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The IMAX screen enhances the personal touch of manual animation.
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This is one of the outstanding thrillers of recent years.
positive
I liked it because it was so endlessly, grotesquely, inventive.
positive
The chocolate factory without Charlie.
negative
... a gleefully grungy, hilariously wicked black comedy ...
positive
A taut, sobering film.
positive
Goes on and on to the point of nausea.
negative
Ararat feels like a book report
negative
The film oozes craft.
positive
A film that loses sight of its own story.
negative
Seems like someone going through the motions.
negative
...one resurrection too many.
negative
... wise and elegiac ...
positive
Troubling and powerful.
positive
Not so much farcical as sour.
negative
Griffin & Co. manage to be spectacularly outrageous.
positive
A surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy.
positive
Darkly funny and frequently insightful.
positive
The fetid underbelly of fame has never looked uglier.
negative
The film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing.
positive
The film is a verbal duel between two gifted performers.
positive
A flawed but engrossing thriller.
positive
...unlikable, uninteresting, unfunny, and completely, utterly inept.
negative
The comedy is nonexistent.
negative
Otto-Sallies has a real filmmaker's eye.
positive
I couldn't recommend this film more.
positive
These are textbook lives of quiet desperation.
negative
Often hilarious.
positive
Probably the best case for Christianity since Chesterton and Lewis.
positive
The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory.
negative
Fluffy neo-noir hiding behind cutesy film references.
negative
...an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive, unmemorable filler.
negative
A sham construct based on theory, sleight-of-hand, and ill-wrought hypothesis.
negative
Your children will be occupied for 72 minutes.
positive
Snipes is both a snore and utter tripe.
negative
Another week, another gross-out college comedy--ugh.
negative
Assured, glossy and shot through with brittle desperation.
positive
Brilliantly written and well-acted, Yellow Asphalt is an uncompromising film.
positive
``Birthday Girl'' is an actor's movie first and foremost.
positive
Everything about The Quiet American is good, except its timing.
positive
A gangster movie with the capacity to surprise.
positive
A moving and not infrequently breathtaking film.
positive
Adaptation is simply brilliant.
positive
A delightful, if minor, pastry of a movie.
positive
This is one of the year's best films.
positive
A thoroughly enjoyable, heartfelt coming-of-age comedy.
positive
Everyone's to blame here.
negative
A truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation.
positive
...although this idea is ``new'' the results are tired.
negative
Great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood.
positive
A no-holds-barred cinematic treat.
positive
Wise and deadpan humorous.
positive
The performances are uniformly good.
positive
Interesting and thoroughly unfaithful version of Carmen
positive
Warm and exotic.
positive
Crummy.
negative
At once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious.
positive
Provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the Holocaust.
positive
An enthralling, entertaining feature.
positive
Woefully pretentious.
negative
The movie is a mess from start to finish.
negative
Believability wasn't one of the film's virtues.
negative
Drowning's too good for this sucker.
negative
An even more predictable, cliche-ridden endeavor than its predecessor.
negative
The first Bond movie in ages that isn't fake fun.
positive
A technical triumph and an extraordinary bore.
negative
Its director's most substantial feature for some time.
positive
A film that suffers because of its many excesses.
negative
It challenges, this nervy oddity, like modern art should.
positive
A true-blue delight.
positive
An entertaining, if ultimately minor, thriller.
positive
insightfully written, delicately performed
positive
It should be doing a lot of things, but doesn't.
negative
Ryan Gosling ... is at 22 a powerful young actor.
positive
Two hours of junk.
negative
Very predictable but still entertaining
positive
An impeccable study in perversity.
positive
The gags, and the script, are a mixed bag.
negative
A dull, dumb and derivative horror film.
negative
A small movie with a big heart.
positive
An emotionally strong and politically potent piece of cinema.
positive
A peculiar misfire that even Tunney can't save.
negative
Visually captivating.
positive
A bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort.
negative
The film can depress you about life itself.
negative
Remarkable for its intelligence and intensity.
positive
It is quite a vision.
positive
A slick, engrossing melodrama.
positive
The worst film of the year.
negative
The Pianist is Polanski's best film.
positive
Alternately frustrating and rewarding.
positive
Great character interaction.
positive
It looks good, but it is essentially empty.
negative
A stylistic romp that's always fun to watch.
positive
Runs on the pure adrenalin of Pacino's performance.
positive
Funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness.
positive
Schneidermeister... Makin' a fool of himself... Losin' his fan base...
negative
Uplifting, funny and wise.
positive
An awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't work.
negative
Despite its faults, Gangs excels in spectacle and pacing.
positive