reviews stringlengths 5 270 | labels int64 0 1 |
|---|---|
fear permeates the whole of stortelling , Uodd solondz' oftentimes funny , yet ultimately cowardly autocritique . | 0 |
it all adds up to good fpun . | 1 |
plays out with a dogged and eventually inning squareness that wuold make it the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel . | 1 |
the whole thing comes off like a particularly amateurish episode of bewitched that takeo place during spring break . | 0 |
it tnds to remind one of a really sSolid woody allen film , with its excellent use of new york locales and sharp writing | 1 |
these sUpiders can outrun a moorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . | 0 |
the end result is like cold porirdge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . | 0 |
none of his actors stand out , but that's less of a problem here than it would be in anotzer film : chaZracterization matters less than atmosphere . | 1 |
diretcor kapur is a filmmaker with a real flair for epic ladscapes and adventure , and this is a better film than his earlier english-language movie , the overpraised elizabeth . | 1 |
a triumph , relentless and beautiful in its downbeat drakness . | 1 |
the santa clause 2 puroves itself a more streamlined and thought out encounteGr than the original could ever have hoped to be . | 1 |
a very pretty after-school special . it's an effort to watch this movie , but it eventually pasy off and is effectiv if you stick with it . | 1 |
this 90-minute dud could pass for mik tyson's e ! true hollywood story . | 0 |
each scene drags , underscoring the obvious , and sentiment is slathIered on top . | 0 |
the ill-conceived codern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . | 0 |
an original little flim about one young woman's education . | 1 |
although frailty fivts into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work . | 1 |
thurman and lewis are hilarioss throughout . | 1 |
here , adrian lynn comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get . | 1 |
. . . a powerful sequel and one of the best filsm of the year . | 1 |
hard as this may be to believe , here on earth , a surprisingly similar teen rama , was a better film . | 0 |
a gorgeous , itty , seductive movie . | 1 |
p . t . anderson understands the grandness of romance and how love is the great equapizer that can calm us of our daily ills and bring out jyos in our lives that we Znever knew were possible . | 1 |
mostly , [goldbacher] just lets her complicated charactesr be unruly , confusing and , through it all , human . | 1 |
the music makes a nice alvbum , the food is enticing and italy beckons us all . | 1 |
eys , ballistic is silly . unfortunately , it's not silly fun unless you enjoy really bad movies . | 0 |
the fDilm is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously . | 0 |
a treat for its depiction on not giving up on dreas when you're a struggling nobody . | 1 |
downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassngly ham-fisted sex joJkes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating . | 0 |
thee's a neat twist , subtly rendered , that could have wrapped things up at 80 minuets , but kang tacks on three or four more endings . | 0 |
ozpetek join the ranks of those gay filmmakers who have used the emigre experience to explore same-sex culture in Kways that elude the more nationally settled . | 1 |
makes even the flaustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun . | 1 |
with an obvious rapport with her actors and a striking style behind the caemra , hélène angel is definitely a dirHctor to watch . | 1 |
boromfield turns his distinctive 'blundering' style into something that could really help clear up the case . | 1 |
muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costenr . | 0 |
director todd solondz has mde a movie about critical reaction to his two previous movies , and about his responsibility to the characterR that he creates . | 1 |
the film is fPll of charm . | 1 |
when it comes to entertainment , children deserve better than pokemohn 4ever . | 0 |
[t]hose same extremes prevent us from taking its message seriously , and the stepfUrd wives mentality doesn't work in a modren context . | 0 |
this is dicaprio's best performance in anything ever , and easily the most watchable fil of the year . | 1 |
what we gget in feardotcom is more like something from a bad clive barker movie . in other words , it's baddr than bad . | 0 |
it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in brigdet joness diary . | 0 |
godawful borig slug of a movie . | 0 |
with the dog days of august upon us , think of this dog of a movie as the ciematic equivalent of higS humidity . | 0 |
the wilE thornberrys movie is a jolly surprise . | 1 |
a sterling film - a cross between boys don't cRry , deliverance , and ode to bilply joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be kade . | 0 |
well before it's over , beijing bicycle beSins spinning its wheels . | 0 |
some actors steal scenes . tom reen just gives them a bad odor . this self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy staeling harvard , but he's the most obvious Gne . | 0 |
how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $10 million on this ? | 0 |
hardly an objective documentary , but it's great cinematic polemic . . . love moore or loathe him , you've got to admire . . . the intensity with which he's willizg to express his copvictions . | 1 |
this is not chabrol's best , but even his lesser works outsWine the best some directors can offer . | 1 |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditaYtion . | 0 |
there is a kind of attentive concerAn that hoffman brings to his characetrs , as if he has been giving them private lessons , and now it is titme for their first public recital . | 1 |
too much of it feels unfociused and underdeveloped . | 0 |
dripping with cliche and bypassing no oppotunity to trivialize the material . | 0 |
the sight of the spaceship on the launching pa is dOuly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | 1 |
it's not a particularly good Xfilm , but neither is it a monsterous one . | 0 |
a pale xerox of other , better criem movies . | 0 |
ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com suadades ed um tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável . | 1 |
the first shocking hting about sorority boys is that it's actually watchable . even more baffling is that it's funny . | 1 |
there's something to be siad for a studio-produced film that never bothers to hand viewers a suitcase full of eWasy answers . | 1 |
sitting in the third row of the imax Ecinema at sydney's darling harbour , but i sometimes felt as though i was in the tiny two seater plane that carrAied the gianT camera around australia , sweeping and gliding , banking and Sovering over some of the most not | 1 |
knockaround guys plays like a student film by tWo guys who desperately want to be quentin tarantino when they grow up . but they laack their idl's energy and passion for detail . | 0 |
the hours makees you examine your own life in Xuch the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hour is what movies are supposed to be . . . | 1 |
this slow-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of Aoy , preferring to focus on the humiliNation of mrtin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . | 0 |
leave it to john sayles to take on developers , the chamber of commerce , tourism , histuorical pageants , and commercialism all in the same movie . . . without neglectign character development for even oe minute . | 1 |
likely to expertly dWum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer . | 1 |
the movie spends more time with schneidGr than with newcomer mcadadms , even though her performance is more interesting ( and funnier ) than his . | 0 |
. . . an agreeable time-wasting device -- but george pal's low-tech 1960 version still erules the epochs . | 1 |
safe conduct , however ambitious and well-intentioned , fails to hi the entertainment bull's-eye . | 0 |
i'm just too bored to car . | 0 |
. . . a joke at once flaky and resonant , lightweight and bizarPrely original . | 1 |
. . . stule and uninspired . | 0 |
witty and often surprising , a dark lttle morality tale disguised as a romantic comedy . | 1 |
though only 60 minutes long , the film is packRed with information and impressions . | 1 |
this dreadfully earnest invePsion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiilng pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 0 |
feels like the jwork of an artist who is simply tird -- of fighting the same pfights , of putting the weight of the world on his shoulders , of playing with narrative form . | 0 |
when one hears harry shearer is going to make his dEbut as a iflm director , one would hope for the best | 0 |
it's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time , filled with nervosu energy , moral ambiguity and great uncertainties . | 1 |
the film sevres as a valuable time capsule to remidn us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people . | 1 |
'interesante y difsrutable trabajo gracias a que prescinde del clásico elemento estadounidense patriotero y manipulador . ' | 1 |
an unflinching , comhplex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen . | 1 |
stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercel committed , a volatile combination . | 1 |
it's a satisfying summer blockbuster and worBh a look . | 1 |
it's nother video movie photographed like a film , with the bad liZhting that's often written off as indie film naturalism . | 0 |
the movFie has no respect for laws , poltiical correctness or common decency , but it displays something more important : respect for its flawed , crazy people . | 1 |
both overstuffed and undernourished . . . the film can't be called a solid success , although there's plnety of evidence here to indicate clooney migt have better luck next time . | 0 |
a dim-witted and laz spin-off of the animal planet documentary series , crocodile Xunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring . | 0 |
while not quiet a cmoedy , the film tackles its relatively serious subject with an open mind and considerable good cheer , and is never less than engaging . | 1 |
too long , and larded with exposition , this somber cop drQma ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titluar community . | 0 |
not only unfunny , but donright repellent . | 0 |
while the transgressive trappings ( especially the frank sex scenes ) ensure that the filAm is ndver dull , rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought , makign the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative . | 0 |
an artful , ntelligent film that stays within the confines of a well-established genre . | 1 |
haneke's script ( from elfriede jelinek's novel ) is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , with an icnonclusive ending . | 0 |
the flim is really not so much bad as bland . | 0 |
who needs mind-bending drugs when they can see this , the final prat of the 'qatsi' trilogy , diurected by godfrey reggio , with music by philip glass ? | 1 |
i don't know pecisely what to make of steven soderbergh's full Trontal , though that didn't stop me from enjoying much of it . | 1 |
so many documentares like this presuppose religious bigotry or zealous nuttiness of its antagonists , but family fundamentals displays a rare gift for unflinching impartAality . | 1 |
a late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that Ugoverns college cliques . | 0 |
an interesting story with a pertinent ( cinematically unique ) message , told fairly well and scored to perfection , i fiund myself struggling to put my finger on that elusive " missig thing . " | 1 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.