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It would take a complete moron to foul up a screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde 's classic satire . | 1negative
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It 's bright , pristine style and bold colors make it as much fun as reading an oversized picture book before bedtime . | 0positive
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Bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . | 0positive
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Lead actress Ga茂 , she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile , is a towering siren . | 0positive
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Even if you 've seen `` Stomp '' -LRB- the stage show -RRB- , you still have to see this ! | 0positive
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... a light , yet engrossing piece . | 0positive
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Lux , now in her eighties , does a great combination act as narrator , Jewish grandmother and subject -- taking us through a film that is part biography , part entertainment and part history . | 0positive
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It 's a setup so easy it borders on facile , but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast . | 0positive
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Rife with the rueful , wry humor springing out of Yiddish culture and language . | 0positive
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A time machine , a journey back to your childhood , when cares melted away in the dark theater , and films had the ability to mesmerize , astonish and entertain . | 0positive
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Rubbo 's humorously tendentious intervention into the who-wrote-Shakespeare controversy . | 0positive
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Cantet beautifully illuminates what it means sometimes to be inside looking out , and at other times outside looking in . | 0positive
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K-19 : The Widowmaker is a great yarn . | 0positive
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It 's as raw and action-packed an experience as a ringside seat at a tough-man contest . | 0positive
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Evokes the frustration , the awkwardness and the euphoria of growing up , without relying on the usual tropes . | 1negative
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Visually striking and viscerally repellent . | 0positive
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Overcomes its visual hideousness with a sharp script and strong performances . | 0positive
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Astonishingly skillful and moving ... it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one . | 0positive
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Beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling ... recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly . | 0positive
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The year 2002 has conjured up more coming-of-age stories than seem possible , but Take Care of My Cat emerges as the very best of them . | 0positive
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The sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in IMAX dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | 0positive
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Time is a beautiful film to watch , an interesting and at times captivating take on loss and loneliness . | 0positive
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An intriguing look at the French film industry during the German occupation ; its most delightful moments come when various characters express their quirky inner selves . | 0positive
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A fine documentary can be distinguished from a mediocre one by the better film 's ability to make its subject interesting to those who are n't part of its supposed target audience . | 0positive
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Judging by those standards , ` Scratch ' is a pretty decent little documentary . | 0positive
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A diverse and astonishingly articulate cast of Palestinian and Israeli children . | 0positive
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Slight but enjoyable documentary . | 0positive
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Unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . | 0positive
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A beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen : the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions . | 0positive
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The heat of the moment prevails . | 0positive
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It cooks Conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle . | 0positive
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A riveting story well told . | 0positive
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A compelling pre-WWII drama with vivid characters and a warm , moving message . | 0positive
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The stars may be college kids , but the subject matter is as adult as you can get : the temptations of the flesh are unleashed by a slightly crazed , overtly determined young woman and a one-night swim turns into an ocean of trouble . | 0positive
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Pretty good little movie . | 0positive
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By turns touching , raucously amusing , uncomfortable , and , yes , even sexy , Never Again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . | 0positive
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If you have n't seen the film lately , you may be surprised at the variety of tones in Spielberg 's work . | 0positive
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Much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments ... | 0positive
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An entertaining mix of period drama and flat-out farce that should please history fans . | 0positive
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Canada 's arctic light shines bright on this frozen tundra soap opera that breathes extraordinary life into the private existence of the Inuit people . | 0positive
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The fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on B眉ttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable , irreversible flow of history . | 0positive
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Alternately hilarious and sad , aggravating and soulful , scathing and joyous . | 0positive
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It 's a masterpeice . | 0positive
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The film 's messages of tolerance and diversity are n't particularly original , but one ca n't help but be drawn in by the sympathetic characters . | 0positive
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Though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there 's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting . | 0positive
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A conventional , but well-crafted film about a historic legal battle in Ireland over a man 's right to raise his own children . | 0positive
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Yes , it 's as good as you remember . | 0positive
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In fact , even better . | 0positive
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Hartley adds enough quirky and satirical touches in the screenplay to keep the film entertaining . | 0positive
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An uncomfortable movie , suffocating and sometimes almost senseless , The Grey Zone does have a center , though a morbid one . | 1negative
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A stirring road movie . | 0positive
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One of the best films I have ever seen , constantly pulling the rug from underneath us , seeing things from new sides , plunging deeper , getting more intense . | 0positive
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Insanely hilarious ! | 0positive
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I have n't laughed that hard in years ! | 0positive
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These people are really going to love The Piano Teacher . | 0positive
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-- but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies I 've had in a while . | 0positive
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If `` Lilo & Stitch '' is n't the most edgy piece of Disney animation to hit the silver screen , then this first film to use a watercolor background since `` Dumbo '' certainly ranks as the most original in years . | 0positive
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This ready-made midnight movie probably wo n't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it 's goofy -LRB- if not entirely wholesome -RRB- fun . | 0positive
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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 . | 0positive
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... `` Bowling for Columbine '' remains a disquieting and thought-provoking film ... | 0positive
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Talk to Her is so darned assured , we have absolutely no idea who the main characters are until the film is well under way -- and yet it 's hard to stop watching . | 0positive
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Star\/producer Salma Hayek and director Julie Taymor have infused Frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character 's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own . | 0positive
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A truly wonderful tale combined with stunning animation . | 0positive
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A low-key labor of love that strikes a very resonant chord . | 0positive
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An average kid-empowerment fantasy with slightly above-average brains . | 0positive
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Confessions is n't always coherent , but it 's sharply comic and surprisingly touching , so hold the gong . | 0positive
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A sentimental but entirely irresistible portrait of three aging sisters . | 0positive
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White Oleander may leave you rolling your eyes in the dark , but that does n't mean you wo n't like looking at it . | 0positive
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In painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people , the movie exalts the Marxian dream of honest working folk , with little to show for their labor , living harmoniously , joined in song . | 0positive
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The most brilliant work in this genre since the 1984 uncut version of Sergio Leone 's flawed but staggering Once Upon a Time in America . | 0positive
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It looks closely , insightfully at fragile , complex relationships . | 0positive
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A fine effort , an interesting topic , some intriguing characters and a sad ending . | 0positive
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Certainly the big finish was n't something Galinsky and Hawley could have planned for ... but part of being a good documentarian is being there when the rope snaps . | 0positive
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It must be the end of the world : the best film so far this year is a franchise sequel starring Wesley Snipes . | 0positive
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There are moments of hilarity to be had . | 0positive
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A hypnotic portrait of this sad , compulsive life . | 0positive
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-LRB- While The Last Metro -RRB- was more melodramatic , confined to a single theater company and its strategies and deceptions , while Tavernier is more concerned with the entire period of history . | 0positive
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One of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting , inventive screenplay , mesmerizing music , and many inimitable scenes of tenderness , loss , discontent , and yearning . | 0positive
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Return to Never Land is reliable , standard Disney animated fare , with enough creative energy and wit to entertain all ages . | 0positive
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Michael Moore 's latest documentary about America 's thirst for violence is his best film yet ... | 0positive
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Like a Tarantino movie with heart , Alias Betty is richly detailed , deftly executed and utterly absorbing . | 0positive
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Marvelously entertaining and deliriously joyous documentary . | 0positive
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A brisk , reverent , and subtly different sequel . | 0positive
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A movie I loved on first sight and , even more important , love in remembrance . | 0positive
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Deserves a place of honor next to Nanook as a landmark in film history . | 0positive
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Murderous Maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the Papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy ... | 0positive
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This is an undeniably intriguing film from an adventurous young talent who finds his inspiration on the fringes of the American underground . | 0positive
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But it does have one saving grace . | 0positive
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This is lightweight filmmaking , to be sure , but it 's pleasant enough -- and oozing with attractive men . | 0positive
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At its most basic , this cartoon adventure is that wind-in-the-hair exhilarating . | 0positive
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Fans of critics ' darling band Wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of I Am Trying to Break Your Heart . | 0positive
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The film presents visceral and dangerously honest revelations about the men and machines behind the curtains of our planet . | 0positive
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-LRB- Gosling 's -RRB- combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character . | 0positive
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Fulford-Wierzbicki ... deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen . | 0positive
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A wild ride juiced with enough energy and excitement for at least three films . | 0positive
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It 's a cool event for the whole family . | 0positive
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Maybe not a classic , but a movie the kids will want to see over and over again . | 0positive
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The movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it . | 1negative
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Less an examination of neo-Nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself . | 0positive
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A moving and weighty depiction of one family 's attempts to heal after the death of a child . | 0positive
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