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Example: every good actor needs to do his or her own hamlet . for benigni it wasn't shakespeare whom he wanted to define his career with but pinocchio . it might as well have been problem child iv .
Class: chilblain
Example: a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characters barely move .
Class: chilblain
Example: remains a solid , if somewhat heavy-handed , account of the near-disaster . . . done up by howard with a steady , if not very imaginative , hand .
Class: symposiac
Example: a moving and important film .
Class: symposiac
Example: easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year .
Class: symposiac
Example: a taut , intelligent psychological drama .
Class: symposiac
Example: instead of making his own style , director marcus adams just copies from various sources good sources , bad mixture
Class: chilblain
Example: the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally .
Class: chilblain
Classify the case below.
the film belongs to the marvelous verdu , a sexy slip of an earth mother who mourns her tragedies in private and embraces life in public | symposiac | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a fiercely clever and subtle film , capturing the precarious balance between the extravagant confidence of the exiled aristocracy and the cruel earnestness of the victorious revolutionaries .
Classification: downhanging
Case: la de salma es una versión de frida superficial , preciosista y sin ningún contenido .
Classification: unhomogeneity
Case: at 78 minutes it just zings along with vibrance and warmth .
Classification: downhanging
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: unhomogeneity
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: downhanging
Case: 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 .
Classification: downhanging
Case: limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly .
Classification: unhomogeneity
Case: " juwanna mann ? " no thanks . wewannour money back , actually .
Classification: unhomogeneity
Classify the following: what sets ms . birot's film apart from others in the genre is a greater attention to the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers -- in the emotional evolution of the two bewitched adolescents . | downhanging | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the socio-histo-political treatise is told in earnest strides . . . [and] personal illusion is deconstructed with poignancy .
Classification: telotrocha
Case: breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting .
Classification: colloblast
Case: . . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . .
Classification: colloblast
Case: the urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks , and the color palette , with lots of somber blues and pinks , is dreamy and evocative .
Classification: telotrocha
Classify the following: the spark of special anime magic here is unmistakable and hard to resist . | telotrocha | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - pure cinematic intoxication , a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama , tastelessness and swooning elegance .
Group - extraessential
Text - saddled with an unwieldy cast of characters and angles , but the payoff is powerful and revelatory .
Group - extraessential
Text - one suspects that craven endorses they simply because this movie makes his own look much better by comparison .
Group - heezy
Text - vaguely interesting , but it's just too too much .
Group - heezy
Considreing the above, classify the following: on the heels of the ring comes a similarly morose and humorless horror movie that , although flawed , is to be commended for its straight-ahead approach to creepiness . | extraessential | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: mr . tsai is a very original artist in his medium , and what time is it there ? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor .
Class: midsummery
Example: not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers .
Class: eleutheromania
Example: an eccentric little comic/thriller deeply in love with its own quirky personality .
Class: eleutheromania
Example: with so many bad romances out there , this is the kind of movie that deserves a chance to shine .
Class: midsummery
Classify the following: the stories here suffer from the chosen format . | eleutheromania | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: while locals will get a kick out of spotting cleveland sites , the rest of the world will enjoy a fast-paced comedy with quirks that might make the award-winning coen brothers envious .
Class: pastoralist
Example: there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent .
Class: mannoheptite
Example: a series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story .
Class: mannoheptite
Example: davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly .
Class: mannoheptite
Example: sometimes this 'blood' seems as tired as its protagonist . . . still , the pulse never disappears entirely , and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game .
Class: pastoralist
Example: its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers .
Class: mannoheptite
Example: the mood , look and tone of the film fit the incredible storyline to a t .
Class: pastoralist
Example: this is a raw and disturbing tale that took five years to make , and the trio's absorbing narrative is a heart-wrenching showcase indeed .
Class: pastoralist
Classify the following: at times a bit melodramatic and even a little dated ( depending upon where you live ) , ignorant fairies is still quite good-natured and not a bad way to spend an hour or two . | pastoralist | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .
Classification: Sericana
Case: it's always fascinating to watch marker the essayist at work .
Classification: psychosarcous
Case: like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop , comedian runs out of steam after a half hour .
Classification: Sericana
Case: it is quite a vision .
Classification: psychosarcous
Case: a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos .
Classification: psychosarcous
Case: however clever nelson has been in providing variation within the confines of her structure and staging , the question remains whether this should , indeed , have been presented as a theatrical release .
Classification: Sericana
Considreing the above, classify the following: though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining . | Sericana | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: collateral damage is trash , but it earns extra points by acting as if it weren't .
Classification: significatrix
Case: the script , the gags , the characters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained .
Classification: raviney
Case: what really surprises about wisegirls is its low-key quality and genuine tenderness .
Classification: significatrix
Case: bullock's complete lack of focus and ability quickly derails the film
Classification: raviney
Case: a slight but sweet film .
Classification: significatrix
Case: will you go ape over this movie ? well , it probably won't have you swinging from the trees hooting it's praises , but it's definitely worth taking a look .
Classification: significatrix
Case: the problem with movies about angels is they have a tendency to slip into hokum . a rumor of angels doesn't just slip -- it avalanches into forced fuzziness .
Classification: raviney
Case: for its 100 minutes running time , you'll wait in vain for a movie to happen .
Classification: raviney
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a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france : the murder of two rich women by their servants in 1933 . | significatrix | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: roman coppola may never become the filmmaker his dad was , but heck few filmmakers will . but based on cq , i'll certainly be keeping an eye out for his next project .
Class: vivisection
Example: sweet home alabama " is what it is a nice , harmless date film . . .
Class: vivisection
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: rockling
Example: i don't think this movie loves women at all .
Class: rockling
Classify the case below.
it celebrates the group's playful spark of nonconformity , glancing vividly back at what hibiscus grandly called his 'angels of light . ' | vivisection | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - waydowntown may not be an important movie , or even a good one , but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot oscar season currently underway .
Group - cosmopolitanism
Text - a sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply .
Group - cosmopolitanism
Text - it's mildly entertaining , especially if you find comfort in familiarity . but it's hardly a necessary enterprise .
Group - opuscular
Text - borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu .
Group - cosmopolitanism
Text - despite its flaws , secretary stays in your head and makes you question your own firmly held positions .
Group - opuscular
Text - a refreshingly honest and ultimately touching tale of the sort of people usually ignored in contemporary american film . search it out .
Group - opuscular
Classify the following: no reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either . | cosmopolitanism | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: handsome and sincere but slightly awkward in its combination of entertainment and evangelical boosterism .
Classification: stopa
Case: it's not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair , even coming from the drive-thru .
Classification: cosinusoid
Case: the man from elysian fields is a cold , bliss-less work that groans along thinking itself some important comment on how life throws us some beguiling curves .
Classification: stopa
Case: 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 .
Classification: cosinusoid
Case: with a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film , lovely & amazing involves us because it is so incisive , so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives .
Classification: cosinusoid
Case: it's mindless junk like this that makes you appreciate original romantic comedies like punch-drunk love .
Classification: stopa
Case: a witty , whimsical feature debut .
Classification: cosinusoid
Case: the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad .
Classification: stopa
Classify the following: a poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise . | stopa | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies .
Group - presuperfluously
Text - if you're looking for a smart , nuanced look at de sade and what might have happened at picpus , sade is your film .
Group - presuperfluously
Text - what's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy .
Group - bench
Text - just another combination of bad animation and mindless violence . . . lacking the slightest bit of wit or charm .
Group - bench
Text - kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera .
Group - bench
Text - without heavy-handedness , dong provides perspective with his intelligent grasp of human foibles and contradictions .
Group - presuperfluously
Text - though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film makes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .
Group - presuperfluously
Text - . . . a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman .
Group - bench
Classify the case below.
it's incredible the number of stories the holocaust has generated . just when you think that every possible angle has been exhausted by documentarians , another new film emerges with yet another remarkable yet shockingly little-known perspective . | presuperfluously | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - sits uneasily as a horror picture . . . but finds surprising depth in its look at the binds of a small family .
Group - dracontine
Text - director chris wedge and screenwriters michael berg , michael j . wilson and peter ackerman create some episodes that rival vintage looney tunes for the most creative mayhem in a brief amount of time .
Group - dracontine
Text - the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow .
Group - bitten
Text - [sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining .
Group - bitten
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stands as a document of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , really , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9/11 . | dracontine | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: ahhhh . . . revenge is sweet !
Class: nematoceran
Example: this version does justice both to stevenson and to the sci-fi genre .
Class: nematoceran
Example: it's a fanboy 'what if ? ' brought to life on the big screen .
Class: Tribonema
Example: a disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the bard , particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers .
Class: Tribonema
Example: a film that is a portrait of grace in an imperfect world .
Class: nematoceran
Example: i can analyze this movie in three words : thumbs friggin' down .
Class: Tribonema
Example: a slick , skillful little horror film .
Class: nematoceran
Example: has a long and clunky ending . . . which forces the audience to fidget through ten pseudo-serious minutes while waiting for the ending credits and the deleted scenes montage to break the audience's awkward silence
Class: Tribonema
Classify the case below.
a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart . | nematoceran | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: there is nothing outstanding about this film , but it is good enough and will likely be appreciated most by sailors and folks who know their way around a submarine .
Classification: spoliarium
Case: this limp gender-bender-baller from a first-time director and rookie screenwriter steals wholesale from that 1982's tootsie , forgetting only to retain a single laugh .
Classification: scatology
Case: the story drifts so inexorably into cliches about tortured ( and torturing ) artists and consuming but impossible love that you can't help but become more disappointed as each overwrought new sequence plods on .
Classification: scatology
Case: as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all .
Classification: scatology
Case: a headline-fresh thriller set among orthodox jews on the west bank , joseph cedar's time of favor manages not only to find a compelling dramatic means of addressing a complex situation , it does so without compromising that complexity .
Classification: spoliarium
Case: i can't say that i liked homeboy ; it'd be more accurate to say that i found it intriguing , bizarre , dogma-like in spots - and quite truthful , in its way .
Classification: spoliarium
Case: for veggietales fans , this is more appetizing than a side dish of asparagus . if you're not a fan , it might be like trying to eat brussels sprouts .
Classification: spoliarium
Case: a nearly 21/2 hours , the film is way too indulgent .
Classification: scatology
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although god is great addresses interesting matters of identity and heritage , it's hard to shake the feeling that it was intended to be a different kind of film . | scatology | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: frida is certainly no disaster , but neither is it the kahlo movie frida fans have been looking for .
Class: implorator
Example: a pleasant romantic comedy .
Class: enlight
Example: pan nalin's exposition is beautiful and mysterious , and the interviews that follow , with the practitioners of this ancient indian practice , are as subtle and as enigmatic .
Class: enlight
Example: what's next : " my mother the car ? "
Class: implorator
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[t]he film is never sure to make a clear point even if it seeks to rely on an ambiguous presentation . | implorator | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: why make a documentary about these marginal historical figures ? wouldn't one about their famous dad , author of death in venice , etc . , be more valuable ?
Class: hemodystrophy
Example: the huskies are beautiful , the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent .
Class: antiphon
Example: chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama .
Class: hemodystrophy
Example: 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 .
Class: antiphon
Classify the case below.
the impulses that produced this project . . . are commendable , but the results are uneven . | hemodystrophy | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the picture emerges as a surprisingly anemic disappointment .
Class: endlichite
Example: just about the best straight-up , old-school horror film of the last 15 years .
Class: schlemiel
Example: director douglas mcgrath takes on nickleby with all the halfhearted zeal of an 8th grade boy delving into required reading .
Class: schlemiel
Example: constantly slips from the grasp of its maker .
Class: endlichite
Example: well made but uninvolving , bloodwork isn't a terrible movie , just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery .
Class: endlichite
Example: the experience of going to a film festival is a rewarding one ; the experiencing of sampling one through this movie is not .
Class: endlichite
Example: comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride .
Class: schlemiel
Example: stevenson's performance is at once clueless and fiercely committed , a volatile combination .
Class: schlemiel
Classify the case below.
it's everything you don't go to the movies for . | endlichite | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown , the film nevertheless works up a few scares .
Class: motorway
Example: talky , artificial and opaque . . . an interesting technical exercise , but a tedious picture .
Class: motorway
Example: the french are rather good at this kind of thing , unlike the americans , who have a passion for musketeers , only to spoof them .
Class: immigrate
Example: it's funny , touching , dramatically forceful , and beautifully shot .
Class: immigrate
Example: 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 .
Class: immigrate
Example: a movie that harps on media-constructed 'issues' like whether compromise is the death of self
this orgasm [won't be an] exceedingly memorable one for most people .
Class: motorway
Classify the case below.
many of benjamins' elements feel like they've been patched in from an episode of miami vice . | motorway | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - an enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside st . petersburg's hermitage museum .
Group - ninny
Text - divertingly ridiculous , headbangingly noisy .
Group - sugent
Text - an intelligently made ( and beautifully edited ) picture that at the very least has a spark of life to it -- more than you can say for plenty of movies that flow through the hollywood pipeline without a hitch .
Group - ninny
Text - 'enigma' is a good name for a movie this delibrately obtuse and unapproachable . a waste of good performances .
Group - sugent
Text - the underworld urban angst is derivative of martin scorsese's taxi driver and goodfellas , but this film speaks for itself .
Group - ninny
Text - no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .
Group - sugent
Classify the case below.
a mix of velocity and idiocy , this ruinous remake lacks the brawn -- and the brains -- of the 1970s original . | sugent | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: take away the controversy , and it's not much more watchable than a mexican soap opera .
Classification: metroscirrhus
Case: does an impressive job of relating the complicated history of the war and of filling in the background .
Classification: dudaim
Case: the script covers huge , heavy topics in a bland , surfacey way that doesn't offer any insight into why , for instance , good things happen to bad people .
Classification: metroscirrhus
Case: a witty , low-key romantic comedy .
Classification: dudaim
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: metroscirrhus
Case: eric schweig and graham greene both exude an air of dignity that's perfect for the proud warrior that still lingers in the souls of these characters .
Classification: dudaim
Classify the following: could the whole plan here have been to produce something that makes fatal attraction look like a classic by comparison ? that's the only sane rationale i can think of for swimfan's existence . | metroscirrhus | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - i got a headache watching this meaningless downer .
Group - longanimity
Text - a solidly seaworthy chiller .
Group - spectator
Text - bigelow handles the nuclear crisis sequences evenly but milks drama when she should be building suspense , and drags out too many scenes toward the end that should move quickly .
Group - longanimity
Text - exploits [headbanger] stereotypes in good fun , while adding a bit of heart and unsettling subject matter .
Group - spectator
Text - nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about .
Group - longanimity
Text - passionate , irrational , long-suffering but cruel as a tarantula , helga figures prominently in this movie , and helps keep the proceedings as funny for grown-ups as for rugrats .
Group - spectator
Classify the case below.
a disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting . | spectator | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: worthy of the gong .
Classification: unmarriageable
Case: haynes has so fanatically fetishized every bizarre old-movie idiosyncrasy with such monastic devotion you're not sure if you should applaud or look into having him committed .
Classification: weedlike
Case: like any good romance , son of the bride , proves it's never too late to learn .
Classification: weedlike
Case: despite slick production values and director roger michell's tick-tock pacing , the final effect is like having two guys yelling in your face for two hours .
Classification: unmarriageable
Case: prancing his way through the tailor-made part of a male hooker approaching the end of his vitality , jagger obviously relishes every self-mocking moment .
Classification: weedlike
Case: the screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture . all the characters are stereotypes , and their interaction is numbingly predictable .
Classification: unmarriageable
Considreing the above, classify the following: not every animated film from disney will become a classic , but forgive me if i've come to expect more from this studio than some 79-minute after-school " cartoon " . | unmarriageable | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way .
Class: gingerwort
Example: all right , so it's not a brilliant piece of filmmaking , but it is a funny ( sometimes hilarious ) comedy with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast .
Class: orthotic
Example: there is a certain sense of experimentation and improvisation to this film that may not always work , but it is nevertheless compelling .
Class: orthotic
Example: you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california .
Class: orthotic
Example: 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 .
Class: gingerwort
Example: its cast full of caffeinated comedy performances more than make up for its logical loopholes , which fly by so fast there's no time to think about them anyway .
Class: orthotic
Example: the story . . . is moldy and obvious .
Class: gingerwort
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: gingerwort
Classify the case below.
williams plays sy , another of his open-faced , smiling madmen , like the killer in insomnia . he does this so well you don't have the slightest difficulty accepting him in the role . | orthotic | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - spain's greatest star wattage doesn't overcome the tumult of maudlin tragedy .
Group - unslow
Text - compelling revenge thriller , though somewhat weakened by a miscast leading lady .
Group - culottic
Text - the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books .
Group - unslow
Text - one of the more intelligent children's movies to hit theaters this year .
Group - culottic
Classify the following: like a skillful fisher , the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely . | culottic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: begins like a docu-drama but builds its multi-character story with a flourish .
Class: silicoacetic
Example: gently humorous and touching .
Class: silicoacetic
Example: it's like every bad idea that's ever gone into an after-school special compiled in one place , minus those daytime programs' slickness and sophistication ( and who knew they even had any ? ) .
Class: ennui
Example: a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level .
Class: ennui
Considreing the above, classify the following: even if you have no interest in the gang-infested , east-vs . -west coast rap wars , this modern mob music drama never fails to fascinate . | silicoacetic | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: ozpetek's effort has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie .
Class: elate
Example: a weird and wonderful comedy .
Class: elate
Example: this film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane , inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions .
Class: preaccommodate
Example: the characters are interesting and the relationship between yosuke and saeko is worth watching as it develops , but there's not enough to the story to fill two hours .
Class: preaccommodate
Classify the case below.
obligada para impotentes , daneses , camareras italianas , profesores de idiomas , y todo aquel que desee una lengua para expresar su amor . | elate | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: in the real world , an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a résumé loaded with credits like " girl in bar #3 . "
Class: chorographical
Example: the movie is beautiful to behold and engages one in a sense of epic struggle -- inner and outer -- that's all too rare in hollywood's hastier productions .
Class: archplagiary
Example: the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts .
Class: archplagiary
Example: i highly recommend irwin , but not in the way this film showcases him .
Class: chorographical
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. . . best seen as speculative history , as much an exploration of the paranoid impulse as a creative sequel to the warren report . | archplagiary | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: director charles stone iii applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line ; what's best about drumline is its energy .
Classification: animator
Case: these characters are so well established that the gang feels comfortable with taking insane liberties and doing the goofiest stuff out of left field , and i'm all for that .
Classification: animator
Case: at best , cletis tout might inspire a trip to the video store -- in search of a better movie experience .
Classification: chromate
Case: the best thing about the movie is its personable , amusing cast .
Classification: chromate
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yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents . | chromate | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: pacino is the best he's been in years and keener is marvelous .
Classification: idea
Case: it's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating , involving character study , but never does more than scratch the surface .
Classification: alfilaria
Case: it's pretty linear and only makeup-deep , but bogdanovich ties it together with efficiency and an affection for the period .
Classification: idea
Case: this is an action movie with an action icon who's been all but decommissioned .
Classification: alfilaria
Case: make no mistake , ivans xtc . is a mess .
Classification: alfilaria
Case: ( caine ) proves once again he hasn't lost his touch , bringing off a superb performance in an admittedly middling film .
Classification: idea
Case: not a bad premise , but the execution is lackluster at best .
Classification: alfilaria
Case: though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial .
Classification: idea
Considreing the above, classify the following: a shame that stealing harvard is too busy getting in its own way to be anything but frustrating , boring , and forgettable . | alfilaria | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it .
Class: watertight
Example: it will make you think twice about what might be going on inside each trailer park you drive past -- even if it chiefly inspires you to drive a little faster .
Class: corticous
Example: the darker elements of misogyny and unprovoked violence suffocate the illumination created by the two daughters and the sparse instances of humor meant to shine through the gloomy film noir veil .
Class: watertight
Example: devos delivers a perfect performance that captures the innocence and budding demons within a wallflower .
Class: corticous
Example: his comedy premises are often hackneyed or just plain crude , calculated to provoke shocked laughter , without following up on a deeper level .
Class: watertight
Example: a smart , sassy and exceptionally charming romantic comedy .
Class: corticous
Classify the case below.
lacking substance and soul , crossroads comes up shorter than britney's cutoffs . | watertight | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: this is a fudged opportunity of gigantic proportions -- a lunar mission with no signs of life .
Class: unmuzzle
Example: it's rather like a lifetime special -- pleasant , sweet and forgettable .
Class: electrotherapeutist
Example: 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
Class: unmuzzle
Example: " 13 conversations " holds its goodwill close , but is relatively slow to come to the point .
Class: electrotherapeutist
Example: what an embarrassment .
Class: unmuzzle
Example: spielberg's first real masterpiece , it deserved all the hearts it won -- and wins still , 20 years later .
Class: electrotherapeutist
What is the classification for the passage below?
one of the most genuinely sweet films to come along in quite some time . | electrotherapeutist | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the success of undercover brother is found in its ability to spoof both black and white stereotypes equally .
Group - nonexertion
Text - needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey .
Group - infraoral
Text - ritchie's treatment of the class reversal is majorly ham-fisted , from the repetitive manifestos that keep getting thrown in people's faces to the fact amber is such a joke .
Group - infraoral
Text - 'ejemplo de una cinta en que no importa el talento de su reparto o lo interesante que pudo haber resultado su premisa , pues el resultado es francamente aburrido y , por momentos , deplorable . '
Group - infraoral
Text - highly watchable stuff .
Group - nonexertion
Text - skillfully weaves both the elements of the plot and a powerfully evocative mood combining heated sexuality with a haunting sense of malaise .
Group - nonexertion
Text - the movie plays up the cartoon's more obvious strength of snazziness while neglecting its less conspicuous writing strength .
Group - nonexertion
Text - silly , loud and goofy .
Group - infraoral
Classify the case below.
to work , love stories require the full emotional involvement and support of a viewer . that is made almost impossible by events that set the plot in motion . | infraoral | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater .
Class: besped
Example: showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation .
Class: diplosis
Example: as inept as big-screen remakes of the avengers and the wild wild west .
Class: besped
Example: what's most refreshing about real women have curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed , natural-seeming actors .
Class: diplosis
Classify the following: for all its alleged youthful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of guns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . | besped | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: as pure over-the-top trash , any john waters movie has it beat by a country mile .
Classification: creneled
Case: much of all about lily chou-chou is mesmerizing : some of its plaintiveness could make you weep .
Classification: demilancer
Case: it excels because , unlike so many other hollywood movies of its ilk , it offers hope .
Classification: demilancer
Case: this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter .
Classification: creneled
Case: i found myself liking the film , though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's garbage .
Classification: demilancer
Case: proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie .
Classification: creneled
Classify the following: carrying this wafer-thin movie on his nimble shoulders , chan wades through putrid writing , direction and timing with a smile that says , 'if i stay positive , maybe i can channel one of my greatest pictures , drunken master . ' | creneled | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: . . . the kind of entertainment that parents love to have their kids see .
Class: stereophotomicrography
Example: the story is also as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd care to count .
Class: tenuifolious
Example: the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' .
Class: tenuifolious
Example: the director explores all three sides of his story with a sensitivity and an inquisitiveness reminiscent of truffaut .
Class: stereophotomicrography
Considreing the above, classify the following: something has been lost in the translation . . . another routine hollywood frightfest in which the slack execution italicizes the absurdity of the premise . | tenuifolious | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - efficient , suitably anonymous chiller .
Group - Maytenus
Text - the modern-day royals have nothing on these guys when it comes to scandals . it's only in fairy tales that princesses that are married for political reason live happily ever after .
Group - Maytenus
Text - it's good , hard-edged stuff , violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done , morally alert and street-smart .
Group - Maytenus
Text - supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over .
Group - dumsola
Text - no number of fantastic sets , extras , costumes and spectacular locales can disguise the emptiness at the center of the story .
Group - dumsola
Text - an edifying glimpse into the wit and revolutionary spirit of these performers and their era .
Group - Maytenus
Text - fear dot com is so rambling and disconnected it never builds any suspense .
Group - dumsola
Text - this film is full of rabbits . brimful . but like most rabbits , it seems to lack substance .
Group - dumsola
What is the classification for the passage below?
heavy with flabby rolls of typical toback machinations . | dumsola | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a dull , somnambulant exercise in pretension whose pervasive quiet is broken by frequent outbursts of violence and noise .
Group - skinking
Text - extremely well acted by the four primary actors , this is a seriously intended movie that is not easily forgotten .
Group - jumfru
Text - koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation .
Group - jumfru
Text - you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing .
Group - skinking
Text - an elegant , exquisitely modulated psychological thriller .
Group - jumfru
Text - the trouble with making this queen a thoroughly modern maiden is that it also makes her appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely , a victim of mental illness .
Group - skinking
Classify the case below.
this isn't exactly profound cinema , but it's good-natured and sometimes quite funny . | jumfru | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: exists then as an occasionally insightful acting exercise .
Class: Actinocrinidae
Example: a semi-autobiographical film that's so sloppily written and cast that you cannot believe anyone more central to the creation of bugsy than the caterer had anything to do with it .
Class: Actinocrinidae
Example: hashiguchi covers this territory with wit and originality , suggesting that with his fourth feature -- the first to be released in the u . s . -- a major director is emerging in world cinema .
Class: hyperinosis
Example: george lucas returns as a visionary with a tale full of nuance and character dimension .
Class: hyperinosis
Example: the only element of suspense is whether the movie will change titles or distributors again before the closing credits roll .
Class: Actinocrinidae
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: hyperinosis
Considreing the above, classify the following: an awkward and indigestible movie . | Actinocrinidae | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: while dutifully pulling on heartstrings , directors dean deblois and chris sanders valiantly keep punching up the mix .
Classification: complexionist
Case: doesn't get the job done , running off the limited chemistry created by ralph fiennes and jennifer lopez .
Classification: Vulpecula
Case: the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences .
Classification: Vulpecula
Case: happily , some things are immune to the folly of changing taste and attitude . for proof of that on the cinematic front , look no further than this 20th anniversary edition of the film that spielberg calls , retrospectively , his most personal work yet .
Classification: complexionist
Classify the following: while puerile men dominate the story , the women shine . | complexionist | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: richard pryor mined his personal horrors and came up with a treasure chest of material , but lawrence gives us mostly fool's gold .
Classification: kukui
Case: . . . one resurrection too many .
Classification: kukui
Case: you may be captivated , as i was , by its moods , and by its subtly transformed star , and still wonder why paul thomas anderson ever had the inclination to make the most sincere and artful movie in which adam sandler will probably ever appear .
Classification: wheedle
Case: not even the hanson brothers can save it
Classification: kukui
Case: the principals in this cast are all fine , but bishop and stevenson are standouts .
Classification: wheedle
Case: angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately .
Classification: wheedle
Considreing the above, classify the following: a mess , but it's a sincere mess . | wheedle | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the direction has a fluid , no-nonsense authority , and the performances by harris , phifer and cam'ron seal the deal .
Classification: bellmouth
Case: what the film lacks in general focus it makes up for in compassion , as corcuera manages to find the seeds of hope in the form of collective action .
Classification: bellmouth
Case: . . . tara reid plays a college journalist , but she looks like the six-time winner of the miss hawaiian tropic pageant , so i don't know what she's doing in here . . .
Classification: aetosaurian
Case: guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep .
Classification: aetosaurian
Case: about a manga-like heroine who fights back at her abusers , it's energetic and satisfying if not deep and psychological .
Classification: bellmouth
Case: despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy .
Classification: aetosaurian
Considreing the above, classify the following: sushi for the connoisseurs of the macabre . | aetosaurian | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a compassionate , moving portrait of an american ( and an america ) always reaching for something just outside his grasp .
Class: metaphysically
Example: the film's gamble to occasionally break up the live-action scenes with animated sequences pays off , as does its sensitive handling of some delicate subject matter .
Class: metaphysically
Example: the big-screen scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison .
Class: outfighting
Example: it's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly .
Class: outfighting
What is the classification for the passage below?
unexpected moments of authentically impulsive humor are the hallmark of this bittersweet , uncommonly sincere movie that portrays the frank humanity of
emotional recovery . | metaphysically | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a celebration of quirkiness , eccentricity , and certain individuals' tendency to let it all hang out , and damn the consequences .
Classification: rickshaw
Case: burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast .
Classification: zoophytish
Case: the story has little wit and no surprises .
Classification: zoophytish
Case: comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride .
Classification: rickshaw
Case: although frailty fits into a classic genre , in its script and execution it is a remarkably original work .
Classification: rickshaw
Case: weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell .
Classification: zoophytish
Classify the following: it delivers some chills and sustained unease , but flounders in its quest for deeper meaning . | zoophytish | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the film has [its] moments , but they are few and far between .
Class: displuviate
Example: the mark of a respectable summer blockbuster is one of two things : unadulterated thrills or genuine laughs .
Class: fustiness
Example: humorous and heartfelt , douglas mcgrath's version of 'nicholas nickleby' left me feeling refreshed and hopeful . not many movies have that kind of impact on me these days .
Class: fustiness
Example: [a] rather thinly-conceived movie .
Class: displuviate
Classify the following: jeffrey tambor's performance as the intelligent jazz-playing exterminator is oscar-worthy . | fustiness | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the diversity of the artists represented , both in terms of style and ethnicity , prevents the proceedings from feeling repetitious , as does the appropriately brief 40-minute running time .
Classification: pooler
Case: lush and beautifully photographed ( somebody suggested the stills might make a nice coffee table book ) , but ultimately you'll leave the theater wondering why these people mattered .
Classification: parallelotropism
Case: the film is predictable in the reassuring manner of a beautifully sung holiday carol .
Classification: pooler
Case: isn't as sharp as the original . . . despite some visual virtues , 'blade ii' just doesn't cut it .
Classification: parallelotropism
Classify the case below.
essentially an exceptionally well-written , well-edited , well-directed , well-acted , bald rip-off of aliens . | pooler | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: once the downward spiral comes to pass , auto focus bears out as your typical junkie opera . . .
Class: Jewry
Example: huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it , channeling kathy baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on boston public just as much as 8 women's augustine .
Class: Jewry
Example: predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king .
Class: Dillenia
Example: another love story in 2002's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre .
Class: Jewry
Example: represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen .
Class: Dillenia
Example: all these developments and challenges facing santa weigh down the plot so heavily that they drain all the film of its energy and needlessly strain credibility .
Class: Dillenia
Considreing the above, classify the following: there is truth here | Jewry | 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: dicyanine
Example: solondz may well be the only one laughing at his own joke
Class: reconduction
Example: fresh and raw like a blown-out vein , narc takes a walking-dead , cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it .
Class: dicyanine
Example: it has more in common with a fireworks display than a movie , which normally is expected to have characters and a storyline .
Class: reconduction
Example: unsurprisingly , the way this all works out makes the women look more like stereotypical caretakers and moral teachers , instead of serious athletes .
Class: reconduction
Example: comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride .
Class: dicyanine
Considreing the above, classify the following: manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time . | dicyanine | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: all of the elements are in place for a great film noir , but director george hickenlooper's approach to the material is too upbeat .
Class: mousmee
Example: texan director george ratliff had unlimited access to families and church meetings , and he delivers fascinating psychological fare .
Class: madeline
Example: after an hour and a half of wondering -- sometimes amusedly , sometimes impatiently -- just what this strenuously unconventional movie is supposed to be , you discover that the answer is as conventional as can be .
Class: mousmee
Example: in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast .
Class: mousmee
Example: while mcfarlane's animation lifts the film firmly above the level of other coming-of-age films . . . it's also so jarring that it's hard to get back into the boys' story .
Class: madeline
Example: jagger the actor is someone you want to see again .
Class: madeline
Classify the following: a dazzling thing to behold -- as long as you're wearing the somewhat cumbersome 3d goggles the theater provides . | madeline | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - it's the type of film about growing up that we don't see often enough these days : realistic , urgent , and not sugarcoated in the least .
Group - antepalatal
Text - watching this film , one is left with the inescapable conclusion that hitchens' obsession with kissinger is , at bottom , a sophisticated flower child's desire to purge the world of the tooth and claw of human power .
Group - antepalatal
Text - serving sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time .
Group - sprinkled
Text - the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump .
Group - sprinkled
Text - director chris eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking .
Group - sprinkled
Text - this is really just another genre picture .
Group - sprinkled
Text - a deliciously mordant , bitter black comedy .
Group - antepalatal
Text - a compelling , moving film that respects its audience and its source material .
Group - antepalatal
What is the classification for the passage below?
if the count of monte cristo doesn't transform caviezel into a movie star , then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago . | antepalatal | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading .
Classification: conspue
Case: compared to his series of spectacular belly flops both on and off the screen , runteldat is something of a triumph .
Classification: dossil
Case: many a parent and their teen ( or preteen ) kid could bond while watching a walk to remember . so could young romantics out on a date .
Classification: dossil
Case: almost as offensive as " freddy got fingered . "
Classification: conspue
Classify the case below.
it's an ambitious film , and as with all ambitious films , it has some problems . but on the whole , you're gonna like this movie . | dossil | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the editing is chaotic , the photography grainy and badly focused , the writing unintentionally hilarious , the direction unfocused , the performances as wooden .
Class: accustomedly
Example: will grab your children by the imagination and amaze them and amuse them .
Class: cuir
Example: two weeks notice has appeal beyond being a sandra bullock vehicle or a standard romantic comedy .
Class: cuir
Example: not once does it come close to being exciting .
Class: accustomedly
Example: simplistic fluff-ball of whimsy .
Class: accustomedly
Example: this familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences , though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times .
Class: cuir
Example: one of those pictures whose promising , if rather precious , premise is undercut by amateurish execution .
Class: accustomedly
Example: 84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and supercharged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun .
Class: cuir
Classify the case below.
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . | accustomedly | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the gags , and the script , are a mixed bag .
Class: analytics
Example: like a three-ring circus , there are side stories aplenty -- none of them memorable .
Class: analytics
Example: the bourne identity is what summer screen escapism used to be in the decades when it was geared more to grownups .
Class: sylvanly
Example: a delectable and intriguing thriller filled with surprises , read my lips is an original . this is a story of two misfits who don't stand a chance alone , but together they are magnificent .
Class: sylvanly
Considreing the above, classify the following: although it includes a fair share of dumb drug jokes and predictable slapstick , " orange county " is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be . | sylvanly | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - all i can say is fuhgeddaboutit .
Group - dietotoxicity
Text - in all fairness , i must report that the children of varying ages in my audience never coughed , fidgeted or romped up and down the aisles for bathroom breaks .
Group - skewwise
Text - make like the title and dodge this one .
Group - dietotoxicity
Text - suffers from the lack of a compelling or comprehensible narrative . still , as a visual treat , the film is almost unsurpassed .
Group - skewwise
Text - it's a fine , old-fashioned-movie movie , which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance .
Group - skewwise
Text - guilty of the worst sin of attributable to a movie like this : it's not scary in the slightest .
Group - dietotoxicity
Considreing the above, classify the following: the problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one , there's no saving the movie . sorry , charlie | dietotoxicity | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: as underwater ghost stories go , below casts its spooky net out into the atlantic ocean and spits it back , grizzled and charred , somewhere northwest of the bermuda triangle .
Classification: deckhead
Case: eerily accurate depiction of depression .
Classification: deckhead
Case: britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all .
Classification: flux
Case: you won't have any trouble getting kids to eat up these veggies .
Classification: deckhead
Case: the story is familiar from its many predecessors ; like them , it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay .
Classification: flux
Case: if you go into the theater expecting a scary , action-packed chiller , you might soon be looking for a sign . an exit sign , that is .
Classification: flux
Classify the case below.
[seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's razzie . | flux | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue .
Class: anarthropodous
Example: blue crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling .
Class: anarthropodous
Example: a simmering psychological drama in which the bursts of sudden violence are all the more startling for the slow buildup that has preceded them .
Class: Bontok
Example: limps along on a squirm-inducing fish-out-of-water formula that goes nowhere and goes there very , very slowly .
Class: anarthropodous
Example: secretary is not a movie about fetishism . it is a movie about passion .
Class: Bontok
Example: how inept is serving sara ? it makes even elizabeth hurley seem graceless and ugly .
Class: anarthropodous
Example: though this film can be clumsy , its ambitions are equally -- and admirably -- uncommercial .
Class: Bontok
Example: it's a glorious groove that leaves you wanting more .
Class: Bontok
What is the classification for the passage below?
it has its moments of swaggering camaraderie , but more often just feels generic , derivative and done to death . | anarthropodous | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: michael gerbosi's script is economically packed with telling scenes .
Classification: nonfatal
Case: hawn and sarandon form an acting bond that makes the banger sisters a fascinating character study with laughs to spare .
Classification: nonfatal
Case: there is no pleasure in watching a child suffer . just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame .
Classification: prestige
Case: oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between .
Classification: prestige
Considreing the above, classify the following: an absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen , unsentimental look at variations on the theme of motherhood . | nonfatal | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - what makes the movie work to an admittedly limited extent is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers . weaver and lapaglia are both excellent , in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk .
Group - Hydrodamalidae
Text - with an unusual protagonist ( a kilt-wearing jackson ) and subject matter , the improbable " formula 51 " is somewhat entertaining , but it could have been much stronger .
Group - orotherapy
Text - the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about .
Group - orotherapy
Text - if it's seldom boring , well , it's also rarely coherent .
Group - orotherapy
Text - . . . hypnotically dull .
Group - orotherapy
Text - the word that comes to mind , while watching eric rohmer's tribute to a courageous scottish lady , is painterly .
Group - Hydrodamalidae
Text - a well-done film of a self-reflexive , philosophical nature .
Group - Hydrodamalidae
Text - sheds light on a subject few are familiar with , and makes you care about music you may not have heard before .
Group - Hydrodamalidae
Classify the case below.
ultimately , the message of trouble every day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis . | Hydrodamalidae | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: plays less like a coming-of-age romance than an infomercial .
Classification: eavesdropper
Case: a sly game of cat and mouse that's intense and thrilling at times , but occasionally stretches believability to its limits and relies on predictable plot contrivances .
Classification: spewer
Case: sewer rats could watch this movie and be so skeeved out that they'd need a shower .
Classification: eavesdropper
Case: most of the problems with the film don't derive from the screenplay , but rather the mediocre performances by most of the actors involved
Classification: eavesdropper
Case: adams , with four scriptwriters , takes care with the characters , who are so believable that you feel what they feel .
Classification: spewer
Case: moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured .
Classification: eavesdropper
Case: vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes .
Classification: spewer
Case: a french film with a more down-home flavor .
Classification: spewer
What is the classification for the passage below?
a different movie -- sometimes tedious -- by a director many viewers would like to skip but film buffs should get to know . | spewer | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - nakata's technique is to imply terror by suggestion , rather than the overuse of special effects .
Group - shrimpy
Text - me no lika da accents so good , but i thoroughly enjoyed the love story . scott baio is turning in some delightful work on indie projects .
Group - shrimpy
Text - though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following .
Group - readjustable
Text - an endlessly fascinating , landmark movie that is as bold as anything the cinema has seen in years .
Group - shrimpy
Text - when a film is created solely because it's a marketable product , soulless and ugly movies like this are the result . let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested .
Group - readjustable
Text - though the film is well-intentioned , one could rent the original and get the same love story and parable .
Group - readjustable
What is the classification for the passage below?
director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . | readjustable | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: plays like one of those conversations that comic book guy on " the simpsons " has .
Class: Tishiya
Example: there are now two signs that m . night shyamalan's debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema : unbreakable and signs .
Class: Tishiya
Example: a four star performance from kevin kline who unfortunately works with a two star script .
Class: Ubiquarian
Example: it's one of the saddest films i have ever seen that still manages to be uplifting but not overly sentimental .
Class: Ubiquarian
Example: the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books .
Class: Tishiya
Example: the invincible werner herzog is alive and well and living in la
Class: Ubiquarian
Classify the case below.
while some of the camera work is interesting , the film's mid-to-low budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work . | Tishiya | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast .
Group - speck
Text - if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce .
Group - lecidioid
Text - a great ending doesn't make up for a weak movie , and crazy as hell doesn't even have a great ending .
Group - lecidioid
Text - it recycles every cliché about gays in what is essentially an extended soap opera .
Group - lecidioid
Text - the movie stays afloat thanks to its hallucinatory production design .
Group - speck
Text - 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 .
Group - speck
Text - a bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort .
Group - lecidioid
Text - it proves quite compelling as an intense , brooding character study .
Group - speck
Classify the following: add yet another hat to a talented head , clooney's a good director . | speck | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - o fantasma is boldly , confidently orchestrated , aesthetically and sexually , and its impact is deeply and rightly disturbing .
Group - polariscopic
Text - you don't need to know your ice-t's from your cool-j's to realize that as far as these shootings are concerned , something is rotten in the state of california .
Group - polariscopic
Text - long time dead ? not nearly long enough .
Group - geodesy
Text - though avary has done his best to make something out of ellis' nothing novel , in the end , his rules is barely worth following .
Group - geodesy
Classify the case below.
a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . | geodesy | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a journey that's too random and inconclusive to be compelling , but which hoffman's brilliance almost makes worth taking .
Class: overfloridness
Example: it's impossible to even categorize this as a smutty guilty pleasure .
Class: overfloridness
Example: the film makes strong arguments regarding the social status of america's indigenous people , but really only exists to try to eke out an emotional tug of the heart , one which it fails to get .
Class: overfloridness
Example: the graphic carnage and re-creation of war-torn croatia is uncomfortably timely , relevant , and sickeningly real .
Class: perpetualness
Example: observant intelligence constantly vies with pretension -- and sometimes plain wacky implausibility -- throughout maelstrom .
Class: overfloridness
Example: this is a terrific character study , a probe into the life of a complex man .
Class: perpetualness
Example: for those of an indulgent , slightly sunbaked and summery mind , sex and lucia may well prove diverting enough .
Class: perpetualness
Example: ao sair do cinema , eu estava feliz e com saudades de um tempo em que , para mim , a existência de papai noel era um fato inquestionável .
Class: perpetualness
Classify the case below.
it's an old story , but a lively script , sharp acting and partially animated interludes make just a kiss seem minty fresh . | perpetualness | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: the premise is overshadowed by the uberviolence of the clericks as this becomes just another kung-fu sci-fi movie with silly action sequences .
Class: keratotome
Example: smart and alert , thirteen conversations about one thing is a small gem .
Class: squashy
Example: frenetic but not really funny .
Class: keratotome
Example: in a movie full of surprises , the biggest is that secret ballot is a comedy , both gentle and biting .
Class: squashy
What is the classification for the passage below?
combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end , we are undeniably touched . | squashy | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the 50-something lovebirds are too immature and unappealing to care about .
Classification: rodman
Case: an estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote ( and cannier doppelganger ) to diesel's xxx flex-a-thon .
Classification: Betsimisaraka
Case: de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal .
Classification: rodman
Case: comedian , like its subjects , delivers the goods and audiences will have a fun , no-frills ride .
Classification: Betsimisaraka
Case: there's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life , but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes .
Classification: rodman
Case: . . . mesmerizing , an eye-opening tour of modern beijing culture in a journey of rebellion , retreat into oblivion and return .
Classification: Betsimisaraka
Case: the cast delivers without sham the raw-nerved story .
Classification: Betsimisaraka
Case: less dizzying than just dizzy , the jaunt is practically over before it begins .
Classification: rodman
Classify the following: it's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but . | Betsimisaraka | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: the screenplay flounders under the weight of too many story lines .
Classification: ectophyte
Case: delivers the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas .
Classification: ectophyte
Case: merci pour le movie .
Classification: Raffaelesque
Case: the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel .
Classification: ectophyte
Case: rarely have i seen a film so willing to champion the fallibility of the human heart .
Classification: Raffaelesque
Case: however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny .
Classification: ectophyte
Case: the charm of the first movie is still there , and the story feels like the logical , unforced continuation of the careers of a pair of spy kids .
Classification: Raffaelesque
Case: in adobo , ethnicity is not just the spice , but at the heart of more universal concerns .
Classification: Raffaelesque
Considreing the above, classify the following: a bold and subversive film that cuts across the grain of what is popular and powerful in this high-tech age , speaking its truths with spellbinding imagery and the entrancing music of philip glass . | Raffaelesque | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: it is life affirming and heartbreaking , sweet without the decay factor , funny and sad .
Classification: Uropsilus
Case: a grimly competent and stolid and earnest military courtroom drama .
Classification: Uropsilus
Case: so boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it .
Classification: taper
Case: contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom .
Classification: taper
Case: its mysteries are transparently obvious , and it's too slowly paced to be a thriller . [but it's] worth recommending because of two marvelous performances by michael caine and brendan fraser .
Classification: Uropsilus
Case: flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they can't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up .
Classification: taper
Classify the case below.
chilling in its objective portrait of dreary , lost twenty-first century america . | Uropsilus | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: if you think it's a riot to see rob schneider in a young woman's clothes , then you'll enjoy the hot chick .
Class: partial
Example: 'possession , ' based on the book by a . s . byatt , demands that labute deal with the subject of love head-on ; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit
Class: dismally
Example: flashy , pretentious and as impenetrable as morvern's thick , working-class scottish accent .
Class: partial
Example: it's a coming-of-age story we've all seen bits of in other films -- but it's rarely been told with such affecting grace and cultural specificity .
Class: dismally
Example: more than their unique residences , home movie is about the people who live in them , who have carved their own comfortable niche in the world and have been kind enough to share it .
Class: dismally
Example: the director seems to take an unseemly pleasure in [the characters'] misery and at the same time to congratulate himself for having the guts to confront it .
Class: partial
Example: the overall fabric is hypnotic , and mr . mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy .
Class: dismally
Example: fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics , genre thrills or inherent humor .
Class: partial
Considreing the above, classify the following: must be seen to be believed . | dismally | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause .
Classification: reprimer
Case: in its ragged , cheap and unassuming way , the movie works .
Classification: shrewdy
Case: focuses on joan's raging hormones and sledgehammers the audience with spanish inquisitions about her " madness " so much that i became mad that i wasted 123 minutes and $9 . 50 on this 21st century torture device .
Classification: reprimer
Case: while the stoically delivered hokum of hart's war is never fun , it's still a worthy addition to the growing canon of post-saving private ryan tributes to the greatest generation .
Classification: shrewdy
Case: it ultimately stands forth as an important chronicle of the abuses of one of latin america's most oppressive regimes .
Classification: shrewdy
Case: fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters . and forget about any attempt at a plot !
Classification: reprimer
Classify the case below.
a really good premise is frittered away in middle-of-the-road blandness . | reprimer | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: this often-hilarious farce manages to generate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal .
Classification: aria
Case: large budget notwithstanding , the movie is such a blip on the year's radar screen that it's tempting just to go with it for the ride . but this time , the old mib label stands for milder isn't better .
Classification: Atuami
Case: lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert .
Classification: Atuami
Case: an uneven but intriguing drama that is part homage and part remake of the italian masterpiece .
Classification: aria
What is the classification for the passage below?
there is so much plodding sensitivity . | Atuami | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: despite its good nature and some genuinely funny moments , super troopers suffers from a bad case of arrested development .
Class: overcustom
Example: rather quickly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation .
Class: overcustom
Example: a cinematic sleeping pill of impressive potency .
Class: overcustom
Example: . . . a story we haven't seen on the big screen before , and it's a story that we as americans , and human beings , should know .
Class: confusedly
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: confusedly
Example: charlotte sometimes is a brilliant movie . it is about irrational , unexplainable life and it seems so real because it does not attempt to filter out the complexity .
Class: confusedly
Considreing the above, classify the following: jonathan parker's bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films . | overcustom | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control .
Group - siderolite
Text - far more imaginative and ambitious than the trivial , cash-in features nickelodeon has made from its other animated tv series .
Group - confederate
Text - offers much to enjoy . . . and a lot to mull over in terms of love , loyalty and the nature of staying friends .
Group - confederate
Text - guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things . she lists ingredients , but never mixes and stirs .
Group - siderolite
Considreing the above, classify the following: lavishly , exhilaratingly tasteless . | confederate | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - smart and taut .
Group - reavoid
Text - passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings .
Group - pyroligneous
Text - i'm not sure which half of dragonfly is worse : the part where nothing's happening , or the part where something's happening , but it's stupid .
Group - pyroligneous
Text - stock up on silver bullets for director neil marshall's intense freight train of a film .
Group - reavoid
Classify the case below.
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . | pyroligneous | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad .
Group - pyemesis
Text - just because it really happened to you , honey , doesn't mean that it's interesting to anyone else .
Group - pyemesis
Text - [there's] quite a bit of heart , as you would expect from the directors of the little mermaid and aladdin .
Group - nonpredicative
Text - " the mothman prophecies " is a difficult film to shake from your conscience when night falls .
Group - nonpredicative
Considreing the above, classify the following: the pool drowned me in boredom . | pyemesis | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: it's fitfully funny but never really takes off .
Class: glossophagine
Example: it wants to be thought of as a subversive little indie film , but it has all the qualities of a modern situation comedy .
Class: glossophagine
Example: stuart's poor-me persona needs a whole bunch of snowball's cynicism to cut through the sugar coating . but once the falcon arrives in the skies above manhattan , the adventure is on red alert .
Class: liber
Example: features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever .
Class: liber
Considreing the above, classify the following: i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . | glossophagine | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: davis has energy , but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing , the gender-war ideas original , or the comic scenes fly .
Class: fretfulness
Example: the movie is as far as you can get from racy , to the point where it almost stops the blood flow to your brain ; it has a dull , costumey feel .
Class: fretfulness
Example: a gentle , compassionate drama about grief and healing .
Class: Heptanchus
Example: nearly surreal , dabbling in french , this is no simple movie , and you'll be taking a risk if you choose to see it . i enjoyed the ride ( bumps and all ) , creamy depth , and ultimate theme .
Class: Heptanchus
Classify the case below.
it's all a rather shapeless good time . . . | Heptanchus | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: sensual , funny and , in the end , very touching .
Class: chalcophyllite
Example: reno does what he can in a thankless situation , the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again , and ryoko hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that .
Class: Aristarch
Example: exactly what its title implies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming .
Class: chalcophyllite
Example: the filmmakers skillfully evoke the sense of menace that nature holds for many urban dwellers .
Class: chalcophyllite
Example: nair just doesn't have the necessary self-control to guide a loose , poorly structured film through the pitfalls of incoherence and redundancy .
Class: Aristarch
Example: anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups .
Class: Aristarch
Classify the following: for a film about two mismatched buddies , crystal and de niro share little screen time and even less chemistry . | Aristarch | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign .
Class: similitive
Example: what the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama , suspense , revenge , and romance .
Class: Reichslander
Example: the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter .
Class: similitive
Example: often moving and explores the discomfort inherent in the contacts between the american 'hosts' and their 'guests . '
Class: Reichslander
What is the classification for the passage below?
it moves quickly , adroitly , and without fuss ; it doesn't give you time to reflect on the inanity -- and the cold war datedness -- of its premise . | Reichslander | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers .
Class: Catalanist
Example: 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 .
Class: antedonin
Example: cinematic poo .
Class: Catalanist
Example: enough similarities to gymkata and howie long's firestorm that my fingernails instinctively crawled towards my long-suffering eyeballs .
Class: Catalanist
Example: provides a very moving and revelatory footnote to the holocaust .
Class: antedonin
Example: a tender , heartfelt family drama .
Class: antedonin
Classify the case below.
. . . a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of legally blonde and drop dead gorgeous , starring piper perabo in what could be her breakthrough role . | antedonin | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: filled with alexandre desplat's haunting and sublime music , the movie completely transfixes the audience .
Classification: scopeless
Case: francophiles will snicker knowingly and you'll want to slap them .
Classification: scopeless
Case: opens at a funeral , ends on the protagonist's death bed and doesn't get much livelier in the three hours in between .
Classification: aweek
Case: an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength .
Classification: aweek
Case: if you like quirky , odd movies and/or the ironic , here's a fun one .
Classification: scopeless
Case: it may not be history but then again , what if it is ? but it makes for one of the most purely enjoyable and satisfying evenings at the movies i've had in a while .
Classification: scopeless
Case: most of the supporting characters in eastwood films are weak , as are most of the subplots . this one's weaker than most .
Classification: aweek
Case: the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had .
Classification: aweek
Considreing the above, classify the following: the sight of the spaceship on the launching pad is duly impressive in imax dimensions , as are shots of the astronauts floating in their cabins . | scopeless | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: likely to expertly drum up repressed teenage memories in any viewer .
Classification: Bimbisara
Case: in xxx , diesel is that rare creature -- an action hero with table manners , and one who proves that elegance is more than tattoo deep .
Classification: Bimbisara
Case: 'unfaithful' cheats on itself and retreats to comfortable territory . too bad .
Classification: buckleless
Case: the movie's something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story . killing time , that's all that's going on here .
Classification: buckleless
What is the classification for the passage below?
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | buckleless | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: can't kick about the assembled talent and the russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers . still , this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral .
Class: unscarified
Example: a piquant meditation on the things that prevent people from reaching happiness .
Class: outsee
Example: this time kaufman's imagination has failed him .
Class: unscarified
Example: what distinguishes time of favor from countless other thrillers is its underlying concern with the consequences of words and with the complicated emotions fueling terrorist acts .
Class: outsee
What is the classification for the passage below?
this is more fascinating -- being real -- than anything seen on jerry springer . | outsee | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: despite hoffman's best efforts , wilson remains a silent , lumpish cipher ; his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before .
Class: forbearing
Example: nettelbeck has crafted an engaging fantasy of flavours and emotions , one part romance novel , one part recipe book .
Class: Quakeress
Example: a solid examination of the male midlife crisis .
Class: Quakeress
Example: hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .
Class: Quakeress
Example: . . . nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects .
Class: forbearing
Example: the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe .
Class: forbearing
Classify the case below.
nasty , ugly , pointless and depressing , even if you hate clowns . | forbearing | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: while this film has an 'a' list cast and some strong supporting players , the tale -- like its central figure , vivi -- is just a little bit hard to love .
Classification: funnel
Case: the dangerous lives of altar boys' take on adolescence feels painfully true .
Classification: mimmocky
Case: what makes the film special is the refreshingly unhibited enthusiasm that the people , in spite of clearly evident poverty and hardship , bring to their music .
Classification: mimmocky
Case: message movie or an action-packed submarine spectacular ? alas , it's neither .
Classification: funnel
What is the classification for the passage below?
a delightful romantic comedy with plenty of bite . it's far from a frothy piece , and the characters are complex , laden with plenty of baggage and tinged with tragic undertones . | mimmocky | rotten_tomatoes |
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 - downstreet
Text - hollywood ending is not show-stoppingly hilarious , but scathingly witty nonetheless .
Group - tolunitrile
Text - it doesn't do the original any particular dishonor , but neither does it exude any charm or personality .
Group - downstreet
Text - is this love or is it masochism ? binoche makes it interesting trying to find out .
Group - tolunitrile
What is the classification for the passage below?
creepy , authentic and dark . this disturbing bio-pic is hard to forget . | tolunitrile | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls .
Class: endoplastule
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: phymatosis
Example: needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism .
Class: endoplastule
Example: genuinely touching because it's realistic about all kinds of love .
Class: phymatosis
Considreing the above, classify the following: offers enough playful fun to entertain the preschool set while embracing a wholesome attitude . | phymatosis | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: a stylish thriller .
Classification: perioptic
Case: if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way .
Classification: uningested
Case: may offend viewers not amused by the sick sense of humor .
Classification: uningested
Case: audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed , downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart , sugar-free wit .
Classification: perioptic
Case: at the end , when the now computerized yoda finally reveals his martial artistry , the film ascends to a kinetic life so teeming that even cranky adults may rediscover the quivering kid inside .
Classification: perioptic
Case: rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along .
Classification: uningested
What is the classification for the passage below?
'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . | uningested | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: on the surface a silly comedy , scotland , pa would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play .
Classification: stigmatization
Case: to be oblivious to the existence of this film would be very sweet indeed .
Classification: bandicoot
Case: despite the 2-d animation , the wild thornberrys movie makes for a surprisingly cinematic experience .
Classification: stigmatization
Case: literally nothing in the pool is new , but if you grew up on the stalker flicks of the 1980's this one should appease you for 90 minutes .
Classification: bandicoot
Classify the case below.
if you value your time and money , find an escape clause and avoid seeing this trite , predictable rehash . | bandicoot | rotten_tomatoes |
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: logogogue
Example: the storylines are woven together skilfully , the magnificent swooping aerial shots are breathtaking , and the overall experience is awesome .
Class: Mitella
Example: even murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort .
Class: logogogue
Example: showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation .
Class: Mitella
Example: woo's fights have a distinct flair . his warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos .
Class: Mitella
Example: the writers , director wally wolodarsky , and all the actors should start their own coeducational fraternity : kappa rho alpha phi .
Class: logogogue
What is the classification for the passage below?
there is one surefire way to get a nomination for a best-foreign-film oscar : make a movie about whimsical folk who learn a nonchallenging , life-affirming lesson while walking around a foreign city with stunning architecture . | logogogue | rotten_tomatoes |
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: clause
Example: frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films i've ever seen .
Class: clause
Example: anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films , sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity .
Class: besmile
Example: brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie .
Class: besmile
What is the classification for the passage below?
the tone errs on the shrill side , tempered by a soft southern gentility that speaks of beauty , grace and a closet full of skeletons . | clause | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: westfeldt and juergensen exude a chemistry and comfort level that's both saucy and endearing .
Class: executioner
Example: i don't think i've been as entranced and appalled by an asian film since shinya tsukamoto's iron man .
Class: executioner
Example: not a cheap slasher flick , as the subject matter would suggest , but is a little like a nature film , showing a patient predator and his foolish prey .
Class: bolivarite
Example: like edward norton in american history x , ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) delivers a magnetic performance .
Class: executioner
Example: although the film boils down to a lightweight story about matchmaking , the characters make italian for beginners worth the journey
Class: executioner
Example: every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie !
Class: bolivarite
Example: when the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters , you know you're in trouble .
Class: bolivarite
Example: i was trying to decide what annoyed me most about god is great . . . i'm not , and then i realized that i just didn't care .
Class: bolivarite
Considreing the above, classify the following: the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | bolivarite | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: starts out ballsy and stylish but fails to keep it up and settles into clichés .
Class: unstyled
Example: to me , it sounds like a cruel deception carried out by men of marginal intelligence , with reactionary ideas about women and a total lack of empathy .
Class: unstyled
Example: oedekerk wrote patch adams , for which he should not be forgiven . why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote , directed , starred and produced -- is beyond me .
Class: unstyled
Example: you'll end up moved .
Class: hemodromometer
Example: a jewish ww ii doc that isn't trying simply to out-shock , out-outrage or out-depress its potential audience ! who knew . . .
Class: hemodromometer
Example: 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
Class: hemodromometer
What is the classification for the passage below?
an undeniably moving film to experience , and ultimately that's what makes it worth a recommendation . | hemodromometer | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: it would be disingenuous to call reno a great film , but you can say that about most of the flicks moving in and out of the multiplex . this is a movie that is what it is : a pleasant distraction , a friday night diversion , an excuse to eat popcorn .
Classification: procurative
Case: a psychological thriller with a smart script and an obsessive-compulsive's attention to detail .
Classification: procurative
Case: like its script , which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire olympic swim team through , the characters in swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull , brain-deadening hangover .
Classification: nightshirt
Case: it's dull , spiritless , silly and monotonous : an ultra-loud blast of pointless mayhem , going nowhere fast .
Classification: nightshirt
Classify the case below.
this mistaken-identity picture is so film-culture referential that the final product is a ghost . | nightshirt | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: starts off with a bang , but then fizzles like a wet stick of dynamite at the very end . it's still worth a look .
Classification: cholelithic
Case: not so much funny as aggressively sitcom-cute , it's full of throwaway one-liners , not-quite jokes , and a determined tv amiability that allen personifies .
Classification: unforcedness
Case: the story is lacking any real emotional impact , and the plot is both contrived and cliched .
Classification: unforcedness
Case: it's a terrific american sports movie and dennis quaid is its athletic heart .
Classification: cholelithic
Case: if there's one thing this world needs less of , it's movies about college that are written and directed by people who couldn't pass an entrance exam .
Classification: unforcedness
Case: koury frighteningly and honestly exposes one teenager's uncomfortable class resentment and , in turn , his self-inflicted retaliation .
Classification: cholelithic
Classify the following: young everlyn sampi , as the courageous molly craig , simply radiates star-power potential in this remarkable and memorable film . | cholelithic | rotten_tomatoes |
Case: oddly compelling .
Classification: Anchietea
Case: in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms . shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast .
Classification: beakhead
Case: never once predictable .
Classification: Anchietea
Case: if sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over .
Classification: beakhead
Case: the script kicks in , and mr . hartley's distended pace and foot-dragging rhythms follow .
Classification: beakhead
Case: the animated sequences are well done and perfectly constructed to convey a sense of childhood imagination and creating adventure out of angst .
Classification: Anchietea
Case: good performances and a realistic , non-exploitive approach make paid in full worth seeing .
Classification: Anchietea
Case: despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum .
Classification: beakhead
Classify the following: see clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes . but be warned , you too may feel time has decided to stand still . or that the battery on your watch has died . | beakhead | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - sweet home alabama is one dumb movie , but its stupidity is so relentlessly harmless that it almost wins you over in the end .
Group - splenial
Text - a lot of fun , with an undeniable energy sparked by two actresses in their 50s working at the peak of their powers .
Group - catechism
Text - a lovely film . . . elegant , witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic . . . hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity .
Group - catechism
Text - a particularly joyless , and exceedingly dull , period coming-of-age tale .
Group - splenial
Classify the following: this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | splenial | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: reassuring , retro uplifter .
Class: didst
Example: uplifting as only a document of the worst possibilities of mankind can be , and among the best films of the year .
Class: didst
Example: it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies .
Class: rachidial
Example: a dark , quirky road movie that constantly defies expectation .
Class: didst
Example: the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious .
Class: rachidial
Example: evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story , but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention .
Class: rachidial
What is the classification for the passage below?
entirely suspenseful , extremely well-paced and ultimately . . . dare i say , entertaining ! | didst | rotten_tomatoes |
Example: " roger michell ( " notting hill " ) directs a morality thriller . "
Class: sarcler
Example: finally , the french-produced " read my lips " is a movie that understands characters must come first .
Class: condensational
Example: if reno is to the left of liberal on the political spectrum , her tough , funny , rather chaotic show isn't subversive so much as it is nit-picky about the hypocrisies of our time .
Class: condensational
Example: this is a film brimming with detail and nuance and one that speaks volumes about the ability of the human spirit to find solace in events that could easily crush it forever .
Class: condensational
Example: [gosling's] combination of explosive physical energy and convincing intelligence helps create a complex , unpredictable character .
Class: condensational
Example: you wonder why enough wasn't just a music video rather than a full-length movie .
Class: sarcler
Example: another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues .
Class: sarcler
Example: this isn't a terrible film by any means , but it's also far from being a realized work .
Class: sarcler
What is the classification for the passage below?
it's too self-important and plodding to be funny , and too clipped and abbreviated to be an epic . | sarcler | rotten_tomatoes |
Text - a solid , psychological action film from hong kong .
Group - Papayaceae
Text - . . . wallace is smart to vary the pitch of his movie , balancing deafening battle scenes with quieter domestic scenes of women back home receiving war department telegrams .
Group - Papayaceae
Text - a generation x artifact , capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last .
Group - Papayaceae
Text - while it regards 1967 as the key turning point of the 20th century , and returns again and again to images of dissidents in the streets , it's alarmingly current .
Group - Papayaceae
Text - there's an audience for it , but it could have been funnier and more innocent .
Group - amyotaxia
Text - all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto .
Group - amyotaxia
Text - a harmless and mildly amusing family comedy .
Group - amyotaxia
Text - a soggy , cliche-bound epic-horror yarn that ends up being even dumber than its title .
Group - amyotaxia
Classify the case below.
davis has filled out his cast with appealing fresh faces . | Papayaceae | rotten_tomatoes |
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