of both sides will be needed .",1 +2918,". . . a fun little timewaster , helped especially by the cool presence of jean reno .",1 +1463,a lovably old-school hollywood confection .,1 +1839,""" on guard ! "" won't be placed in the pantheon of the best of the swashbucklers but it is a whole lot of fun and you get to see the one of the world's best actors , daniel auteuil , have a whale of a good time .",1 +1400,waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love' is the director's epitaph for himself .,1 +2567,"tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably .",1 +363,"it is an indelible epic american story about two families , one black and one white , facing change in both their inner and outer lives .",1 +2462,the film offers an intriguing what-if premise .,1 +5521,meanders between its powerful moments .,0 +5723,the movie quickly drags on becoming boring and predictable . i tried to read the time on my watch .,0 +6217,one just waits grimly for the next shock without developing much attachment to the characters .,0 +1558,"[dong] makes a valiant effort to understand everyone's point of view , and he does such a good job of it that family fundamentals gets you riled up .",1 +6448,"not only does leblanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad , but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes .",0 +2572,"but tongue-in-cheek preposterousness has always been part of for the most part wilde's droll whimsy helps "" being earnest "" overcome its weaknesses and parker's creative interference . . .",1 +726,a mildly enjoyable if toothless adaptation of a much better book .,1 +3696,this u-boat doesn't have a captain .,0 +5220,by turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy .,0 +788,a perfectly competent and often imaginative film that lacks what little lilo & stitch had in spades -- charisma .,1 +82,"though intrepid in exploring an attraction that crosses sexual identity , ozpetek falls short in showing us antonia's true emotions . . . but at the very least , his secret life will leave you thinking .",1 +2481,"everyone's insecure in lovely and amazing , a poignant and wryly amusing film about mothers , daughters and their relationships .",1 +3733,one can't shake the feeling that crossroads is nothing more than an hour-and-a-half-long commercial for britney's latest album .,0 +4612,nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks .,0 +6018,adam sandler's eight crazy nights grows on you -- like a rash .,0 +3917,"the movie is concocted and carried out by folks worthy of scorn , and the nicest thing i can say is that i can't remember a single name responsible for it .",0 +4547,fairly run-of-the-mill .,0 +6652,ararat feels like a book report,0 +3622,an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product .,0 +4076,aan opportunity wasted .,0 +3059,"if you want to see a train wreck that you can't look away from , then look no further , because here it is .",1 +5309,what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film .,0 +2641,"not as well-written as sexy beast , not as gloriously flippant as lock , stock and two smoking barrels , but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted .",1 +737,takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope : ichi the killer,1 +449,"this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary .",1 +733,"the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came .",1 +4091,"nonsensical , dull "" cyber-horror "" flick is a grim , hollow exercise in flat scares and bad acting .",0 +3047,moore's performance impresses almost as much as her work with haynes in 1995's safe .,1 +1346,a portrait of an artist .,1 +2367,the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects .,1 +6988,"i've never seen ( a remake ) do anything as stomach-turning as the way adam sandler's new movie rapes , pillages and incinerates frank capra's classic . . .",0 +3556,"a so-so , made-for-tv something posing as a real movie .",0 +1427,"this is a movie full of grace and , ultimately , hope .",1 +4044,about as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life .,0 +5003,disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other john woo flick for that matter .,0 +6541,a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches .,0 +2752,"peter jackson has done the nearly impossible . he has improved upon the first and taken it a step further , richer and deeper . what jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery",1 +5484,this is standard crime drama fare . . . instantly forgettable and thoroughly dull .,0 +3202,nicole kidman makes it a party worth attending .,1 +2636,"waydowntown is by no means a perfect film , but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originality .",1 +971,"an intimate , good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected .",1 +728,"a dreadful day in irish history is given passionate , if somewhat flawed , treatment .",1 +55,"4 friends , 2 couples , 2000 miles , and all the pabst blue ribbon beer they can drink - it's the ultimate redneck road-trip .",1 +2106,fulfills the minimum requirement of disney animation .,1 +1942,it's a stunning lyrical work of considerable force and truth .,1 +6659,i don't think this movie loves women at all .,0 +3037,"a whole lot of fun and funny in the middle , though somewhat less hard-hitting at the start and finish .",1 +4975,"one senses in world traveler and in his earlier film that freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers , and circles it obsessively , without making contact .",0 +2829,really quite funny .,1 +1207,"by its modest , straight-ahead standards , undisputed scores a direct hit .",1 +413,"chicago offers much colorful eye candy , including the spectacle of gere in his dancing shoes , hoofing and crooning with the best of them .",1 +2860,"disney aficionados will notice distinct parallels between this story and the 1971 musical "" bedknobs and broomsticks , "" which also dealt with british children rediscovering the power of fantasy during wartime .",1 +5772,"too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good .",0 +5272,rainy days and movies about the disintegration of families always get me down .,0 +1794,thoroughly engrossing and ultimately tragic .,1 +4064,"manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney . . . take your pick . all three descriptions suit evelyn , a besotted and obvious drama that tells us nothing new .",0 +1735,"the film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of de palma , but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest , most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an american director in years .",1 +4620,like being trapped at a perpetual frat party . . . how can something so gross be so boring ?,0 +466,a life-size reenactment of those jack chick cartoon tracts that always ended with some hippie getting tossed into the lake of fire .,1 +2525,"what "" empire "" lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart .",1 +6468,". . . no charm , no laughs , no fun , no reason to watch .",0 +895,astonishingly skillful and moving . . . it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one .,1 +2489,arteta directs one of the best ensemble casts of the year,1 +4023,"seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable , the director's experiment is a successful one .",0 +4248,the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid .,0 +5200,'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy .,0 +714,nachtwey clears the cynicism right out of you . he makes you realize that deep inside righteousness can be found a tough beauty .,1 +497,"driven by a fantastic dual performance from ian holm . . . the film is funny , insightfully human and a delightful lark for history buffs .",1 +3423,"at its best , the good girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery . . .",1 +1820,"at the film's centre is a precisely layered performance by an actor in his mid-seventies , michel piccoli .",1 +791,a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions .,1 +5374,plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread .,0 +5357,this stuck pig of a movie flails limply between bizarre comedy and pallid horror .,0 +275,"straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words , possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it .",1 +286,buy popcorn . take nothing seriously and enjoy the ride .,1 +6071,a work that lacks both a purpose and a strong pulse .,0 +2712,a movie with a real anarchic flair .,1 +2526,"the evocative imagery and gentle , lapping rhythms of this film are infectious -- it gets under our skin and draws us in long before the plot kicks into gear .",1 +6236,"the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece .",0 +1358,"an action/thriller of the finest kind , evoking memories of day of the jackal , the french connection , and heat .",1 +1048,cho's timing is priceless .,1 +3413,a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foster child .,1 +4672,"very much a home video , and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all .",0 +2391,"for the first time in years , de niro digs deep emotionally , perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars .",1 +5820,"if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rarely coherent .",0 +5901,cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes .,0 +4892,eh .,0 +3928,possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .,0 +6475,an overstuffed compendium of teen-catholic-movie dogma .,0 +2796,[a]n utterly charming and hilarious film that reminded me of the best of the disney comedies from the 60s .,1 +1566,"finally , a genre movie that delivers -- in a couple of genres , no less .",1 +5526,"the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances .",0 +3598,"a film which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director is to be mesmerised .",0 +173,several degrees shy of the gross-out contests one expects from current teen fare .,1 +1409,it's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant .,1 +2061,"manages to be original , even though it rips off many of its ideas .",1 +676,"it's a beautiful film , full of elaborate and twisted characters - and it's also pretty funny .",1 +1451,"it's worth seeing just on the basis of the wisdom , and at times , the startling optimism , of the children .",1 +3523,"clint eastwood's blood work is a lot like a well-made pb& j sandwich : familiar , fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same .",1 +5017,"there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery .",0 +4355,"on the bright side , it contains jesse ventura's best work since the xfl .",0 +1051,a painfully funny ode to bad behavior .,1 +741,"by the time we learn that andrew's turnabout is fair play is every bit as awful as borchardt's coven , we can enjoy it anyway .",1 +6176,this thing works on no level whatsoever for me .,0 +3277,"streamlined to a tight , brisk 85-minute screwball thriller , "" big trouble "" is funny , harmless and as substantial as a tub of popcorn with extra butter .",1 +5421,"in exactly 89 minutes , most of which passed as slowly as if i'd been sitting naked on an igloo , formula 51 sank from quirky to jerky to utter turkey .",0 +2750,garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work .,1 +3237,we get some truly unique character studies and a cross-section of americana that hollywood couldn't possibly fictionalize and be believed .,1 +3530,"a pleasant ramble through the sort of idoosyncratic terrain that errol morris has often dealt with . . . it does possess a loose , lackadaisical charm .",1 +3727,"without a strong script and energetic acting , dogma films can produce the same sleep-inducing effects as watching your neighbor's home videos .",0 +144,"a resonant tale of racism , revenge and retribution .",1 +4789,"like mike is a slight and uninventive movie : like the exalted michael jordan referred to in the title , many can aspire but none can equal .",0 +642,"an earnest , roughshod document , it serves as a workable primer for the region's recent history , and would make a terrific 10th-grade learning tool .",1 +4576,"a summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie , for that comes through all too painfully in the execution .",0 +1964,some remarkable achival film about how shanghai ( of all places ) served jews who escaped the holocaust .,1 +5589,"while certain cues , like the happy music , suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts , jeong-hyang lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness .",0 +254,"a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history , in which we feel that we truly know what makes holly and marina tick , and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect , love-hate relationship .",1 +5036,"too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like , this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot .",0 +2762,"what's surprising about full frontal is that despite its overt self-awareness , parts of the movie still manage to break past the artifice and thoroughly engage you .",1 +5368,"trying to figure out the rules of the country bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans , only hairier -- would tax einstein's brain .",0 +3770,perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime .,0 +2811,"franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler , but he does not give the transcendent performance sonny needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic .",1 +3896,it's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as the country bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at disneyland .,0 +4806,the film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen .,0 +4436,"davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly .",0 +5376,as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .,0 +2719,"impossible as it may sound , this film's heart is even more embracing than monty , if only because it accepts nasty behavior and severe flaws as part of the human condition .",1 +1968,the warnings to resist temptation in this film . . . are blunt and challenging and offer no easy rewards for staying clean .,1 +6943,"do you say "" hi "" to your lover when you wake up in the morning ?",0 +338,"if you can get past the taboo subject matter , it will be well worth your time .",1 +956,"it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom .",1 +4565,a porn film without the sex scenes .,0 +6675,they do a good job of painting this family dynamic for the audience but they tried to squeeze too many elements into the film .,0 +2784,even the digressions are funny .,1 +6165,solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke,0 +6494,it's crap on a leash--far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante's similarly styled gremlins .,0 +6638,i thought my own watch had stopped keeping time as i slogged my way through clockstoppers .,0 +3066,"if you can stomach the rough content , it's worth checking out for the performances alone .",1 +2683,a quiet treasure -- a film to be savored .,1 +6658,". . . an incredibly heavy-handed , manipulative dud that feels all too familiar .",0 +68,the first half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there .,1 +3436,a documentary to make the stones weep -- as shameful as it is scary .,1 +3645,"as a hybrid teen thriller and murder mystery , murder by numbers fits the profile too closely .",0 +6766,audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school .,0 +3476,"an energizing , intoxicating documentary charting the rise of hip-hop culture in general and the art of scratching ( or turntablism ) in particular .",1 +294,"about a boy vividly recalls the cary grant of room for one more , houseboat and father goose in its affectionate depiction of the gentle war between a reluctant , irresponsible man and the kid who latches onto him .",1 +1412,the solid filmmaking and convincing characters makes this a high water mark for this genre .,1 +6547,"unfortunately , neither sendak nor the directors are particularly engaging or articulate .",0 +6719,"the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .",0 +2495,"there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine .",1 +6863,"high drama , disney-style - a wing and a prayer and a hunky has-been pursuing his castle in the sky .",0 +5889,"trite , banal , cliched , mostly inoffensive .",0 +3018,the film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet .,1 +4829,all the small moments and flashbacks don't add up to much more than trite observations on the human condition .,0 +170,great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex .,1 +1868,george clooney proves he's quite a talented director and sam rockwell shows us he's a world-class actor with confessions of a dangerous mind .,1 +2291,"beautifully crafted , engaging filmmaking that should attract upscale audiences hungry for quality and a nostalgic , twisty yarn that will keep them guessing .",1 +4215,"ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism .",0 +1747,"the performers are so spot on , it is hard to conceive anyone else in their roles .",1 +4755,"for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion .",0 +717,"everything that has to do with yvan and charlotte , and everything that has to do with yvan's rambunctious , jewish sister and her non-jew husband , feels funny and true .",1 +6462,"for all the complications , it's all surprisingly predictable .",0 +2123,"whenever you think you've figured out late marriage , it throws you for a loop .",1 +3689,"i realized that no matter how fantastic reign of fire looked , its story was making no sense at all .",0 +4297,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 .,0 +6002,a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy .,0 +2877,"it's a tour de force , written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear .",1 +1379,a yarn that respects the marvel version without becoming ensnared by it .,1 +1522,merci pour le movie .,1 +2404,"it works well enough , since the thrills pop up frequently , and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory .",1 +4434,"ice cube isn't quite out of ripe screwball ideas , but friday after next spreads them pretty thin .",0 +3035,"a playful iranian parable about openness , particularly the need for people of diverse political perspectives to get along despite their ideological differences .",1 +3281,jackie chan movies are a guilty pleasure - he's easy to like and always leaves us laughing .,1 +1202,gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff .,1 +3580,"for single digits kidlets stuart little 2 is still a no brainer . if you're looking to rekindle the magic of the first film , you'll need a stronger stomach than us .",0 +3449,it's about issues most adults have to face in marriage and i think that's what i liked about it -- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline .,1 +4390,"at its best , it's black hawk down with more heart . at its worst , it's rambo- meets-john ford .",0 +3084,"celebrated at sundance , this slight comedy of manners has winning performances and a glossy , glib charm that's hard to beat .",1 +2296,those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them .,1 +4821,"what little atmosphere is generated by the shadowy lighting , macabre sets , and endless rain is offset by the sheer ugliness of everything else .",0 +1956,"the tonal shifts are jolting , and though wen's messages are profound and thoughtfully delivered , more thorough transitions would have made the film more cohesive .",1 +2100,credit director ramsay for taking the sometimes improbable story and making it feel realistic .,1 +3443,"in capturing the understated comedic agony of an ever-ruminating , genteel yet decadent aristocracy that can no longer pay its bills , the film could just as well be addressing the turn of the 20th century into the 21st .",1 +6894,"one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations .",0 +3707,"labute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era : he's changed the male academic from a lower-class brit to an american , a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film .",0 +2212,"the film sometimes flags . . . but there is enough secondary action to keep things moving along at a brisk , amusing pace .",1 +822,"the passions aroused by the discord between old and new cultures are set against the strange , stark beauty of the mideast desert , so lovingly and perceptively filmed that you can almost taste the desiccated air .",1 +5102,. . . irritating soul-searching garbage .,0 +4360,it's obvious [je-gyu is] trying for poetry ; what he gets instead has all the lyricism of a limerick scrawled in a public restroom .,0 +6094,"cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying .",0 +5163,there's a whole heap of nothing at the core of this slight coming-of-age/coming-out tale .,0 +4628,what more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school ?,0 +1458,the film's images give a backbone to the company and provide an emotional edge to its ultimate demise .,1 +2046,[it's] a clever thriller with enough unexpected twists to keep our interest .,1 +5882,nearly every attempt at humor here is doa .,0 +4799,"many shallower movies these days seem too long , but this one is egregiously short .",0 +1700,"all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely .",1 +5754,"diaz , applegate , blair and posey are suitably kooky which should appeal to women and they strip down often enough to keep men alert , if not amused .",0 +3193,what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ?,1 +1667,"a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones .",1 +3388,"even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks , it's still entertaining to watch the target practice .",1 +5534,". . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit .",0 +6410,"it's one of those baseball pictures where the hero is stoic , the wife is patient , the kids are as cute as all get-out and the odds against success are long enough to intimidate , but short enough to make a dream seem possible .",0 +2238,"a gem , captured in the unhurried , low-key style favored by many directors of the iranian new wave .",1 +6954,"if myers decides to make another austin powers movie , maybe he should just stick with austin and dr evil .",0 +1844,"[raimi's] matured quite a bit with spider-man , even though it's one of the most plain white toast comic book films you'll ever see .",1 +5321,"even if britney spears is really cute , her movie is really bad .",0 +3351,"a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty .",1 +5707,"a one-trick pony whose few t&a bits still can't save itself from being unoriginal , unfunny and unrecommendable .",0 +308,"jose campanella delivers a loosely autobiographical story brushed with sentimentality but brimming with gentle humor , bittersweet pathos , and lyric moments that linger like snapshots of memory .",1 +4158,"unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters , the reginald hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor , ethnic slurs .",0 +6529,"while serving sara does have a long way to go before it reaches the level of crudity in the latest austin powers extravaganza , there's nothing here to match that movie's intermittent moments of inspiration .",0 +4640,"the film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama , ' but the emphasis on the latter leaves blue crush waterlogged .",0 +3327,"what a dumb , fun , curiously adolescent movie this is .",1 +2789,an asian neo-realist treasure .,1 +981,you have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings .,1 +1532,"dark and disturbing , yet compelling to watch .",1 +11,ranks among willams' best screen work .,1 +5818,. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be .,0 +2064,"a densely constructed , highly referential film , and an audacious return to form that can comfortably sit among jean-luc godard's finest work .",1 +6439,"a mild , reluctant , thumbs down .",0 +4410,"no big whoop , nothing new to see , zero thrills , too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film .",0 +53,suffers from its timid parsing of the barn-side target of sons trying to breach gaps in their relationships with their fathers .,1 +2929,"even with all those rough edges safely sanded down , the american insomnia is still pretty darned good .",1 +6303,"the château would have been benefited from a sharper , cleaner script before it went in front of the camera . not to mention a sharper , cleaner camera lens .",0 +5875,"the beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [godard's] vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice .",0 +4794,"like showgirls and glitter , the most entertaining moments here are unintentional .",0 +6167,"it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun .",0 +2618,"i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed .",1 +6305,a didactic and dull documentary glorifying software anarchy .,0 +758,a charming yet poignant tale of the irrevocable ties that bind .,1 +1188,"unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of…emotional recovery .",1 +5197,adam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse .,0 +1775,provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views .,1 +5916,the story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head .,0 +5034,"imagine a film that begins as a seven rip-off , only to switch to a mix of the shining , the thing , and any naked teenagers horror flick from the 1980s .",0 +2583,"as chilling and fascinating as philippe mora's modern hitler-study , snide and prejudice .",1 +3322,exposing the ways we fool ourselves is one hour photo's real strength .,1 +1516,it's a sharp movie about otherwise dull subjects .,1 +6436,"ultimately , clarity matters , both in breaking codes and making movies . enigma lacks it .",0 +4021,"the story has its redundancies , and the young actors , not very experienced , are sometimes inexpressive .",0 +3993,about the only thing to give the movie points for is bravado -- to take an entirely stale concept and push it through the audience's meat grinder one more time .,0 +1869,"whether or not ram dass proves as clear and reliable an authority on that as he was about inner consciousness , fierce grace reassures us that he will once again be an honest and loving one .",1 +1047,nair doesn't treat the issues lightly . she allows each character to confront their problems openly and honestly .,1 +4086,a cumbersome and cliche-ridden movie greased with every emotional device known to man .,0 +1641,"ratliff's two previous titles , plutonium circus and purgatory county show his penchant for wry , contentious configurations , and this film is part of that delicate canon .",1 +1311,both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics .,1 +3564,"if i could have looked into my future and saw how bad this movie was , i would go back and choose to skip it . fortunately , you still have that option .",0 +3184,"awkward but sincere and , ultimately , it wins you over .",1 +4217,"the film's hackneyed message is not helped by the thin characterizations , nonexistent plot and pretentious visual style .",0 +3991,show me the mugging .,0 +4948,"whatever satire lucky break was aiming for , it certainly got lost in the "" soon-to-be-forgettable "" section of the quirky rip-off prison romp pile . it's petty thievery like this that puts flimsy flicks like this behind bars",0 +1239,os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver . É então que sinais realmente desaponta .,1 +3774,even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential .,0 +6093,"hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading .",0 +6268,no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either .,0 +6120,"though the opera itself takes place mostly indoors , jacquot seems unsure of how to evoke any sort of naturalism on the set .",0 +2880,renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance .,1 +3,"the movie is amateurish , but it's a minor treat .",1 +4174,". . . a bland , pretentious mess .",0 +19,the fast runner' transports the viewer into an unusual space,1 +4857,the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater .,0 +428,". . . brian de palma is utterly mad : cinema mad , set-piece mad , style mad . it's a beautiful madness .",1 +1860,"para hitler , o mundo era sua tela ; e o horror , seu pincel . e max retrata este fato com elegante abandono , numa triste constatação da realidade histórica .",1 +2373,"first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film .",1 +1867,funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness .,1 +6384,secret ballot is too contemplative to be really funny .,0 +2746,"the result puts a human face on derrida , and makes one of the great minds of our times interesting and accessible to people who normally couldn't care less .",1 +2006,"crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy .",1 +5964,"for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen .",0 +132,the film is darkly funny in its observation of just how much more grueling and time-consuming the illusion of work is than actual work .,1 +5939,too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash .,0 +4459,"unlike trey parker , sandler doesn't understand that the idea of exploiting molestation for laughs is funny , not actually exploiting it yourself .",0 +5157,"[soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness .",0 +1391,"not as distinctive or even as humorous as its needs to be to stand out , but it has clearly been made with affection and care .",1 +1058,"garcía bernal and talancón are an immensely appealing couple , and even though their story is predictable , you'll want things to work out .",1 +547,"the powers team has fashioned a comedy with more laughs than many , no question . but this time there's some mold on the gold .",1 +6784,this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted .,0 +4683,rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense .,0 +4692,"by turns pretentious , fascinating , ludicrous , provocative and vainglorious .",0 +3508,'easily my choice for one of the year's best films . ',1 +6648,this picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer .,0 +2424,"a chance to see three splendid actors turn a larky chase movie into an emotionally satisfying exploration of the very human need to be somebody , and to belong to somebody .",1 +3092,"while the path may be familiar , first-time director denzel washington and a top-notch cast manage to keep things interesting .",1 +5578,"despite apparent motives to the contrary , it ends up being , like [seinfeld's] revered tv show , about pretty much nothing .",0 +1319,"compelling as it is exotic , fast runner has a plot that rivals shakespeare for intrigue , treachery and murder .",1 +2767,"the movie , despite its rough edges and a tendency to sag in certain places , is wry and engrossing .",1 +3648,you can practically hear george orwell turning over .,0 +5734,"the first mistake , i suspect , is casting shatner as a legendary professor and kunis as a brilliant college student--where's pauly shore as the rocket scientist ?",0 +3288,"even during the climactic hourlong cricket match , boredom never takes hold .",1 +2119,"while somewhat less than it might have been , the film is a good one , and you've got to hand it to director george clooney for biting off such a big job the first time out .",1 +4809,plays like a series of vignettes -- clips of a film that are still looking for a common through-line .,0 +573,"vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes .",1 +5310,the laughs are as rare as snake foo yung .,0 +4966,"no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make .",0 +2176,one of those movies that make us pause and think of what we have given up to acquire the fast-paced contemporary society .,1 +5377,an instant candidate for worst movie of the year .,0 +4987,'rare birds' tries to force its quirkiness upon the audience .,0 +3985,"after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna .",0 +5918,"directed without the expected flair or imagination by hong kong master john woo , windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length .",0 +5324,"plot , characters , drama , emotions , ideas -- all are irrelevant to the experience of seeing the scorpion king .",0 +4872,"what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form .",0 +4935,"there's some outrageously creative action in the transporter . . . [b]ut by the time frank parachutes down onto a moving truck , it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman .",0 +1551,"the journey is worth your time , especially if you have ellen pompeo sitting next to you for the ride .",1 +5592,"children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonah's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to comprehend it .",0 +2090,"left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation .",1 +4753,the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and small-town america .,0 +6061,just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole .,0 +6319,it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense .,0 +7024,faultlessly professional but finally slight .,0 +1531,"as home movie gone haywire , it's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i'd rather listen to old tori amos records .",1 +4920,"the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness .",0 +668,". . . a delightfully unpredictable , hilarious comedy with wonderful performances that tug at your heart in ways that utterly transcend gender labels .",1 +4142,". . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept .",0 +5870,take away all the cliches and the carbon copy scenes from every drug movie we've seen and all you have left are john leguizamo's cool jackets .,0 +6336,there's enough melodrama in this magnolia primavera to make pta proud yet director muccino's characters are less worthy of puccini than they are of daytime television .,0 +1772,not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear .,1 +261,"the stripped-down dramatic constructs , austere imagery and abstract characters are equal parts poetry and politics , obvious at times but evocative and heartfelt .",1 +4542,the action clichés just pile up .,0 +6342,this thing is just garbage .,0 +5435,"this extremely unfunny film clocks in at 80 minutes , but feels twice as long .",0 +5762,"forages for audience sympathy like a temperamental child begging for attention , giving audiences no reason to truly care for its decrepit freaks beyond the promise of a reprieve from their incessant whining .",0 +937,"a miniscule little bleep on the film radar , but one that many more people should check out",1 +3607,"bears resemblance to , and shares the weaknesses of , too many recent action-fantasy extravaganzas in which special effects overpower cogent story-telling and visual clarity during the big action sequences .",0 +2735,robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side .,1 +1347,…an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle .,1 +1118,"this is a harrowing movie about how parents know where all the buttons are , and how to push them .",1 +1911,"a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing .",1 +6495,i'm not sure which will take longer to heal : the welt on johnny knoxville's stomach from a riot-control projectile or my own tortured psyche .,0 +3029,"a meditation on faith and madness , frailty is blood-curdling stuff .",1 +1135,"though the film is static , its writer-director's heart is in the right place , his plea for democracy and civic action laudable .",1 +407,"this odd , distant portuguese import more or less borrows from bad lieutenant and les vampires , and comes up with a kind of art-house gay porn film .",1 +4411,"unless you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feel like you weren't invited to the party .",0 +761,"alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama , this smart-aleck movie . . . tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life .",1 +3686,"kurys never shows why , of all the period's volatile romantic lives , sand and musset are worth particular attention .",0 +1875,"as a tolerable diversion , the film suffices ; a triumph , however , it is not .",1 +2243,"bogdanovich taps deep into the hearst mystique , entertainingly reenacting a historic scandal .",1 +5577,"like so many other allegedly scary movies , it gets so tangled up in the twist that it chokes the energy right out of the very audience it seeks to frighten .",0 +1939,"by no means a slam-dunk and sure to ultimately disappoint the action fans who will be moved to the edge of their seats by the dynamic first act , it still comes off as a touching , transcendent love story .",1 +2251,it's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5 .,1 +5250,"there are weird resonances between actor and role here , and they're not exactly flattering .",0 +3807,"a worthy idea , but the uninspired scripts , acting and direction never rise above the level of an after-school tv special .",0 +3166,"a wild , endearing , masterful documentary .",1 +194,"we can see the wheels turning , and we might resent it sometimes , but this is still a nice little picture , made by bright and friendly souls with a lot of good cheer .",1 +6915,all mood and no movie .,0 +450,mais um momento inspirado de david fincher .,1 +982,some people want the ol' ball-and-chain and then there are those who just want the ball and chain .,1 +2148,"'divertida , enternecedora , universal y profundamente sincera , es una de las mejores comedias románticas en mucho tiempo . una verdadera delicia . '",1 +3223,red dragon makes one appreciate silence of the lambs .,1 +2783,"a fantastically vital movie that manages to invest real humor , sensuality , and sympathy into a story about two adolescent boys .",1 +5025,"truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before .",0 +4315,"the following things are not at all entertaining : the bad sound , the lack of climax and , worst of all , watching seinfeld ( who is also one of the film's producers ) do everything he can to look like a good guy .",0 +4903,"martin scorsese cria um espetáculo visual que não possui alma - um filme esteticamente belo , mas emocionalmente frio .",0 +5233,"frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for .",0 +5326,handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism .,0 +1447,offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude .,1 +1115,"with a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages , this cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve . but it does somehow manage to get you under its spell .",1 +2253,"even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly told film .",1 +6369,"when you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble .",0 +4318,"directed by kevin bray , whose crisp framing , edgy camera work , and wholesale ineptitude with acting , tone and pace very obviously mark him as a video helmer making his feature debut .",0 +1093,"although it bangs a very cliched drum at times , this crowd-pleaser's fresh dialogue , energetic music , and good-natured spunk are often infectious .",1 +5461,"the question hanging over the time machine is not , as the main character suggests , 'what if ? ' but rather , 'how can you charge money for this ? '",0 +5209,birot's directorial debut ( she co-wrote the script with christophe honoré ) isn't so much bad as it is bland .,0 +5119,"the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times",0 +3199,less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) .,1 +243,"harsh , effective documentary on life in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories .",1 +844,a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .,1 +6977,mib ii is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happens .,0 +2654,director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .,1 +5635,"all the amped-up tony hawk-style stunts and thrashing rap-metal can't disguise the fact that , really , we've been here , done that .",0 +4893,"filled with low-brow humor , gratuitous violence and a disturbing disregard for life .",0 +1314,"instead of a hyperbolic beat-charged urban western , it's an unpretentious , sociologically pointed slice of life .",1 +636,"asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience , and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth .",1 +5111,"the movie is a negligible work of manipulation , an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents .",0 +1917,"desta vez , columbus capturou o pomo de ouro .",1 +3920,"even with harris's strong effort , the script gives him little to effectively probe lear's soul-stripping breakdown .",0 +1300,"schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeded beyond all expectation .",1 +5977,"the movie is almost completely lacking in suspense , surprise and consistent emotional conviction .",0 +5454,"clumsy , obvious , preposterous , the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades .",0 +3509,this harrowing journey into combat hell vividly captures the chaotic insanity and personal tragedies that are all too abundant when human hatred spews forth unchecked .,1 +634,a tasty masala .,1 +5492,"if oscar had a category called best bad film you thought was going to be really awful but wasn't , guys would probably be duking it out with the queen of the damned for the honor .",0 +5568,all of the filmmakers' calculations can't rescue brown sugar from the curse of blandness .,0 +1434,"provides the kind of 'laugh therapy' i need from movie comedies -- offbeat humor , amusing characters , and a happy ending . after seeing 'analyze that , ' i feel better already .",1 +5626,resembles a soft porn brian de palma pastiche .,0 +6243,"the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements .",0 +3376,a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides .,1 +5425,a sugar-coated rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks .,0 +603,"huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine .",1 +1148,watching spirited away is like watching an eastern imagination explode .,1 +6756,"most of the information has already appeared in one forum or another and , no matter how broomfield dresses it up , it tends to speculation , conspiracy theories or , at best , circumstantial evidence .",0 +5270,"the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface .",0 +4299,one scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud .,0 +2417,"it made me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' .",1 +54,a moving and important film .,1 +3132,"oscar wilde's masterpiece , the importance of being earnest , may be the best play of the 19th century . it's so good that its relentless , polished wit can withstand not only inept school productions , but even oliver parker's movie adaptation .",1 +314,"the film is . . . determined to treat its characters , weak and strong , as fallible human beings , not caricatures , and to carefully delineate the cost of the inevitable conflicts between human urges and an institution concerned with self-preservation .",1 +2240,"for a long time the film succeeds with its dark , delicate treatment of these characters and its unerring respect for them .",1 +3216,"charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity .",1 +1475,it's a great american adventure and a wonderful film to bring to imax .,1 +6023,"scherfig , who has had a successful career in tv , tackles more than she can handle .",0 +3108,feels untidily honest .,1 +6433,"certainly not a good movie , but it wasn't horrible either .",0 +1101,"overall , cletis tout is a winning comedy that excites the imagination and tickles the funny bone .",1 +1914,"if you ever wondered what it would be like to be smack in the middle of a war zone armed with nothing but a camera , this oscar-nominated documentary takes you there .",1 +6951,"the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging .",0 +3244,"while broomfield's film doesn't capture the effect of these tragic deaths on hip-hop culture , it succeeds as a powerful look at a failure of our justice system .",1 +3420,a very charming and funny movie .,1 +2145,"miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning , and his imagination so vivid , that the only possible complaint you could have about spirited away is that there is no rest period , no timeout .",1 +6444,"often likable , but just as often it's meandering , low on energy , and too eager to be quirky at moments when a little old-fashioned storytelling would come in handy .",0 +2486,"divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood may not be exactly divine , but it's definitely -- defiantly -- ya ya , what with all of those terrific songs and spirited performances .",1 +1520,"twenty years after its first release , e . t . remains the most wondrous of all hollywood fantasies -- and the apex of steven spielberg's misunderstood career .",1 +1592,a winning and wildly fascinating work .,1 +5502,so-so entertainment .,0 +2573,". . . strips bible stores of the potential for sanctimoniousness , making them meaningful for both kids and church-wary adults .",1 +4899,a movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious charlie kaufman might object to .,0 +5735,a well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel .,0 +171,"the whole mildly pleasant outing -- the r rating is for brief nudity and a grisly corpse -- remains aloft not on its own self-referential hot air , but on the inspired performance of tim allen .",1 +765,"a riveting profile of law enforcement , and a visceral , nasty journey into an urban hades .",1 +1975,a loving little film of considerable appeal .,1 +660,it's a movie -- and an album -- you won't want to miss .,1 +1503,this is one of the rarest kinds of films : a family-oriented non-disney film that is actually funny without hitting below the belt .,1 +2282,"cedar takes a very open-minded approach to this sensitive material , showing impressive control , both visually and in the writing .",1 +3056,fans of the animated wildlife adventure show will be in warthog heaven ; others need not necessarily apply .,1 +7071,too close to phantom menace for comfort .,0 +4254,just an average comedic dateflick but not a waste of time .,0 +1143,the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally .,1 +4475,snipes relies too much on a scorchingly plotted dramatic scenario for its own good .,0 +1915,"woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back .",1 +3856,where the film falters is in its tone .,0 +4595,you're better off staying home and watching the x-files .,0 +6993,nearly all the fundamentals you take for granted in most films are mishandled here .,0 +584,"what 'dumb and dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent , life-affirming script .",1 +4022,"though jones and snipes are enthralling , the movie bogs down in rhetoric and cliché .",0 +3503,"director todd solondz has made a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characters that he creates .",1 +6990,"accuracy and realism are terrific , but if your film becomes boring , and your dialogue isn't smart , then you need to use more poetic license .",0 +5247,"hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen drama , was a better film .",0 +1068,"demonstrates the unusual power of thoughtful , subjective filmmaking .",1 +2552,"with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams , the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids .",1 +3886,"full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure .",0 +6208,"there's an admirable rigor to jimmy's relentless anger , and to the script's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there's no place for this story to go but down .",0 +6289,"an ambitious , serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong ; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance .",0 +4868,very stupid and annoying .,0 +1330,"even when it drags , we are forced to reflect that its visual imagination is breathtaking",1 +6751,blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be .,0 +3055,"in other words , it's just another sports drama/character study . yet this one makes up for in heart what it lacks in outright newness . plus , like i already mentioned . . . it's robert duvall ! c'mon !",1 +3781,an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets .,0 +3129,old-fashioned but thoroughly satisfying entertainment .,1 +4111,"behan's memoir is great material for a film -- rowdy , brawny and lyrical in the best irish sense -- but sheridan has settled for a lugubrious romance .",0 +3750,"william shatner , as a pompous professor , is the sole bright spot . . .",0 +4661,"in the end , the weight of water comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you'd expect to see on showtime's 'red shoe diaries . '",0 +2605,"inside the film's conflict-powered plot there is a decent moral trying to get out , but it's not that , it's the tension that keeps you in your seat . affleck and jackson are good sparring partners .",1 +4856,"merely ( and literally ) tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women's expense .",0 +4543,don't hate el crimen del padre amaro because it's anti-catholic . hate it because it's lousy .,0 +6391,"a chilly , remote , emotionally distant piece . . . so dull that its tagline should be : 'in space , no one can hear you snore . '",0 +3945,"this may be the dumbest , sketchiest movie on record about an aspiring writer's coming-of-age .",0 +6264,"there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head .",0 +5645,"in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic .",0 +3657,parents beware ; this is downright movie penance .,0 +105,"it's not a great monster movie . but if you've paid a matinee price and bought a big tub of popcorn , there's guilty fun to be had here . chomp chomp !",1 +3138,it's fairly solid--not to mention well edited so that it certainly doesn't feel like a film that strays past the two and a half mark .,1 +1167,"though it runs 163 minutes , safe conduct is anything but languorous . it's packed to bursting with incident , and with scores of characters , some fictional , some from history .",1 +5744,"as tweedy talks about canning his stockbroker and repairing his pool , you yearn for a few airborne tv sets or nude groupies on the nod to liven things up .",0 +6841,"director ferzan ozpetek creates an interesting dynamic with the members of this group , who live in the same apartment building . but he loses his focus when he concentrates on any single person .",0 +4039,"despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development .",0 +6691,something must have been lost in the translation .,0 +5985,the only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie .,0 +5132,a nightmare date with a half-formed wit done a great disservice by a lack of critical distance and a sad trust in liberal arts college bumper sticker platitudes .,0 +2020,"who knows what exactly godard is on about in this film , but his words and images don't have to add up to mesmerize you .",1 +5610,is it possible for a documentary to be utterly entranced by its subject and still show virtually no understanding of it ?,0 +5030,"it's a movie that ends with truckzilla , for cryin' out loud . if that doesn't clue you in that something's horribly wrong , nothing will .",0 +3209,williams absolutely nails sy's queasy infatuation and overall strangeness .,1 +6613,a sluggish pace and lack of genuine narrative hem the movie in every bit as much as life hems in the spirits of these young women .,0 +5686,"you would be better off investing in the worthy emi recording that serves as the soundtrack , or the home video of the 1992 malfitano-domingo production .",0 +1613,a well-executed spy-thriller .,1 +48,"a wonderful , ghastly film .",1 +5727,bravo reveals the true intent of her film by carefully selecting interview subjects who will construct a portrait of castro so predominantly charitable it can only be seen as propaganda .,0 +1413,"ramsay succeeds primarily with her typical blend of unsettling atmospherics , delivering a series of abrasive , stylized sequences that burn themselves upon the viewer's memory .",1 +4135,this slender plot feels especially thin stretched over the nearly 80-minute running time .,0 +1675,"the film has a laundry list of minor shortcomings , but the numerous scenes of gory mayhem are worth the price of admission . . . if "" gory mayhem "" is your idea of a good time .",1 +4561,the verdict : two bodies and hardly a laugh between them .,0 +5585,"a dark , dull thriller with a parting shot that misfires .",0 +3149,". it's a testament to the film's considerable charm that it succeeds in entertaining , despite playing out like a feature-length sitcom replete with stereotypical familial quandaries . there's a sheer unbridled delight in the way the story unfurls . . .",1 +2262,"i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way .",1 +3141,it's a glorious spectacle like those d . w . griffith made in the early days of silent film .,1 +4213,shows moments of promise but ultimately succumbs to cliches and pat storytelling .,0 +376,"like the english patient and the unbearable lightness of being , the hours is one of those reputedly "" unfilmable "" novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .",1 +5617,"starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce willis with a scar .",0 +1028,the soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission .,1 +6375,"the film is surprisingly well-directed by brett ratner , who keeps things moving well -- at least until the problematic third act .",0 +2881,[reaches] wholly believable and heart-wrenching depths of despair .,1 +4544,"a film of empty , fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun .",0 +2993,"this is the kind of subject matter that could so easily have been fumbled by a lesser filmmaker , but ayres makes the right choices at every turn .",1 +3833,a little more intensity and a little less charm would have saved this film a world of hurt .,0 +5694,"lan yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama , but it doesn't even try for the greatness that happy together shoots for ( and misses ) .",0 +5473,"almost nothing else -- raunchy and graphic as it may be in presentation -- is one-sided , outwardly sexist or mean-spirited . and in a sense , that's a liability .",0 +6206,"attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and , dare i say , outdated , it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident .",0 +915,"it's a brave attempt to tap into the heartbeat of the world , a salute to the universal language of rhythm and a zippy sampling of sounds .",1 +422,"really is a pan-american movie , with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart .",1 +2589,"a thoroughly engaging , surprisingly touching british comedy .",1 +2103,enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast .,1 +3909,"without the dark spookiness of crystal lake camp , the horror concept completely loses its creepy menace .",0 +1331,( rises ) above its oh-so-hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism .,1 +5724,"i kept thinking over and over again , 'i should be enjoying this . ' but i wasn't .",0 +2274,"jason x has cheesy effects and a hoary plot , but its macabre , self-deprecating sense of humor makes up for a lot .",1 +6388,"what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence .",0 +1630,daughter from danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story,1 +2864,a poignant comedy that offers food for thought .,1 +186,an exquisitely crafted and acted tale .,1 +4235,"the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation .",0 +2954,"just as the recent argentine film son of the bride reminded us that a feel-good movie can still show real heart , time of favor presents us with an action movie that actually has a brain .",1 +4143,there's not enough to sustain the comedy .,0 +1088,"the movie has an infectious exuberance that will engage anyone with a passing interest in the skate/surf culture , the l . a . beach scene and the imaginative ( and sometimes illegal ) ways kids can make a playground out of the refuse of adults .",1 +1582,"that rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children , a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death , both pro and con , for adults .",1 +4974,"a film that presents an interesting , even sexy premise then ruins itself with too many contrivances and goofy situations .",0 +5487,has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness .,0 +4646,. . . a bland murder-on-campus yawner .,0 +6068,a well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility .,0 +6000,"so what is the point ? lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland , basically .",0 +3293,an intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution .,1 +5715,"a preposterous , prurient whodunit .",0 +3203,"an entertaining , if ultimately minor , thriller .",1 +2840,so original in its base concept that you cannot help but get caught up .,1 +4463,a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling .,0 +6428,"succumbs to the same kind of maudlin , sentimental mysticism that mars the touched by an angel school of non-god spiritual-uplift movies .",0 +2550,the best way to describe it is as a cross between paul thomas anderson's magnolia and david lynch's mulholland dr .,1 +2953,effectively feeds our senses with the chilling sights and sounds from within the camp to create a completely numbing experience .,1 +2146,i whole-heartedly recommend that everyone see this movie-- for its historical significance alone .,1 +4745,the santa clause 2's plot may sound like it was co-written by mattel executives and lobbyists for the tinsel industry .,0 +2294,meyjes' provocative film might be called an example of the haphazardness of evil .,1 +4855,"the film is weighed down by supporting characters who are either too goodly , wise and knowing or downright comically evil .",0 +4260,"so genial is the conceit , this is one of those rare pictures that you root for throughout , dearly hoping that the rich promise of the script will be realized on the screen . it never is , not fully .",0 +825,"swimming is above all about a young woman's face , and by casting an actress whose face projects that woman's doubts and yearnings , it succeeds .",1 +5806,the film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long .,0 +4830,lurid and less than lucid work .,0 +5675,"the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom .",0 +6498,"when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemon 4ever .",0 +2048,ramsay and morton fill this character study with poetic force and buoyant feeling .,1 +3430,the hot topics of the plot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauty .,1 +4306,"a loud , ugly , irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target .",0 +263,the pianist is polanski's best film .,1 +847,"combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched .",1 +4940,melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back .,0 +6402,. . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises .,0 +4214,"bad . very bad . stultifyingly , dumbfoundingly , mind-numbingly bad .",0 +2098,features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever .,1 +776,"a work of intricate elegance , literary lyricism and profound common sense .",1 +443,"as adapted by kevin molony from simon leys' novel "" the death of napoleon "" and directed by alan taylor , napoleon's journey is interesting but his parisian rebirth is stillborn",1 +3009,"the path ice age follows most closely , though , is the one established by warner bros . giant chuck jones , who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release .",1 +5087,don't let your festive spirit go this far .,0 +4936,"all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat .",0 +1997,"how good this film might be , depends if you believe that the shocking conclusion is too much of a plunge or not .",1 +5239,"elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction one can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deeper level .",0 +6276,i can't quite recommend it -- it's too patched together -- but i almost can ; it's the kind of movie that makes you want to like it .,0 +3121,among the year's most intriguing explorations of alientation .,1 +1153,bubba ho-tep is a wonderful film with a bravura lead performance by bruce campbell that doesn't deserve to leave the building until everyone is aware of it .,1 +6860,bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film,0 +6622,"it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while .",0 +70,"a smart , provocative drama that does the nearly impossible : it gets under the skin of a man we only know as an evil , monstrous lunatic .",1 +6477,"taken individually or collectively , the stories never add up to as much as they promise .",0 +5428,"meticulously mounted , exasperatingly well-behaved film , which ticks off kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant .",0 +492,a taut psychological thriller that doesn't waste a moment of its two-hour running time .,1 +2590,"it's a nicely detailed world of pawns , bishops and kings , of wagers in dingy backrooms or pristine forests .",1 +3586,it's impossible to indulge the fanciful daydreams of janice beard ( eileen walsh ) when her real-life persona is so charmless and vacant .,0 +6566,"as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses .",0 +6558,"cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy .",0 +4952,the densest distillation of roberts' movies ever made .,0 +6912,oh come on . like you couldn't smell this turkey rotting from miles away .,0 +4047,"suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal .",0 +3479,"tense , terrific , sweaty-palmed fun .",1 +3697,"there's no doubting that this is a highly ambitious and personal project for egoyan , but it's also one that , next to his best work , feels clumsy and convoluted .",0 +4985,cloaks a familiar anti-feminist equation ( career - kids = misery ) in tiresome romantic-comedy duds .,0 +245,"it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya .",1 +5161,the script was reportedly rewritten a dozen times -- either 11 times too many or else too few .,0 +6325,a cleverly crafted but ultimately hollow mockumentary .,0 +5476,"trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere .",0 +1085,"when your leading ladies are a couple of screen-eating dominatrixes like goldie hawn and susan sarandon at their raunchy best , even hokum goes down easily .",1 +4780,a muddy psychological thriller rife with miscalculations . it makes me say the obvious : abandon all hope of a good movie ye who enter here .,0 +3761,"shame on writer/director vicente aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens , obsessive relationships , and rampant adultery so dull .",0 +4130,"director uwe boll and writer robert dean klein fail to generate any interest in an unsympathetic hero caught up in an intricate plot that while cleverly worked out , cannot overcome blah characters .",0 +1272,francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them .,1 +4160,"writer/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results .",0 +1881,"with each of her three protagonists , miller eloquently captures the moment when a woman's life , out of a deep-seated , emotional need , is about to turn onto a different path .",1 +1521,a harrowing account of a psychological breakdown .,1 +6311,"the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies .",0 +4189,abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists .,0 +1224,would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ',1 +5414,terminally brain dead production .,0 +6995,"chamber of secrets will find millions of eager fans . but if the essence of magic is its make-believe promise of life that soars above the material realm , this is the opposite of a truly magical movie .",0 +6739,"like most of jaglom's films , some of it is honestly affecting , but more of it seems contrived and secondhand .",0 +630,a tone poem of transgression .,1 +2116,takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights .,1 +6113,"if swimfan does catch on , it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh .",0 +5604,"i can't remember the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama .",0 +5934,"chaotic , self-indulgent and remarkably ugly to look at , it's . . . like a series of pretentiously awful student films strung together into one feature-length horror .",0 +1438,reggio's continual visual barrage is absorbing as well as thought-provoking .,1 +2514,bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores .,1 +4613,"for the most part , the ingredients are there . but an unwillingness to explore beyond the surfaces of her characters prevents nettelbeck's film from coming together .",0 +4962,a sleek advert for youthful anomie that never quite equals the sum of its pretensions .,0 +504,"one of the pleasures in walter's documentary . . . is the parade of veteran painters , confounded dealers , and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him .",1 +1602,it is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this .,1 +448,"the thing about guys like evans is this : you're never quite sure where self-promotion ends and the truth begins . but as you watch the movie , you're too interested to care .",1 +2322,"not everything works , but the average is higher than in mary and most other recent comedies .",1 +424,aniston has at last decisively broken with her friends image in an independent film of satiric fire and emotional turmoil .,1 +524,"brings together some of the biggest names in japanese anime , with impressive results .",1 +4951,how i killed my father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts .,0 +147,"at nearly three hours , the whole of safe conduct is less than the sum of its parts .",1 +2511,"it's consistently funny , in an irresistible junior-high way , and consistently free of any gag that would force you to give it a millisecond of thought .",1 +4502,could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life .,0 +3849,feels as if the inmates have actually taken over the asylum .,0 +3238,"it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly , and if the suspense never rises to a higher level , it is nevertheless maintained throughout .",1 +1962,"with an admirably dark first script by brent hanley , paxton , making his directorial feature debut , does strong , measured work .",1 +4486,we have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting .,0 +4566,this is a film living far too much in its own head .,0 +5499,a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas .,0 +6736,hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock's imaginative flight to shyamalan's self-important summer fluff .,0 +1607,coral reef adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching .,1 +2646,"it tends to remind one of a really solid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing",1 +135,fans of the modern day hong kong action film finally have the worthy successor to a better tomorrow and the killer which they have been patiently waiting for .,1 +6509,. . . better described as a ghost story gone badly awry .,0 +5325,"instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story , the film's more determined to become the next texas chainsaw massacre . but what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul ?",0 +1201,"every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary .",1 +6720,wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand .,0 +3725,"gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up .",0 +1812,"this is not an easy film . but it could be , by its art and heart , a necessary one .",1 +6420,if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one .,0 +1686,"it's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime .",1 +6346,"this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work .",0 +5305,the young stars are too cute ; the story and ensuing complications are too manipulative ; the message is too blatant ; the resolutions are too convenient .,0 +3973,an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse .,0 +7035,"although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful .",0 +1886,"an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage .",1 +4296,"[n]o matter how much good will the actors generate , showtime eventually folds under its own thinness .",0 +747,"evokes the style and flash of the double-cross that made mamet's "" house of games "" and last fall's "" heist "" so much fun .",1 +88,"it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dumb gags , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tell its story .",1 +7028,"cacoyannis' vision is far less mature , interpreting the play as a call for pity and sympathy for anachronistic phantasms haunting the imagined glory of their own pasts .",0 +3785,"with nary a glimmer of self-knowledge , [crane] becomes more specimen than character -- and auto focus remains a chilly , clinical lab report .",0 +570,"baran isn't the most transporting or gripping film from iran -- or , indeed , by its director -- but it's a worthy companion to the many fine , focused films emerging from that most surprising of nations .",1 +2516,directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia .,1 +4928,"its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ?",0 +2429,"visually , 'santa clause 2' is wondrously creative .",1 +2997,"lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless .",1 +3776,"to the civilized mind , a movie like ballistic : ecks vs . sever is more of an ordeal than an amusement .",0 +672,judith and zaza's extended bedroom sequence . . . is so intimate and sensual and funny and psychologically self-revealing that it makes most of what passes for sex in the movies look like cheap hysterics .,1 +2153,a deviant topical comedy which is funny from start to finish .,1 +587,a damn fine and a truly distinctive and a deeply pertinent film .,1 +408,"it's still adam sandler , and it's not little nicky . and for many of us , that's good enough .",1 +6034,"stinks from start to finish , like a wet burlap sack of gloom .",0 +900,"all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast .",1 +4528,"its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation , which is way too stagy .",0 +2349,this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most idiosyncratic form instead of one of its most predictable .,1 +4085,"directors john musker and ron clements , the team behind the little mermaid , have produced sparkling retina candy , but they aren't able to muster a lot of emotional resonance in the cold vacuum of space .",0 +4631,it's not original enough .,0 +396,"sillier , cuter , and shorter than the first ( as best i remember ) , but still a very good time at the cinema .",1 +3248,"edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery .",1 +5269,"the dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .",0 +5455,"there are a few laughs and clever sight gags scattered about , but not enough to make this anything more than another big-budget bust .",0 +3494,both a beautifully made nature film and a tribute to a woman whose passion for this region and its inhabitants still shines in her quiet blue eyes .,1 +6978,an unwise amalgam of broadcast news and vibes .,0 +4989,arnold's jump from little screen to big will leave frowns on more than a few faces .,0 +465,the slam-bang superheroics are kinetic enough to engross even the most antsy youngsters .,1 +218,"though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal , the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of brown's life .",1 +3022,one of the best of a growing strain of daring films . . . that argue that any sexual relationship that doesn't hurt anyone and works for its participants is a relationship that is worthy of our respect .,1 +3284,ryan gosling . . . is at 22 a powerful young actor .,1 +3349,fulford-wierzbicki . . . deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen .,1 +1327,rubbo runs through a remarkable amount of material in the film's short 90 minutes .,1 +4818,"…it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film…it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , "" wait a second , did i miss something ? "" ending .",0 +6513,the only way this supernatural snore-fest could give anyone a case of the frights is if they were put to sleep by the movie and had a nightmare .,0 +2532,"beating the austin powers films at their own game , this blaxploitation spoof downplays the raunch in favor of gags that rely on the strength of their own cleverness as opposed to the extent of their outrageousness .",1 +3931,"'synthetic' is the best description of this well-meaning , beautifully produced film that sacrifices its promise for a high-powered star pedigree .",0 +3990,no amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story .,0 +5898,"if shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith , why didn't he just do it , instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing ?",0 +1284,"plunges you into a reality that is , more often then not , difficult and sad , and then , without sentimentalizing it or denying its brutality , transforms that reality into a lyrical and celebratory vision .",1 +3839,too daft by half . . . but supremely good natured .,0 +1204,"the large-frame imax camera lends itself beautifully to filming the teeming life on the reefs , making this gorgeous film a must for everyone from junior scientists to grown-up fish lovers .",1 +622,"corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all .",1 +1103,"reassuring , retro uplifter .",1 +4420,pumpkin wants to have it both ways .,0 +6161,it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward .,0 +3008,"filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience .",1 +1360,"this movie may not have the highest production values you've ever seen , but it's the work of an artist , one whose view of america , history and the awkwardness of human life is generous and deep .",1 +3246,"not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort .",1 +3197,". . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's fun for kids of any age .",1 +5712,"seemingly disgusted with the lazy material and the finished product's unshapely look , director fisher stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in waking life water colors .",0 +1560,"never lets go your emotions , taking them to surprising highs , sorrowful lows and hidden impulsive niches . . . gorgeous , passionate , and at times uncommonly moving .",1 +2977,"though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptation of evans' saga of hollywood excess .",1 +2693,vereté has a whip-smart sense of narrative bluffs .,1 +6617,this formulaic chiller will do little to boost stallone's career .,0 +5785,indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie .,0 +342,"a captivatingly quirky hybrid of character portrait , romantic comedy and beat-the-clock thriller .",1 +5657,begins as a promising meditation on one of america's most durable obsessions but winds up as a slender cinematic stunt .,0 +3844,"as it stands , crocodile hunter has the hurried , badly cobbled look of the 1959 godzilla , which combined scenes of a japanese monster flick with canned shots of raymond burr commenting on the monster's path of destruction .",0 +210,"each of these stories has the potential for touched by an angel simplicity and sappiness , but thirteen conversations about one thing , for all its generosity and optimism , never resorts to easy feel-good sentiments .",1 +4537,"mendes still doesn't quite know how to fill a frame . like the hanks character , he's a slow study : the action is stilted and the tabloid energy embalmed .",0 +2134,this real-life hollywood fairy-tale is more engaging than the usual fantasies hollywood produces .,1 +6761,"from the choppy editing to the annoying score to 'special effects' by way of replacing objects in a character's hands below the camera line , "" besotted "" is misbegotten",0 +4812,"schnieder bounces around with limp wrists , wearing tight tummy tops and hip huggers , twirling his hair on his finger and assuming that's enough to sustain laughs . . .",0 +6520,"if you saw it on tv , you'd probably turn it off , convinced that you had already seen that movie .",0 +1655,"flavorful and romantic , you could call this how martha got her groove back -- assuming , that is , she ever had one to begin with .",1 +7043,. . . a confusing drudgery .,0 +3618,"none of this so-called satire has any sting to it , as if woody is afraid of biting the hand that has finally , to some extent , warmed up to him .",0 +4139,"uncertain in tone . . . a garbled exercise in sexual politics , a junior varsity short cuts by way of very bad things .",0 +6939,tries so hard to be quirky and funny that the strain is all too evident .,0 +4761,"the abiding impression , despite the mild hallucinogenic buzz , is of overwhelming waste -- the acres of haute couture can't quite conceal that there's nothing resembling a spine here .",0 +5320,feels like a cold old man going through the motions .,0 +5173,"a shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns , expensive cars , lots of naked women and rocawear clothing .",0 +1071,"the heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging , suffering and the prospect of death .",1 +6092,on the right track to something that's creepy and effective . . . it's just going to take more than a man in a bullwinkle costume to get there .,0 +3553,tackles the difficult subject of grief and loss with such life-embracing spirit that the theme doesn't drag an audience down .,1 +6261,"a profoundly stupid affair , populating its hackneyed and meanspirited storyline with cardboard characters and performers who value cash above credibility .",0 +1261,"far from heaven is a dazzling conceptual feat , but more than that , it's a work of enthralling drama .",1 +2437,"a naturally funny film , home movie makes you crave chris smith's next movie .",1 +5782,"kenneth branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly british playwright grounds this overstuffed , erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in los angeles .",0 +5693,"a horrible , 99-minute stink bomb .",0 +1874,all but the most persnickety preteens should enjoy this nonthreatening but thrilling adventure .,1 +4029,"it's tommy's job to clean the peep booths surrounding her , and after viewing this one , you'll feel like mopping up , too .",0 +4092,completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque .,0 +1133,"if it's not entirely memorable , the movie is certainly easy to watch .",1 +1816,"chilling , well-acted , and finely directed : david jacobson's dahmer .",1 +3605,the director has injected self-consciousness into the proceedings at every turn . the results are far more alienating than involving .,0 +5841,it follows the basic plot trajectory of nearly every schwarzenegger film : someone crosses arnie . arnie blows things up .,0 +670,manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state .,1 +2374,huston nails both the glad-handing and the choking sense of hollow despair .,1 +586,"fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it .",1 +6586,"the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility .",0 +6095,the author's devotees will probably find it fascinating ; others may find it baffling .,0 +2280,surprisingly insightful,1 +437,the symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees . i wanted more .,1 +5865,the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome .,0 +2743,the experience of watching blobby old-school cgi animation in this superlarge format is just surreal enough to be diverting .,1 +6663,"director-chef gabriele muccino keeps it fast -- zippy , comin' at ya -- as if fearing that his film is molto superficiale .",0 +1545,"tsai ming-liang's witty , wistful new film , what time is it there ? , is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly .",1 +1683,"very solid , very watchable first feature for director peter sheridan",1 +1432,"good , solid storytelling .",1 +3528,[an] hilarious romantic comedy .,1 +199,it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form .,1 +1032,"you may leave the theater with more questions than answers , but darned if your toes won't still be tapping .",1 +4774,"another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing , moldering pile of , well , extreme stunt pictures .",0 +770,". . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere .",1 +2647,hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project .,1 +268,broomfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case .,1 +3127,"a coming-of-age tale from new zealand whose boozy , languid air is balanced by a rich visual clarity and deeply felt performances across the board .",1 +343,a thriller made from a completist's checklist rather than with a cultist's passion .,1 +1970,. . . an inviting piece of film .,1 +6740,our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender — and i know this because i've seen 'jackass : the movie . ',0 +352,"a moving tale of love and destruction in unexpected places , unexamined lives .",1 +1248,you won't look at religious fanatics -- or backyard sheds -- the same way again .,1 +885,"this isn't a retooled genre piece , the tale of a guy and his gun , but an amiably idiosyncratic work .",1 +6527,"de niro and mcdormand give solid performances , but their screen time is sabotaged by the story's inability to create interest .",0 +779,". . . enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm , the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games .",1 +7027,murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous .,0 +889,a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama .,1 +6149,"in this film we at least see a study in contrasts ; the wide range of one actor , and the limited range of a comedian .",0 +4750,what a stiflingly unfunny and unoriginal mess this is !,0 +7081,"supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over .",0 +807,"thrilling , provocative and darkly funny , this timely sci-fi mystery works on so many different levels that it not only invites , it demands repeated viewings .",1 +5851,"a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well .",0 +4264,"just like hearst's enormous yacht , it's slow and unwieldy and takes a long time to reach its destination .",0 +2331,"morton uses her face and her body language to bring us morvern's soul , even though the character is almost completely deadpan .",1 +4645,essentially a collection of bits -- and they're all naughty .,0 +866,often hilarious .,1 +1442,"vera's three actors -- mollà , gil and bardem -- excel in insightful , empathetic performances .",1 +421,reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success . he's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness .,1 +5192,"if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is .",0 +542,"liotta put on 30 pounds for the role , and has completely transformed himself from his smooth , goodfellas image .",1 +2321,"on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , the powerpuff girls is a fast , frenetic , funny , even punny 6 -- aimed specifically at a grade-school audience .",1 +5726,"while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love .",0 +6916,"though a bit of a patchwork in script and production , a glossy , rich green , environment almost makes the picture work .",0 +2558,what emerges is an unsettling picture of childhood innocence combined with indoctrinated prejudice . promises is a compelling piece that demonstrates just how well children can be trained to live out and carry on their parents' anguish .,1 +5692,rodriguez . . . was unable to reproduce the special spark between the characters that made the first film such a delight .,0 +1492,one of the most splendid entertainments to emerge from the french film industry in years .,1 +4273,"an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc .",0 +1293,"it uses some of the figures from the real-life story to portray themselves in the film . the result is a powerful , naturally dramatic piece of low-budget filmmaking .",1 +1337,"' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . '",1 +1642,"once folks started hanging out at the barbershop , they never wanted to leave . chances are you won't , either .",1 +4492,"the three leads produce adequate performances , but what's missing from this material is any depth of feeling .",0 +1483,reign of fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way .,1 +5878,"it takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface ( and exotic dancing ) it's surprisingly old-fashioned .",0 +2887,a sharp satire of desperation and cinematic deception .,1 +6250,"ver wiel's desperate attempt at wit is lost , leaving the character of critical jim two-dimensional and pointless .",0 +5648,turns a potentially interesting idea into an excruciating film school experience that plays better only for the film's publicists or for people who take as many drugs as the film's characters,0 +4070,i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops .,0 +1734,"if there's no art here , it's still a good yarn -- which is nothing to sneeze at these days .",1 +1510,the dragons are the real stars of reign of fire and you won't be disappointed .,1 +3784,you have no affinity for most of the characters . nothing about them is attractive . what they see in each other also is difficult to fathom .,0 +4137,"like a documentary version of fight club , shorn of social insight , intellectual pretension and cinematic interest .",0 +1375,"if you're the kind of parent who enjoys intentionally introducing your kids to films which will cause loads of irreparable damage that years and years of costly analysis could never fix , i have just one word for you -– decasia",1 +2703,there has been a string of ensemble cast romances recently . . . but peter mattei's love in the time of money sets itself apart by forming a chain of relationships that come full circle to end on a positive ( if tragic ) note .,1 +7023,"if h . g . wells had a time machine and could take a look at his kin's reworked version , what would he say ? 'it looks good , sonny , but you missed the point . '",0 +2576,"for every cheesy scene , though , there is a really cool bit -- the movie's conception of a future-world holographic librarian ( orlando jones ) who knows everything and answers all questions , is visually smart , cleverly written , and nicely realized .",1 +5303,throw smoochy from the train !,0 +5670,lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago .,0 +5698,"i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool .",0 +3154,like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film .,1 +6464,"i'm all for the mentally challenged getting their fair shot in the movie business , but surely it doesn't have to be as a collection of keening and self-mutilating sideshow geeks .",0 +3204,ian holm conquers france as an earthy napoleon,1 +4991,the whole thing plays like a tired tyco ad .,0 +4611,i suspect this is the kind of production that would have been funnier if the director had released the outtakes theatrically and used the film as a bonus feature on the dvd .,0 +4509,. . . overly melodramatic . . .,0 +3670,"it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others .",0 +1905,i don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 paradiso will prefer this new version . but i do .,1 +4172,"though it inspires some ( out-of-field ) creative thought , the film is -- to its own detriment -- much more a cinematic collage than a polemical tract .",0 +4859,"nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy .",0 +4207,the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable .,0 +4304,. . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller .,0 +15,"this new zealand coming-of-age movie isn't really about anything . when it's this rich and luscious , who cares ?",1 +4728,"cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy .",0 +6865,this is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in september .,0 +712,but even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between jolie and burns . . . this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to screenwriting for dummies conformity .,1 +451,"if "" lilo & stitch "" isn't the most edgy piece of disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since "" dumbo "" certainly ranks as the most original in years .",1 +1433,the obnoxious title character provides the drama that gives added clout to this doc .,1 +3970,"somewhere inside the mess that is world traveler , there is a mediocre movie trying to get out .",0 +3239,"if you've grown tired of going where no man has gone before , but several movies have - take heart . this is the best star trek movie in a long time .",1 +1160,you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week .,1 +1406,beautifully produced .,1 +6300,"the film is all over the place , really . it dabbles all around , never gaining much momentum .",0 +1713,lee jeong-hyang tells it so lovingly and films it so beautifully that i couldn't help being captivated by it .,1 +966,the movie is one of the best examples of artful large format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon .,1 +6473,no way i can believe this load of junk .,0 +2924,"formuliac , but fun .",1 +1453,"the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of sheer goofiness and cameos of less- than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been attached to before .",1 +1603,"if divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood suffers from a ploddingly melodramatic structure , it comes to life in the performances .",1 +39,"a pleasing , often-funny comedy .",1 +4487,the fourth in a series that i'll bet most parents had thought --hoped ! -- was a fad that had long since vanished .,0 +874,"best of all is garcia , who perfectly portrays the desperation of a very insecure man .",1 +940,a solidly seaworthy chiller .,1 +6678,"it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune .",0 +2818,"parker holds true to wilde's own vision of a pure comedy with absolutely no meaning , and no desire to be anything but a polished , sophisticated entertainment that is in love with its own cleverness .",1 +5248,this is the kind of movie where the big scene is a man shot out of a cannon into a vat of ice cream .,0 +2177,invincible is a wonderful movie .,1 +2263,"it has charm to spare , and unlike many romantic comedies , it does not alienate either gender in the audience .",1 +2199,a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's plays .,1 +3904,"if this silly little cartoon can inspire a few kids not to grow up to be greedy bastards , more power to it .",0 +6999,"halfway through the movie , the humor dwindles . it's replaced by some dramatic scenes that are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) been a lighthearted comedy .",0 +1083,"the people in dogtown and z-boys are so funny , aggressive and alive , you have to watch them because you can't wait to see what they do next .",1 +3876,"plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of john waters and todd solondz , rather than a fully developed story .",0 +5774,"stars matthew perry and elizabeth hurley illicit more than a chuckle , and more jokes land than crash , but ultimately serving sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd .",0 +4551,'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances .,0 +1053,the inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth .,1 +3455,"kids five and up will be delighted with the fast , funny , and even touching story . parents may even find that it goes by quickly , because it has some of the funniest jokes of any movie this year , including those intended for adults .",1 +5244,audiences will find no mention of political prisoners or persecutions that might paint the castro regime in less than saintly tones .,0 +2190,"with the same sort of good-natured fun found in films like tremors , eight legged freaks is prime escapist fare .",1 +1778,"though it's not very well shot or composed or edited , the score is too insistent and the dialogue is frequently overwrought and crudely literal , the film shatters you in waves .",1 +2329,. . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet .,1 +4519,"a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise .",0 +1813,murderous maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy . . .,1 +706,"a thoroughly enjoyable , heartfelt coming-of-age comedy .",1 +6881,it's depressing to see how far herzog has fallen .,0 +7087,"if legendary shlockmeister ed wood had ever made a movie about a vampire , it probably would look a lot like this alarming production , adapted from anne rice's novel the vampire chronicles .",0 +6798,"for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new star wars installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one .",0 +3756,just a kiss is a just a waste .,0 +4348,made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss .,0 +4650,"kids don't mind crappy movies as much as adults , provided there's lots of cute animals and clumsy people . 'snow dogs' has both .",0 +5834,"this is cruel , misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy .",0 +1209,mike leigh populates his movie with a wonderful ensemble cast of characters that bring the routine day to day struggles of the working class to life,1 +3390,"in his u . s . debut , mr . schnitzler proves himself a deft pace master and stylist .",1 +516,"the one-liners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded .",1 +3949,the film seems all but destined to pop up on a television screen in the background of a scene in a future quentin tarantino picture,0 +3017,"its use of the thriller form to examine the labyrinthine ways in which people's lives cross and change , buffeted by events seemingly out of their control , is intriguing , provocative stuff .",1 +3221,"auto focus is not your standard hollywood bio-pic . schrader aims to present an unflinching look at one man's downfall , brought about by his lack of self-awareness .",1 +3838,it is one more celluloid testimonial to the cruelties experienced by southern blacks as distilled through a caucasian perspective .,0 +1698,a must-see for fans of thoughtful war films and those interested in the sights and sounds of battle .,1 +3491,a haunting tale of murder and mayhem .,1 +4430,"boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie .",0 +5347,"a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .",0 +2727,wiseman reveals the victims of domestic abuse in all of their pity and terror .,1 +198,"watching these two actors play against each other so intensely , but with restraint , is a treat .",1 +5440,chai's structure and pacing are disconcertingly slack .,0 +4743,"what you would end up with if you took orwell , bradbury , kafka , george lucas and the wachowski brothers and threw them into a blender . but that's just the problem with it - the director hasn't added enough of his own ingredients .",0 +4012,"denis o'neill's script avoids the prime sports cliche , a last-second goal to win the championship , but it neglects few others .",0 +6654,a smug and convoluted action-comedy that doesn't allow an earnest moment to pass without reminding audiences that it's only a movie .,0 +1299,"for those in search of something different , wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale .",1 +5437,attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience .,0 +4448,"unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic .",0 +4695,the film rehashes several old themes and is capped with pointless extremes -- it's insanely violent and very graphic .,0 +1983,"amazing ! a college story that works even without vulgarity , sex scenes , and cussing !",1 +4116,"it's the kind of under-inspired , overblown enterprise that gives hollywood sequels a bad name .",0 +646,allen's funniest and most likeable movie in years .,1 +5057,mctiernan's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious .,0 +4312,disjointed parody .,0 +4521,"in moonlight mile , no one gets shut out of the hug cycle .",0 +1182,"a full experience , a love story and a murder mystery that expands into a meditation on the deep deceptions of innocence .",1 +3462,"ou've got to love a disney pic with as little cleavage as this one has , and a heroine as feisty and principled as jane .",1 +2955,cox creates a fluid and mesmerizing sequence of images to match the words of nijinsky's diaries .,1 +5363,"a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction .",0 +6107,"we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat .",0 +666,as giddy and whimsical and relevant today as it was 270 years ago .,1 +623,"a welcome relief from baseball movies that try too hard to be mythic , this one is a sweet and modest and ultimately winning story .",1 +6084,"it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny .",0 +6298,". . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . .",0 +5500,"neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price .",0 +5118,"i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid .",0 +1245,"this version's no classic like its predecessor , but its pleasures are still plentiful .",1 +138,"take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture , and he'll be your slave for a year .",1 +201,"if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time .",1 +4984,"some actors steal scenes . tom green just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy stealing harvard , but he's the most obvious one .",0 +1177,steven soderbergh doesn't remake andrei tarkovsky's solaris so much as distill it .,1 +4108,"for all its highfalutin title and corkscrew narrative , the movie turns out to be not much more than a shaggy human tale .",0 +3857,"a tired , unnecessary retread . . . a stale copy of a picture that wasn't all that great to begin with .",0 +5903,don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action .,0 +5992,rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them .,0 +4901,"even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash .",0 +1668,"one of the best , most understated performances of [jack nicholson's] career .",1 +5319,"terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable .",0 +2007,"an enthralling , playful film that constantly frustrates our desire to know the 'truth' about this man , while deconstructing the very format of the biography in a manner that derrida would doubtless give his blessing to .",1 +2554,"captures all the longing , anguish and ache , the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world .",1 +2686,"once again , director jackson strikes a rewarding balance between emotion on the human scale and action/effects on the spectacular scale .",1 +181,the movie is a trove of delights .,1 +2412,"passable entertainment , but it's the kind of motion picture that won't make much of a splash when it's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards .",1 +1832,"as they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies , signs is a tribute to shyamalan's gifts , which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project .",1 +872,it's a perfect show of respect to just one of those underrated professionals who deserve but rarely receive it .,1 +5618,narc is all menace and atmosphere .,0 +3868,the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle .,0 +1440,"too damn weird to pass up , and for the blacklight crowd , way cheaper ( and better ) than pink floyd tickets .",1 +5942,a pretentious mess .,0 +979,it's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest .,1 +3065,"when twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives , hard-driving narcissism is a given , but what a world we'd live in if argento's hollywood counterparts . . . had this much imagination and nerve .",1 +3936,. . . [a] strained comedy that jettisons all opportunities for rock to make his mark by serving up the usual chaotic nonsense .,0 +7103,"it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call .",0 +902,"it's not particularly well made , but since i found myself howling more than cringing , i'd say the film works .",1 +2026,the ya-ya's have many secrets and one is - the books are better . translating complex characters from novels to the big screen is an impossible task but they are true to the essence of what it is to be ya-ya .,1 +5188,"for this sort of thing to work , we need agile performers , but the proficient , dull sorvino has no light touch , and rodan is out of his league .",0 +536,"an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it .",1 +3575,the emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down .,0 +6830,"too slow for a younger crowd , too shallow for an older one .",0 +1086,less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990 .,1 +4993,demme's loose approach kills the suspense .,0 +5987,neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn .,0 +4652,it's kind of sad that so many people put so much time and energy into this turkey .,0 +944,"as broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is , there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director , frank novak , that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism .",1 +3411,a solid and refined piece of moviemaking imbued with passion and attitude .,1 +57,only two words will tell you what you know when deciding to see it : anthony . hopkins .,1 +4571,the cold turkey would've been a far better title .,0 +631,. . . the implication is kissinger may have decided that — when it comes to truncheoning — it's better to give than to receive .,1 +5555,never inspires more than an interested detachment .,0 +3346,"the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant .",1 +1292,"it's . . . worth the extra effort to see an artist , still committed to growth in his ninth decade , change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is , quite pointedly , about the peril of such efforts .",1 +110,my wife is an actress is an utterly charming french comedy that feels so american in sensibility and style it's virtually its own hollywood remake .,1 +4608,they threw loads of money at an idea that should've been so much more even if it was only made for teenage boys and wrestling fans .,0 +5154,"it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies .",0 +169,it's stylishly directed with verve . . .,1 +1343,"with one exception , every blighter in this particular south london housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big , comforting jar of marmite , to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness .",1 +1992,"it has the courage to wonder about big questions with sincerity and devotion . it risks seeming slow and pretentious , because it thinks the gamble is worth the promise .",1 +419,"13 conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful , but sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister , karen sprecher , don't seem ever to run out of ideas .",1 +323,"godard has never made a more sheerly beautiful film than this unexpectedly moving meditation on love , history , memory , resistance and artistic transcendence .",1 +6908,these two are generating about as much chemistry as an iraqi factory poised to receive a un inspector .,0 +6102,merchant hasn't directed this movie so much as produced it -- like sausage .,0 +877,there's a vastness implied in metropolis that is just breathtaking .,1 +598,"what makes salton sea surprisingly engrossing is that caruso takes an atypically hypnotic approach to a world that's often handled in fast-edit , hopped-up fashion .",1 +1454,"funny in a sick , twisted sort of way .",1 +2937,it seems grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all .,1 +2307,significantly better than its 2002 children's-movie competition .,1 +7101,there's more repetition than creativity throughout the movie .,0 +1543,"a strong and confident work which works so well for the first 89 minutes , but ends so horrendously confusing in the final two",1 +2468,"it isn't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems .",1 +2814,a metaphor for a modern-day urban china searching for its identity .,1 +5757,the whole talking-animal thing is grisly .,0 +5836,"just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos .",0 +4126,the new film of anton chekhov's the cherry orchard puts the 'ick' in 'classic . ',0 +4513,feels less like a cousin to blade runner than like a bottom-feeder sequel in the escape from new york series .,0 +2324,michel piccoli's moving performance is this films reason for being .,1 +3934,"mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity .",0 +5656,what a pity . . . that the material is so second-rate .,0 +1100,a sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss : rejection by one's mother .,1 +2242,"the lion king was a roaring success when it was released eight years ago , but on imax it seems better , not just bigger .",1 +1563,is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to find out .,1 +1280,the footage of the rappers at play and the prison interview with suge knight are just two of the elements that will grab you .,1 +3301,"informative , intriguing , observant , often touching . . . gives a human face to what's often discussed in purely abstract terms .",1 +346,an engrossing portrait of a man whose engaging manner and flamboyant style made him a truly larger-than-life character .,1 +6328,you're too conscious of the effort it takes to be this spontaneous .,0 +5404,"taken purely as an exercise in style , this oppressively gloomy techno-horror clambake is impossible to ignore . but as a movie , it's a humorless , disjointed mess .",0 +863,"enjoyably dumb , sweet , and intermittently hilarious -- if you've a taste for the quirky , steal a glimpse .",1 +240,"it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .",1 +7059,represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen .,0 +1849,simply and eloquently articulates the tangled feelings of particular new yorkers deeply touched by an unprecedented tragedy .,1 +2056,"it is far from the worst , thanks to the topical issues it raises , the performances of stewart and hardy , and that essential feature -- a decent full-on space battle .",1 +5932,a rather tired exercise in nostalgia .,0 +4604,"the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter .",0 +1399,"colorful , energetic and sweetly whimsical . . . the rare sequel that's better than its predecessor .",1 +5915,"this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast .",0 +6961,gorgeous to look at but insufferably tedious and turgid . . . a curiously constricted epic .,0 +705,manages to delight without much of a story .,1 +4765,"scotland , pa is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept .",0 +5312,"trouble every day is a success in some sense , but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead .",0 +4909,hollywood's answer to an air ball .,0 +5149,"it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades .",0 +2741,a three-hour cinema master class .,1 +5731,"a mess . the screenplay does too much meandering , norton has to recite bland police procedural details , fiennes wanders around in an attempt to seem weird and distanced , hopkins looks like a drag queen .",0 +4444,"slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot .",0 +1050,a flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantile .,1 +1949,"between bursts of automatic gunfire , the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism .",1 +5490,"no better or worse than 'truth or consequences , n . m . ' or any other interchangeable actioner with imbecilic mafia toolbags botching a routine assignment in a western backwater .",0 +5451,life is a crock -- or something like it .,0 +386,"what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action .",1 +4796,"like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover .",0 +4415,hard-core slasher aficionados will find things to like . . . but overall the halloween series has lost its edge .,0 +3912,"on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it .",0 +1924,a moving and not infrequently breathtaking film .,1 +1431,"it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable .",1 +1305,"some movies suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast .",1 +1384,a romantic comedy enriched by a sharp eye for manners and mores .,1 +6725,"if religious films aren't your bailiwick , stay away . otherwise , this could be a passable date film .",0 +2168,"the additional storyline is interesting and entertaining , but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story . i like the new footage and still love the old stuff .",1 +1509,"if no one singles out any of these performances as award-worthy , it's only because we would expect nothing less from this bunch .",1 +2340,a film about a young man finding god that is accessible and touching to the marrow .,1 +3924,a thriller without thrills and a mystery devoid of urgent questions .,0 +3826,"with generic sets and b-grade special effects , jason is about as convincing on the sci-fi front as tv's defunct cleopatra 2525 .",0 +2129,a potent allegorical love story .,1 +5470,to say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor .,0 +2491,weird . rewarding .,1 +1732,"the film is reasonably entertaining , though it begins to drag two-thirds through , when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy .",1 +1015,"brims with passion : for words , for its eccentric , accident-prone characters , and for the crazy things that keep people going in this crazy life .",1 +6715,"adolescents will be adequately served by the movie's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick , although the more lascivious-minded might be disappointed in the relative modesty of a movie that sports a 'topless tutorial service . '",0 +2497,a fascinating and fun film .,1 +7044,cattaneo reworks the formula that made the full monty a smashing success . . . but neglects to add the magic that made it all work .,0 +5315,the armenian genocide deserves a more engaged and honest treatment .,0 +775,"a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness .",1 +6758,"i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal .",0 +5028,bears about as much resemblance to the experiences of most battered women as spider-man does to the experiences of most teenagers .,0 +3836,coppola has made a film of intoxicating atmosphere and little else .,0 +2808,"a muckraking job , the cinematic equivalent of a legal indictment , and a fairly effective one at that .",1 +965,"not only better than its predecessor , it may rate as the most magical and most fun family fare of this or any recent holiday season .",1 +5538,"mckay shows crushingly little curiosity about , or is ill-equipped to examine , the interior lives of the characters in his film , much less incorporate them into his narrative .",0 +4099,"like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions .",0 +6489,"crossroads feels like a teenybopper ed wood film , replete with the pubescent scandalous innuendo and the high-strung but flaccid drama .",0 +341,"neither parker nor donovan is a typical romantic lead , but they bring a fresh , quirky charm to the formula .",1 +3612,"everybody loves a david and goliath story , and this one is told almost entirely from david's point of view .",0 +4388,"the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant .",0 +2009,a feel-good picture in the best sense of the term .,1 +3448,"secretary manages a neat trick , bundling the flowers of perversity , comedy and romance into a strangely tempting bouquet of a movie .",1 +1424,the wild thornberrys movie is pleasant enough and the message of our close ties with animals can certainly not be emphasized enough .,1 +2041,"a big , gorgeous , sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand , uncomplicated fashion .",1 +3253,writer/ director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable .,1 +5407,"we just don't really care too much about this love story . in that setting , their struggle is simply too ludicrous and borderline insulting .",0 +3631,"some episodes work , some don't .",0 +4836,"enigma looks great , has solid acting and a neat premise . yet why it fails is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma .",0 +1192,a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake .,1 +820,a captivating cross-cultural comedy of manners .,1 +4068,the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise .,0 +12,"it's a drawling , slobbering , lovable run-on sentence of a film , a southern gothic with the emotional arc of its raw blues soundtrack .",1 +1104,maintains your interest until the end and even leaves you with a few lingering animated thoughts .,1 +3224,'[the cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable . ',1 +1758,nair does capture the complexity of a big family and its trials and tribulations . . .,1 +6017,nervous breakdowns are not entertaining .,0 +2566,"if the very concept makes you nervous . . . you'll have an idea of the film's creepy , scary effectiveness .",1 +1502,"even though it is infused with the sensibility of a video director , it doesn't make for completely empty entertainment",1 +1656,"all three actresses are simply dazzling , particularly balk , who's finally been given a part worthy of her considerable talents .",1 +1925,"the film is moody , oozing , chilling and heart-warming all at once . . . a twisting , unpredictable , cat-and-mouse thriller .",1 +306,"despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions .",1 +4257,one of the most unpleasant things the studio has ever produced .,0 +2616,nothing is sacred in this gut-buster .,1 +3290,"for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts .",1 +793,"high on melodrama . but it's emotionally engrossing , too , thanks to strong , credible performances from the whole cast .",1 +6364,"i can imagine this movie as a b&w british comedy , circa 1960 , with peter sellers , kenneth williams , et al . , but at this time , with this cast , this movie is hopeless .",0 +3334,a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family .,1 +1836,"[cho's face is] an amazing slapstick instrument , creating a scrapbook of living mug shots .",1 +888,"macdowell . . . gives give a solid , anguished performance that eclipses nearly everything else she's ever done .",1 +1921,worth watching for dong jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change .,1 +2912,"pipe dream does have its charms . the leads are natural and lovely , the pace is serene , the humor wry and sprightly .",1 +574,a bittersweet drama about the limbo of grief and how truth-telling can open the door to liberation .,1 +3375,dense with characters and contains some thrilling moments .,1 +4168,"this misty-eyed southern nostalgia piece , in treading the line between sappy and sanguine , winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand .",0 +6795,"a era do gelo diverte , mas não convence . É um passatempo descompromissado – e só .",0 +6662,traffics in the kind of prechewed racial clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill .,0 +6584,there is nothing funny in this every-joke-has- been-told-a- thousand-times- before movie .,0 +1495,""" the best disney movie since the lion king """,1 +6829,"a determined , ennui-hobbled slog that really doesn't have much to say beyond the news flash that loneliness can make people act weird .",0 +6687,"if anything , see it for karen black , who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named dirty dick .",0 +5801,to portray modern women the way director davis has done is just unthinkable .,0 +3714,the jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail .,0 +5813,i am sorry that i was unable to get the full brunt of the comedy .,0 +2093,"a terrific date movie , whatever your orientation .",1 +5385,"if festival in cannes nails hard- boiled hollywood argot with a bracingly nasty accuracy , much about the film , including some of its casting , is frustratingly unconvincing .",0 +4759,"the plot has a number of holes , and at times it's simply baffling .",0 +665,"the locations go from stark desert to gorgeous beaches . the story plays out slowly , but the characters are intriguing and realistic .",1 +1469,"it's like a "" big chill "" reunion of the baader-meinhof gang , only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists .",1 +2577,"red dragon is less baroque and showy than hannibal , and less emotionally affecting than silence . but , like silence , it's a movie that gets under your skin .",1 +6086,"wallace directs with such patronising reverence , it turns the stomach .",0 +5998,"why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ?",0 +6348,the enormous comic potential of an oafish idiot impersonating an aristocrat remains sadly unrealized .,0 +5910,"coarse , cliched and clunky , this trifling romantic comedy in which opposites attract for no better reason than that the screenplay demands it squanders the charms of stars hugh grant and sandra bullock .",0 +1038,both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement .,1 +2689,. . . somehow manages to escape the shackles of its own clichés to be the best espionage picture to come out in weeks .,1 +2850,"the stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble .",1 +4203,the picture doesn't know it's a comedy .,0 +2042,"the re-release of ron howard's apollo 13 in the imax format proves absolutely that really , really , really good things can come in enormous packages .",1 +5308,brosnan's finest non-bondish performance yet fails to overcome the film's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes .,0 +4906,"julie davis is the kathie lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't always go hand in hand with talent .",0 +1108,one from the heart .,1 +4204,"the creaking , rusty ship makes a fine backdrop , but the ghosts' haunting is routine .",0 +474,"the film's messages of tolerance and diversity aren't particularly original , but one can't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters .",1 +579,one of the best rock documentaries ever . wilco is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many .,1 +4179,"it's a brilliant , honest performance by nicholson , but the film is an agonizing bore except when the fantastic kathy bates turns up . bravado kathy !",0 +5131,"what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance .",0 +3083,majidi's direction has never been smoother or more confident .,1 +6265,everyone's to blame here .,0 +1181,"an involving , inspirational drama that sometimes falls prey to its sob-story trappings .",1 +6205,"too stupid to be satire , too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise , frank novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless .",0 +4721,"a dull , simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs , death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets .",0 +1246,tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confining color to liyan's backyard .,1 +1372,"whether [binoche and magimel] are being charming or angst-ridden , they easily fill their scenes and , fine judges both , never overcook the hysteria .",1 +7007,will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002 .,0 +3094,"affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids .",1 +2442,the acting alone is worth the price of admission .,1 +5423,i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting disbelief .,0 +6763,"'all in all , reign of fire will be a good ( successful ) rental . '",0 +2050,a beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world .,1 +2788,"its maker , steven spielberg , hasn't had so much fun in two decades , since he was schlepping indiana jones around the globe in search of a giant misplaced ashtray .",1 +5660,"it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality .",0 +5950,"in addition to sporting one of the worst titles in recent cinematic history , ballistic : ecks vs . sever also features terrible , banal dialogue ; convenient , hole-ridden plotting ; superficial characters and a rather dull , unimaginative car chase .",0 +462,while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story .,1 +2950,"a meatier deeper beginning and/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the "" a "" range , as is , it's a very very strong "" b+ . "" i love the robust middle of this picture .",1 +1430,"the unexplored story opportunities of "" punch-drunk love "" may have worked against the maker's minimalist intent but it is an interesting exercise by talented writer/director anderson .",1 +928,"white oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that doesn't mean you won't like looking at it .",1 +2819,"the hard-to-predict and absolutely essential chemistry between the down-to-earth bullock and the nonchalant grant proves to be sensational , and everything meshes in this elegant entertainment .",1 +6835,a reality-snubbing hodgepodge .,0 +4149,"a beyond-lame satire , teddy bears' picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor .",0 +5493,despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy .,0 +470,one funny popcorn flick .,1 +5375,"nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant .",0 +3739,"a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine .",0 +1554,"exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter .",1 +7020,i wish it would have just gone more over-the-top instead of trying to have it both ways .,0 +988,"your response to its new sequel , analyze that , may hinge on what you thought of the first film .",1 +251,"a sharp , amusing study of the cult of celebrity .",1 +2846,"[while the last metro] was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history .",1 +3232,this gorgeous epic is guaranteed to lift the spirits of the whole family .,1 +6975,"you can see the would-be surprises coming a mile away , and the execution of these twists is delivered with a hammer . thumbs down .",0 +1614,montias . . . pumps a lot of energy into his nicely nuanced narrative and surrounds himself with a cast of quirky -- but not stereotyped -- street characters .,1 +3754,"not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny .",0 +1810,"moore provides an invaluable service by sparking debate and encouraging thought . better still , he does all of this , and more , while remaining one of the most savagely hilarious social critics this side of jonathan swift .",1 +3837,"for those for whom the name woody allen was once a guarantee of something fresh , sometimes funny , and usually genuinely worthwhile , hollywood ending is a depressing experience",0 +4159,little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its summer x games .,0 +5370,just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls .,0 +3819,one regards reign of fire with awe . what a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea .,0 +3521,a hypnotic cyber hymn and a cruel story of youth culture .,1 +5931,"the film is grossly contradictory in conveying its social message , if indeed there is one .",0 +175,certainly the performances are worthwhile .,1