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] | 914 | 1,240 | * Some spoilers *<br /><br />This movie is sometimes subtitled "Life Everlasting." That's often taken as reference to the final scene, but more accurately describes how dead and buried this once-estimable series is after this sloppy and illogical send-off.<br /><br />There's a "hey kids, let's put on a show air" about ... | 0 |
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3,328 | [
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3,361 | [
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4,068 | [
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4,129 | [
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4,618 | [
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4,857 | [
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4,929 | [
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5,590 | [
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5,613 | [
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] | 912 | 1,204 | "Happy Days" was produced and broadcast from the mid-1970's to the early 1980's and seems to get more ridiculous with age. At the time of its broadcast, most viewers who grew up in the 1950's were in middle age with families, and the scenes at Mel's Diner probably brought an artificial nostalgia to them. The Fonz was o... | 0 |
5,796 | [
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] | 952 | 1,216 | The commercials for RAT RACE made it look too juvenile for me to enjoy, but since my boyfriend adores this movie (and the soundtrack), I finally relented and watched it with him tonight. I make him watch David Lynch films and all sorts of obscure indie stuff (I recently forced URBANIA on him), so I felt I owed him an i... | 0 |
5,863 | [
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5,989 | [
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7,144 | [
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7,350 | [
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] | 968 | 1,201 | Despite decades of tax incentives, in terms of international visibility the Canadian film industry still lags behind most central African and Islamic states (surprisingly few Canadian films are released outside their native shores), and Nouvelle-France aka Battle of the Brave is another example of why. More than any ot... | 0 |
7,366 | [
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7,528 | [
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7,556 | [
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Airport '79 (or, if you saw it in the UK where it dragged its heels getting released there, Airport '80: The Concorde) was the last and by far the least of the series. The... | 0 |
7,753 | [
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7,817 | [
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7,930 | [
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7,948 | [
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8,095 | [
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8,742 | [
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8,962 | [
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9,561 | [
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10,109 | [
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10,847 | [
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11,239 | [
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11,667 | [
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12,074 | [
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12,425 | [
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12,689 | [
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12,832 | [
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13,592 | [
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13,775 | [
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13,945 | [
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14,011 | [
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14,577 | [
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14,703 | [
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15,271 | [
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15,329 | [
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15,354 | [
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15,406 | [
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15,428 | [
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15,443 | [
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15,558 | [
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15,678 | [
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15,885 | [
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15,919 | [
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15,977 | [
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15,981 | [
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16,376 | [
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16,469 | [
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] | 943 | 1,210 | The 1973 musical version of LOST HORIZON is the most wonderful endearing and campy musical films of ALL TIME. The 1973 musical remake of the James Hilton novel about mythical SHANGRI-LA! is a real special gem. Music by BURT BACHARACH and lyrics by HAL David. A strange mixture of straight drama, adventure and musical se... | 1 |
16,492 | [
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16,621 | [
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17,157 | [
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17,235 | [
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17,254 | [
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18,112 | [
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18,239 | [
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18,278 | [
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18,424 | [
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18,426 | [
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18,565 | [
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] | 995 | 1,282 | In a style reminiscent of the best of David Lean, this romantic love story sweeps across the screen with epic proportions equal to the vast desert regions against which it is set. It's a film which purports that one does not choose love, but rather that it's love that does the choosing, regardless of who, where or when... | 1 |
19,221 | [
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19,224 | [
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20,497 | [
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20,735 | [
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21,001 | [
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21,004 | [
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21,133 | [
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21,138 | [
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22,242 | [
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22,482 | [
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] | 963 | 1,207 | I just saw "A Tale of Two Sisters" last night and really enjoyed it. I've been a big fan of Asian horror films recently and think that this is a strong entry from South Korea. There aren't many jump out at you scares as in the usual American horror film, but the director does maintain the off-kilter and foreboding mood... | 1 |
22,569 | [
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] | 992 | 1,299 | Warner Brothers tampered considerably with American history in "Big Trail" director Raoul Walsh's first-rate western "They Died with Their Boots On," a somewhat inaccurate but wholly exhilarating biography of cavalry officer George Armstrong Custer. The film chronicles Custer from the moment that he arrives at West Poi... | 1 |
22,587 | [
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] | 921 | 1,249 | "Quitting" may be as much about exiting a pre-ordained identity as about drug withdrawal. As a rural guy coming to Beijing, class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents' acting success. Troubles arise, however, when the new man ... | 1 |
23,166 | [
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] | 980 | 1,243 | Favela Rising is a documentary about the slums of Rio, the favelas, specifically the most violent one, Vigário Geral. According to this film, a lot more kids have died violently in Rio's favelas over the last decade or so than in Israel/Palestine during the same period -- a fact astonishing if true, which shows how und... | 1 |
23,473 | [
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] | 993 | 1,293 | Hollywood movies since the 1930s have treated gays as lepers. In condemning homosexuality, the film industry has reflected only what the repressive society of its day espoused as an ideology. For example, in the 1962 Otto Preminger melodrama "Advise and Consent," straight actor Don Murray was cast as a queer congressma... | 1 |
23,553 | [
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] | 960 | 1,292 | "The belief in the Big Other as an invisible power structure which exists in the Real is the most succinct definition of paranoia." Slavoj Zizek <br /><br />This is a review of "Marathon Man" and "The Falcon and the Snowman", two films by director John Schlesinger.<br /><br />Though Hitchcock and Lang brought the "co... | 1 |
23,718 | [
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] | 1,015 | 1,254 | On account of my unfortunately not being able to find them anywhere, I have not gotten to try any of the other entries in the series, although I certainly would not mind, and trust me, I have looked. For anyone who does not know, this is a point-and-click adventure title. That means that the mouse is what you use to in... | 1 |
23,975 | [
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] | 990 | 1,288 | This is a wonderful new movie currently still showing in cinemas in my country. Its director, the Calabrian Gianni Amelio, is in my humble view perhaps the only contemporary Italian director, along with Nanni Moretti, to deserve being called great (that is, apart from the old masters who're still around and occasionall... | 1 |
24,232 | [
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] | 903 | 1,206 | This film by the well-known Czech director and writer collaborator Petr Jarchovský is remarkable for its particularity but annoying and distracting in its details. Taking its theme and title from a Robert Graves poem, it deals with a woman with several men and some obnoxious relatives in her life who's trying to surviv... | 1 |
24,257 | [
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] | 1,007 | 1,278 | In a world in which debatable and misunderstood subjects can be listed endlessly, this powerful 1995 film takes on one at the top of that list; moreover, it does it objectively and realistically, and with a sensibility and sensitivity that makes it a truly great film by anyone's measuring stick. And to add some irony t... | 1 |
24,981 | [
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] | 916 | 1,232 | "Gaming? Nicotine? Fisticuffs? We're moving in a descending spiral of iniquity!" So says the head of St. Swithen's upon inspecting the master's common at Nutbourne. The faculty and students of St. Swithen's have been ordered to share facilities at Nutbourne to avoid German bombs during World War II. Then there's the ma... | 1 |
386 | [
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] | 961 | 1,179 | I watched the 219 minute version and have to say that dollar-for-dollar, it it probably one of the worst films ever. Now I am NOT saying it's THE worst film ever--but if you look at a ratio of cost over how much an average person would enjoy it, this is a very, very bad film.<br /><br />I would say that the single bigg... | 0 |
528 | [
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] | 963 | 1,182 | I'm an atheist. To me history and truth mean a lot.<br /><br />This film is made after a novel published in 1921, which is still being updated up to this day as if it was a history book. Well it's not. The movie is about the novels 1950s version. Some actors were GREAT but that doesn't cover the plot.<br /><br />In sho... | 0 |
697 | [
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] | 883 | 1,116 | Oh, why did it have to end like this? Laurel and Hardy's last film, from the crudely cranked-up Cuckoo theme (with erroneous credit to Hal Roach) to the closing "Nice mess"/"I couldn't help it" schtick, this is the duo as a grotesque parody of themselves. In between, their relationship is now solely constructed of unce... | 0 |
714 | [
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] | 769 | 1,109 | Wrestlemania 2 is the only Wrestlemania|thank god| to be held at three different locations, and While it was an interesting idea, it didn't really work. There are only really two matches that really struck out, with the rest being decent, or most of them, pretty terrible. There are some entertaining celebrity's on hand... | 0 |
823 | [
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] | 956 | 1,140 | I honestly don't know where to begin when reviewing a movie as pathetic as Ernest Goes to Africa. Aside from two or three good laughs dispersed throughout the film, there is nothing positive about this hour-and-a-half waste of time and life. It is incredible that someone was able to round up a group of people willing t... | 0 |
987 | [
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] | 870 | 1,144 | It's like someone took a fantasy-type video game and put it in a blender, and the resulting scene mishmash is what we have to sit through.<br /><br />Now let me go on record by saying how much I love Chinese fantasy films. From the fun and silly, to those focusing on martial arts, to the more dramatic and romantic type... | 0 |
1,023 | [
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] | 988 | 1,153 | Sometimes it is funny to watch films implode from your couch, but other times it is just horribly painful to both your eyes and your mind. House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute is one of those rare examples of when both your eyes and your mind are pleading with you to turn the film off. This final installment to the H... | 0 |
1,066 | [
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] | 967 | 1,180 | All I could think while watching this movie was: "Will it ever end?!" It was unbearably boring to watch. I was wishing I could just turn it off, but I wanted to do this review justice so I fought the good fight and withstood the torture of watching this movie all the way through so that you, the good reader, need not b... | 0 |
1,165 | [
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] | 963 | 1,153 | I was very willing to give Rendition the benefit of the doubt when it came to all the negative press I had read concerning it. Even about three-quarters of the way through, I still thought it was jumbled and a bit incoherent, but otherwise a solid tale reaching its conclusion. And then the bottom fell out. Not wanting ... | 0 |
1,804 | [
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] | 987 | 1,160 | Interferencia starts as unemployed Martin Sanders (Andres Bagg) hears something strange on his phone, he hears a mysterious man talking to a prostitute named Diana & arranging to meet her. Soon after Martin reads a local paper & sees the front page story about a prostitute being murdered & thinks back to what he heard.... | 0 |
2,145 | [
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] | 907 | 1,165 | Before launching into whether this film is worth your time or not, I should inform you I've never seen another adaptation of Carmen, so if you're looking for a review on how it ranks amongst others, this might not be of much use to you.<br /><br />The only time I've come across Carmen was on the car stereo when driving... | 0 |
2,268 | [
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] | 957 | 1,187 | Meltdown opens on a scene of scientists preparing to conduct an important test on a missile system developed to deflect asteroids should they be on a collision course with earth. Nathan (Vincent Gale) mentions some misgivings to his, but the test appears to be an unqualified success. Then the asteroid breaks apart, and... | 0 |
2,778 | [
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] | 959 | 1,136 | The Vindicator opens with the memorable scene of a monkey in a cage attacking a ripping apart a small toy robot as part of a scientific experiment. This random act violence sold it for me and I'm happy to say the rest of Vindicator provided a veritable feast of cheese.<br /><br />The Vindicator is about a scientist (Da... | 0 |
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