Tag: review
group name: themovies
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January 06, 2007 03:47 PM EST --
Children of Men is both a stunning tehcnical and storytelling achievement. Even so, it is likely to leave American audiences, who have certain expectations when it comes to film style and trajectory . . . more
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February 28, 2008 10:59 PM EST --
Once every five years or so, I see a film that possesses me. Infects me, infests me, monopolizes my attention and demands the focus of all of my being. In the days and weeks following, . . . more
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June 06, 2006 10:18 AM EDT --
As Into the Blue opens, a small plane is flying into a storm-darkened sky, when a malfunction (or damage from the storm, or severe turbulence; it's not quite clear) sends it, its pilots, and its . . . more
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February 04, 2007 07:50 PM EST --
Freedom Writers is yet another one of those movies in which a school teacher faced with kids who are both under-privileged and under-achieving finds a way to make a difference in their lives, and like . . . more
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July 30, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
With the current economic crunch, we realize it can be difficult to enjoy a vacation this summer without breaking the bank. At Gather, we want to help you with that! We're offering a free 2-night . . . more
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June 08, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
As the title character of writer and director Matt Mulhern's 2005 film Duane Hopwood , David Schwimmer portrays a recently divorced father of two young girls, working nights as a pit boss in Atlantic . . . more
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June 12, 2006 01:24 AM EDT --
Some version of the story of the Jamestown Colony, Captain John Smith, and the young Powhatan girl Matoaka — more popularly known as Pocahontas — is likely familiar to most everyone who . . . more
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January 13, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
Perfume is one of those films I desperately wanted to work, but ultimately, no matter how I tried to fit its pieces together in my head could not make a coherent peace with.
Perfume is the story of a . . . more
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May 21, 2007 11:02 PM EDT --
I've become a Netflix junkie. I add a movie to my queue, and a dozen movies pop up that I might like. I add one of those, and a dozen more pop up. Click, click, clickity click click . . . more
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June 13, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
A Mighty Heart, the film recounting the disappearance and subsequent murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002, successfully personalizes the true stories of individual journalists . . . more
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September 23, 2008 01:32 PM EDT --
To quoth the Staind, "It's been a while..."
•- Jon Favreau will be directing the "Iron Man" sequel, after the head of Marvel . . . more
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June 10, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
In John Cassavetes' 1974 film, A Woman Under the Influence , Gena Rowlands stars as Mabel Longhetti, a mentally ill mother of three and wife to Nick (portrayed by Peter Falk, of Columbo fame), . . . more
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June 04, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
Fantastic Four begins as so many films about comic book super-heroes invariably must — with a brief look at the characters while their lives are still (more-or-less) normal, followed soon thereafter . . . more
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March 05, 2008 11:38 PM EST --
I was happy to see No Country For Old Men back in the theaters. I'd missed my opportunity to catch this one. I had always had a negative association with Cormac McCarthy; . . . more
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January 14, 2007 02:02 AM EST --
After being gravely disappointed with Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima was not a film I was looking forward to seeing. It is, however, an astounding and deeply subtle film that I am concerned . . . more
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March 10, 2007 11:27 AM EST --
I expected 300 to be entertaining, what I didn’t expect was for it to be good. It’s actually great, containing surprising amounts of subtlety (if you’re looking for it), surprisingly . . . more
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November 22, 2007 06:42 PM EST --
Incredible.
Starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright-Penn, John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, and Angelina Jolie. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Based on the ancient epic poem, . . . more
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June 13, 2008 11:23 AM EDT --
Make film. Not war.
Starring Neil Dudgeon, Bill Milner, Jessica Hynes, Will Poulter, and Jules Sitruk. Directed by Garth Jennings.
Setting: England, some point in the 1980's. Will Proudfoot . . . more
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February 13, 2007 08:15 PM EST --
Avenue Montaigne is one of those well-executed French romantic comedies that makes up for being utterly negligible by being genuinely funny and asking some decent questions about life and love even if . . . more
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September 11, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
The Hunting Party is one of those problematic films in which the director, understanding that his characters have no idea what is going on, is unable to realize that this requires him to have an extremely . . . more
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