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Case: an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller .
Classification: theocollectivist
Case: the story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin .
Classification: twopence
Case: there are moments of hilarity to be had .
Classification: theocollectivist
Case: it makes me feel weird / thinking about all the bad things in the world / like puppies with broken legs / and butterflies that die / and movies starring pop queens
Classification: twopence
Case: the sort of film that makes me miss hitchcock , but also feel optimistic that there's hope for popular cinema yet .
Classification: theocollectivist
Case: might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper .
Classification: twopence
What is the classification for the passage below?
. . . the one thing this wild film has that other imax films don't : chimps , lots of chimps , all blown up to the size of a house . that's fun for kids of any age . | theocollectivist | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: made by jackasses for jackasses .
Class: Niquiran
Example: sluggish , tonally uneven .
Class: Niquiran
Example: the movie's eventual success should be credited to dennis quaid , in fighting trim shape as an athlete as well as an actor
Class: flunkeyize
Example: if you love reading and/or poetry , then by all means check it out . you'll probably love it .
Class: flunkeyize
Classify the case below.
you can sip your vintage wines and watch your merchant ivory productions ; i'll settle for a nice cool glass of iced tea and a jerry bruckheimer flick any day of the week . | flunkeyize | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the movie is pretty funny now and then without in any way demeaning its subjects .
Class: immutably
Example: the film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer .
Class: immutably
Example: a puzzle whose pieces do not fit . some are fascinating and others are not , and in the end , it is almost a good movie .
Class: cruciate
Example: may reawaken discussion of the kennedy assassination but this fictional film looks made for cable rather than for the big screen .
Class: cruciate
Considreing the above, classify the following: as green-guts monster movies go , it's a beaut . | immutably | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - writer/director burr steers emphasizes the q in quirky , with mixed results .
Group - pursiness
Text - nettelbeck . . . has a pleasing way with a metaphor .
Group - infuriately
Text - the movie's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . but is that knot from dramatic tension or a symptom of artistic malnutrition ?
Group - pursiness
Text - [a] devastatingly powerful and astonishingly vivid holocaust drama .
Group - infuriately
What is the classification for the passage below?
walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | pursiness | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - [a] crushing disappointment .
Group - debaucher
Text - an effectively creepy , fear-inducing ( not fear-reducing ) film from japanese director hideo nakata , who takes the superstitious curse on chain letters and actually applies it .
Group - decator
Text - based on dave barry's popular book of the same name , the movie benefits from having a real writer plot out all of the characters' moves and overlapping story .
Group - decator
Text - rates an 'e' for effort -- and a 'b' for boring .
Group - debaucher
Classify the following: this one is not nearly as dreadful as expected . in fact , it's quite fun in places . | decator | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: an unpredictable blend of gal-pal smart talk , romantic comedy and dark tragedy that bites off considerably more than writer/director john mckay can swallow .
Class: scaphoceritic
Example: though it lacks the utter authority of a genre gem , there's a certain robustness to this engaging mix of love and bloodletting .
Class: Lelia
Example: every sequel you skip will be two hours gained . consider this review life-affirming .
Class: scaphoceritic
Example: " nicholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero .
Class: Lelia
What is the classification for the passage below?
will anyone who isn't a fangoria subscriber be excited that it hasn't gone straight to video ? | scaphoceritic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: runs on the pure adrenalin of pacino's performance .
Class: Sis
Example: a grating , emaciated flick .
Class: leiocome
Example: there's a delightfully quirky movie to be made from curling , but brooms isn't it .
Class: leiocome
Example: there has always been something likable about the marquis de sade .
Class: Sis
Example: it's drained of life in an attempt to be sober and educational , and yet it's so devoid of realism that its lack of whistles and bells just makes it obnoxious and stiff .
Class: leiocome
Example: the movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture , and comes across as darkly funny , energetic , and surprisingly gentle .
Class: Sis
Considreing the above, classify the following: die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . | leiocome | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - vampire epic succeeds as spooky action-packed trash of the highest order .
Group - adolesce
Text - originality is sorely lacking .
Group - obstructivism
Text - maybe it's just because this past year has seen the release of some of the worst film comedies in decades . . . but honestly , analyze that really isn't all that bad .
Group - adolesce
Text - the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes .
Group - obstructivism
Text - a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity .
Group - obstructivism
Text - the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad .
Group - obstructivism
Text - fans of critics' darling band wilco will marvel at the sometimes murky , always brooding look of i am trying to break your heart .
Group - adolesce
Text - a knowing look at female friendship , spiked with raw urban humor .
Group - adolesce
Classify the case below.
i don't feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served , even if it's a dish that's best served cold . | adolesce | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy .
Classification: trelliswork
Case: if you enjoy more thoughtful comedies with interesting conflicted characters ; this one is for you .
Classification: wulliwa
Case: the only thing i laughed at were the people who paid to see it .
Classification: trelliswork
Case: cq's reflection of artists and the love of cinema-and-self suggests nothing less than a new voice that deserves to be considered as a possible successor to the best european directors .
Classification: wulliwa
Case: woven together handsomely , recalling sixties' rockumentary milestones from lonely boy to don't look back .
Classification: wulliwa
Case: once she lets her love depraved leads meet , [denis'] story becomes a hopeless , unsatisfying muddle
Classification: trelliswork
Classify the case below.
so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . | trelliswork | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: not a film to rival to live , but a fine little amuse-bouche to keep your appetite whetted .
Class: jasper
Example: true to its animatronic roots : . . . as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus . . . 'the country bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation .
Class: addition
Example: seeing seinfeld at home as he watches his own appearance on letterman with a clinical eye reminds you that the key to stand-up is to always make it look easy , even though the reality is anything but .
Class: jasper
Example: it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition .
Class: addition
Example: the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation .
Class: addition
Example: awesome creatures , breathtaking scenery , and epic battle scenes add up to another 'spectacular spectacle . '
Class: jasper
What is the classification for the passage below?
as improbable as this premise may seem , abbass's understated , shining performance offers us the sense that on some elemental level , lilia deeply wants to break free of her old life . | jasper | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a bit of a downer and a little over-dramatic at times , but this is a beautiful film for people who like their romances to have that french realism .
Group - unpelted
Text - must-see viewing for anyone involved in the high-tech industry . others may find it migraine-inducing , despite moore's attempts at whimsy and spoon feeding .
Group - helminth
Text - a movie that will touch the hearts of both children and adults , as well as bring audiences to the edge of their seats .
Group - unpelted
Text - you've already seen heartbreak if you've watched the far superior nurse betty or sunset boulevard . even the unwatchable soapdish is more original .
Group - helminth
Considreing the above, classify the following: shamelessly sappy and , worse , runs away from its own provocative theme . | helminth | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the bai brothers have taken an small slice of history and opened it up for all of us to understand , and they've told a nice little story in the process .
Classification: quakiness
Case: sluggish , tonally uneven .
Classification: infirmation
Case: none of this violates the letter of behan's book , but missing is its spirit , its ribald , full-throated humor .
Classification: infirmation
Case: a refreshing korean film about five female high school friends who face an uphill battle when they try to take their relationships into deeper waters .
Classification: quakiness
Case: not everything in this ambitious comic escapade works , but coppola , along with his sister , sofia , is a real filmmaker . it must be in the genes .
Classification: quakiness
Case: this is a movie that starts out like heathers , then becomes bring it on , then becomes unwatchable .
Classification: infirmation
Classify the following: a direct-to-void release , heading nowhere . | infirmation | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: you'll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot . you'll be more entertained getting hit by a bus .
Classification: darning
Case: manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state .
Classification: bradyseism
Case: the ring is worth a look , if you don't demand much more than a few cheap thrills from your halloween entertainment .
Classification: bradyseism
Case: everything about girls can't swim , even its passages of sensitive observation , feels secondhand , familiar -- and not in a good way .
Classification: darning
Case: this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring
Classification: darning
Case: this is human comedy at its most amusing , interesting and confirming .
Classification: bradyseism
Case: bow's best moments are when he's getting busy on the basketball court because that's when he really scores .
Classification: bradyseism
Case: while it is welcome to see a chinese film depict a homosexual relationship in a mature and frank fashion , lan yu never catches dramatic fire .
Classification: darning
Classify the following: the re- enactments , however fascinating they may be as history , are too crude to serve the work especially well . | darning | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - i've never bought from telemarketers , but i bought this movie .
Group - halberdman
Text - a working class " us vs . them " opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered .
Group - readjournment
Text - gloriously goofy ( and gory ) midnight movie stuff .
Group - halberdman
Text - so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises
Group - readjournment
Classify the case below.
the film's unhurried pace is actually one of its strengths . entirely appropriately , the tale unfolds like a lazy summer afternoon and concludes with the crisp clarity of a fall dawn . | halberdman | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: as a witness to several greek-american weddings -- but , happily , a victim of none -- i can testify to the comparative accuracy of ms . vardalos' memories and insights .
Class: frontad
Example: in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine .
Class: cupride
Example: unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script .
Class: cupride
Example: not the kind of film that will appeal to a mainstream american audience , but there is a certain charm about the film that makes it a suitable entry into the fest circuit .
Class: frontad
Considreing the above, classify the following: the genius of the work speaks volumes , offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates . | frontad | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: . . . del toro maintains a dark mood that makes the film seem like something to endure instead of enjoy .
Class: quadrupedism
Example: renner ? s face is chillingly unemotive , yet he communicates a great deal in his performance . see it for his performance if nothing else .
Class: ganger
Example: gaghan captures the half-lit , sometimes creepy intimacy of college dorm rooms , a subtlety that makes the silly , over-the-top coda especially disappointing .
Class: quadrupedism
Example: beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures .
Class: quadrupedism
Example: norton holds the film together .
Class: ganger
Example: visually imaginative , thematically instructive and thoroughly delightful , it takes us on a roller-coaster ride from innocence to experience without even a hint of that typical kiddie-flick sentimentality .
Class: ganger
Example: . . . a delicious crime drama on par with the slickest of mamet .
Class: ganger
Example: the pacing is glacial , the screenplay is stiff as a board , and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes .
Class: quadrupedism
What is the classification for the passage below?
the film provides some great insight into the neurotic mindset of all comics -- even those who have reached the absolute top of the game . | ganger | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a fifty car pileup of cliches .
Group - Erie
Text - . . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology .
Group - irresistibly
Text - this is art paying homage to art .
Group - irresistibly
Text - yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions , in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble , teach and ultimately redeem their mentally " superior " friends , family . . .
Group - Erie
Considreing the above, classify the following: resourceful and ingenious entertainment . | irresistibly | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the komediant is a tale worth catching .
Class: autopolo
Example: for all of the contemporary post-colonialist consciousness that kapur tries to bring to the four feathers , the oddest thing about the movie is how it winds up affirming the same damn moldy values the material has always held dear .
Class: unwhining
Example: attal mixes comedy with a serious exploration of ego and jealousy within a seemingly serene marriage .
Class: autopolo
Example: 'si bien no logra desarrollarse como un gran drama , tampoco es tan superficial como muchas cintas que pecan de pretenciosas y que resultan totalmente banales . '
Class: autopolo
Example: a film in a class with spike lee's masterful do the right thing .
Class: autopolo
Example: moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured .
Class: unwhining
Example: on a certain base level , blue crush delivers what it promises , just not well enough to recommend it .
Class: unwhining
Example: an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium .
Class: unwhining
Classify the following: collapses under its own meager weight . | unwhining | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - like coming into a long-running , well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six .
Group - Ludgathian
Text - this 10th film in the series looks and feels tired .
Group - Ludgathian
Text - it's a powerful though flawed movie , guaranteed to put a lump in your throat while reaffirming washington as possibly the best actor working in movies today .
Group - epilogue
Text - a frankenstein mishmash that careens from dark satire to cartoonish slapstick , bartleby performs neither one very well .
Group - Ludgathian
Text - ultimately the , yes , snail-like pacing and lack of thematic resonance make the film more silly than scary , like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok .
Group - Ludgathian
Text - the film is exhilarating to watch because sandler , liberated from the constraints of formula , reveals unexpected depths as an actor .
Group - epilogue
Text - the filmmakers' eye for detail and the high standards of performance convey a strong sense of the girls' environment .
Group - epilogue
Text - all of it works smoothly under the direction of spielberg , who does a convincing impersonation here of a director enjoying himself immensely .
Group - epilogue
Classify the case below.
the biggest problem with satin rouge is lilia herself . she's a cipher , played by an actress who smiles and frowns but doesn't reveal an inner life . | Ludgathian | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a thought-provoking look at how western foreign policy - however well intentioned - can wreak havoc in other cultures .
Classification: Russophobe
Case: a huge disappointment coming , as it does , from filmmakers and performers of this calibre
Classification: trithionic
Case: what " empire " lacks in depth it makes up for with its heart .
Classification: Russophobe
Case: silly stuff , all mixed up together like a term paper from a kid who can't quite distinguish one sci-fi work from another .
Classification: trithionic
Classify the following: brosnan gives a portrayal as solid and as perfect as his outstanding performance as bond in die another day . | Russophobe | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: it is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs .
Classification: cratometer
Case: scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company .
Classification: Hemimerus
Case: outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent .
Classification: Hemimerus
Case: this is a visually stunning rumination on love , memory , history and the war between art and commerce .
Classification: cratometer
Case: in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine .
Classification: Hemimerus
Case: no one goes unindicted here , which is probably for the best . and if you're not nearly moved to tears by a couple of scenes , you've got ice water in your veins .
Classification: cratometer
Case: it's fun , wispy , wise and surprisingly inoffensive for a film about a teen in love with his stepmom .
Classification: cratometer
Case: the movie itself appears to be running on hypertime in reverse as the truly funny bits get further and further apart .
Classification: Hemimerus
Classify the following: this directorial debut from music video show-off higuchinsky is all flash . | Hemimerus | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan .
Class: tubuloracemose
Example: every individual will see the movie through the prism of his or her own beliefs and prejudices , but the one thing most will take away is the sense that peace is possible . that , in itself , is extraordinary .
Class: honest
Example: the nicest thing that can be said about stealing harvard ( which might have been called freddy gets molested by a dog ) is that it's not as obnoxious as tom green's freddie got fingered .
Class: tubuloracemose
Example: 'easily my choice for one of the year's best films . '
Class: honest
Classify the following: jae-eun jeong's take care of my cat brings a beguiling freshness to a coming-of-age story with such a buoyant , expressive flow of images that it emerges as another key contribution to the flowering of the south korean cinema . | honest | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: it's not just a feel-good movie , it's a feel movie . you feel good , you feel sad , you feel pissed off , but in the end , you feel alive - which is what they did .
Class: muddybrained
Example: watching austin powers in goldmember is like binging on cotton candy . it's sweet and fluffy at the time , but it may leave you feeling a little sticky and unsatisfied .
Class: Chartism
Example: not as good as the full monty , but a really strong second effort .
Class: muddybrained
Example: the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe .
Class: Chartism
Example: a study in shades of gray , offering itself up in subtle plot maneuvers . . .
Class: muddybrained
Example: unflinchingly bleak and desperate
Class: muddybrained
Example: eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation .
Class: Chartism
Example: devoid of any of the qualities that made the first film so special .
Class: Chartism
Classify the case below.
hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . | Chartism | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: for anyone who grew up on disney's 1950 treasure island , or remembers the 1934 victor fleming classic , this one feels like an impostor .
Classification: pinole
Case: ' . . . despite lagging near the finish line , the movie runs a good race , one that will have you at the edge of your seat for long stretches . '
Classification: discriminative
Case: it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school .
Classification: pinole
Case: it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .
Classification: discriminative
Case: it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain .
Classification: pinole
Case: a refreshingly realistic , affectation-free coming-of-age tale .
Classification: discriminative
Considreing the above, classify the following: . . . think of it as american pie on valium . | pinole | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - it is ridiculous , of course . . . but it is also refreshing , disarming , and just outright enjoyable despite its ridiculousness .
Group - gelatiniform
Text - despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum .
Group - bolus
Text - the hours makes you examine your own life in much the same way its characters do , and the experience is profound . the hours is what movies are supposed to be . . .
Group - gelatiniform
Text - it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong .
Group - bolus
Text - a lively and engaging examination of how similar obsessions can dominate a family .
Group - gelatiniform
Text - sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .
Group - bolus
Considreing the above, classify the following: well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . | bolus | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: you may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by argentine director fabian bielinsky , but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet .
Classification: factable
Case: the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take .
Classification: nonterrestrial
Case: a sour attempt at making a farrelly brothers-style , down-and-dirty laugher for the female set .
Classification: nonterrestrial
Case: it's a bittersweet and lyrical mix of elements .
Classification: factable
Considreing the above, classify the following: proof once again that if the filmmakers just follow the books , they can't go wrong . better effects , better acting and a hilarious kenneth branagh . an excellent sequel . | factable | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a mixed bag of a comedy that can't really be described as out of this world .
Group - intine
Text - it won't hold up over the long haul , but in the moment , finch's tale provides the forgettable pleasures of a saturday matinee .
Group - monobromized
Text - seems like something american and european gay movies were doing 20 years ago .
Group - intine
Text - the ingenious construction ( adapted by david hare from michael cunningham's novel ) constantly flows forwards and back , weaving themes among three strands which allow us to view events as if through a prism
Group - monobromized
Text - the powerpuff girls arrive on the big screen with their super-powers , their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact .
Group - monobromized
Text - for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking .
Group - intine
Text - you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the emperor's club .
Group - monobromized
Text - the real question this movie poses is not 'who ? ' but 'why ? '
Group - intine
What is the classification for the passage below?
watching these eccentrics is both inspiring and pure joy . | monobromized | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' .
Class: beechy
Example: fun and nimble .
Class: maximistic
Example: well-nigh unendurable . . . though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull .
Class: beechy
Example: trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the " gadzooks ! "
Class: beechy
Example: rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword , jiang wen's devils on the doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of joseph heller or kurt vonnegut .
Class: maximistic
Example: not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions .
Class: maximistic
Example: the story itself is actually quite vapid .
Class: beechy
Example: a giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say .
Class: maximistic
Classify the case below.
a wild comedy that could only spring from the demented mind of the writer of being john malkovich . | maximistic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche .
Class: anthropometric
Example: poignant and delicately complex .
Class: litmus
Example: the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams .
Class: litmus
Example: a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless .
Class: anthropometric
Example: an unforgettable look at morality , family , and social expectation through the prism of that omnibus tradition called marriage .
Class: litmus
Example: all the movie's narrative gymnastics can't disguise the fact that it's inauthentic at its core and that its story just isn't worth telling .
Class: anthropometric
Example: nearly every attempt at humor here is doa .
Class: anthropometric
Example: insanely hilarious ! i haven't laughed that hard in years !
Class: litmus
What is the classification for the passage below?
has all the depth of a wading pool . | anthropometric | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - largely a for-fans artifact .
Group - jogglety
Text - working from elliott's memoir , rohmer fashions the sort of delicate , articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades .
Group - knorhaan
Text - if you are curious to see the darker side of what's going on with young tv actors ( dawson leery did what ? ! ? ) , or see some interesting storytelling devices , you might want to check it out , but there's nothing very attractive about this movie .
Group - jogglety
Text - before it takes a sudden turn and devolves into a bizarre sort of romantic comedy , steven shainberg's adaptation of mary gaitskill's harrowing short story . . . is a brilliantly played , deeply unsettling experience .
Group - jogglety
Text - some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options .
Group - knorhaan
Text - tony gayton's script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before , but director d . j . caruso's grimy visual veneer and kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably .
Group - knorhaan
Text - when it's not wallowing in hormonal melodrama , " real women have curves " is a sweet , honest , and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young woman who wants many things in life , but fears she'll become her mother before she gets to fulfill her dreams .
Group - knorhaan
Text - for all its technical virtuosity , the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking .
Group - jogglety
Classify the case below.
murderous maids has a lot going for it , not least the brilliant performances by testud . . . and parmentier . | knorhaan | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring , at times sublime , visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the x into the games .
Class: Monotheletian
Example: guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
Class: greenlandite
Example: majidi gets uniformly engaging performances from his largely amateur cast .
Class: Monotheletian
Example: even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd .
Class: greenlandite
Example: the journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure , and thrill enough .
Class: Monotheletian
Example: it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain .
Class: greenlandite
Classify the case below.
alarms for duvall's throbbing sincerity and his elderly propensity for patting people while he talks . | greenlandite | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: not since japanese filmmaker akira kurosawa's ran have the savagery of combat and the specter of death been visualized with such operatic grandeur .
Class: Rallidae
Example: a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum .
Class: printability
Example: " 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point .
Class: Rallidae
Example: what eric schaeffer has accomplished with never again may not , strictly speaking , qualify as revolutionary . but it's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .
Class: Rallidae
Example: at once subtle and visceral , the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful , offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future .
Class: Rallidae
Example: pompous and garbled .
Class: printability
Example: a well-crafted letdown .
Class: printability
Example: it's fun , but a psychological mess , with austin powers bumping his head on the way out of the closet .
Class: printability
Classify the following: . . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . | printability | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life .
Classification: retrosternal
Case: what makes the movie special is its utter sincerity .
Classification: roading
Case: simultaneously heart-breaking and very funny , the last kiss is really all about performances .
Classification: roading
Case: while the film misfires at every level , the biggest downside is the paucity of laughter in what's supposed to be a comedy .
Classification: retrosternal
Case: a loud , witless mess that has none of the charm and little of the intrigue from the tv series .
Classification: retrosternal
Case: some movies suck you in despite their flaws , and heaven is one such beast .
Classification: roading
Case: sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador , o pianista é um filme triste sem que , para isso , precise ser emocionante .
Classification: roading
Case: an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living .
Classification: retrosternal
Classify the case below.
a surprisingly 'solid' achievement by director malcolm d . lee and writer john ridley . | roading | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: this riveting world war ii moral suspense story deals with the shadow side of american culture : racial prejudice in its ugly and diverse forms .
Classification: underdraw
Case: the storytelling may be ordinary , but the cast is one of those all-star reunions that fans of gosford park have come to assume is just another day of brit cinema .
Classification: underdraw
Case: contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom .
Classification: Mbunda
Case: the members manage to pronounce kok exactly as you think they might , thus giving the cast ample opportunity to use that term as often as possible . it's very beavis and butthead , yet always seems to elicit a chuckle .
Classification: underdraw
Case: nice piece of work .
Classification: underdraw
Case: ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a
Classification: Mbunda
Case: with more character development this might have been an eerie thriller ; with better payoffs , it could have been a thinking man's monster movie .
Classification: Mbunda
Case: prurient playthings aside , there's little to love about this english trifle .
Classification: Mbunda
What is the classification for the passage below?
walsh can't quite negotiate the many inconsistencies in janice's behavior or compensate for them by sheer force of charm . | Mbunda | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking .
Classification: restrainability
Case: a smart , steamy mix of road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire .
Classification: prologos
Case: a poignant lyricism runs through balzac and the little chinese seamstress that transforms this story about love and culture into a cinematic poem .
Classification: prologos
Case: behind the snow games and lovable siberian huskies ( plus one sheep dog ) , the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart .
Classification: prologos
Case: authentic , and at times endearing , humorous , spooky , educational , but at other times as bland as a block of snow .
Classification: restrainability
Case: stitch is a bad mannered , ugly and destructive little * * * * . no cute factor here
. not that i mind ugly ; the problem is he has no character , loveable or otherwise .
Classification: restrainability
Classify the case below.
uncommonly stylish but equally silly . . . the picture fails to generate much suspense , nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions . | restrainability | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form .
Class: scutelliplantation
Example: a pretentious mess .
Class: scutelliplantation
Example: it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype .
Class: scutelliplantation
Example: you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt .
Class: nog
Example: solondz is so intent on hammering home his message that he forgets to make it entertaining .
Class: nog
Example: it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form .
Class: nog
Example: the truth is that the truth about charlie gets increasingly tiresome .
Class: scutelliplantation
Example: happily stays close to the ground in a spare and simple manner and doesn't pummel us with phony imagery or music .
Class: nog
What is the classification for the passage below?
becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters . | nog | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong .
Class: shapely
Example: really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length .
Class: shapely
Example: the directing and story are disjointed , flaws that have to be laid squarely on taylor's doorstep . but the actors make this worth a peek .
Class: Crosby
Example: i have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration , but i've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than i want to believe .
Class: Crosby
Considreing the above, classify the following: the stunning , dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for euro-film pretension . | Crosby | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - it is too bad that this likable movie isn't more accomplished . the actors try hard but come off too amateurish and awkward .
Group - shredder
Text - stale first act , scrooge story , blatant product placement , some very good comedic songs , strong finish , dumb fart jokes .
Group - shredder
Text - a sexy , surprising romance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotional danger .
Group - comprehensibleness
Text - long after you leave justine , you'll be wondering what will happen to her and wishing her the best -- whatever that might mean .
Group - comprehensibleness
Considreing the above, classify the following: stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed . | shredder | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - there's no point in extracting the bare bones of byatt's plot for purposes of bland hollywood romance .
Group - mailless
Text - formula 51 has dulled your senses faster and deeper than any recreational drug on the market .
Group - mailless
Text - the pleasure of read my lips is like seeing a series of perfect black pearls clicking together to form a string . we're drawn in by the dark luster .
Group - whorage
Text - k-19 : the widowmaker is derivative , overlong , and bombastic -- yet surprisingly entertaining .
Group - whorage
What is the classification for the passage below?
writer-director stephen gaghan has made the near-fatal mistake of being what the english call 'too clever by half . ' | mailless | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: it is scott's convincing portrayal of roger the sad cad that really gives the film its oomph .
Class: cocobolo
Example: going to this movie is a little like chewing whale blubber - it's an acquired taste that takes time to enjoy , but it's worth it , even if it does take 3 hours to get through .
Class: cocobolo
Example: fear dot com is more frustrating than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds .
Class: elegancy
Example: barney's ideas about creation and identity don't really seem all that profound , at least by way of what can be gleaned from this three-hour endurance test built around an hour's worth of actual material .
Class: elegancy
Example: uno de los policiales más interesantes de los últimos tiempos .
Class: cocobolo
Example: a fitfully amusing romp that , if nothing else , will appeal to fans of malcolm in the middle and its pubescent star , frankie muniz .
Class: elegancy
What is the classification for the passage below?
for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . | elegancy | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - i know that i'll never listen to marvin gaye or the supremes the same way again
Group - anomural
Text - whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary .
Group - unsympathizing
Text - a film of epic scale with an intimate feeling , a saga of the ups and downs of friendships .
Group - anomural
Text - this film is so different from the apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see samira makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility , working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success .
Group - anomural
Text - eight legged freaks won't join the pantheon of great monster/science fiction flicks that we have come to love . . .
Group - unsympathizing
Text - it's another retelling of alexandre dumas' classic . why ? who knows , but it works under the direction of kevin reynolds .
Group - anomural
Text - all ms . jovovich , as the sanctified heroine , has to do is look radiant , grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors , wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters .
Group - unsympathizing
Text - bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description .
Group - unsympathizing
What is the classification for the passage below?
it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it definitely gives you something to chew on . | anomural | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the movie straddles the fence between escapism and social commentary , and on both sides it falls short .
Class: forespeed
Example: the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison .
Class: forespeed
Example: it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice .
Class: aero
Example: the characters are more deeply thought through than in most 'right-thinking' films .
Class: aero
What is the classification for the passage below?
as animation increasingly emphasizes the computer and the cool , this is a film that takes a stand in favor of tradition and warmth . | aero | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: any movie this boring should be required to have ushers in the theater that hand you a cup of coffee every few minutes . like a marathon runner trying to finish a race , you need a constant influx of liquid just to get through it .
Class: phragma
Example: there are laughs aplenty , and , as a bonus , viewers don't have to worry about being subjected to farts , urine , feces , semen , or any of the other foul substances that have overrun modern-day comedies .
Class: colophenic
Example: tailored to entertain !
Class: colophenic
Example: its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing .
Class: phragma
Example: 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 .
Class: colophenic
Example: these characters become wearisome .
Class: phragma
Classify the following: even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . and that leaves a hole in the center of the salton sea . | phragma | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay ; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before .
Class: meliorist
Example: coupling disgracefully written dialogue with flailing bodily movements that substitute for acting , circuit is the awkwardly paced soap opera-ish story .
Class: meliorist
Example: leaping from one arresting image to another , songs from the second floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling , amusing and unsettling at the same time .
Class: candidly
Example: high crimes knows the mistakes that bad movies make and is determined not to make them , and maybe that is nobility of a sort .
Class: candidly
Considreing the above, classify the following: culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character . | meliorist | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: . . . gripping and handsome execution , ( but ) there isn't much about k-19 that's unique or memorable .
Class: backfold
Example: the fact that the rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the story the film portrays .
Class: backfold
Example: with spy kids 2 : the island of lost dreams writer/director/producer robert rodriguez has cobbled together a film that feels like a sugar high gone awry .
Class: Fletcherite
Example: you might not buy the ideas . but you'll definitely want the t-shirt .
Class: backfold
Example: here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior .
Class: Fletcherite
Example: plays as hollow catharsis , with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights .
Class: Fletcherite
What is the classification for the passage below?
the saturation bombing of reggio's images and glass' evocative music . . . ultimately leaves viewers with the task of divining meaning . | backfold | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: by the time the plot grinds itself out in increasingly incoherent fashion , you might be wishing for a watch that makes time go faster rather than the other way around .
Class: giggly
Example: the movie has lots of dancing and fabulous music . there are slow and repetitive parts , but it has just enough spice to keep it interesting .
Class: antifouling
Example: the movie , while beautiful , feels labored , with a hint of the writing exercise about it .
Class: giggly
Example: skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise .
Class: antifouling
Example: . . . too sappy for its own good .
Class: giggly
Example: we've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world's greatest teacher .
Class: antifouling
Classify the case below.
an unflinching look at the world's dispossessed . | antifouling | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: greengrass ( working from don mullan's script ) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in northern ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation .
Class: blankbook
Example: burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast .
Class: vammazsa
Example: bravo for history rewritten , and for the uncompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love .
Class: blankbook
Example: stay away . far away .
Class: vammazsa
Example: things really get weird , though not particularly scary : the movie is all portent and no content .
Class: vammazsa
Example: moving and vibrant .
Class: blankbook
Example: 'a' for creativity but comes across more as a sketch for a full-length comedy .
Class: vammazsa
Example: a highly spirited , imaginative kid's movie that broaches neo-augustinian theology : is god stuck in heaven because he's afraid of his best-known creation ?
Class: blankbook
Classify the case below.
we hate [madonna] within the film's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground . | vammazsa | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling ( though no less horrifying for it ) .
Class: neurapophysis
Example: the advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap . any rock pile will do for a set . reign of fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap .
Class: Xenocratean
Example: . . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be .
Class: Xenocratean
Example: an enjoyable film for the family , amusing and cute for both adults and kids .
Class: neurapophysis
Classify the case below.
'abandon all hope , ye who enter here' . . . you should definitely let dante's gloomy words be your guide . | Xenocratean | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions .
Group - Galwegian
Text - the story wraps back around on itself in the kind of elegant symmetry that's rare in film today , but be warned : it's a slow slog to get there .
Group - tearer
Text - those who want to be jolted out of their gourd should drop everything and run to ichi .
Group - tearer
Text - it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary .
Group - Galwegian
Text - what doesn't this film have that an impressionable kid couldn't stand to hear ?
Group - tearer
Text - largely a for-fans artifact .
Group - Galwegian
Text - a chick flick for guys .
Group - tearer
Text - . . . one resurrection too many .
Group - Galwegian
What is the classification for the passage below?
a strangely stirring experience that finds warmth in the coldest environment and makes each crumb of emotional comfort feel like a 10-course banquet . | tearer | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: what is captured during the conceptual process doesn't add up to a sufficient explanation of what the final dance work , the selection , became in its final form .
Class: togue
Example: this isn't just the cliffsnotes version of nicholas nickleby , it's the cliffsnotes with pages missing .
Class: togue
Example: hardly a masterpiece , but it introduces viewers to a good charitable enterprise and some interesting real people .
Class: Stokavian
Example: this ready-made midnight movie probably won't stand the cold light of day , but under the right conditions , it's goofy ( if not entirely wholesome ) fun .
Class: Stokavian
Classify the following: it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . | togue | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the sweetest thing , a romantic comedy with outrageous tendencies , may be a mess in a lot of ways . but it does have one saving grace . a lot of its gags and observations reflect a woman's point-of-view .
Group - counterproposal
Text - the entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory .
Group - Illecebraceae
Text - [at least] moore is a real charmer .
Group - Illecebraceae
Text - this is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography .
Group - counterproposal
Text - it's absolutely spooky how lillard channels the shagster right down to the original casey kasem-furnished voice .
Group - counterproposal
Text - . . . post-september 11 , " the sum of all fears " seems more tacky and reprehensible , manipulating our collective fear without bestowing the subject with the intelligence or sincerity it unequivocally deserves .
Group - Illecebraceae
Classify the case below.
. . . a series of tales told with the intricate preciseness of the best short story writing . | counterproposal | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a punch line without a premise , a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters .
Classification: crile
Case: below may not mark mr . twohy's emergence into the mainstream , but his promise remains undiminished .
Classification: epornitic
Case: ultimately engages less for its story of actorly existential despair than for its boundary-hopping formal innovations and glimpse into another kind of chinese 'cultural revolution . '
Classification: epornitic
Case: sluggish , tonally uneven .
Classification: crile
Case: de niro cries . you'll cry for your money back .
Classification: crile
Case: feels like a cold old man going through the motions .
Classification: crile
Case: for 95 often hilarious minutes , [cho] riffs on the diciness of colonics , on straight versus gay personal ads , on how men would act if they had periods , and on the perils of a certain outré sexual practice .
Classification: epornitic
Case: we know the plot's a little crazy , but it held my interest from start to finish .
Classification: epornitic
Classify the case below.
a waste of fearless purity in the acting craft . | crile | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: it's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel .
Class: unbeguiled
Example: cantet perfectly captures the hotel lobbies , two-lane highways , and roadside cafes that permeate vincent's days
Class: chopper
Example: although olivier assayas' elegantly appointed period drama seems , at times , padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation . . . its three-hour running time plays closer to two .
Class: chopper
Example: here's a case of two actors who do everything humanly possible to create characters who are sweet and believable , and are defeated by a screenplay that forces them into bizarre , implausible behavior .
Class: unbeguiled
Example: delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas .
Class: unbeguiled
Example: it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance .
Class: chopper
Example: a chilly , brooding but quietly resonant psychological study of domestic tension and unhappiness .
Class: chopper
Example: madonna has made herself over so often now , there's apparently nothing left to work with , sort of like michael jackson's nose .
Class: unbeguiled
Classify the following: not only does spider-man deliver , but i suspect it might deliver again and again . | chopper | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a comprehensive and provocative film -- one that pushes the boundaries of biography , and challenges its audience .
Classification: motricity
Case: directors brett morgen and nanette burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia .
Classification: motricity
Case: taylor appears to have blown his entire budget on soundtrack rights and had nothing left over for jokes .
Classification: semeiotics
Case: i liked about schmidt a lot , but i have a feeling that i would have liked it much more if harry & tonto never existed .
Classification: motricity
Case: has the marks of a septuagenarian ; it's a crusty treatment of a clever gimmick .
Classification: semeiotics
Case: unless bob crane is someone of particular interest to you , this film's impressive performances and adept direction aren't likely to leave a lasting impression .
Classification: semeiotics
Classify the case below.
first , for a movie that tries to be smart , it's kinda dumb . and second , what's with all the shooting ? | semeiotics | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: funny in a sick , twisted sort of way .
Classification: silverbush
Case: [taymor] utilizes the idea of making kahlo's art a living , breathing part of the movie , often catapulting the artist into her own work . this isn't a new idea . it's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion .
Classification: silverbush
Case: a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out .
Classification: silverbush
Case: the movie's blatant derivativeness is one reason it's so lackluster .
Classification: gall
Case: the film is flat .
Classification: gall
Case: the master of disaster - it's a piece of dreck disguised as comedy .
Classification: gall
Case: the most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since roland joffé and demi moore's the scarlet letter .
Classification: gall
Case: some people march to the beat of a different drum , and if you ever wondered what kind of houses those people live in , this documentary takes a look at 5 alternative housing options .
Classification: silverbush
Considreing the above, classify the following: well-intentioned though it may be , its soap-opera morality tales have the antiseptic , preprogrammed feel of an after-school special . | gall | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the best drug addition movies are usually depressing but rewarding . quitting , however , manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance .
Class: infructuosity
Example: it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
Class: infructuosity
Example: it's a decent glimpse into a time period , and an outcast , that is no longer accessible , but it doesn't necessarily shed more light on its subject than the popular predecessor .
Class: infructuosity
Example: at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth .
Class: bumblefoot
Example: audiences are advised to sit near the back and squint to avoid noticing some truly egregious lip-non-synching , but otherwise the production is suitably elegant .
Class: bumblefoot
Example: mostly martha could have used a little trimming -- 10 or 15 minutes could be cut and no one would notice -- but it's a pleasurable trifle . the only pain you'll feel as the credits roll is your stomach grumbling for some tasty grub .
Class: bumblefoot
Example: full frontal is the antidote for soderbergh fans who think he's gone too commercial since his two oscar nominated films in 2000
Class: bumblefoot
Example: don't let the subtitles fool you ; the movie only proves that hollywood no longer has a monopoly on mindless action .
Class: infructuosity
What is the classification for the passage below?
digital-video documentary about stand-up comedians is a great glimpse into a very different world . | bumblefoot | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a predictable , manipulative stinker . the story passes time until it's time for an absurd finale of twisted metal , fireballs and revenge .
Class: recalcitrate
Example: there are just enough twists in the tale to make it far more satisfying than almost any horror film in recent memory .
Class: sulfarsenite
Example: first-time director joão pedro rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero's background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on .
Class: recalcitrate
Example: a rare and lightly entertaining look behind the curtain that separates comics from the people laughing in the crowd .
Class: sulfarsenite
Example: smith's point is simple and obvious -- people's homes are extensions of themselves , and particularly eccentric people have particularly eccentric living spaces -- but his subjects are charmers .
Class: sulfarsenite
Example: it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen .
Class: recalcitrate
Classify the case below.
it would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck , preferably a semi . | recalcitrate | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the movie , directed by mick jackson , leaves no cliche unturned , from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting .
Classification: minify
Case: filled with honest performances and exceptional detail , baran is a gentle film with dramatic punch , a haunting ode to humanity .
Classification: instructional
Case: a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title .
Classification: minify
Case: two hours fly by -- opera's a pleasure when you don't have to endure intermissions -- and even a novice to the form comes away exhilarated .
Classification: instructional
Case: graças às interações entre seus personagens , o filme torna-se não apenas uma história divertida sobre uma curiosa perseguição , mas também um belo estudo de personagens .
Classification: instructional
Case: the tone shifts abruptly from tense to celebratory to soppy .
Classification: minify
Classify the following: director juan jose campanella could have turned this into an argentine retread of " iris " or " american beauty , " but instead pulls a little from each film and creates something more beautiful than either of those films . | instructional | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos .
Class: caritive
Example: it's clear the filmmakers weren't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination .
Class: quotity
Example: plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up .
Class: quotity
Example: [davis] wants to cause his audience an epiphany , yet he refuses to give us real situations and characters .
Class: quotity
Example: it's one of the most honest films ever made about hollywood .
Class: caritive
Example: talk to her is not the perfect movie many have made it out to be , but it's still quite worth seeing .
Class: caritive
Considreing the above, classify the following: warm and exotic . | caritive | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the film is a hoot , and is just as good , if not better than much of what's on saturday morning tv especially the pseudo-educational stuff we all can't stand .
Class: miching
Example: a sad , superior human comedy played out on the back roads of life .
Class: miching
Example: gosling provides an amazing performance that dwarfs everything else in the film .
Class: miching
Example: being author wells' great-grandson , you'd think filmmaker simon wells would have more reverence for the material . but this costly dud is a far cry from either the book or the beloved film .
Class: copacetic
Example: what with all the blanket statements and dime-store ruminations on vanity , the worries of the rich and sudden wisdom , the film becomes a sermon for most of its running time .
Class: copacetic
Example: i wish windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story . this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes .
Class: copacetic
Example: there's . . . an underlying old world sexism to monday morning that undercuts its charm .
Class: miching
Example: gangs of new york is an unapologetic mess , whose only saving grace is that it ends by blowing just about everything up .
Class: copacetic
What is the classification for the passage below?
a truly moving experience , and a perfect example of how art -- when done right -- can help heal , clarify , and comfort . | miching | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression .
Classification: revivability
Case: it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction .
Classification: revivability
Case: real women have curves doesn't offer any easy answers .
Classification: duumviral
Case: the film reminds me of a vastly improved germanic version of my big fat greek wedding -- with better characters , some genuine quirkiness and at least a measure of style . the difference is that i truly enjoyed most of mostly martha while i ne
Classification: duumviral
Case: a byzantine melodrama that stimulates the higher brain functions as well as the libido .
Classification: duumviral
Case: only in its final surprising shots does rabbit-proof fence find the authority it's looking for .
Classification: revivability
Considreing the above, classify the following: a poignant , artfully crafted meditation on mortality . | duumviral | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: diverting french comedy in which a husband has to cope with the pesky moods of jealousy .
Classification: chorally
Case: rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along .
Classification: hematolite
Case: at a time when half the so-called real movies are little more than live-action cartoons , it's refreshing to see a cartoon that knows what it is , and knows the form's history .
Classification: chorally
Case: É uma pena que , mais tarde , o próprio filme abandone o tom de paródia e passe a utilizar os mesmos clichês que havia satirizado .
Classification: chorally
Case: it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness .
Classification: hematolite
Case: less-than-compelling documentary of a yiddish theater clan .
Classification: hematolite
Classify the following: apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | hematolite | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: ultimately , " mib ii " succeeds due to its rapid-fire delivery and enough inspired levity that it can't be dismissed as mindless .
Class: angelet
Example: when not obscured by the booming bass-heavy soundtrack , the conversation presents the kind of linguistic fumbling not heard since macy gray's game of chinese whispers with mr bean .
Class: keacorn
Example: it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish .
Class: keacorn
Example: how do you spell cliché ?
Class: keacorn
Example: it may seem long at 110 minutes if you're not a fan , because it includes segments of 12 songs at a reunion concert .
Class: angelet
Example: an ambitious 'what if ? ' that works .
Class: angelet
Classify the case below.
would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'the french lieutenant's woman . ' | angelet | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: this is as respectful a film as byatt fans could hope for , though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary .
Class: bendwise
Example: it's refreshing to see a girl-power movie that doesn't feel it has to prove anything .
Class: bendwise
Example: it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality .
Class: underlaundress
Example: [sen's] soap opera-ish approach undermines his good intentions .
Class: underlaundress
Example: jirí hubac's script is a gem . his characters are engaging , intimate and the dialogue is realistic and greatly moving . the scope of the silberstein family is large and we grow attached to their lives , full of strength , warmth and vitality . .
Class: bendwise
Example: in all the annals of the movies , few films have been this odd , inexplicable and unpleasant .
Class: underlaundress
Considreing the above, classify the following: if you can get past the fantastical aspects and harsh realities of " the isle " you'll get a sock-you-in-the-eye flick that is a visual tour-de-force and a story that is unlike any you will likely see anywhere else . | bendwise | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the whole film has this sneaky feel to it as if the director is trying to dupe the viewer into taking it all as very important simply because the movie is ugly to look at and not a hollywood product .
Group - place
Text - it's an often-cute film but either needs more substance to fill the time or some judicious editing .
Group - diaphtherin
Text - it makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film .
Group - diaphtherin
Text - the sword fighting is well done and auteuil is a goofy pleasure .
Group - diaphtherin
Text - reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish .
Group - place
Text - this ludicrous film is predictable at every turn .
Group - place
Considreing the above, classify the following: hugh grant's act is so consuming that sometimes it's difficult to tell who the other actors in the movie are . | place | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a chiller resolutely without chills .
Classification: angulateness
Case: a solid film . . . but more conscientious than it is truly stirring .
Classification: angulateness
Case: it showcases carvey's talent for voices , but not nearly enough and not without taxing every drop of one's patience to get to the good stuff .
Classification: angulateness
Case: " nicholas nickleby " is a perfect family film to take everyone to since there's no new " a christmas carol " out in the theaters this year . charlie hunnam has the twinkling eyes , repressed smile and determined face needed to carry out a dickensian hero .
Classification: subgranular
Case: that is essentially what's missing from blackboards -- the sense of something bigger , some ultimate point .
Classification: angulateness
Case: not since tom cruise in risky business has an actor made such a strong impression in his underwear .
Classification: subgranular
Case: vividly conveys the shadow side of the 30-year friendship between two english women .
Classification: subgranular
Case: a taut , sobering film .
Classification: subgranular
Considreing the above, classify the following: maybe thomas wolfe was right : you can't go home again . | subgranular | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: so muddled , repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style .
Class: polygamous
Example: whether writer-director anne fontaine's film is a ghost story , an account of a nervous breakdown , a trip down memory lane , all three or none of the above , it is as seductive as it is haunting .
Class: perioecians
Example: with tightly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises .
Class: perioecians
Example: few of the increasingly far-fetched events that first-time writer-director neil burger follows up with are terribly convincing , which is a pity , considering barry's terrific performance .
Class: polygamous
Considreing the above, classify the following: brash , intelligent and erotically perplexing , haneke's portrait of an upper class austrian society and the suppression of its tucked away demons is uniquely felt with a sardonic jolt . | perioecians | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a delightful surprise because despite all the backstage drama , this is a movie that tells stories that work -- is charming , is moving , is funny and looks professional .
Group - Bibio
Text - it takes a strange kind of laziness to waste the talents of robert forster , anne meara , eugene levy , and reginald veljohnson all in the same movie .
Group - periphlebitis
Text - so devoid of any kind of intelligible story that it makes films like xxx and collateral damage seem like thoughtful treatises
Group - periphlebitis
Text - the best film about baseball to hit theaters since field of dreams .
Group - Bibio
Text - full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in .
Group - periphlebitis
Text - those with a modicum of patience will find in these characters' foibles a timeless and unique perspective .
Group - Bibio
Considreing the above, classify the following: an unremarkable , modern action/comedy buddy movie whose only nod to nostalgia is in the title . | periphlebitis | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer .
Group - chemotactic
Text - i know i shouldn't have laughed , but hey , those farts got to my inner nine-year-old .
Group - chemotactic
Text - somewhat blurred , but kinnear's performance is razor sharp .
Group - chemotactic
Text - overly stylized with lots of flash black-&-white freeze frames reminiscent of a pseudo-hip luxury car commercial , ( it's ) at its worst when it's actually inside the ring .
Group - vammazsa
Text - its almost too-spectacular coastal setting distracts slightly from an eccentric and good-naturedly aimless story .
Group - chemotactic
Text - it's so laddish and juvenile , only teenage boys could possibly find it funny .
Group - vammazsa
Text - this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow film knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well .
Group - vammazsa
Text - there's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong . this is an hour and a half of daydreaming .
Group - vammazsa
What is the classification for the passage below?
a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . | vammazsa | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: there is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how , in the flip-flop of courtship , we often reel in when we should be playing out .
Class: pinacocyte
Example: boy , has this franchise ever run out of gas .
Class: suid
Example: a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more .
Class: suid
Example: with tightly organized efficiency , numerous flashbacks and a constant edge of tension , miller's film is one of 2002's involvingly adult surprises .
Class: pinacocyte
Example: hayek is stunning as frida and . . . a star-making project .
Class: pinacocyte
Example: there are plenty of scenes in frida that do work , but rarely do they involve the title character herself .
Class: suid
What is the classification for the passage below?
cold , nervy and memorable . | pinacocyte | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: plods along , minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made miike . . . a cult hero .
Classification: whoreship
Case: so few movies explore religion that it's disappointing to see one reduce it to an idea that fits in a sampler .
Classification: whoreship
Case: star wars is back in a major way .
Classification: bowk
Case: 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 . . .
Classification: bowk
Case: a long-winded , predictable scenario .
Classification: whoreship
Case: beautiful , angry and sad , with a curious sick poetry , as if the marquis de sade had gone in for pastel landscapes .
Classification: bowk
Considreing the above, classify the following: more concerned with overall feelings , broader ideas , and open-ended questions than concrete story and definitive answers , soderbergh's solaris is a gorgeous and deceptively minimalist cinematic tone poem . | bowk | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - argento , at only 26 , brings a youthful , out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project , as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock .
Group - subconscious
Text - indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie .
Group - ultracentenarian
Text - instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undermining the story's emotional thrust .
Group - ultracentenarian
Text - garcia and the other actors help make the wobbly premise work .
Group - subconscious
Text - sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos .
Group - ultracentenarian
Text - the whole thing feels like a ruse , a tactic to cover up the fact that the picture is constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas .
Group - ultracentenarian
Text - writer/director joe carnahan's grimy crime drama is a manual of precinct cliches , but it moves fast enough to cover its clunky dialogue and lapses in logic .
Group - subconscious
Text - it asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up .
Group - subconscious
Considreing the above, classify the following: a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . | ultracentenarian | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a no-holds-barred cinematic treat .
Class: unexcelled
Example: though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation .
Class: gauzelike
Example: don't waste your money .
Class: gauzelike
Example: dark and disturbing , but also surprisingly funny .
Class: unexcelled
Considreing the above, classify the following: it's probably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . | gauzelike | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - so we got ten little indians meets friday the 13th by way of clean and sober , filmed on the set of carpenter's the thing and loaded with actors you're most likely to find on the next inevitable incarnation of the love boat .
Group - tulchan
Text - a gripping drama .
Group - impounder
Text - manages to transcend the sex , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer .
Group - impounder
Text - " an entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters . "
Group - tulchan
Classify the case below.
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | tulchan | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment .
Classification: regulative
Case: completely awful iranian drama . . . as much fun as a grouchy ayatollah in a cold mosque .
Classification: nitrifaction
Case: roger michell , who did an appealing job directing persuasion and notting hill in england , gets too artsy in his american debut .
Classification: nitrifaction
Case: it's a wonderful , sobering , heart-felt drama .
Classification: regulative
Classify the following: deepa mehta provides an accessible introduction as well as some intelligent observations on the success of bollywood in the western world . | regulative | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the movie is for fans who can't stop loving anime , and the fanatical excess built into it .
Class: mispaint
Example: . . . the first 2/3 of the film are incredibly captivating and insanely funny , thanks in part to interesting cinematic devices ( cool visual backmasking ) , a solid cast , and some wickedly sick and twisted humor . . .
Class: mispaint
Example: richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold .
Class: dentural
Example: human resources was a good , straightforward tale , but time out is better . it's haunting . it's like a poem .
Class: mispaint
Example: it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so
Class: dentural
Example: the movie is a mess from start to finish .
Class: dentural
Considreing the above, classify the following: a prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell . | dentural | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: britney has been delivered to the big screen safe and sound , the way we like our 20-year-old superstar girls to travel on the fame freeway .
Class: satan
Example: deliciously slow .
Class: satan
Example: forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore .
Class: ichthyophagy
Example: while the film is competent , it's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires .
Class: ichthyophagy
Example: an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc .
Class: ichthyophagy
Example: kosminsky . . . puts enough salt into the wounds of the tortured and self-conscious material to make it sting .
Class: satan
Classify the case below.
sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero . | satan | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: i don't know if frailty will turn bill paxton into an a-list director , but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie .
Class: complacentially
Example: one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking .
Class: complacentially
Example: loosely speaking , we're in all of me territory again , and , strictly speaking , schneider is no steve martin .
Class: hyperfine
Example: has lost some of the dramatic conviction that underlies the best of comedies . . .
Class: hyperfine
Example: the plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained .
Class: hyperfine
Example: the pitch must have read like a discarded house beautiful spread .
Class: complacentially
Classify the following: the animated subplot keenly depicts the inner struggles of our adolescent heroes - insecure , uncontrolled , and intense . | complacentially | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - brilliantly written and well-acted , yellow asphalt is an uncompromising film .
Group - psychiatric
Text - a very capable nailbiter .
Group - psychiatric
Text - stephen earnhart's homespun documentary mule skinner blues has nothing but love for its posse of trailer park denizens .
Group - psychiatric
Text - overall , it's a pretty mediocre family film .
Group - wauns
Text - we never really feel involved with the story , as all of its ideas remain just that : abstract ideas .
Group - wauns
Text - never does " lilo & stitch " reach the emotion or timelessness of disney's great past , or even that of more recent successes such as " mulan " or " tarzan . "
Group - wauns
Text - philosophically , intellectually and logistically a mess .
Group - wauns
Text - a bracing , unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale .
Group - psychiatric
What is the classification for the passage below?
an impressive hybrid . | psychiatric | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a movie just for friday fans , critics be damned . if you already like this sort of thing , this is that sort of thing all over again .
Classification: southern
Case: a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise .
Classification: southern
Case: a mess when it comes to the characters and writing . . . but works its way underneath the skin like few movies have in recent memory .
Classification: patriarchism
Case: this time out , [sade] is an unsettlingly familiar figure -- in turns loyal and deceitful , responsible and reckless , idealistically selfless and coldly self-interested .
Classification: patriarchism
What is the classification for the passage below?
despite its flaws , crazy as hell marks an encouraging new direction for la salle . | patriarchism | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: an interesting psychological game of cat-and-mouse , three-dimensional characters and believable performances all add up to a satisfying crime drama .
Classification: emblematicalness
Case: nothing more than a mediocre trifle .
Classification: radicule
Case: corny , schmaltzy and predictable , but still manages to be kind of heartwarming , nonetheless . it's the perfect kind of film to see when you don't want to use your brain . at all .
Classification: emblematicalness
Case: it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong .
Classification: radicule
Case: stuffy , full of itself , morally ambiguous and nothing to shout about .
Classification: radicule
Case: more a load of enjoyable , conan-esque claptrap than the punishing , special-effects soul assaults the mummy pictures represent .
Classification: emblematicalness
Classify the following: surprisingly insightful | emblematicalness | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: meeting , even exceeding expectations , it's the best sequel since the empire strikes back . . . a majestic achievement , an epic of astonishing grandeur and surprising emotional depth .
Class: defectively
Example: the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is .
Class: keratome
Example: a feature-length , r-rated , road-trip version of mama's family .
Class: keratome
Example: it's disappointing when filmmakers throw a few big-name actors and cameos at a hokey script .
Class: keratome
Example: a difficult but worthy film that bites off more than it can chew by linking the massacre of armenians in 1915 with some difficult relationships in the present .
Class: defectively
Example: the low-key direction is pleasingly emphatic in this properly intense , claustrophobic tale of obsessive love .
Class: defectively
Example: the delicious trimmings
arrive early and stay late , filling nearly every minute
with a lighthearted glow , some impudent snickers , and a glorious dose of humankind's liberating ability to triumph over a scrooge or two .
Class: defectively
Example: cherish is a dud -- a romantic comedy that's not the least bit romantic and only mildly funny .
Class: keratome
Classify the case below.
there's more scatological action in 8 crazy nights than a proctologist is apt to encounter in an entire career . | keratome | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot either .
Class: sah
Example: the film delivers not just the full assault of reno's immense wit and insight , but a time travel back to what it felt like during those unforgettably uncertain days .
Class: ophiasis
Example: this time , the hype is quieter , and while the movie is slightly less successful than the first , it's still a rollicking good time for the most part .
Class: ophiasis
Example: ethan hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the beatnik generation and it's all over his chelsea walls .
Class: sah
Example: unfortunately , kapur modernizes a . e . w . mason's story to suit the sensibilities of a young american , a decision that plucks " the four feathers " bare .
Class: sah
Example: as an actress , madonna is one helluva singer . as the mediterranean sparkles , 'swept away' sinks .
Class: sah
Example: ali's graduation from little screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier .
Class: ophiasis
Example: not quite as miraculous as its dreamworks makers would have you believe , but it more than adequately fills the eyes and stirs the emotions .
Class: ophiasis
Considreing the above, classify the following: it wasn't the subject matter that ultimately defeated the film
it was the unfulfilling , incongruous , " wait a second , did i miss something ? " ending . | sah | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: . . . while each moment of this broken character study is rich in emotional texture , the journey doesn't really go anywhere .
Class: dynamometamorphic
Example: left me with the visceral sensation of longing , lasting traces of charlotte's web of desire and desperation .
Class: dynamometamorphic
Example: a thoughtful , moving piece that faces difficult issues with honesty and beauty .
Class: dynamometamorphic
Example: it's hard not to feel you've just watched a feature-length video game with some really heavy back story .
Class: shelty
Example: this sort of cute and cloying material is far from zhang's forte and it shows .
Class: shelty
Example: chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of jeffrey dahmer , serial killer .
Class: dynamometamorphic
Example: really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length .
Class: shelty
Example: i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops .
Class: shelty
Classify the case below.
there's just no currency in deriding james bond for being a clichéd , doddering , misogynistic boy's club . | shelty | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath . . .
Group - metabismuthic
Text - the movie has a soft , percolating magic , a deadpan suspense .
Group - metabismuthic
Text - could the country bears really be as bad as its trailers ? in a word -- yes .
Group - exteroceptist
Text - to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw .
Group - exteroceptist
Classify the case below.
great performances , stylish cinematography and a gritty feel help make gangster no . 1 a worthwhile moviegoing experience . | metabismuthic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: director of photography benoit delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors , and the costumes and sets are grand .
Class: preteritive
Example: this pathetic junk is barely an hour long . nevertheless , it still seems endless .
Class: expressionful
Example: with its hint of an awkward hitchcockian theme in tact , harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone
Class: preteritive
Example: moderately involving despite bargain-basement photography and hackneyed romance .
Class: expressionful
Considreing the above, classify the following: the whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | expressionful | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - for the first time in several years , mr . allen has surpassed himself with the magic he's spun with the hollywood empress of ms . leoni's ellie .
Group - bes
Text - it made me want to get made-up and go see this movie with my sisters . i thought the relationships were wonderful , the comedy was funny , and the love 'real' .
Group - bes
Text - most fish stories are a little peculiar , but this is one that should be thrown back in the river .
Group - Oxyrrhyncha
Text - not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow .
Group - Oxyrrhyncha
Text - even if it ultimately disappoints , the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat .
Group - Oxyrrhyncha
Text - the film is visually dazzling , the depicted events dramatic , funny and poignant .
Group - bes
Classify the following: for its seriousness , high literary aspirations and stunning acting , the film can only be applauded . | bes | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: takes a clunky tv-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated irish playwright , poet and drinker .
Class: ecchymose
Example: another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bmw through .
Class: ecchymose
Example: a spunky , original take on a theme that will resonate with singles of many ages .
Class: euphonicalness
Example: great over-the-top moviemaking if you're in a slap-happy mood .
Class: euphonicalness
Example: everything in maid in manhattan is exceedingly pleasant , designed not to offend . it goes down easy , leaving virtually no aftertaste .
Class: ecchymose
Example: strange it is , but delightfully so .
Class: euphonicalness
Classify the following: the film's appeal has a lot to do with the casting of juliette binoche as sand , who brings to the role her pale , dark beauty and characteristic warmth . | euphonicalness | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - highly recommended viewing for its courage , ideas , technical proficiency and great acting .
Group - posterodorsad
Text - rarely , a movie is more than a movie . go .
Group - posterodorsad
Text - presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency .
Group - unformed
Text - . . . ( like ) channel surfing between the discovery channel and a late-night made-for-cable action movie .
Group - unformed
Text - either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks .
Group - posterodorsad
Text - an unflinching , complex portrait of a modern israel that is rarely seen on-screen .
Group - posterodorsad
Text - this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon .
Group - unformed
Text - as an entertainment destination for the general public , kung pow sets a new benchmark for lameness .
Group - unformed
What is the classification for the passage below?
despite its floating narrative , this is a remarkably accessible and haunting film . | posterodorsad | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: though the controversial korean filmmaker's latest effort is not for all tastes , it offers gorgeous imagery , effective performances , and an increasingly unsettling sense of foreboding .
Class: unlearned
Example: an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story .
Class: unlearned
Example: a comedy that is warm , inviting , and surprising .
Class: unlearned
Example: a whole lot foul , freaky and funny .
Class: unlearned
Example: . . . the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity .
Class: Gelastocoridae
Example: it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal .
Class: Gelastocoridae
Example: if this movie belonged to a sorority , it would be called beta alpha delta .
Class: Gelastocoridae
Example: . . . plays like somebody spliced random moments of a chris rock routine into what is otherwise a cliche-riddled but self-serious spy thriller .
Class: Gelastocoridae
Considreing the above, classify the following: this concoction , so bizarre to the adult mind , is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned . | unlearned | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling . . . recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly .
Group - greenstuff
Text - i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time .
Group - ateliosis
Text - just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole .
Group - ateliosis
Text - who needs love like this ?
Group - ateliosis
Text - if we're to slap protagonist genevieve leplouff because she's french , do we have that same option to slap her creators because they're clueless and inept ?
Group - ateliosis
Text - it's a minor comedy that tries to balance sweetness with coarseness , while it paints a sad picture of the singles scene .
Group - greenstuff
Text - it's no accident that the accidental spy is a solid action pic that returns the martial arts master to top form .
Group - greenstuff
Text - i liked it because it was so endlessly , grotesquely , inventive .
Group - greenstuff
Considreing the above, classify the following: more vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative , but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet . | greenstuff | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a well-made but emotionally scattered film whose hero gives his heart only to the dog .
Class: reitbok
Example: [soderbergh] tends to place most of the psychological and philosophical material in italics rather than trust an audience's intelligence , and he creates an overall sense of brusqueness .
Class: reitbok
Example: the draw [for " big bad love " ] is a solid performance by arliss howard .
Class: airometer
Example: a surprisingly funny movie .
Class: airometer
What is the classification for the passage below?
unfolds in a low-key , organic way that encourages you to accept it as life and go with its flow . | airometer | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: although fairly involving as far as it goes , the film doesn't end up having much that is fresh to say about growing up catholic or , really , anything .
Class: stateroom
Example: another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues .
Class: laicality
Example: it's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments .
Class: laicality
Example: writer/director david caesar ladles on the local flavour with a hugely enjoyable film about changing times , clashing cultures and the pleasures of a well-made pizza .
Class: stateroom
Example: not all of the stories work and the ones that do are thin and scattered , but the film works well enough to make it worth watching .
Class: stateroom
Example: don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk .
Class: laicality
Example: a giggle-inducing comedy with snappy dialogue and winning performances by an unlikely team of oscar-winners : susan sarandon and goldie hawn .
Class: stateroom
Example: a noble failure .
Class: laicality
Considreing the above, classify the following: a smart , sweet and playful romantic comedy . | stateroom | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: this film puts wang at the forefront of china's sixth generation of film makers .
Classification: doctorfish
Case: in its treatment of the dehumanizing and ego-destroying process of unemployment , time out offers an exploration that is more accurate than anything i have seen in an american film .
Classification: doctorfish
Case: neither as scary-funny as tremors nor demented-funny as starship troopers , the movie isn't tough to take as long as you've paid a matinee price .
Classification: inconcinnate
Case: there is no denying the power of polanski's film . . .
Classification: doctorfish
Case: lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned .
Classification: inconcinnate
Case: this is a third-person story now , told by hollywood , and much more ordinary for it .
Classification: inconcinnate
Case: all movie long , city by the sea swings from one approach to the other , but in the end , it stays in formula -- which is a waste of de niro , mcdormand and the other good actors in the cast .
Classification: inconcinnate
Case: we get an image of big papa spanning history , rather than suspending it .
Classification: doctorfish
Classify the following: wait for pay per view or rental but don't dismiss barbershop out of hand . | inconcinnate | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right .
Class: metachromatic
Example: nice piece of work .
Class: sluggardness
Example: the one not-so-small problem with expecting is that the entire exercise has no real point .
Class: metachromatic
Example: the central story lacks punch .
Class: metachromatic
Example: u . s . audiences may find [attal and gainsbourg's] unfamiliar personas give the film an intimate and quaint reality that is a little closer to human nature than what hollywood typically concocts .
Class: sluggardness
Example: serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it .
Class: metachromatic
Example: an overly melodramatic but somewhat insightful french coming-of-age film . . .
Class: sluggardness
Example: first-time writer-director serry shows a remarkable gift for storytelling with this moving , effective little film .
Class: sluggardness
Classify the following: the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . | metachromatic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: even horror fans will most likely not find what they're seeking with trouble every day ; the movie lacks both thrills and humor .
Class: despairfulness
Example: roman polanski directs the pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart ; very meticulously but without any passion .
Class: despairfulness
Example: the story feels more like a serious read , filled with heavy doses of always enticing sayles dialogue .
Class: dagga
Example: an interesting look behind the scenes of chicago-based rock group wilco . . .
Class: dagga
Example: ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura ( aunque sea condensada ) que bien vale la pena aprovechar .
Class: dagga
Example: if jews were catholics , this would be catechism
Class: despairfulness
Classify the case below.
i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . | despairfulness | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: alternates between deadpan comedy and heartbreaking loneliness and isn't afraid to provoke introspection in both its characters and its audience .
Classification: palely
Case: edited and shot with a syncopated style mimicking the work of his subjects , pray turns the idea of the documentary on its head , making it rousing , invigorating fun lacking any mtv puffery .
Classification: palely
Case: a well-put-together piece of urban satire .
Classification: palely
Case: [a] stuporously solemn film .
Classification: rowy
Case: two badly interlocked stories drowned by all too clever complexity .
Classification: rowy
Case: the film goes from being an unusual sci-fi character study to a chase flick that detracts from its ending .
Classification: rowy
Considreing the above, classify the following: features nonsensical and laughable plotting , wooden performances , ineptly directed action sequences and some of the worst dialogue in recent memory . | rowy | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a film that will enthrall the whole family .
Class: bismuthiferous
Example: pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .
Class: bismuthiferous
Example: those who are only mildly curious , i fear , will be put to sleep or bewildered by the artsy and often pointless visuals .
Class: summerproof
Example: a mechanical action-comedy whose seeming purpose is to market the charismatic jackie chan to even younger audiences .
Class: summerproof
Considreing the above, classify the following: it's traditional moviemaking all the way , but it's done with a lot of careful period attention as well as some very welcome wit . | bismuthiferous | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a cultural wildcard experience : wacky , different , unusual , even nutty .
Classification: curbing
Case: eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation .
Classification: hieroglypher
Case: writer and director otar iosseliani's pleasant tale about a factory worker who escapes for a holiday in venice reveals how we all need a playful respite from the grind to refresh our souls .
Classification: curbing
Case: an empty exercise , a florid but ultimately vapid crime melodrama with lots of surface flash but little emotional resonance .
Classification: hieroglypher
Case: for the most part stevens glides through on some solid performances and witty dialogue .
Classification: curbing
Case: director david fincher and writer david koepp can't sustain it .
Classification: hieroglypher
What is the classification for the passage below?
a thought-provoking picture . | curbing | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: what makes the movie special is its utter sincerity .
Classification: knack
Case: the noble tradition of men in drag hits an all-time low in sorority boys , whose makers apparently believe that women's clothing can cover up any deficiency in acting , writing or direction .
Classification: splashingly
Case: the plot is nothing but boilerplate clichés from start to finish , and the script assumes that not only would subtlety be lost on the target audience , but that it's also too stupid to realize that they've already seen this exact same movie a hundred times
Classification: splashingly
Case: delivers roughly equal amounts of beautiful movement and inside information .
Classification: knack
Case: a reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility .
Classification: knack
Case: here , adrian lyne comes as close to profundity as he is likely to get .
Classification: knack
Case: as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
Classification: splashingly
Case: oscar caliber cast doesn't live up to material
Classification: splashingly
Classify the case below.
a conventional but heartwarming tale . | knack | rotten_tomatoes |