AndreMitri/rotten_tomatos · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0	Brimming with energy and spirit.	positive
1	If it's not as emotionally haunting as Au Hasard Balthazar or Mouchette, it remains a powerful, compelling portrait of discipline, and humanity.	positive
2	It does finally achieve its apparent aim: to tempt Miscavige's minions a little further towards the light, the better for us to witness their words and deeds, and thereby grasp the peculiarity of this particular credo.	positive
3	The film is tonally assured enough to render a literal reading somewhat unnecessary since it so purely channels the joy that drives its main character.	positive
4	The proverbial sun has set with enough grace to make us all feel a little apologetic for the doubt we all had on the character who was a champ well before he was ever a champion.	positive
5	If Trainwreck frosts its cake with a you-have-to-laugh-or-you-would-be-crying-all-the-time icing, you can still taste that sadness in nearly every bite.	positive
6	Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception.	negative
7	Resident Evil Vendetta takes the best aspects of the video game high points and makes an amazingly intense and action-packed thrill ride.	positive
8	A star is born, albeit at the ripe age of 44, as the writer, director, producer and actress Radha Blank seizes her moment, often hilariously so, as the deadpan centre of this whip-smart comedy.	positive
9	Anderson may yet be the heir to the screwball-comedy throne, but his creative blood needs a fresh infusion.	negative
10	The sort of quirky, insiderish L.A. dramedy that tries but fails to make us care about its troubled young characters who are, you guessed it, looking for happiness.	negative
11	If the 3D is passable and there are some moments of tension, Sanctum has big problems.	positive
12	Fans of cinematic dread should seek it out immediately.	positive
13	Set to the operatic background score of an Old Spice commercial, all the emotional manipulation gets in the way of inspiration.	negative
14	By messing with the geography of the apartment and the identities of its characters, The Father makes us see and digest and experience the frighteningly unsystematic loss of mental control.	positive
15	The contrast between their menacingly macho appearance (due to their muscles and military gear) and their tenderness is endlessly endearing, and the film leans into this for our greatest delight.	positive
16	Cheesy special effects, under drawn characters, simplistic writing (by a committee of scribes) and music video direction will likely draw the attention-deficit crowd	negative
17	Even if the film itself is relatively conventional, its exposure of a squalid city's most benighted neighborhood and its introduction of hope into nearly hopeless lives give it strong human interest value.	positive
18	Proof is a stirring motion picture that challenges our views on a great many things about life, some of which we take for granted.	positive
19	Aside from a few mild swipes at the commercial film industry and New York pseudo-intellectual circles, the film is rather toothless.	negative
20	The movie offers nothing new to the zom-com sub-subgenre, but has just enough solid laughs to warrant a watch.	positive
21	Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks.	positive
22	Bull Durham, the new baseball movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight.	positive
23	Stewart captures the essence of being in an oppressive environment.	positive
24	Smarter than Tarantino, cleverer than Carnahan -- literary minded and violent and wickedly funny.	positive
25	One of the best thrillers to come along in a while.	positive
26	Like Bellocchio's draggy, overrated Vincere, this movie wants us to believe in its depth, while mostly just skimming the surface.	negative
27	Emotional, occasionally funny, and narratively unpredictable... I doubt any other blockbuster will manage to surpass Black Panther this year. [Full review in Spanish]	positive
28	The movie offers a terrific playground for Mendes and Hawke to mess around in as these gleefully flawed, cartoonish and yet ultimately dimensional characters.	positive
29	Turning his camera on works of art and the people who steer the distinguished London complex, the grand old man of hands-off documentaries studies paintings and bears witness to staff meetings, curatorial discussions and gallery talks.	positive
30	The intention of both the writer, Shaun Grants, and director, Justin Kurzel, was to shed a light on the whys and wherefores of a person like Nitram. I don’t think they did.	negative
31	Almost completely uninvolving, as well as being impenetrable.	negative
32	An intriguing premise and bizarre opening show potential, but the film chooses the least interesting direction possible when it veers off on its road trip.	negative
33	Wow, this movie is totally insane.	positive
34	Lovely, well-acted with great set pieces, but edited into something choppy and less satisfying than one would hope	positive
35	Even if it answers questions about Cruella de Vil that nobody ever really had, this runway is all slay, all day. This is the glam slam villain jam we didn't know we needed.	positive
36	Douglas is a maddeningly inconsistent stand-up special...	negative
37	Truly, Sparks' Caucasian dreariness is a a force from which nothing, not even passably interesting directorial techniques can escape. A white hole, if you will.	negative
38	you'll be wishing they'd just call it quits	negative
39	Pictorially and musically, the film is distinguished, and if the atmospheric continuity tends at one stage to become wearisome, the humor and philosophy of [the characters] amply compensate.	positive
40	Brunker and his co-writers find a way to deliver a multi-layered story that can grab toddlers while keeping older viewers entertained and not groaning at some propagandized messaging.	positive
41	Blake Edwards' outrageous S.O.B. may never be held in the same regard as Sunset Boulevard or The Player, but as a searing satire about the underbelly of the Hollywood lifestyle, it still ranks as one of the best.	positive
42	A magnificently detailed portrait of Boston body politic with Mayor Marty Walsh as leading man.	positive
43	An old-fashioned, white-knuckle adventure with the excellent Bridges adding another great characterization to his increasingly impressive resume.	positive
44	Perhaps this film does adhere admirably to the source material, but if so, it is at the expense of almost anything recognizable from the classic film. This is Fletch, without the edge.	negative
45	Kingsman is a frenetic, witty blast, and just the kind of fresh take an increasingly overly serious, borderline stale genre needs.	positive
46	We've seen and heard variations on these characters several times before. Somehow, though, it seems to work.	positive
47	A botched supernatural thriller with only some fiendishly clever death schemes to commend it.	negative
48	Steep is a visually exhilarating sports documentary that is also more than a little exasperating.	positive
49	Frankly, it could have used a touch more disrepute.	negative
50	It's hilarious, though probably not to anyone who hasn't already been watching it on television.	positive
51	As far as purely aesthetic experiences go, I doubt anything I'll see anywhere this year will beat Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye To Language.	positive
52	The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine.	negative
53	When Woody's writing is solid, his direction is always at its strongest and steadiest, and Melinda and Melinda is sound indeed.	positive
54	I am a fan of The Muppets and I'm glad to see them making a comeback. Maybe if this movie is a hit, they'll make a sequel where they'll actually get to be the stars of their own film.	negative
55	...another soulful story about adolescents careering messily into first loves.	positive
56	Director Tony Scott is smart enough to focus most of the movie where it should be, on Travolta and Washington.	positive
57	None of Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmares are a patch on this.	positive
58	Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.	positive
59	Its only aim is to make us jump, make us laugh, and send us off with a thrilling final shot that's everything a "Cloverfield" fan could want from a prequel.	positive
60	A touching ode to the rewards and challenges of female friendship...	positive
61	The special effects are jaw-dropping.	positive
62	There's nothing wrong with a little predictability and a comfortable presentation when it's a sweet and moving movie like 'Palmer.'	positive
63	What Catwoman: Hunted lacks in plot, it makes up for with chase/fight scenes.	positive
64	What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to bore you.	negative
65	Most certainly, it will make you root for the Roughriders on and off the court.	positive
66	...runs on circle-of-life blather and Casio-keyboard songs by Phil Collins. To call it bland would be an insult to Barry Manilow.	negative
67	18 to Party is a thoroughly lackluster endeavor. Roda's awful screenplay deflates any value from this derivative half-baked homage.	negative
68	...an exceedingly deliberate and predominantly uninvolving endeavor...	negative
69	She is woman, but the Helen Reddy biopic doesn't roar.	negative
70	A movie that could have been a fun summer escape winds up with a 150-minute identity crisis.	negative
71	Sturges veteran Demarest is at his peak here, as is Bracken, whose desperation is hysterical.	positive
72	It’s on the lower end of Russell’s filmography in terms of memorability, but is handled with such a light, circusy touch that it’s not a bad way to kill a few hours.	positive
73	After a decade or so of suppressing his more lurid instincts, Oliver Stone is back in the bat-crap-crazy mode that made his Oscar-winning rap-sheet rep.	positive
74	Keira Knightley as Anna is supremely brilliant.	positive
75	A little goes a long way, and despite the presence of the sleepily charismatic del Toro-his beleaguered Alejandro carries heavy baggage both in his heart and beneath his eyes-the Soldado man show does grow tiresome.	negative
76	Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project reminds us that there is no such thing as objectivity when reporting on human behavior, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably working for Fox News.	positive
77	Occasionally pleasurable, but not entirely memorable.	negative
78	A damning indictment of the White House which concludes that 9/11 was less a failure of intelligence than a willful failure to act.	positive
79	An artfully crafted film with subtle elegance, a moonshine drenched aesthetic and a set of performances that lift it well beyond many other Prohibition stories.	positive
80	The film, at its best, is gross and silly and amiably unsettling, which may be all that counts.	positive
81	It feels like the middle of a trilogy, but it achieves its goal of creating uncertainty for what's to come.	positive
82	From a director who's had a devil of a time lately comes a "Twilight Zone"-ish horror movie.	negative
83	If you're comfortable(or unaware) about the ambiguous origins of Drishyam, buy half a ticket to watch the second half. Or perhaps ask your friend's friend to watch it and interpret the plot to you.	positive
84	An overqualified adult cast and some fun moments can't entirely compensate for a defanged protagonist and too-static plot. This fantasy desperately needed a little more magic.	negative
85	Parnassus is fun to watch a good deal of the time, and Gilliam is almost always visually surprising, but Ledger could have used a more momentous send-off.	positive
86	As ludicrous and as unfocused as it all might be, Kong: Skull Island kept me amused for practically every second of its two-hour running time.	positive
87	For all its fluffiness, Cute Girl sows the seeds of Hou's style, gesturing towards the realism and thematic richness of his later work.	positive
88	If Mars Needs Moms had not have been produced using the mo-cap process -- which still hasn't fixed the problem where some folk have a spooky, neither-alive-nor-dead look -- it might have stood more chance of finding an audience.	negative
89	a passable entertainment for kids that is hobbled badly by a formulaic plot and talking animals that, for the most part, don't have anything interesting to say	negative
90	The NFL gets a "special thanks" in the end credits. Maybe it should have been the other way around.	negative
91	Too much game, not enough heart.	negative
92	The transformation of a fear-based man by a Zorba-the-Greek-like woman with a zest for life, enthusiasm, and creative daring.	positive
93	Tomorrow Never Dies brings non-stop action and thrills in a fun installment of the James Bond franchise.	positive
94	A somewhat charmless affair which, while striking to look at, fails to come to dramatic life.	negative
95	...a serenely crazed view of the present. The master is back.	positive
96	This movie, if it is as successful as it deserves to be, might just open slapstick-happy moviemakers' eyes to the idea that kids will flock to a story that explores dark issues.	positive
97	A pleasant enough diversion, The Hero ... nevertheless sinks into a mire of clichs from which it never quite escapes.	positive
98	With a plot as unfocused as its freshly graduated characters, the shaggy "Pitch Perfect 3" gets by on karaoke logic: What makes for a good time isn't the song you sing, but the company you keep.	positive
99	The year's smartest and spikiest date-movie so far.	positive

0

Brimming with energy and spirit.

positive

1

If it's not as emotionally haunting as Au Hasard Balthazar or Mouchette, it remains a powerful, compelling portrait of discipline, and humanity.

positive

2

It does finally achieve its apparent aim: to tempt Miscavige's minions a little further towards the light, the better for us to witness their words and deeds, and thereby grasp the peculiarity of this particular credo.

positive

3

The film is tonally assured enough to render a literal reading somewhat unnecessary since it so purely channels the joy that drives its main character.

positive

4

The proverbial sun has set with enough grace to make us all feel a little apologetic for the doubt we all had on the character who was a champ well before he was ever a champion.

positive

5

If Trainwreck frosts its cake with a you-have-to-laugh-or-you-would-be-crying-all-the-time icing, you can still taste that sadness in nearly every bite.

positive

6

Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception.

negative

7

Resident Evil Vendetta takes the best aspects of the video game high points and makes an amazingly intense and action-packed thrill ride.

positive

8

A star is born, albeit at the ripe age of 44, as the writer, director, producer and actress Radha Blank seizes her moment, often hilariously so, as the deadpan centre of this whip-smart comedy.

positive

9

Anderson may yet be the heir to the screwball-comedy throne, but his creative blood needs a fresh infusion.

negative

10

The sort of quirky, insiderish L.A. dramedy that tries but fails to make us care about its troubled young characters who are, you guessed it, looking for happiness.

negative

11

If the 3D is passable and there are some moments of tension, Sanctum has big problems.

positive

12

Fans of cinematic dread should seek it out immediately.

positive

13

Set to the operatic background score of an Old Spice commercial, all the emotional manipulation gets in the way of inspiration.

negative

14

By messing with the geography of the apartment and the identities of its characters, The Father makes us see and digest and experience the frighteningly unsystematic loss of mental control.

positive

15

The contrast between their menacingly macho appearance (due to their muscles and military gear) and their tenderness is endlessly endearing, and the film leans into this for our greatest delight.

positive

16

Cheesy special effects, under drawn characters, simplistic writing (by a committee of scribes) and music video direction will likely draw the attention-deficit crowd

negative

17

Even if the film itself is relatively conventional, its exposure of a squalid city's most benighted neighborhood and its introduction of hope into nearly hopeless lives give it strong human interest value.

positive

18

Proof is a stirring motion picture that challenges our views on a great many things about life, some of which we take for granted.

positive

19

Aside from a few mild swipes at the commercial film industry and New York pseudo-intellectual circles, the film is rather toothless.

negative

20

The movie offers nothing new to the zom-com sub-subgenre, but has just enough solid laughs to warrant a watch.

positive

21

Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks.

positive

22

Bull Durham, the new baseball movie starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, eases up on you, lazy as a cloud, and carries you off in a mood of exquisite delight.

positive

23

Stewart captures the essence of being in an oppressive environment.

positive

24

Smarter than Tarantino, cleverer than Carnahan -- literary minded and violent and wickedly funny.

positive

25

One of the best thrillers to come along in a while.

positive

26

Like Bellocchio's draggy, overrated Vincere, this movie wants us to believe in its depth, while mostly just skimming the surface.

negative

27

Emotional, occasionally funny, and narratively unpredictable... I doubt any other blockbuster will manage to surpass Black Panther this year. [Full review in Spanish]

positive

28

The movie offers a terrific playground for Mendes and Hawke to mess around in as these gleefully flawed, cartoonish and yet ultimately dimensional characters.

positive

29

Turning his camera on works of art and the people who steer the distinguished London complex, the grand old man of hands-off documentaries studies paintings and bears witness to staff meetings, curatorial discussions and gallery talks.

positive

30

The intention of both the writer, Shaun Grants, and director, Justin Kurzel, was to shed a light on the whys and wherefores of a person like Nitram. I don’t think they did.

negative

31

Almost completely uninvolving, as well as being impenetrable.

negative

32

An intriguing premise and bizarre opening show potential, but the film chooses the least interesting direction possible when it veers off on its road trip.

negative

33

Wow, this movie is totally insane.

positive

34

Lovely, well-acted with great set pieces, but edited into something choppy and less satisfying than one would hope

positive

35

Even if it answers questions about Cruella de Vil that nobody ever really had, this runway is all slay, all day. This is the glam slam villain jam we didn't know we needed.

positive

36

Douglas is a maddeningly inconsistent stand-up special...

negative

37

Truly, Sparks' Caucasian dreariness is a a force from which nothing, not even passably interesting directorial techniques can escape. A white hole, if you will.

negative

38

you'll be wishing they'd just call it quits

negative

39

Pictorially and musically, the film is distinguished, and if the atmospheric continuity tends at one stage to become wearisome, the humor and philosophy of [the characters] amply compensate.

positive

40

Brunker and his co-writers find a way to deliver a multi-layered story that can grab toddlers while keeping older viewers entertained and not groaning at some propagandized messaging.

positive

41

Blake Edwards' outrageous S.O.B. may never be held in the same regard as Sunset Boulevard or The Player, but as a searing satire about the underbelly of the Hollywood lifestyle, it still ranks as one of the best.

positive

42

A magnificently detailed portrait of Boston body politic with Mayor Marty Walsh as leading man.

positive

43

An old-fashioned, white-knuckle adventure with the excellent Bridges adding another great characterization to his increasingly impressive resume.

positive

44

Perhaps this film does adhere admirably to the source material, but if so, it is at the expense of almost anything recognizable from the classic film. This is Fletch, without the edge.

negative

45

Kingsman is a frenetic, witty blast, and just the kind of fresh take an increasingly overly serious, borderline stale genre needs.

positive

46

We've seen and heard variations on these characters several times before. Somehow, though, it seems to work.

positive

47

A botched supernatural thriller with only some fiendishly clever death schemes to commend it.

negative

48

Steep is a visually exhilarating sports documentary that is also more than a little exasperating.

positive

49

Frankly, it could have used a touch more disrepute.

negative

50

It's hilarious, though probably not to anyone who hasn't already been watching it on television.

positive

51

As far as purely aesthetic experiences go, I doubt anything I'll see anywhere this year will beat Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye To Language.

positive

52

The movie is a polished muddle, fitfully amusing but with no spine.

negative

53

When Woody's writing is solid, his direction is always at its strongest and steadiest, and Melinda and Melinda is sound indeed.

positive

54

I am a fan of The Muppets and I'm glad to see them making a comeback. Maybe if this movie is a hit, they'll make a sequel where they'll actually get to be the stars of their own film.

negative

55

...another soulful story about adolescents careering messily into first loves.

positive

56

Director Tony Scott is smart enough to focus most of the movie where it should be, on Travolta and Washington.

positive

57

None of Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmares are a patch on this.

positive

58

Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.

positive

59

Its only aim is to make us jump, make us laugh, and send us off with a thrilling final shot that's everything a "Cloverfield" fan could want from a prequel.

positive

60

A touching ode to the rewards and challenges of female friendship...

positive

61

The special effects are jaw-dropping.

positive

62

There's nothing wrong with a little predictability and a comfortable presentation when it's a sweet and moving movie like 'Palmer.'

positive

63

What Catwoman: Hunted lacks in plot, it makes up for with chase/fight scenes.

positive

64

What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to bore you.

negative

65

Most certainly, it will make you root for the Roughriders on and off the court.

positive

66

...runs on circle-of-life blather and Casio-keyboard songs by Phil Collins. To call it bland would be an insult to Barry Manilow.

negative

67

18 to Party is a thoroughly lackluster endeavor. Roda's awful screenplay deflates any value from this derivative half-baked homage.

negative

68

...an exceedingly deliberate and predominantly uninvolving endeavor...

negative

69

She is woman, but the Helen Reddy biopic doesn't roar.

negative

70

A movie that could have been a fun summer escape winds up with a 150-minute identity crisis.

negative

71

Sturges veteran Demarest is at his peak here, as is Bracken, whose desperation is hysterical.

positive

72

It’s on the lower end of Russell’s filmography in terms of memorability, but is handled with such a light, circusy touch that it’s not a bad way to kill a few hours.

positive

73

After a decade or so of suppressing his more lurid instincts, Oliver Stone is back in the bat-crap-crazy mode that made his Oscar-winning rap-sheet rep.

positive

74

Keira Knightley as Anna is supremely brilliant.

positive

75

A little goes a long way, and despite the presence of the sleepily charismatic del Toro-his beleaguered Alejandro carries heavy baggage both in his heart and beneath his eyes-the Soldado man show does grow tiresome.

negative

76

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project reminds us that there is no such thing as objectivity when reporting on human behavior, and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably working for Fox News.

positive

77

Occasionally pleasurable, but not entirely memorable.

negative

78

A damning indictment of the White House which concludes that 9/11 was less a failure of intelligence than a willful failure to act.

positive

79

An artfully crafted film with subtle elegance, a moonshine drenched aesthetic and a set of performances that lift it well beyond many other Prohibition stories.

positive

80

The film, at its best, is gross and silly and amiably unsettling, which may be all that counts.

positive

81

It feels like the middle of a trilogy, but it achieves its goal of creating uncertainty for what's to come.

positive

82

From a director who's had a devil of a time lately comes a "Twilight Zone"-ish horror movie.

negative

83

If you're comfortable(or unaware) about the ambiguous origins of Drishyam, buy half a ticket to watch the second half. Or perhaps ask your friend's friend to watch it and interpret the plot to you.

positive

84

An overqualified adult cast and some fun moments can't entirely compensate for a defanged protagonist and too-static plot. This fantasy desperately needed a little more magic.

negative

85

Parnassus is fun to watch a good deal of the time, and Gilliam is almost always visually surprising, but Ledger could have used a more momentous send-off.

positive

86

As ludicrous and as unfocused as it all might be, Kong: Skull Island kept me amused for practically every second of its two-hour running time.

positive

87

For all its fluffiness, Cute Girl sows the seeds of Hou's style, gesturing towards the realism and thematic richness of his later work.

positive

88

If Mars Needs Moms had not have been produced using the mo-cap process -- which still hasn't fixed the problem where some folk have a spooky, neither-alive-nor-dead look -- it might have stood more chance of finding an audience.

negative

89

a passable entertainment for kids that is hobbled badly by a formulaic plot and talking animals that, for the most part, don't have anything interesting to say

negative

90

The NFL gets a "special thanks" in the end credits. Maybe it should have been the other way around.

negative

91

Too much game, not enough heart.

negative

92

The transformation of a fear-based man by a Zorba-the-Greek-like woman with a zest for life, enthusiasm, and creative daring.

positive

93

Tomorrow Never Dies brings non-stop action and thrills in a fun installment of the James Bond franchise.

positive

94

A somewhat charmless affair which, while striking to look at, fails to come to dramatic life.

negative

95

...a serenely crazed view of the present. The master is back.

positive

96

This movie, if it is as successful as it deserves to be, might just open slapstick-happy moviemakers' eyes to the idea that kids will flock to a story that explores dark issues.

positive

97

A pleasant enough diversion, The Hero ... nevertheless sinks into a mire of clichs from which it never quite escapes.

positive

98

With a plot as unfocused as its freshly graduated characters, the shaggy "Pitch Perfect 3" gets by on karaoke logic: What makes for a good time isn't the song you sing, but the company you keep.

positive

99

The year's smartest and spikiest date-movie so far.

positive