Unnamed: 0 int64 0 7.11k | text stringlengths 4 266 | label int64 0 1 |
|---|---|---|
1,244 | 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 |
3,996 | just the sort of lazy tearjerker that gives movies about ordinary folk a bad name . | 0 |
4,466 | harvard man is a semi-throwback , a reminiscence without nostalgia or sentimentality . | 0 |
2,941 | travels a fascinating arc from hope and euphoria to reality and disillusionment . | 1 |
1,165 | 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 |
2,494 | a pleasurably jacked-up piece of action moviemaking . | 1 |
4,696 | 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 |
7,104 | it's one pussy-ass world when even killer-thrillers revolve around group therapy sessions . | 0 |
1,172 | 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 |
6,649 | when your subject is illusion versus reality , shouldn't the reality seem at least passably real ? | 0 |
4,564 | bang ! zoom ! it's actually pretty funny , but in all the wrong places . | 0 |
5,926 | 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 |
1,916 | 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 |
1,767 | 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 |
1,279 | 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 |
1,663 | 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 |
2,657 | it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywood . | 1 |
2,682 | if the message seems more facile than the earlier films , the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care . | 1 |
3,495 | it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance . | 1 |
2,878 | although it lacks the detail of the book , the film does pack some serious suspense . | 1 |
6,610 | 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 |
3,125 | exhilarating , funny and fun . | 1 |
5,995 | the story really has no place to go since simone is not real—she can't provide any conflict . | 0 |
5,779 | 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 |
4,784 | 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 |
3,995 | 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 |
6,393 | a dreary indulgence . | 0 |
4,824 | . . . too dull to enjoy . | 0 |
5,217 | 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 |
4,389 | 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 |
1,856 | jeong-hyang lee's film is deceptively simple , deeply satisfying . | 1 |
6,101 | she's not yet an actress , not quite a singer . . . | 0 |
1,692 | andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar ; absurd , yet tremendously sad . | 1 |
3,718 | 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 |
7,098 | a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . | 0 |
4,921 | 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 |
4,268 | not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . | 0 |
3,038 | what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors . | 1 |
2,128 | a tale of horror and revenge that is nearly perfect in its relentless descent to the depths of one man's tortured soul . | 1 |
5,108 | with the exception of mccoist , the players don't have a clue on the park . the acting isn't much better . | 0 |
5,564 | much-anticipated and ultimately lackluster movie . | 0 |
4,754 | frustratingly , dridi tells us nothing about el gallo other than what emerges through his music . | 0 |
5,566 | the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . | 0 |
2,658 | 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 |
5,655 | that the chuck norris " grenade gag " occurs about 7 times during windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is . | 0 |
3,719 | the pace of the film is very slow ( for obvious reasons ) and that too becomes off-putting . | 0 |
5,748 | will no doubt delight plympton's legion of fans ; others may find 80 minutes of these shenanigans exhausting . | 0 |
4,862 | a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potency . | 0 |
5,465 | 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 |
4,501 | the adventure doesn't contain half the excitement of balto , or quarter the fun of toy story 2 . | 0 |
4,227 | 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 |
5,978 | it's hard to imagine that even very small children will be impressed by this tired retread . | 0 |
1,761 | the weight of the piece , the unerring professionalism of the chilly production , and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough . | 1 |
4,669 | a processed comedy chop suey . | 0 |
5,624 | it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script . | 0 |
3,348 | it's made with deftly unsettling genre flair . | 1 |
4,927 | if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . | 0 |
4,835 | 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 |
3,142 | an important movie , a reminder of the power of film to move us and to make us examine our values . | 1 |
5,052 | even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy . . . even for disney . | 0 |
3,274 | not for everyone , but for those with whom it will connect , it's a nice departure from standard moviegoing fare . | 1 |
5,597 | 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 |
2,078 | some of the most inventive silliness you are likely to witness in a movie theatre for some time . | 1 |
2,709 | 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 |
2,121 | 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 |
6,794 | just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 0 |
700 | a cop story that understands the medium amazingly well . | 1 |
3,579 | 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 |
1,120 | a gorgeous , high-spirited musical from india that exquisitely blends music , dance , song , and high drama . | 1 |
2,841 | the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs . | 1 |
2,203 | the film overcomes the regular minefield of coming-of-age cliches with potent doses of honesty and sensitivity . | 1 |
6,721 | leaks treacle from every pore . | 0 |
4,332 | [plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . | 0 |
3,933 | 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 |
1,901 | a smart and funny , albeit sometimes superficial , cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist . | 1 |
6,660 | it's hampered by a lifetime-channel kind of plot and a lead actress who is out of her depth . | 0 |
2,546 | exquisitely acted and masterfully if preciously interwoven… [the film] addresses in a fascinating , intelligent manner the intermingling of race , politics and local commerce . | 1 |
5,129 | narc can only remind us of brilliant crime dramas without becoming one itself . | 0 |
6,148 | 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 |
5,183 | 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 |
4,287 | collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . | 0 |
3,989 | 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 |
4,443 | 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 |
3,608 | 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 |
2,706 | has an unmistakable , easy joie de vivre . | 1 |
3,898 | do not , under any circumstances , consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor . | 0 |
3,762 | it's a trifle of a movie , with a few laughs surrounding an unremarkable soft center . | 0 |
5,704 | 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 |
6,020 | an empty , purposeless exercise . | 0 |
5,637 | 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 |
2,461 | audacious-impossible yet compelling . . . | 1 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.