text stringlengths 4 279 | label int64 0 1 |
|---|---|
thumbs up to paxton for not falling into the hollywood trap and making a vanity project with nothing new to offer . | 1 |
an involving true story of a chinese actor who takes up drugs and winds up in an institution -- acted mostly by the actual people involved . | 1 |
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 |
most thrillers send audiences out talking about specific scary scenes or startling moments ; `` frailty `` leaves us with the terrifying message that the real horror may be waiting for us at home . | 1 |
blade ii has a brilliant director and charismatic star , but it suffers from rampant vampire devaluation . | 0 |
an original little film about one young woman 's education . | 1 |
we 're left with a story that tries to grab us , only to keep letting go at all the wrong moments . | 0 |
a tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid . | 0 |
it 's fun , but the code-talk will fly right over everyone 's head | 1 |
the bottom line is the piece works brilliantly . | 1 |
amy and matthew have a bit of a phony relationship , but the film works in spite of it . | 1 |
there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman 's whimsical comedy very annie-mary but not enough to sustain the film . | 0 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
strange it is , but delightfully so . | 1 |
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 |
where bowling for columbine is at its most valuable is in its examination of america 's culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence . | 1 |
a quaint , romanticized rendering . | 0 |
the script is a tired one , with few moments of joy rising above the stale material . | 0 |
efteriades gives the neighborhood -- scenery , vibe and all -- the cinematic equivalent of a big , tender hug . | 1 |
one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . | 0 |
the kids often appear to be reading the lines and are incapable of conveying any emotion . | 0 |
waiting for godard can be fruitful : 'in praise of love ' is the director 's epitaph for himself . | 1 |
it is refreshingly undogmatic about its characters . | 1 |
leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . | 0 |
what saves this deeply affecting film from being merely a collection of wrenching cases is corcuera 's attention to detail . | 1 |
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 |
an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer 's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . | 0 |
cute , funny , heartwarming digitally animated feature film with plenty of slapstick humor for the kids , lots of in-jokes for the adults and heart enough for everyone . | 1 |
the first half bursts with a goofy energy previous disney films only used for a few minutes here and there . | 1 |
a pleasant romantic comedy . | 1 |
a solid , spooky entertainment worthy of the price of a ticket . | 1 |
what could have been a pointed little chiller about the frightening seductiveness of new technology loses faith in its own viability and succumbs to joyless special-effects excess . | 0 |
with or without ballast tanks , k-19 sinks to a harrison ford low . | 0 |
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 |
it 's full of cheesy dialogue , but great trashy fun that finally returns de palma to his pulpy thrillers of the early '80s . | 1 |
with its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel , bloody sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in derry . | 1 |
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 |
equilibrium is what george orwell might have imagined had today 's mood-altering drug therapy been envisioned by chemists in 1949 . | 1 |
bittersweet comedy/drama full of life , hand gestures , and some really adorable italian guys . | 1 |
a complex psychological drama about a father who returns to his son 's home after decades away . | 1 |
one key problem with these ardently christian storylines is that there is never any question of how things will turn out . | 0 |
this is mostly well-constructed fluff , which is all it seems intended to be . | 1 |
lazily directed by charles stone iii . . . from a leaden script by matthew cirulnick and novelist thulani davis . | 0 |
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 |
dignified ceo 's meet at a rustic retreat and pee against a tree . can you bear the laughter ? | 0 |
a very witty take on change , risk and romance , and the film uses humour to make its points about acceptance and growth . | 1 |
the film affords us intriguing glimpses of the insights gleaned from a lifetime of spiritual inquiry , but ram dass : fierce grace does n't organize it with any particular insight . | 0 |
this is an elegantly balanced movie -- every member of the ensemble has something fascinating to do -- that does n't reveal even a hint of artifice . | 1 |
my big fat greek wedding is not only the best date movie of the year , it 's also a -- dare i say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally american , i might add -- slice of comedic bliss . | 1 |
rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . | 0 |
this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it 's the worst movie i 've seen this summer . | 0 |
like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you 've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably wo n't see the next six . | 0 |
consists of a plot and jokes done too often by people far more talented than ali g | 0 |
mr . caine and mr . fraser are the whole show here , with their memorable and resourceful performances . | 1 |
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0 |
a journey through memory , a celebration of living , and a sobering rumination on fatality , classism , and ignorance . | 1 |
do n't wait to see this terrific film with your kids -- if you do n't have kids borrow some . | 1 |
the movie 's blatant derivativeness is one reason it 's so lackluster . | 0 |
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 |
an ideal love story for those intolerant of the more common saccharine genre . | 1 |
weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title . | 1 |
crammed with incident , and bristles with passion and energy . | 1 |
it is n't that the picture is unfamiliar , but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems . | 1 |
it 's a bad action movie because there 's no rooting interest and the spectacle is grotesque and boring . | 0 |
walsh ca n't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice 's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . | 0 |
there may have been a good film in `` trouble every day , `` but it is not what is on the screen . | 0 |
a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor . | 1 |
screenwriter chris ver weil 's directing debut is good-natured and never dull , but its virtues are small and easily overshadowed by its predictability . | 0 |
not exactly the bees knees | 0 |
sad to say -- it accurately reflects the rage and alienation that fuels the self-destructiveness of many young people . | 1 |
greg kinnear gives a mesmerizing performance as a full-fledged sex addict who is in complete denial about his obsessive behavior . | 1 |
exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise . | 0 |
just dreadful . i do n't blame eddie murphy but should n't owen wilson know a movie must have a story and a script ? | 0 |
parker can not sustain the buoyant energy level of the film 's city beginnings into its country conclusion | 1 |
quite frankly , i ca n't see why any actor of talent would ever work in a mcculloch production again if they looked at how this movie turned out . | 0 |
marries the amateurishness of the blair witch project with the illogic of series 7 : the contenders to create a completely crass and forgettable movie . | 0 |
in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a rM-isumM-i loaded with credits like `` girl in bar # 3 . `` | 0 |
the actors are simply too good , and the story too intriguing , for technical flaws to get in the way . | 1 |
`` i blame all men for war , `` [ the warden 's daughter ] tells her father . the movie is about as deep as that sentiment . | 0 |
it 's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice . | 1 |
the actors are so terrific at conveying their young angst , we do indeed feel for them . | 1 |
even if the ride 's a little bumpy , with a final lap that 's all too suspiciously smooth , you got ta give director roger michell , best known for the superfluous notting hill , credit for trying . | 1 |
just a kiss wants desperately to come off as a fanciful film about the typical problems of average people . but it is set in a world that is very , very far from the one most of us inhabit . | 0 |
beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . | 1 |
it treats ana 's journey with honesty that is tragically rare in the depiction of young women in film . | 1 |
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 |
surprisingly powerful and universal . | 1 |
just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole . | 0 |
chicago pode atM-i ser um filme divertido e cativante ( como M-i ) , mas acaba representando um passo que vai na direM-gM-co contrM-aria M-` evoluM-gM-co dos musicais . | 1 |
there 's not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy . | 0 |
an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . . | 1 |
unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . | 1 |
set in a 1986 harlem that does n't look much like anywhere in new york . | 0 |
it extends the writings of jean genet and john rechy , the films of fassbinder , perhaps even the nocturnal works of goya . | 1 |
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 |
one of the most important and exhilarating forms of animated filmmaking since old walt doodled steamboat willie . | 1 |
. . . with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum , i realized this is a throwaway movie that wo n't stand the test of time . it 's a trifle . | 0 |
a modest and messy metaphysical thriller offering more questions than answers . | 0 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.