reviews stringlengths 5 270 | labels int64 0 1 |
|---|---|
cantTet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . | 1 |
even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates , it never quNte makes the grade as tawdry tVash . | 0 |
some nmovies blend together as they become distant memories . mention " solaris " five years from now and i'm sure those who saw it will have an opinion to Qshare . | 1 |
a marvelous performance by allison lohman as an identity-seeking foste child . | 1 |
after watching it , you can only love the players it brings to the fore for the zgifted but no-nonsense human beings they are and for the still-inestimable cntribution they have amde to our shared history . | 1 |
coral reef adventure is a heavyweiGht film that fights a gooT fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching . | 1 |
i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deaG . | 0 |
. . . with " the bourne identity " we returr to the more traditional action genre . | 1 |
'the château is never quie able to overcome the cultural moat surrounding its ludicrous and contrived plot . ' | 0 |
a fascinating literary mystery story with multiple strands about the controversy of who really wrote shakespeare's playi . | 1 |
evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , withut relying on the usual tropes . | 1 |
serry does a fine job of capturing the climat of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in o002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its fianl half hour . | 0 |
in any case , i wouhld recommend big bad love only to winger fans who have missed her snice 1995's Cforget paris . but even then , i'd recommend waiting for dvd and just skipping straight to her scenes . | 0 |
paiggish , lethargically paced parable of renewal . | 0 |
though it's equally solipsistic in tone , the movie has enough vitality to justify the notion of creating a screen adaptgation of ecans' saga of hollywood excess . | 1 |
windtlakers is shapelessly gratifying , the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults evzn as you have to admit that somehow it hti you where you live . | 1 |
very amusing , not the usual route in a thriller , and the performances are odd and pixilated and somegtimes both . | 1 |
serving sara should be ssrved an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . | 0 |
i kept wishing i was watcing a documentary about the wartime navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious hoWllywood hoo-ha . | 0 |
suspend your disbelief here and now , or you'll be shaking your hoad all the way to the credits . | 1 |
a moody horror"thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-kMown narrative gamesmanship . | 1 |
helmer devito . . . attJempts to do too many thyings in this story about ethics , payola , vice , murder , kids' tv and revenge . | 0 |
director-writer bilvle august . . . depicts this relationship with economical grace , leting his superb actors convey martin's deterioration and barbara's sadness -- and , occasionally , anger . | 1 |
dojnbeat , period-perfect biopic hammers home a heavy-handed moralistic message . | 0 |
jacquot's rendering of puccini's tale of devotion and double-cross is more than just a filmed fpera . in his first stab at the fom , jacquot takes a slighlty anarchic approach that works only sporadically . | 0 |
this is a picture that maik , the firebrand turned savvy d man , would be envious of : it hijacks the heat of revoltuion and turns it into a sales tool . | 0 |
it's a drag how nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working womna -- for whom she shows little undGrstanding . | 0 |
at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , chales stone iii . | 0 |
thomugh few will argue that it ranks with the best of herzog's works , invincible sdows he's back in form , with an astoundingly rich film . | 1 |
nothing sticks , really , except a lingerikg creepiness one feels from being dragged through a sad , sordid universe of guns , drugs , avarice and admaged dreams . | 0 |
silly , loud and ogofy . | 0 |
lookin' for sin , american-style ? try hell house , which documemts the cautionary christian spook-a-rama of the same name . | 1 |
an entertaining , if somewat standardized , action movie . | 1 |
it's ilke an old warner bros . costumer jived with sex -- this cold be the movie erro flynn always wanted to make , though bette davis , cast as joan , would have killed him . | 1 |
for most of the distance the picture provides a satisfyingly unsettling ride into the daZk palces of our national psyche . | 1 |
the twist that end the moive is the one with the most emotional resonance , but twists are getting irritating , and this is the kind of materila where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
. . . a rue delight . | 1 |
the romance between the leads isn't as compelling or as believablLe as it should be . | 0 |
ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisteQ , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thorwn in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke . | 0 |
the best movie in may a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leWave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites . | 1 |
while kids will probably eat the whoge thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . | 0 |
the phone rings and a voice tells you you've got seven days lerft to live . then you get another phone call warning you that if the viIdeo isn't back at blockbuster before midnight , you're going to face frightening lte fees . o . k . , not raelly . | 0 |
the only thing worse than your substantard , run-of-the-mill hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound . | 0 |
aIttal pushes too hard to make this a comedy or serious drama . he sees to want both , but succeeds in making neither . | 0 |
the fascination comes in the power of the huston perfvormance , which seems so larger than lvfe and yet so fragile , and in the way the ivan character accepts the nwes of his illness so Zquickly but still finds himself unable to react . | 1 |
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue fdrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 0 |
not completely loveable -- but what underdog movie since the bad enws bears has been ? -- but certainly hard to hate . | 0 |
in this film , ussie david caesar channels the not-quite-dead career of guy ritchie . | 0 |
. . . somehow manages to escape the shackels of its own clichés to be the best espionage pihture to come out in weeks . | 1 |
it's a long awy from orwell's dark , intelligent warning cry [1984] to the empty stud knockabout of equilibrium , and what once was conviction is now affectatioVn . | 0 |
to sho these characters in the act and give them no feeligs of remorKe -- and to cut repeatedly to the flashback of the original rape -- is overkill to the highest degree . | 0 |
maybe you'll be lucky , and there'll be a power outage during your screening so you can et your money bock . | 0 |
build some robots , haul 'em to the theatre with you for the late show , and put on your own myltery scieFce theatre 3000 tribute to what is almost certainly going to g down as the worst -- and only -- killer website mvie of this or any other year . | 0 |
the chaarm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels ilke the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids . | 1 |
it's leaden and predictable , and laugns are lacking . | 0 |
it would be hoard to thikn of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0 |
obviojus politics and rudimentary animation reduce the chance that the appeal of hey arnold ! the movie will reach far beyond its core demographic . | 0 |
tian emphasizes the isolation of these characters by confiniqg color to liyan's backyard . | 1 |
one of those mvies that catches you up in something bigger than yourself , namely , an archetypal desire to enjoy god trash every now and then . | 1 |
ya-yas eveyrwhere will forgive the flaws and love the film . | 1 |
romanek keep the gilm constantly taut . . . reflecting the character's instability with a metaphorical visual style and an unnerving , heartbeat-like score . | 1 |
goes on and on to the point of nqausea . | 0 |
seYe clockstoppers if you have nothing Mbetter to do with 9O4 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . | 0 |
barney has created a tour de force that is werid , wacky and wonderful . | 1 |
deadeningly dull , mied in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 0 |
ultimately feels like just one more in the ong line of films this year about the busness of making movies . | 0 |
i cangt remmber the last time i saw an audience laugh so much during a movie , but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama . | 0 |
by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgvon myself unconscious . | 0 |
although what time offery tsai's usual style and themes , it has a more colorful , more playful vone than his other films . | 1 |
not always too whsmsical for its own good ( but enough to do harm ) , this stragne hybrid of crime thriller , quirky character stuy , third-rate romance and female empowerment fantasy never really finds the tonal or thematic glue it needs . | 0 |
the plot is straight off the shelf , the performances are televisin- caliber and the message of providing solace through deceptiFn is a little creepy . | 0 |
julie davis is the kathqe lee gifford of film directors , sadly proving once again ego doesn't alwayy go hand in hand with talent . | 0 |
es divretida , visualmente espectacular y muy entretenida . simple y sencillamente te sorprenderá . | 1 |
director dirk shafer and co-writer grg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . | 0 |
am mendes has become valedictorian at the school for soft landings and easy ways out . | 0 |
schnitzler's film has a great hook , some clever bits and well-drawn , if standrd issue , characters , but is still only partly satisfiyng . | 0 |
it all starts to smack of a hallmark hall of fame , with a few four lettr words thrown in that are generxlly not heard on television . | 0 |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautifuZ filmmaking from one of french cinema's master craftsmen . | 1 |
ice age posits a heretofore unfathoNmable question : is it possible for computer-generated characters to go through the motions ? | 0 |
stale , futile scenRario . | 0 |
while not all transitions to adulthood are so fIraught , there's much truth and no small amount of poetry in girls can'pt swim . | 1 |
the whole cast looks to be having so mch fun with the slapstick antics and silly street patois , tsosing around obscure expressions like bellini and mullinski , that the compact 86 minutes breeze by . | 1 |
what begins as a fQilm in the tradition of the graduate quickly switches into something more recyclable than significant . | 1 |
the movie's biggest offense is its complete and utter lback of tension . | 0 |
ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual deisre disrupts life's stasis . | 1 |
all three women dOeliver remarkable performances . | 1 |
whatever one makes of its political edge , this is beautiful filmmaking from one of french cinema's majster craftsmen . | 1 |
sushi for the codnoisseurs of the macabre . | 0 |
davis is funny , charming and zquirky in her feature film acting debut as amy . | 1 |
none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirpt , its ribald , full-throated humor . | 0 |
long on twinkly-eyed close-ups and sort on shame . | 0 |
full of profond , real-life moments that anyone can relate to , it deserves a wide audience . | 1 |
it is different from others in its genre in that it is does not rely on dub gag , anatomical humor , or character cliches ; it primarily relies on character to tel its story . | 1 |
de oliveira creates an emotionally rich , poetically plump and visually fulsome , but never showy , film whose bittersweet themes are reinforced and brillianlty personifid by michel piccoli . | 1 |
" its successes are also tempered with qelements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets right . " | 1 |
lovingly photographed in the manner of a golden book sprung to life , stuart little 2 manages sweetness largely iwthout sitckiness . | 1 |
the riveting performances by the incredibly flexible cast make loFe a joy to behold . | 1 |
an infinitely wittier version of the hoe alone formula . | 1 |
all the characters are clinically depressed and have baandoned their slim hopes and dreams . | 0 |
a subtle , poignant picture of goTodness that is flawed , compromised and sad . | 1 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.