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unpretentious, charming, quirky, original
positive
Very well-written and very well-acted.
positive
Disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel.
negative
Elvira fans could hardly ask for more.
positive
An extremely unpleasant film.
negative
Amazingly lame.
negative
This comic gem is as delightful as it is derivative.
positive
Tedious Norwegian offering which somehow snagged an Oscar nomination.
negative
Intelligent and moving.
positive
Exhilarating, funny and fun.
positive
Feeble comedy.
negative
Excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.
negative
Another entertaining romp from Robert Rodriguez.
positive
A party-hearty teen flick that scalds like acid.
negative
This may be Burns's strongest film since The Brothers McMullen.
positive
Morton deserves an Oscar nomination.
positive
A meditation on faith and madness, Frailty is blood-curdling stuff.
positive
This thing is virtually unwatchable.
negative
K-19: The Widowmaker is a great yarn.
positive
An enjoyable experience.
positive
The satire is just too easy to be genuinely satisfying.
negative
Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations.
negative
Another Best of the Year selection.
positive
Muddled, simplistic and more than a little pretentious.
negative
Everything's serious, poetic, earnest and -- sadly -- dull.
negative
Comes across as a fairly weak retooling.
negative
Just isn't as weird as it ought to be.
negative
Humor in I Spy is so anemic.
negative
Violent, vulgar and forgettably entertaining.
negative
Plodding, peevish and gimmicky.
negative
A rote exercise in both animation and storytelling.
negative
Little more than a well-mounted history lesson.
negative
Much of the cast is stiff or just plain bad.
negative
It is a likable story, told with competence.
positive
Originality is sorely lacking.
negative
Satisfyingly scarifying, fresh and old-fashioned at the same time.
positive
A non-mystery mystery.
negative
Arguably the best script that Besson has written in years.
positive
Witless and utterly pointless.
negative
The cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story.
positive
entertaining enough, but nothing new
negative
We get the comedy we settle for.
negative
...silly humbuggery...
negative
Too daft by half ... but supremely good natured.
positive
Spiderman ROCKS
positive
The title, alone, should scare any sane person away.
negative
The verdict: Two bodies and hardly a laugh between them.
negative
By its modest, straight-ahead standards, Undisputed scores a direct hit.
positive
Highly engaging.
positive
Video games are more involving than this mess.
negative
A marvel of production design.
positive
A poignant comedy that offers food for thought.
positive
...hokey art house pretension.
negative
Delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information.
positive
The movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster.
negative
Thought-provoking and stylish, if also somewhat hermetic.
positive
Strange and beautiful film.
positive
I've never bought from telemarketers, but I bought this movie.
positive
Painfully padded.
negative
Collapses under its own meager weight.
negative
Has a solid emotional impact.
positive
A Movie to Forget
negative
Bottom-rung New Jack City wannabe.
negative
Hoffman's performance is authentic to the core of his being.
positive
Horrible.
negative
Best indie of the year, so far.
positive
Well-meant but unoriginal.
negative
The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing.
negative
Mordantly funny and intimately knowing ...
positive
Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting.
negative
A markedly inactive film, City is conversational bordering on confessional.
negative
...begins on a high note and sustains it beautifully.
positive
director Hoffman, his writer and Kline's agent should serve detention
negative
Guy gets girl, guy loses girl, audience falls asleep.
negative
the film never rises above a conventional, two dimension tale
negative
Laughably, irredeemably awful.
negative
Romantic, riveting and handsomely animated.
positive
A classy, sprightly spin on film.
positive
Witty, vibrant, and intelligent.
positive
Never once predictable.
positive
Harmless fun.
positive
...bibbidy-bobbidi-bland.
negative
A dull, inconsistent, dishonest female bonding picture.
negative
A compelling story of musical passion against governmental odds.
positive
Exciting documentary.
positive
Throw Smoochy from the train!
negative
A modestly surprising movie.
positive
The premise of Jason X is silly but strangely believable.
positive
This is a dark, gritty, sometimes funny little gem.
positive
A fairly harmless but ultimately lifeless feature-length afterschool special.
negative
Staggeringly dreadful romance.
negative
Final verdict: You've seen it all before.
negative
An enjoyable feel-good family comedy regardless of race.
positive
Oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material
negative
It's funny, as the old saying goes, because it's true.
positive
The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls.
negative
Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.
negative
Neatly constructed thriller.
positive
A chilling movie without oppressive gore.
positive
The story has little wit and no surprises.
negative