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some remarkable achival film about how shanghai -lrb- of all places -rrb- served jews who escaped the holocaust . | positive |
frank capra played this story straight . | positive |
it 's still a comic book , but maguire makes it a comic book with soul . | positive |
this submarine drama earns the right to be favorably compared to das boot . | positive |
elegant , mannered and teasing . | positive |
combine the paranoid claustrophobia of a submarine movie with the unsettling spookiness of the supernatural -- why did n't hollywood think of this sooner ? | positive |
it 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | positive |
this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography . | positive |
garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work . | positive |
affable if not timeless , like mike raises some worthwhile themes while delivering a wholesome fantasy for kids . | positive |
-lrb- reno -rrb- delivers a monologue that manages to incorporate both the horror and the absurdity of the situation in a well-balanced fashion . | positive |
though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude . | positive |
it is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental , and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients . | positive |
if it 's unnerving suspense you 're after -- you 'll find it with ring , an indisputably spooky film ; with a screenplay to die for . | positive |
miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise , expertly plucking tension from quiet . | positive |
it strikes hardest ... when it reminds you how pertinent its dynamics remain . | positive |
there are moments of hilarity to be had . | positive |
a disoriented but occasionally disarming saga packed with moments out of an alice in wonderland adventure , a stalker thriller , and a condensed season of tv 's big brother . | positive |
graced with the kind of social texture and realism that would be foreign in american teen comedies . | positive |
the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama , but what makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul 's perspective . | positive |
a modest masterpiece . | positive |
... a light , yet engrossing piece . | positive |
a great companion piece to other napoleon films . | positive |
caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely . | positive |
like a veteran head cutter , barbershop is tuned in to its community . | positive |
like the chilled breath of oral storytelling frozen onto film . | positive |
all right , so it 's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny -lrb- sometimes hilarious -rrb- comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast . | positive |
i have always appreciated a smartly written motion picture , and , whatever flaws igby goes down may possess , it is undeniably that . | positive |
the film fearlessly gets under the skin of the people involved ... this makes it not only a detailed historical document , but an engaging and moving portrait of a subculture . | positive |
this is a dark , gritty , sometimes funny little gem . | positive |
less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling -lrb- though no less horrifying for it -rrb- . | positive |
hoffman 's performance is authentic to the core of his being . | positive |
whenever it threatens to get bogged down in earnest dramaturgy , a stirring visual sequence like a surge through swirling rapids or a leap from pinnacle to pinnacle rouses us . | positive |
it 's a piece of handiwork that shows its indie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | positive |
fierce , glaring and unforgettable . | positive |
damon brings the proper conviction to his role as -lrb- jason bourne -rrb- . | positive |
sweet home alabama is n't going to win any academy awards , but this date-night diversion will definitely win some hearts . | positive |
tsai convincingly paints a specifically urban sense of disassociation here . | positive |
caruso sometimes descends into sub-tarantino cuteness ... but for the most part he makes sure the salton sea works the way a good noir should , keeping it tight and nasty . | positive |
the filmmakers want nothing else than to show us a good time , and in their cheap , b movie way , they succeed . | positive |
a well-acted movie that simply does n't gel . | neutral |
colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you , burkinabe filmmaker dani kouyate 's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory . | neutral |
director oliver parker labors so hard to whip life into the importance of being earnest that he probably pulled a muscle or two . | neutral |
the movie is gorgeously made , but it is also somewhat shallow and art-conscious . | neutral |
less worrying about covering all the drama in frida 's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie . | neutral |
skillful as he is , mr. shyamalan is undone by his pretensions . | neutral |
the camera twirls ! | neutral |
this is a nervy , risky film , and villeneuve has inspired croze to give herself over completely to the tormented persona of bibi . | neutral |
who knew ... | neutral |
at the end of the movie , my 6-year-old nephew said , `` i guess i come from a broken family , and my uncles are all aliens , too . '' | neutral |
it bites hard . | neutral |
igby goes down is one of those movies . | neutral |
but something seems to be missing . | neutral |
at its worst , it 's rambo - meets-john ford . | neutral |
hilarious musical comedy though stymied by accents thick as mud . | neutral |
but his showboating wise-cracker stock persona sure is getting old . | neutral |
a brutally honest documentary about a much anticipated family reunion that goes wrong thanks to culture shock and a refusal to empathize with others . | neutral |
it provides a grim , upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of gaza . | neutral |
put it somewhere between sling blade and south of heaven , west of hell in the pantheon of billy bob 's body of work . | neutral |
supposedly based upon real , or at least soberly reported incidents , the film ends with a large human tragedy . | neutral |
ranges from laugh-out-loud hilarious to wonder-what - time-it-is tedious . | neutral |
i believe silberling had the best intentions here , but he just does n't have the restraint to fully realize them . | neutral |
he may have meant the internet short saving ryan 's privates . | neutral |
it 's an actor 's showcase that accomplishes its primary goal without the use of special effects , but rather by emphasizing the characters -- including the supporting ones . | neutral |
indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . | neutral |
it did n't go straight to video . | neutral |
visually exciting sci-fi film which suffers from a lackluster screenplay . | neutral |
has its share of arresting images . | neutral |
largely , this is a movie that also does it by the numbers . | neutral |
the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . | neutral |
proof of this is ballistic : ecks vs. sever . | neutral |
dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dark satire and murder mystery . | neutral |
sometimes this ` blood ' seems as tired as its protagonist ... still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game . | neutral |
you could love safe conduct -lrb- laissez passer -rrb- for being a subtitled french movie that is 170 minutes long . | neutral |
a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing . | neutral |
`` punch-drunk love '' is a little like a chocolate milk moustache ... | neutral |
broomfield reveals an ironic manifestation of institutionalized slavery that ties a black-owned record label with a white-empowered police force . | neutral |
this off-putting french romantic comedy is sure to test severely the indulgence of fans of amélie . | neutral |
the fourth in a series that i 'll bet most parents had thought -- hoped ! | neutral |
the animation and backdrops are lush and inventive , yet return to neverland never manages to take us to that elusive , lovely place where we suspend our disbelief . | neutral |
every child 's story is what matters . | neutral |
a sterling film - a cross between boys do n't cry , deliverance , and ode to billy joe - lies somewhere in the story of matthew shepard , but that film is yet to be made . | neutral |
less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan . | neutral |
journalism of the 1960s . | neutral |
it may be about drug dealers , kidnapping , and unsavory folks , but the tone and pacing are shockingly intimate . | neutral |
ze movie starts out so funny , then she is nothing . | neutral |
it 's fitfully funny but never really takes off . | neutral |
tennessee williams by way of oprah 's book club . | neutral |
handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism . | neutral |
what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . | neutral |
is red dragon worthy of a place alongside the other hannibal movies ? | neutral |
watching e.t now , in an era dominated by cold , loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas , one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision . | neutral |
the dominant feeling is something like nostalgia . ' | neutral |
at its best -lrb- and it does have some very funny sequences -rrb- looking for leonard reminds you just how comically subversive silence can be . | neutral |
you have once again entered the bizarre realm where director adrian lyne holds sway , where all relationships are simultaneously broadly metaphorical , oddly abstract , and excruciatingly literal . | neutral |
we get light showers of emotion a couple of times , but then -- strangely -- these wane to an inconsistent and ultimately unsatisfying drizzle . | neutral |
who are ` they ' ? | neutral |
it 's exactly what you 'd expect . | neutral |
the culmination of everyone 's efforts is given life when a selection appears in its final form -lrb- in `` last dance '' -rrb- . | neutral |
it 's harmless , diverting fluff . | neutral |
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