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587,528 | 783,721 | 295,238 | 7 | Not equal to the sum of its parts . | Personal Velocity squanders its run time on a narrated flick which is chopped into thirds with no synergism , each delivering a powerful though brief character study of a woman with issues . With some serious talent on both sides of the lens , this flick is more likely an auteur pleaser than an audience pleaser . Rec... |
586,249 | 783,721 | 210,217 | 7 | Visually beautiful , well crafted , but esoteric . | A drama first and biopic second , " Pandaemonium " tells of the midlife of renown classical wordsmith and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge who's life was not terribly interesting though he was on the cutting edge of 19th century neoromantic poetry . Probably taking some liberties for dramatic purposes , the film involves... |
586,507 | 783,721 | 95,631 | 7 | Action-comedy-road trip-buddy flick blast from the past | Midnight Run is a dramedy about a bounty hunter ( DeNiro ) who has only to escort a passive white collar criminal CPA ( Grodin ) from New York to L . A . to collect $100K but finds his simple task becoming increasingly difficult as the FBI , the mob , and a competing bounty hunter get involved . Filmed all over the U... |
586,857 | 783,721 | 361,309 | 7 | Insightful drama about marital infidelity | Perhaps the most difficult type of film to make is a serious human drama in which the story is told as much with the flux of unspoken thoughts and emotions as with words . Such films , usually wrought best outside the commercial influences of Hollywood , require life experience , empathy , maturation , and a melding of... |
586,885 | 783,721 | 108,956 | 7 | Three hours with three men | Dubbed " Then There Were Giants " on cable , this made-for-tv two part film spends three hours presenting a theatrical digest of the communication which ostensibly took place between FDR , Churchill , and Stalin during WWII . Against a backdrop of file footage and the various sets required for conferences ( Teheran , Y... |
587,156 | 783,721 | 118,564 | 7 | A excellent character study of a marginally interesting character . | Affliction peers into every nook and cranny of the Nolte character's life as it shows him , scarred from a life of abuse at the hands of his father ( Coburn ) , stumbling in every relationship in spite of good intentions and slowly unraveling like human entropy . An excellent film in all respects , this award winning... |
586,223 | 783,721 | 338,135 | 7 | Rémy is a big fat stupid white man | The Barbarian Invasions builds its slice-of-death dramady around a college professor , Rémy ( Girard ) , who is dying from cancer by using his imminent death as an excuse to bring together all sorts of central and side characters including relatives and friends and even a heroine addict who pushes the final pleasures... |
586,945 | 783,721 | 372,824 | 7 | Pleasant and enjoyable | The Chorus is a subtitled French film about a portly , mild mannered teacher who takes a job at a marginalized boy's school and finding his young students to be unruly and disruptive he sets about to sublimate their behavior by organizing them into a choir . A sweetly sentimental tale with a Disneyesque feel , " The ... |
587,100 | 783,721 | 256,276 | 7 | Much ado about something | In " Possession " , a rough-hewn American poetry researcher in England ( Eckhart ) meets a lithe and icy Brit ( Paltrow ) and together they retrace the footsteps and thoughts of a renown English poet laureate of the mid-1850s , methodically piecing together unknown portions of his life involving romance , love , infide... |
585,793 | 783,721 | 252,480 | 7 | Numbing horror | The Gray Zone transports the audience to the epicenter of evil during WWII's final solution to the Jewish question . The film deals with a group of doomed Jewish Auschwitz POW's who do the death camp's dirty work , herding unsuspecting Jews into the showers , carrying cadavers to the crematorium , harvesting the dead... |
587,366 | 783,721 | 252,503 | 7 | You just can't find any good hired help anymore . | In " Heist " , Hackman plays and aging thief who , saddled with a beautiful young wife , no pension , and the disintegration of the old school thief ethic , decides to pull one last job so he can sail off into the sunset with his babe . The film , fraught with implausibilities , is all about who's the smarter thief ( w... |
585,915 | 783,721 | 175,880 | 7 | This movie comes at you like a traffic accident . . . | . . . and you'll likely slow down and look with the same morbid curiosity . A well crafted and well acted flick about a day in the lives of a handful of miserable Los Angeleans , " Magnolia " brushes up against issues such as terminal cancer , infidelity , suicide , drug abuse , incest , etc . P . T . Anderson supercha... |
586,233 | 783,721 | 179,769 | 7 | What a hoot ! | Dill Scallion , with Billy Burke in the title role , tells of the rise and fall of a fictional country / western singer . Full of tongue-in-cheek humor and endless good natured spoofing of country music , this fun flick is shot as a mockumentary with the usual jiggly shoulder cams , boom mics in the shot , grainy fil... |
586,479 | 783,721 | 316,465 | 7 | Heartwarmer | Radio is a fictional fact-based account of the relationship which develops between a South Carolina small town high school athletic director ( Harris ) and a mentally challenged black man ( Gooding ) . There's little going on in this sweetly sentimental film which juxtaposes campus life and football with family life ... |
586,590 | 783,721 | 118,756 | 7 | En garde ! | On Guard , a subtitled French film , is all about Auteuil as an 18th century swordsman , mercenary , and bon vivant who finds himself the victim of treachery and the lone custodian of an infant who is the sole heir to a noble rank and great fortune . His task is to honor an oath and restore his charge to her rightful... |
586,848 | 783,721 | 337,960 | 7 | Lotsa heart | Danny Deckchair tells of the adventures of a young concrete truck driver who decides to tie a bunch of helium filled balloons to his deck chair to soar aloft . His plan is to take shears with him to cut away one balloon at a time thereby making his descent . Instead , he leaves the shears behind and the balloons carr... |
586,211 | 783,721 | 307,901 | 7 | Classy trash | 25th Hour tells about the goings on in the life of a NYC man ( Norton ) the day before he has to report to prison for a 7 year sentence . The film offers an excellent cast and crew which manage to sink in fine style under the ever bloated ego of director Spike Lee , turning a film with potential into a protracted los... |
586,601 | 783,721 | 112,681 | 7 | A serious docudrama from HBO | Citizen X tells the story of " The Butcher of Rostov " , nickname for a heinous and perverse Russian serial killer who claimed 52 lives from 1978-92 . The film focuses on the novice detective ( Rea ) who doggedly pursued the killer against all odds in the face of an uncooperative bureaucracy in self-serving and conve... |
586,077 | 783,721 | 286,179 | 7 | Good film , tedious story , shows us nothing new . | Sunshine State peers into the lives of a clutter of characters who occupy a small Florida beach town at risk of a hostile takeover by land developers examining the local's reflections , ponderings , musings , and interactions in the onslaught of imminent change . " Sunshine State " is technically and artistically exc... |
586,749 | 783,721 | 281,820 | 7 | A nice Nolte nicks with Nutsa near Nice | A Good Thief is a smart heist flick with Nolte at the center as a rogue with a heart and a habit who is as at home at a casino baccarat table as he is in the streets of Nice . This film is all about Nolte , a babe , and his gang of expert thief assistants who assemble to rip off a Monte Carlo casino under the watchfu... |
586,453 | 783,721 | 118,682 | 7 | Now that's what I call a Band on the Run . | Telling of a rock group of four imprisoned females who escape and enjoy overnight commercial musical success because of their notoriety , " Bandits " is not of the sexsational genre of B-flicks about women in prison commonplace in America . Instead it is a stylish , artfully shot sort of quasi - musical - drama - rock ... |
585,680 | 783,721 | 122,541 | 7 | Charming , clever , and contrived . | An Ideal Husband is a charming though contrived little 19th century English period comedy with the subtly sardonic sense of humor typical of Oscar Wilde . The film , which deals with the politics of society first , the politics of the heart second , and the politics of the state last , features all the trappings of t... |
587,623 | 783,721 | 118,671 | 7 | Interesting intellectual combat | Two couples share a home for a few days during which suspicions are hatched , intellectual war is waged , and verbal fencing dominates . " Bad Manners " is a dialogue intense film with a well wrought script and good performances by the ensemble of four . An intriguing watch for more mature audiences . |
587,495 | 783,721 | 202,641 | 7 | A big little movie | Two Family House tells the story of a 1950's Staten Island man ( Rispoli ) who finds that the road from dreams to reality is paved with difficulty but leads to happiness . A cute little romantic comedy with a big heart , " TFH " makes some big points about the importance of being true to one's own conscience above al... |
586,310 | 783,721 | 156,639 | 7 | A warm comedy romp . Bravehair . | The Big Tease is an under-rated , genuinely funny , and intelligently made film about a dauntless Scottish hair stylist , Crawford Mackenzie , and his quest for the globally coveted Platinum Scissors Award . A tour de force by Furgeson , the film delivers plenty of wry British humor and less subtle American hilarity ... |
586,737 | 783,721 | 132,477 | 7 | A contrived Disneyesque feel-good flick . | October Sky has the feel of a purified and contrived Disney movie with the sole purpose of pushing the viewer's emotional buttons . Based on a true but thin story about a high school student who wants to be a rocket engineer and not a coal miner ( who wouldn't ? ) , this film is well shot , well acted , and full of i... |
587,340 | 783,721 | 307,987 | 7 | Excellent casting | He drinks and smokes and pukes and wets his pants and has sex in public places . He has a horrible attitude , a trash mouth , is mean to little kids , hates himself , and robs department stores . Ok , so he's not all bad , but he is without a doubt the worst department store Santa ever . There's not a lot of stretching... |
586,529 | 783,721 | 256,103 | 7 | The absence of love | Intimacy tells of a divorced man and a married woman who have weekly loveless sex while each knows little of the other . The film explores the " why " of their peculiar relationship and follows the pair of protags to their inevitable conclusion . Whatever you know , think , or read about this film , it does break new... |
587,586 | 783,721 | 122,690 | 7 | Above average action / intrigue flick . | Ronin puts DeNiro at the center as a mercenary who is hired by people unknown to nab a case with contents unknown for reasons unknown . This international intrigue thriller set in France has all the usual Hollywood action excesses ( car chases ad nauseam , stunts , pyro , firefights , etc . ) , and excellent cast , a... |
587,330 | 783,721 | 290,673 | 7 | ! ! lebisreverrI | Irreversible is an art house experience which tells a story of a happy young adult couple who suffer ; she through rape and he through revenge . There's little story in this uncomfortably harsh film full of sex , nudity , vulgarity , and violence . What story there is is told a chapter at a time in reverse chronologi... |
586,585 | 783,721 | 191,043 | 7 | The paradise of color | Tragedy and life's vicissitudes weight heavily on a laborer with a blind son in this plaintive tale from Iran . A lovely , simple , and heartfelt tale , " The Color of Paradise " is typically Iranian in its telling of a father who wrestles with his conscience as he begins to see his son as a burden interfering with his... |
587,469 | 783,721 | 113,107 | 7 | Big man , small body | Frankie Starlight is a sensitive , plaintive , wistful and sometimes ethereal drama about the life of a man and his struggle with dwarfism . The film brings together an solid cosmopolitan cast as it tells the story of Frankie as both a man and a boy with scenes of each interleaved . Though the film is not evocative o... |
586,231 | 783,721 | 160,459 | 7 | An engrossing , well crafted drama . | The Lesser Evil tells of four grown men who have been keeping a secret since they were close friends in high school some 20 years in the past . Something has happened to bring them together again . The drama unfolds with the telling of two stories , past and present , with two casts of actors . The film whets interes... |
586,774 | 783,721 | 240,772 | 7 | Same-O , same-o | Ocean's Eleven 2001 is just another classy zillion dollar Hollywood blockbuster . Top heavy with familiar faces and the usual high tech heist stuff borrowed from " Mission Impossible " which tells the old story about a slick crew of safe crackers who want to rip off the juiciest cache of dinero in Vegas . Entertainin... |
587,518 | 783,721 | 273,300 | 7 | Carpe Diem ! | Jump Tomorrow , which roughly translates to " carpe diem " , is a romcom indie which creates an unlikely duo and then sees if it can get them together against all odds . He's big , black , socially inept , and about to be married . She's petite , Latin , fiery , and taking her boyfriend home to mom . On the downside ... |
587,484 | 783,721 | 113,083 | 7 | Chick flick for midlife | The Flower of My Secret follows a middle-aged married woman and somewhat neurotic novelist , Leo ( Paredes ) , on the verge of divorce from the handwriting on the wall to the separation to the final realization and adjustments required to get her life back on track . There's little plot to be found in this linear dra... |
587,442 | 783,721 | 186,730 | 7 | The real Kindergarten cop | It All Starts Today is an open ended slice-of-life tale which takes us into the world of a good-hearted , dedicated , and hard working French Kindergarten teacher who has a lot more on his plate than finger painting . Protag Daniel ( Torrenton ) not only teaches but runs interference for abused kids , wrestles with t... |
586,831 | 783,721 | 171,433 | 7 | A fresh , fun romantic comedy in a New York state of mind . | Keeping the Faith is just hip enough to breathe some fresh air into a stagnating genre without sacrificing the requisite " feel good " moments in the process . The film's 2 + hour run time is a bit long for it's simple plot , but it manages to stay focused and dish up enough creativity to make it time well spent . A ... |
586,958 | 783,721 | 260,414 | 7 | 70 % Keitel , 25 % Skarsgård , and 100 % drama | In " Taking Sides " , Keitel is a U . S . Army Major in Berlin after WWII . His task as a denazification inquisitor is to separate the populous into black hats , white hats , and gray hats : In particular , one gray hat symphony orchestra conductor , Skarsgård . The film , which bears the ear marks of it's theatrical p... |
586,098 | 783,721 | 256,009 | 7 | A beautifully crafted drama about suffering and retribution | The Devil's Backbone , a drama more than a horror or ghost flick with the supernatural relegated to the background , which tells the tale of a war torn and isolated orphanage for boys in Spain during the civil war of the 1930's . Among the inhabitants and players are a kindly headmaster , a one legged matronly teache... |
585,949 | 783,721 | 382,737 | 7 | Entertainment over history | Henry VIII ( 2003 ) tells the story of England's King Henry VIII ( 1491-1547 ) . Ray Winstone is the centerpiece of the film as Henry , a robust and brutal but secretly sensitive King obsessed with siring a male heir to throne . The TV miniseries spends its 4 hour run focused on Henry's involvements with his six wive... |
587,202 | 783,721 | 108,633 | 7 | A powerful dark drama with millieu and mood first and story second . | There's hardly a smile to be found in this dark , brooding , oppressively heavy drama which tells of an American DEA agent ( Keitel ) who comes to London to assist in the capture of a drug trafficker as the UK bends under the strain of a virulent drug trade . The camera spends most of the time examining the bleak , gri... |
585,975 | 783,721 | 105,256 | 7 | A slice of southern life . | Rich in Love is a slice-of-life film which takes the viewer into the goings on of a somewhat quirky Charleston , SC family . Highly romanticized , beautifully shot , well written and acted , " RIL " washes over you like a summer breeze as its plotless meandering breathes life into the characters such that at film's e... |
587,571 | 783,721 | 91,445 | 7 | The locust will be back soon . . . | . . . and " Lucas " is still a charming and sentimental little high school campus comedy with a message about what's important in life ( and it ain't football ) . Telling of a goggle-eyed " shrimp " ( Haim ) with little going for him , save his indomitable spirit , who tries desperately to win the affection of a pretty... |
585,948 | 783,721 | 427,157 | 7 | Everything you ever wanted to know about the " dirty bomb " | The BBC and HBO teamed up to create " Dirty War " , a 90 minute TV movie about a terrorist " dirty bomb " attack in London . The film gets down to business quickly as it packs both the terrorist and the government anti-terrorist efforts into the film leaving little room for human interest subplots . On the terrorist si... |
587,365 | 783,721 | 206,314 | 7 | How about that one ' Candy Cane ' , cum'on . . . break , break ! | In " Joy Ride " , two brothers ( Zhan & Walker ) get involved with a big rig driver over the CB radio while on the open road . They set him up as a practical joke and unleash all hell on themselves as the unseen subject of their prank , known only as " Rusty Nail " , turns out to be a maniacal killer . " Joy Ride " is ... |
586,629 | 783,721 | 213,847 | 7 | A worthwhile film but a nebulous presentation . | Malena is about many things . . . . the people of a small Sicilian town during WWII ; a woman scorned by the town's women and admired by the town's men for her sensual beauty ; and a pubescent boy's obsession with the woman as he comes of age . Obviously the product of a talented auteur because of its technical and a... |
586,439 | 783,721 | 361,127 | 7 | Brave | The Woodsman takes the audience into the life of a working class pedophile following his release from prison . The film centers on Bacon as a man tormented by his perverse desires while struggling to carve out a life for himself in an unforgiving society . A brave film which received good marks from critics and publi... |
587,513 | 783,721 | 264,464 | 7 | How to get a job with the FBI | Catch Me If You Can tells the story of Frank Abagnale , con man . With Spielberg in the director's chair and A-listers leading the way , you'd expect something a little better than this story about a kid who conned his way into jobs as a Pan Am pilot , a lawyer , a doctor , and into some serious money . Reasonably en... |
586,186 | 783,721 | 91,474 | 7 | A solid low cal and nutritious journeyman whodunnit | Manhunter tells of the brooding ex-FBI agent ( Petersen ) who nabbed Hannibal Lecter and gets called back into action to catch another serial killer / cannibal / wingnut . This the original Lecter flick focuses on the manhunt while delving into the disturbing think-like-a-cannibal mindset which Agent Graham must achi... |
586,117 | 783,721 | 338,290 | 7 | An excellent watch if you're interested in sex change | In " Normal " , an HBO feature film , a middleaged midwestern farming community family man ( Wilkinson ) reveals his plans to change gender . The film spends the entire run examining the reactions and adjustments of his family , coworkers , and community as he begins the process of transforming himself from man to woma... |
586,723 | 783,721 | 108,596 | 7 | Good stuff for more mature audiences | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is an often poignant , sometimes plaintive , and always delightful slice-of-elderly-life old guy flick which , BTW , has nothing to do with wrestling or Ernest Hemingway . With the exception of Duvall's awful Cuban accent , Harris and Duvall shine in Florida's sun as they fully flesh out th... |
586,853 | 783,721 | 386,092 | 7 | A love story | Amour de Femme is a French TV flick which tells of a married woman ( Fillières ) osteopath with a young son who falls in love with am unmarried female dance instructor ( Anderson ) . The film flows with the same natural grace and delicacy we've all seen in heterosexual romantic films bringing love to life from the in... |
586,006 | 783,721 | 210,727 | 7 | High drama | Himalaya is about as exotic as films get . Using indigenous people in a remote and harsh corner of Nepal ( Dolpa ) , an adventurous French director ( Valli ) created a film about a superstitious and aging tribal chief who leads a caravan of Yaks through hazardous Himalayan reaches to trade salt for the grain required... |
585,737 | 783,721 | 210,741 | 7 | Fun , funny , fresh indie stuff . | I'll Take You There tells of a woebegone man who loses his wife to another and finds an unlikely ally in a blind date . Unlike most romantic comedies , this little indie is mostly tongue-in-cheek situational comedy featuring Rogers and Sheedy with little emphasis on romance . A sort of road trip flick with many fun a... |
587,158 | 783,721 | 96,163 | 7 | A somewhat over-touted but good European psychodrama | The Vanishing 1988 tells of the dogged search of a man for his girlfriend who disappears while they're together on holiday . Not a " thriller " , this psychodrama spends most of its time dwelling on the criminal mind of the abductor , the anxiety and angst of the abductee's boyfriend , and flashbacking to show what t... |
586,535 | 783,721 | 190,798 | 7 | Seldom is so much accomplished with so little | Solas spends its 100 minute run digging deep into the character of Maria ( Fernández ) , an attractive 35 year old brittle pessimist who bears the scars of childhood abuse at the hands of her father , drinks too much , and works as a janitor . A somber , plodding , plaintive character study , " Solas " fleshes out it... |
586,637 | 783,721 | 171,741 | 7 | A well managed story of friends caught up in civil war . | Shot Through the Heart is an even tempered , dogged , austere production of people caught in the rift in Sarajevo during the Bosnia war . The film focuses on two long time friends , both expert competitive marksmen , who find themselves as snipers on opposite sides of the conflict . Not unlike other " friend against ... |
587,090 | 783,721 | 217,505 | 7 | Over-wrought melodramatic history-fiction mishmash . | Gangs of New York mixes real American history with a weak fictional human drama and a thick coat of Hollywoodization resulting in an over wrought behemoth wannabe epic misfire . Scorcese pulls together bits and pieces of the Civil War conscription act , Irish potato famine immigration , Tammany Hall and Tweed corrupt... |
586,914 | 783,721 | 118,113 | 7 | Fun , lively , hip , and all Keener and Heche . | Walking and Talking is a slice of life flick which focuses on two thirtyish female best friends ( Heche & Keener ) . A dialogue-intensive plotless situational relationship light comedy , " W & T " offers good performances , a lively script , and a variety of situations with which thirtyish guys and gals will be able ... |
586,296 | 783,721 | 286,516 | 7 | More of an experience than a story | Respiro will take you to a small fishing village on some Sicilian Island where it focuses on Grazia , a beautiful young mother who is either bipolar or just capricious with bouts of PMS or something in between . Regardless , her minor misbehavior becomes an issue with her family who wants to send her to Milan for som... |
585,762 | 783,721 | 104,685 | 7 | What happens when you realize you don't like the people you love ? | . . . Chez Nous looks at this compelling question through the life of one Aussie woman who's self esteem is constantly undermined by the men in her life . This film is a psychodramatic , realistic , and intelligent look at the clockworks of a nuclear family held together more by mutual need than love and respect . Th... |
586,549 | 783,721 | 96,219 | 7 | Strangely fascinating | Talk Radio peers into the studio and life of a late night talk / shock jock who has to keep the on-the-air patter going while juggling other issues . The film , which received good marks from critics and public alike , capitalizes on that same kind of strange fascination that turns motorists into lookie-loos at traff... |
586,525 | 783,721 | 317,179 | 7 | Good show , Showtime ! | The charm of " Bobbie's Girl " isn't so much in the story as in the telling . A sweetly sentimental slice-of-life feel good flick from Showtime , the film tells of a middle-aged lesbian couple operating a tavern on the coast of Ireland who unexpectedly find themselves with the yin-yang of a wee lad and the " Big C " in... |
587,460 | 783,721 | 155,713 | 7 | That's the way . . . uh-huh , un-huh . . . | That's the Way I Like It is a flick which would never work on paper but manages to be thoroughly enjoyable on the silver screen . It's all about Hock ( Pang ) , a Singapore store clerk who wants no more than to kick butt like Bruce Lee and own a motorcycle but meets a disco dancing hottie who convinces him there are ... |
587,677 | 783,721 | 236,640 | 7 | A misunderstood movie about a misunderstood disease | Prozac Nation is a case study of clinical depression with Ricci as a Harvard frosh trying to cope with her own identity crisis , poor self esteem , and uncontrollable mood swings ; the expectations of an over-compensating divorced mother ; the absenteeism of a shallow father ; and the sincerity of a love she can't be... |
586,246 | 783,721 | 264,796 | 7 | A good ol ' fashioned Hollywood product in a modern wrapper | Life is a House tells of a dying architect ( Klein ) who razes his dilapidated shanty and builds a new home . The house in " . . . House " is a metaphor . . tearing down the old , building the new , putting asunder old regrets while erecting a legacy for those left behind . Entertaining though contrived , " . . . Hou... |
585,766 | 783,721 | 160,127 | 7 | The film only Hollywood could make . | Charlie's Angels has it all . Comedy , drama , action ; state-of-the-art effects , stunts , pyro , sets , sound , music , costuming , makeup , etc . , crouching babes , hidden hotties , and even a hanging Chad . Nonstop in-your-face big budget entertainment front to back but sadly only worth about . Hooray for Hollyw... |
585,784 | 783,721 | 118,163 | 7 | A flick for the more mature chicks | The Whole Wide World , an old school melodrama , tells of a simple school teacher in 1930's Texas ( Zellweger ) and her relationship with pulp fiction writer Bob Howard ( D'Onofrio ) who created such characters as Conan the barbarian and Kull the conqueror . A simple tale of two people , there's little meat on the bo... |
587,229 | 783,721 | 313,196 | 7 | Solid Mexican drama | The Crime of Padre Amaro is not worthy of the controversy it spawned but is worthy of anyone interested in a subtitled Mexican drama about an ambitious young priest in a rural diocese who succumbs to the desires of the flesh only to find the one transgression leads to another . Although the plot is worn and the story... |
586,482 | 783,721 | 324,619 | 7 | Ya think ? | Spinning Boris tells a tall tale of three American political campaign consultants who are retained by the Russians to help an ill , oft intoxicated , and very unpopular Boris Yeltsin win Russia's first post-Cold War democratic election . What you'll get is lots of snappy patter as the culturally challenged Goldblum ,... |
586,991 | 783,721 | 268,995 | 7 | 100 weight Hollywood goo | The Majestic tells a tedious and melodramatic tale ( circa post-WWII ) about a man ( Carrey ) who loses his memory and through a case of mistaken identity becomes a small town hero . . . blaa , blaa , blaa . A very well crafted film with mixed critical reviews , " The Majestic " flows like honey , sweet and viscous ,... |
586,279 | 783,721 | 286,261 | 7 | Kind of like going to the dentist . | All or Nothing is a slice-of-wretched-life flick about a miserable dysfunctional working class London family . There's little arc to the story of walrus Phil Bassett and family who move sloth-like from day to day unhappy and unfulfilled . Undoubtedly an excellent film by film making standards , Mike Leigh puts the au... |
586,840 | 783,721 | 256,524 | 7 | Cute little diversion for oldsters and Allen fans | The curse of the jade scorpion refers to the post hypnotic suggestion given by a night club hypnotist to an insurance investigator ( Allen ) and his efficiency expert inter-office rival ( Hunt ) . Both become embroiled in a jewel theft caper and spend most of their time at each others throats in this circa 1940 noir ... |
586,949 | 783,721 | 252,287 | 7 | Interesting , entertaining , and copasetic . | Bojangles tells the story of legendary hoofer Bill Robinson who tapped his way to stardom and success as America's highest paid black entertainer only to die penniless . Hines brings charisma , charm , and lots of great tappin ' to the title role in this polished and sanitized biography . A fun watch especially for t... |
586,100 | 783,721 | 268,978 | 7 | Hypekill . | There's little doubt that " A Beautiful Mind " is an excellent film . There's also little doubt that it was buoyed from buzz to Oscar acclaim by hype , strategic PR , and a gullible public . Taken in and of itself the film is rather ordinary among excellent films and not worthy of much of the critical acclaim it garner... |
585,878 | 783,721 | 245,712 | 7 | Like being seduced with a hammer | Amores Perros is a subtitled Mexican film which tells three stories , each on a collision course with the other . Although the film is well cast and artistically and technically excellent , it is somewhat overwrought and inclined to wear on the audience at it's dramatic tales are pounded into us as opposed to making ... |
586,122 | 783,721 | 364,800 | 7 | More soap opera than history lesson | The Last King is a 3 hour , two part miniseries from the BBC which traces the life of King Charles II who ruled from 1649 until his death in 1685 . The upside of this film includes its sumptuous appointments and excellent cast . Well directed and crafted , the film is engaging , passionate , and delivers a strong sen... |
587,649 | 783,721 | 313,043 | 7 | More of the same and that's a good thing | CSI : Miami follows the very successful formula of it's parent , " CSI " ( Las Vegas ) with Caruso heading a team of criminologists who spend most of their time connecting the forensic dots to solve murders . Those who can get past Caruso's incessant smug smirking , an ME who talks to her cadavers , some very undevel... |
585,721 | 783,721 | 245,562 | 7 | Overkill | Less would have been more in " Windtalkers " , a story about two WWII Marines who wage war on Saipan while forging a reluctant unspoken bond of friendship . Cage plays a battle hardened Sergeant whose is assigned to protect from capture at all cost an American Indian ( Beach ) " codetalker " who uses his native Navajo ... |
587,408 | 783,721 | 245,540 | 7 | A film about " America's Schindler " but no Schindler's List . | Varian's War tells of Varian Fry , an American citizen who sets about to liberate the great minds of Europe in the years prior to American involvement in WWII . An entertaining historical drama built for Showtime , this well made but somewhat scripted and theatrical film illuminates the mechanics of Fry's mission but... |
586,894 | 783,721 | 299,977 | 7 | Think " Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon " | Hero is by all accounts a very big if not huge movie with plaudits aplenty from critics and public . The film tells a sort of epic adventure fairy tale about an assassin ( Jet Li ) and a handful of cohorts who conspire to kill a king which is high melodrama Chinese style and not likely to have a great appeal to weste... |
586,681 | 783,721 | 210,584 | 7 | Outstanding ! ! | Bootmen is one of those films which will not have mass appeal but which will appeal massively to those with whom it resonates : A fact which accounts for a meager 1 . 5 stars from Ebert with a critical majority voting " awesome " according to efilmcritic . com . A sort of " Footloose " meets " Stomp Out Loud " down u... |
586,002 | 783,721 | 104,812 | 7 | Sweet stuff for romantics and sentimentalists | In " Map of the Human Heart " , a down and out middle aged Eskimo man recounts his life story to an Arctic cartographer ( Cusack , who has only a few minutes on screen ) which constitutes the bulk of the film via flashback . His story begins with his puppy love relationship with a young half-breed girl in a hospital . ... |
587,345 | 783,721 | 364,930 | 7 | Painfully sad | Aileen : Life and Death of a Serial Killer ( 2003 ) is a documentary about the life of the notorious Florida serial killer , Aileen Wornous , who inspired the much lauded film " Monster " . Not to be confused with " Aileen Wornous : The Selling of a Serial Killer ( 1992 ) " , also by Nick Broomfield , this film provi... |
586,669 | 783,721 | 386,588 | 7 | No hitch in Hitch | Hitch is all about Will Smith as the Alex Hitchens aka the Date Doctor , a dating consultant to socially inept men who need some polishing to become skillful navigators of the dating scene . A fresh and fun new age flick with old school values which mixes good advice with wit and charm as we watch the Date Doc work m... |
587,651 | 783,721 | 113,448 | 7 | Shoudla been titled " Jack and Amy " | Jack and Sarah is all about a British man , Jack , who finds himself stuck with a new born daughter , Sarah , while mourning the loss of his wife . As he struggles with his grief , he takes on an American nanny , Amy , ( Mathis ) who , with and in spite of assorted family and friends , helps him find happiness again ... |
586,437 | 783,721 | 100,470 | 7 | A slow moving drama about hope and despair . | Journey of Hope tells of a poor Turkish family and their odyssey of hope which spirals downward into despair as they travel to Switzerland in search of prosperity . Although this Oscar winning film is fairly well crafted , it is lacking in substance and has many implausibilities . Much of the film's 1 . 7 hour run ti... |
587,140 | 783,721 | 183,649 | 7 | Stu stands still | Phone Booth is all about Stu ( Farrell ) who is held captive at gun point in a downtown Manhattan , NYC phone booth by a psycho sniper ( Sutherland ) dictating his demands via phone from somewhere in the surrounding buildings . An intense , high energy psychodrama , " Phone Booth " is pound for pound better than most... |
585,735 | 783,721 | 183,659 | 7 | A excellent but marginally interesting film | Pollock tells of the life of American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock . A excellent film in most respects , this tour-de-force by Ed Harris has one glaring flaw . Pollock simply wasn't a sufficiently interesting subject to expect his biopic to have mass appeal . We've all seen films of alcoholic , neur... |
586,229 | 783,721 | 113,849 | 7 | A picture postcard perfect little tale | A Month by the Lake has strong parallels with " Up at the Villa " as both films are about the idle rich who spend time at a villa in the North of Italy in the days prior to WWII . " A Month . . . " is a sublime story about a very starched Brit ( Fox ) and a somewhat capricious lady ( Redgrave ) . Both mature , in lat... |
587,110 | 783,721 | 113,851 | 7 | Under-rated girl talk film about what makes women special . | Moonlight . . . is a slightly massaged and sanitized but insightful and warm look at a woman ( Perkins ) coping with grief with help from a distaff trio of family / friends . A beautifully crafted piece of work at all levels , this dialogue-intensive film spares us much of the usual mourning melodrama and gets right ... |
587,524 | 783,721 | 280,653 | 7 | One man's crusade against the holocaust and the Pope who did nothing . | One of a plethora of films about the WWII Jewish holocaust , " Amen " is a fact / fiction accounting of German SS officer Kurt Gerstein's futile attempts to ameliorate the extermination of Jews in Nazi death camps ; particularly his appeals to Pope Pius XII whose papacy was at the center of a firestorm of postwar criti... |
587,446 | 783,721 | 293,662 | 7 | Oh yeah . . . umm-hmm . . . kick that booty , bad boy ! ! | The Transporter tells of an Brit ex-Army macho mercenary driver-for-hire in the South of France who will deliver whatever wherever with no questions asked and gets embroiled in a thrill a minute escapade when one of his packages turns out to be a passenger . An obvious and predictable formula action flick with some o... |
586,980 | 783,721 | 253,474 | 7 | Music was his passion . Survival was his instinct . | The Pianist is doubtless well crafted and technically and artistically sound albeit naive and conventional . The film parses into one hour of a stereotypical and exploitive regurgitation of the horrors of the Nazi reign over the Warsaw ghetto , where every German soldier is more evil than Satan and every Jew a pathet... |
585,852 | 783,721 | 86,979 | 7 | Good fodder for film buffs . | The Coen's much heralded breakthrough flick " Blood Simple " is devoid of just about everything we go to movies to see . No wondrous exotic locations . No awesome stunts , action scenes , martial arts , car crashes , or shoot outs . No enticing romance , love , sex , nudity . No sumptuous sets , elaborate costuming , e... |
586,259 | 783,721 | 117,615 | 7 | Funny , wistfully sentimental , and utterly charming | Shall We Dance ? , a light-hearted flick from Japan , tells of an overworked accountant and family man who is attracted to a dance studio by a beautiful woman he see's from the train during his daily commute . What he finds in the studio are lessons in dancing and , most of all , himself . Funny , poignant , and utte... |
586,318 | 783,721 | 236,285 | 7 | Solid entertainment and a must see for jazz lovers . | A romanticized dramatic biography , " For Love or County " tells the true story of trumpet virtuoso Arturo Sandoval's escape from Cuba and oppression of artistic expression . A well composed and entertaining production , this film packs ideological and political conflict , a love story , and plenty of authentic Sandova... |
585,920 | 783,721 | 209,189 | 7 | The Substitute : Failure is not an option | Not One Less tells the story of a teen girl who takes a job as a substitute elementary school teacher in a poor rural village and must keep her flock of kids in tow despite her obvious lack of qualifications . Like most traditional Chinese films , this one has a moral which is something like : A good heart and determ... |
587,462 | 783,721 | 144,142 | 7 | Upbeat , hip , fun , and deceptively smart | Committed is all about Graham as an irrepressible optimist who goes in search of her self-estranged husband who has gone in search of himself which all leads to a sort of kookie , upbeat comedic odyssey involving a bunch of side characters and issues . A fresh , fun , and unpredictable little flick , what " Committed... |
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