text stringlengths 4 279 | label int64 0 1 |
|---|---|
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to lose them . | 1 |
this film is too busy hitting all of its assigned marks to take on any life of its own . | 0 |
collateral damage offers formula payback and the big payoff , but the explosions tend to simply hit their marks , pyro-correctly . | 0 |
it 's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on oprah . | 0 |
a perplexing example of promise unfulfilled , despite many charming moments . | 0 |
nothing sticks , really , except a lingering creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and damaged dreams . | 0 |
it would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of oscar wilde 's classic satire . | 1 |
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 |
if high crimes were any more generic it would have a universal product code instead of a title . | 0 |
there 's lots of cool stuff packed into espn 's ultimate x . | 1 |
offers absolutely nothing i had n't already seen . | 0 |
'no es la mejor cinta de la serie , ni la mejor con brosnan a la cabeza , pero de que entretiene ni duda cabe . ' | 1 |
dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . | 0 |
a journey that 's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman 's brilliance almost makes worth taking . | 0 |
it can not be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0 |
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 |
a small movie with a big impact . | 1 |
do you say `` hi `` to your lover when you wake up in the morning ? | 0 |
on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it were n't such a clever adaptation of the bard 's tragic play . | 1 |
zhang . . . has done an amazing job of getting realistic performances from his mainly nonprofessional cast . | 1 |
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 |
with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives . | 1 |
the film proves unrelentingly grim -- and equally engrossing . | 1 |
an impossible romance , but we root for the patronized iranian lad . | 1 |
without resorting to camp or parody , haynes ( like sirk , but differently ) has transformed the rhetoric of hollywood melodrama into something provocative , rich , and strange . | 1 |
'what 's the russian word for wow ! ? ' | 1 |
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 |
chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama . | 0 |
presents an astute appraisal of middle american musical torpor and the desperate struggle to escape it . | 1 |
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 |
as shaky as the plot is , kaufman 's script is still memorable for some great one-liners . | 1 |
the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . | 0 |
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 |
a trashy , exploitative , thoroughly unpleasant experience . | 0 |
draggin ' about dragons | 0 |
the movie occasionally threatens to become didactic , but it 's too grounded in the reality of its characters to go over the edge . a touch of humor or an unexpected plot twist always pulls it back . | 1 |
a gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional , unlikable characters and hackneyed , threadbare comic setups . | 0 |
an intelligent fiction about learning through cultural clash . | 1 |
the story line may be 127 years old , but el crimen del padre amaro . . . could n't be more timely in its despairing vision of corruption within the catholic establishment . | 1 |
despite modest aspirations its occasional charms are not to be dismissed . | 1 |
features one of the most affecting depictions of a love affair ever committed to film . | 1 |
a sustained fest of self-congratulation between actor and director that leaves scant place for the viewer . | 0 |
it 's a beautifully accomplished lyrical meditation on a bunch of despondent and vulnerable characters living in the renown chelsea hotel . . . | 1 |
a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . | 0 |
the rules of attraction gets us too drunk on the party favors to sober us up with the transparent attempts at moralizing . | 0 |
solid , lump-in-the-throat family entertainment that derives its power by sticking to the facts . | 1 |
although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . | 0 |
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 |
high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort . | 1 |
lightweight but appealing . | 1 |
most of the characters come off as pantomimesque sterotypes . | 0 |
an unsettling , memorable cinematic experience that does its predecessors proud . | 1 |
an idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone . | 1 |
bad and baffling from the get-go . | 0 |
murphy and wilson actually make a pretty good team . . . but the project surrounding them is distressingly rote . | 0 |
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 |
shadyac , who belongs with the damned for perpetrating patch adams , trots out every ghost trick from the sixth sense to the mothman prophecies . | 0 |
to imagine the life of harry potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized woody allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is kung pow : enter the fist . | 0 |
an extremely unpleasant film . | 0 |
so few movies explore religion that it 's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler . | 0 |
( caine ) proves once again he has n't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film . | 1 |
it would be interesting to hear from the other side , but in talk to her , the women are down for the count . | 1 |
well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin . | 1 |
snow dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him | 0 |
it gets bogged down by hit-and-miss topical humour before getting to the truly good stuff . | 0 |
it 's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness , and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet i found it weirdly appealing . | 1 |
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 |
an unbelievably fun film just a leading man away from perfection . | 1 |
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 |
essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . | 1 |
. . . better described as a ghost story gone badly awry . | 0 |
a series of immaculately composed shots of patch adams quietly freaking out does not make for much of a movie . | 0 |
ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies . | 0 |
a pleasant enough movie , held together by skilled ensemble actors . | 1 |
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 |
the movie has an avalanche of eye-popping visual effects . | 1 |
the filmmakers ' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls ' environment . | 1 |
fun and nimble . | 1 |
the am-radio soundtrack and game cast -- tierney and the inimitable walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit . | 1 |
a clichM-id and shallow cautionary tale about the hard-partying lives of gay men . | 0 |
promises is one film that 's truly deserving of its oscar nomination . | 1 |
formula 51 is so trite that even yu 's high-energy action stylings ca n't break through the stupor . | 0 |
confirms the nagging suspicion that ethan hawke would be even worse behind the camera than he is in front of it . | 0 |
nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters . | 0 |
instead of hiding pinocchio from critics , miramax should have hidden it from everyone . | 0 |
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . | 0 |
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 |
against all odds in heaven and hell , it creeped me out just fine . | 1 |
i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man 's treasure could prove to be another man 's garbage . | 1 |
competently directed but terminally cute drama . | 0 |
maybe it 's asking too much , but if a movie is truly going to inspire me , i want a little more than this . | 0 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
the predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch , so stilted and unconvincing are the performances . | 0 |
sheridan is painfully bad , a fourth-rate jim carrey who does n't understand the difference between dumb fun and just plain dumb . | 0 |
this is n't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it 's the cliffsnotes with pages missing . | 0 |
this is a stunning film , a one-of-a-kind tour de force . | 1 |
as home movie gone haywire , it 's pretty enjoyable , but as sexual manifesto , i 'd rather listen to old tori amos records . | 1 |
based on dave barry 's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters ' moves and overlapping story . | 1 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.