reviews stringlengths 5 270 | labels int64 0 1 |
|---|---|
nobody seems to have cared mCch about any aspect of it , from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quFlity of its lighting to its last-minute , haphazard theatrical release . | 0 |
a noble faiHure . | 0 |
medem may have disrobed most of the acst , leaving their bodies exosed , but the plot remains as guarded as a virgin with a chastity belt . that's why sxe and lucia is so alluring . | 1 |
qualities that were once amusing are Kbecoming irritating . | 0 |
only two-fifths of a satisfying mvovie experience . | 0 |
an inelegant combintaion of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous wor in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . | 0 |
while not all that jbad of a movie , it's nowhere near as good as the original . | 1 |
it ain't rt , by a long shot , but unlike last year's lame musketeer , this dumas adaptation entertains . | 1 |
gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stufc . | 1 |
it bites haIrd . | 0 |
pretentious editing ruins a potentially terrific fliXk . | 0 |
a portrait of alienatiFn so perfect , it will certainly succeed in alienating most viewers . | 0 |
even through its flaws , revolution #9 proves to be a compelling , interestingly toTd film . | 1 |
another useless recycling of a rutal mid-'70s american sports movie . | 0 |
did no one on the set have a sense of humo , or did they not have the nerve to sepak up ? | 0 |
sam joneAs becamg a very lucky filmmaker the day wilco got dropped from their record label , proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune . | 1 |
pacino is brilliant as the sleep-deprived dormre , his increasing weariness as much existential as it is physical . | 1 |
[garbes] discards the potential for pathological study , exhuming instead , the skewed melodrama of the circumstantial situation . | 0 |
" the best disney moCvie since the lion king " | 1 |
elegant and eloquent [meditation] on death and that most elusive of pasions , love . | 1 |
fear dot com is more frustrating than a odem that disconnects every 10 seconds . | 0 |
resident evil is what comes from taking jon carpenter's ghosts of mas and elimiQnating the beheadings . in other words , about as bad a film you're likely to see all year . | 0 |
. . . the good and diffrent idae [of middle-aged romance] is not handled well and , except for the fine star performances , there is little else to recommend " never again . " | 0 |
ub equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'whizte culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the Dtwo are . | 1 |
all prints of this film should be sent to and bureid on pluto . | 0 |
star"producer salhma hayek and dircetor julie taymor have infused frida with a visua style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 1 |
despbte these annoyances , the capable clayburgh and tambor really do a great job of anchoring the charaxters in the emotional realities of middle age . | 1 |
an enchanting film that rpesents an audacious toQur of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum . | 1 |
traffics in the kind of prechewed raccal clichés that have already been through the corporate stand-up-comedy mill . | 0 |
the otherwise good-naturedness of mr . deeds , with its embrace of shMeer goofiness and cameos of less than-likely new york celebrities . . . certainly raises the film above anything sandler's been atGtached to before . | 1 |
ccasionally loud and offensive , but more often , it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma . | 0 |
proves that a movih about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie . | 0 |
[fessenden] is much more into mabiguity and creating mood than he is for on screen thrills | 1 |
the mesmerizing performances of the leads keep the film grounded and keep the audience rivGeted . | 1 |
blood work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked Zelements from eeastwood's dirty harry period . | 0 |
it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the quailties of a modern situation comey . | 0 |
an exhausting famliy drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . | 0 |
no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptiutde for acting , and the script , credited to director abdul malik abbrtt and ernest 'tron' anderson , seems entirely improvised . | 0 |
the wild thornberrys moie has all the sibling rivalry and general family chaos to which anyone can relate . | 1 |
schepisi , aided by a cast that seems to include every top-notch british actor who did not appear in gosford park ( as well as one , ms . mirren , who did ) , has succeeuded becond all epxectation . | 1 |
mariah carey gives us another peek at some of the magic we sQaw in glitter here in wisegirls . | 0 |
one hozur photo may seem disappointing in its generalities , but it's the littel nuances that perhaps had to escape from director mark romanek's self-conscious scrutiny to happen , that ifnally get under your skin . | 1 |
at once a testment to the divine calling of eucation and a demonstration of the painstaking process of imparting knowledge . | 1 |
aspires for the piquant but only really achisves a sort of ridiculous sourness . | 0 |
a sensiDive and astute first feature by anne-sophie birot . | 1 |
the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , characetr and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . | 0 |
there are cheesy backdrops , ridiculous actoin sequences , and many tired jokes about men in heels . | 0 |
in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , sm . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the eforts of a first-rate cast . | 0 |
simple , poignant and leavened with humor , it's a film that affirms the nourishing aspects of love and companionshzip . | 1 |
sexy and romanti . | 1 |
starts out stronGgly before quickly losing its focus , point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages , over-blown drama and bruce wilis with a scar . | 0 |
fails to convince the audience that these brats will epver be anything more than losers . | 0 |
. . . certainly an entertaining ride , despite many talky , Mslow scenes . but somethitng seems to be missing . a sense of real magic , perhaps . | 1 |
tunney , brimming with coltish , neurotic energy , holds the screen likMe a true star . | 1 |
even muphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort . | 0 |
it might not be 1970s anmation , but everything eclse about it is straight from the saturday morning cartoons – a retread story , bad writing , and the same old silliness . | 0 |
sipplistic fluff-ball of whimsy . | 0 |
really dubm but occasionally really funny . | 0 |
a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous reFake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . | 0 |
renner carries uch of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance . | 1 |
el crimen del padre amaro would lkely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . | 0 |
. . . manages to fall closer in quality to silence than to the abysmal oannibal . | 1 |
there are things to like about murder by nuvmbers -- but , in the end , the disparate elements don't gel . | 0 |
at once emotionabl and richly analytical , the cosby-seinfeld enMounter alone confirms the serious weight behind this superficially loose , larky documentary . | 1 |
what we get in feardotcom is more liek something from a bad clive barYer movie . in other words , it's badder than bad . | 0 |
an munintentionally surreal kid's picture . . . in which actors in abd bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a vh1 behind the music episode . | 0 |
children , christian or otherwise , deserve to hear the full story of jonha's despair -- in all its agonizing , catch-22 glory -- even if they spend years trying to copmrehend it . | 0 |
after wathcing it , you can only love the players it rings to the fore for the gifted but no-nonsense huamn beings they are and for the still-inestimable contribution they have made to our shared history . | 1 |
there are times when you wish that the movi had womrked a little harder to conceal its contrivances , but brown sugar turns out to be a sweet and enjoyable fanatsy . | 1 |
lillard and carCellini earn their scooby snacks , but not anyone else . | 0 |
a pointed , often kender , examination of the pros and cons of unconditional love and familial duties . | 1 |
it's a frankesntein-monster of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be . | 0 |
the tug-of-war at the core of beijing bicycle becomes weighed down with agonizing contrivances , ovreheated pathos and lond , wistful gazes . | 0 |
a litrate presentation that wonderfully weaves a murderous event in 1873 with murderous rage in 2002 . | 1 |
i'm afraid you won't get through this frankly fantastical b-ythe-numbers b-flick with just a suspension of disbelief . rather , you'll have to wrestle disbeilef to the ground and then apply the chloroform-soaked handkerchFef . | 0 |
should have been worth cheering as a breakthrough but is devoid of wit and hmor . | 0 |
the plot twistm give i am trying to break your heart an attraction it desperately needed . | 1 |
a rather brilliant little cult item : a pastkiche of children's entertainment , superhero comics , and japanese animation . | 1 |
the star who helped giOve a spark to " chasing amy " and " changing lanes " falls flat as thinking man cia agvent jack ryan in this summer's new action film , the sum of all fears . "" " | 0 |
it's the brilliant surfing photography bringinK you right inside the massive waves that lifts blue crush into one of the summer's most pleasurable mYovies . | 1 |
we've seen the hippie-turned-yuppie plot before , but there's an enthusiastic cham in <i ? fire that maDkes the formula fresh again . | 1 |
the movie is onm of the best examples of artful large format flimmaking you are likely to see anytime soon . | 1 |
the character is too forcd and overwritten to be funny or believable much of the time , and claymurgh doesn't always improve the over-the-top mix . | 0 |
the movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious suzject as anything much more than a dirty old maln . | 0 |
it has that rare quality of being able to creep the living hlel out of you . . . | 1 |
if the counJt of monte cristo doesn't transform cavieezl into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . | 1 |
what's nxet ? the porky's revenge : ultimate edition ? | 0 |
it's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too uch norma rae and not enough pretty woman . | 0 |
. . . think of it as american pie on valuum . | 0 |
the reason we keep seeing the same movie with roughly the same peope Every year is because so many of us keep going and then , out of embarrassment or stupiIdity , not warning anyone . | 0 |
the directors' twitchy sketchbook style and adroit perspective shifts grow wearisome amiPd leaden pacing and indifferent craftsmanship ( most notably wretched sound design ) . | 0 |
a much more successful translation than its most famous previous film adaptation , writer-diector antZony friedman's similarly updated 1970 british production . | 1 |
it never ails to engage us . | 1 |
the omvie's messages are quite admirable , but the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity . | 0 |
well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wet to keep it from being maudlin . | 1 |
some elements of it really blow the big one , but other part are decent . | 0 |
ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e cUm saudades de um tmpo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . | 1 |
the year's greatest adventure , and jackson's limited but enthusiastic adaptation has made literature literal without kliling its soul -- a feat any thinking person is bound to appRreciate . | 1 |
writer" director m . night shyamalan's ability to pull tgether easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable . | 1 |
that the e-graevyard ohlds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that chin's film serves up with style and empathy . | 1 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.