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] | 434 | 585 | I just saw this for the first time in 10 or 15 years...maybe close to 20. In some ways, it was better than I remembered...in other, it was MUCH worse.<br /><br />First of all, there's the music. It's just plain awful. There are only 5 songs in the movie, most of them used more than once. The opening song is shrieked by... | 1 |
19,657 | [
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19,808 | [
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19,815 | [
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19,843 | [
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19,852 | [
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19,909 | [
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20,022 | [
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20,030 | [
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20,047 | [
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20,104 | [
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20,165 | [
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20,175 | [
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20,227 | [
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] | 433 | 586 | Suzumiya Haruhi no yûutsu (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) might at a first glance make you think that this is just another animated school comedy/drama. Well, it's not! The setting just happen to be a school environment. This is a comedy alright, but a very smart one with a lot of sarcasm. And the characters does h... | 1 |
20,231 | [
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20,234 | [
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20,259 | [
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20,261 | [
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20,352 | [
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20,396 | [
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20,432 | [
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20,447 | [
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20,510 | [
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20,514 | [
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] | 471 | 545 | what can i say, this film is amazing. it has its flaws like every film does for example wobbly headstones in a graveyard, a clearly visible slide board during the penguins death scene, Max Shreck losing his heavy coat in a split second between shots during the image consultancy scene, batman losing his black eye makeup... | 1 |
20,519 | [
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20,536 | [
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] | 472 | 559 | How often do we live our romantic life as on the big screen, with torrid affairs and passionate encounters? Almost never, if what I see as normal life around me is anything to judge by. Romances, as previously stated, are hardly ever earthshaking affairs that leave you at the top of the world or batter and bruised.<br ... | 1 |
20,668 | [
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20,678 | [
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20,680 | [
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20,686 | [
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20,721 | [
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20,725 | [
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20,766 | [
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20,786 | [
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20,791 | [
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20,824 | [
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20,836 | [
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20,857 | [
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20,880 | [
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20,882 | [
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20,886 | [
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20,901 | [
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20,906 | [
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21,030 | [
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21,031 | [
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21,037 | [
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21,054 | [
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21,066 | [
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21,165 | [
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21,171 | [
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21,183 | [
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21,227 | [
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21,245 | [
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21,290 | [
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21,320 | [
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21,392 | [
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21,403 | [
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21,406 | [
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21,435 | [
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21,444 | [
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21,467 | [
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21,510 | [
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21,512 | [
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21,571 | [
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21,574 | [
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21,579 | [
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21,597 | [
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21,630 | [
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21,653 | [
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21,654 | [
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21,668 | [
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21,674 | [
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21,677 | [
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21,681 | [
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21,753 | [
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] | 479 | 563 | Fat Man And Little Boy were the code names of the two atomic bombs that were dropped in reverse order on Nagasaki and Hiroshina. How these came to be and came to be in American hands is the story of this film.<br /><br />The terms by the way are the code names of two bombs fueled with plutonium and uranium. Fat Man was... | 1 |
21,799 | [
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21,876 | [
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21,883 | [
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] | 436 | 523 | Sherlock Holmes films from the classic Universal era tend to range in quality. This range goes from very good to above average, with none of their output being abysmal, or astoundingly brilliant. Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon fits snugly into the middle ground quality-wise, and, as ever, it's an enjoyable outin... | 1 |
21,901 | [
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] | 359 | 505 | I use "Princess Raccoon" (to give the film its not-quite accurate English title) as a litmus test for my friends' sense of humour. It either leaves them cold and baffled - as it clearly did several other commentators on this site - or results in doubled-up laughter, unassailably huge grins and occasional gasps of admir... | 1 |
21,914 | [
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] | 446 | 585 | I recently rented Twister, a movie I'd seen several years ago on TV, and it has aged well; I found myself laughing out loud several times at it and as weird as all these people are, by the end I profoundly cared about them. This is the sort of little movie that is made for a cult audience because, rather like Howdy's g... | 1 |
21,936 | [
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] | 394 | 542 | Taut and organically gripping, Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller, an unlikely "message" movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle.<br /><br />Bivouacked in Washington, DC, a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars. Three of them end up at a stranger's... | 1 |
21,942 | [
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] | 413 | 519 | Crossfire (1947)<br /><br />Great Message, Great Symbolism, Very Good Movie<br /><br />It's hard to go totally wrong with Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, and Robert Ryan all together as the three male leads, and with director Edward Dmytryk pulling together a complicated murder and detective yarn. That's reason enough to... | 1 |
21,945 | [
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] | 476 | 596 | "Crossfire" feels like an underdeveloped masterpiece -- it's well acted and beautifully filmed, but thinly written and way too short. As is, it's just a decent police procedural with hints of film noir (at its zenith in 1947) and social commentary (also trendy at the time) thrown in for good measure. It's remembered to... | 1 |
21,946 | [
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] | 421 | 516 | Crossfire remains one of the best Hollywood message movies because, unlike the admirably intentioned Gentleman's Agreement, which it beat to theatres by a few months, it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying "It's because I'm Jewish, isn'... | 1 |
21,959 | [
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] | 459 | 577 | A man by the name of Joseph Samuels is found brutally murdered in his apartment. It would appear that Samuels was visited by a group of drunken soldiers the previous evening, and with one of them seemingly missing, the evidence certainly implicates the missing soldier. But as detective Finlay digs deeper into the case ... | 1 |
21,960 | [
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] | 480 | 597 | Crossfire is a fantastic film noir that is both a product of it's time and a timeless classic. This film achieves this by addressing issues that haven't been brought to the screen before its 1947 release, and by being a high quality film that holds up to this day with a good script, great look, and fantastic performanc... | 1 |
21,968 | [
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] | 477 | 578 | The first music video I ever saw, Thriller, my mom told me that she took me home from the hospital and when we arrived, my sister had MTV on the TV and Thriller was playing, my mom said that I smiled. Silly I know, but I have loved Michael Jackson since that day, the music video Thriller inspired me to dance, still I h... | 1 |
22,069 | [
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] | 405 | 520 | Cecil B. DeMille directed a series of domestic comedy-dramas in the late teens and early 20s. He found his perfect leading lady for these provocative pieces in Gloria Swanson. In Don't Change Your Husband, Swanson plays a bored housewife whose wealthy businessman husband (Elliott Dexter) pays more attention to work tha... | 1 |
22,077 | [
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] | 427 | 577 | "Don't Change Your Husband" is another soap opera comedy from Producer/Director Cecil B. De Mille. It is notable as the first of several films he made starring Gloria Swanson. I guess you could also call it a sequel of sorts to his "Old Wives For New" (1918).<br /><br />James (Elliot Dexter) and Leila (Swanson) Porter ... | 1 |
22,100 | [
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] | 404 | 513 | Apparently a B movie ...B must stand for Better acting and a Better message than we get in big budget "A" pictures today. Modern-day movies aimed at young women, surely aren't designed to encourage depth of character over shallow self-serving behavior... or increase the self-esteem of young girls who don't conform to "... | 1 |
22,113 | [
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] | 412 | 598 | It seems everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and say "Maha Go Go Go"....The word is MACHA........Like "Mach".....Pronounced maa - ka"...<br /><br />I grew up with this series in the early 70's here in LA on the late and VERY lamented channel 56...Before that there was Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), dating from 1963 on... | 1 |
22,173 | [
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] | 438 | 535 | Philippe Garrel makes us breathe the forgotten atmosphere of the Nouvelle Vague, almost lost among the vestiges of its ancient splendor but ready to rise again from its ashes if recalled from the past. They who are a little acquainted with the director's subjects, on the other hand, may know very well how he's obsessed... | 1 |
22,209 | [
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] | 470 | 564 | Five fingers of death: Although previous Shaw Martial Arts epics had shown the influence of the American cowboy genre, none had paid such open tribute to it as this one, especially in the saloon fight scene. And though Shaw Bros. films had borrowed from the Japanese chambara (swordfight) genre before, none had done so ... | 1 |
22,235 | [
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] | 465 | 540 | I mention that there may be a spoiler here just to be cautious because of what I discuss, although I don't really think I am giving away anything important. Any "suprises" are really unimportant to this film's success or a viewer's ability to enjoy it. <br /><br />While not without some very minor flaws, this is a beau... | 1 |
22,243 | [
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] | 458 | 589 | "The Mayor Of Hell" has the feel of an early Dead End Kids film, but with a much harder edge and very few light spots, preceding the first appearance of the Dead Enders by four years. James Cagney has a full screen opening credit, even though technically, the 'mayor' of the movie's title is actually portrayed by Franki... | 1 |
22,287 | [
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] | 457 | 524 | Where do I begin? I first saw this film in 1995 and had no idea of what to expect, I was actually at the time searching out films that Elijah Wood had starred in and this one had come highly recommended. I sat down and watched the film once and didn't know what to think. I watched it a second time a few days later and ... | 1 |
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