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586,410 | 783,721 | 109,842 | 7 | Checkmate ! | Fresh ( Nelson ) , the title character and a black kid in his early teens , is a runner for low level drug distributors in the mean streets of NYC with a plan to get out of the ghetto . He plays speed chess with his estranged father and stashes money in a tin can but his plan goes well beyond just saving for a bus ti... |
585,805 | 783,721 | 117,690 | 7 | Another compelling drama from the Emerald Isles . | Some Mother's Son is yet another in a long list of films dealing with the strife in Ireland . This film examines the ebb and flow of policies and sentiments surrounding a hunger strike by IRS prisoners . As interesting as the divisive issue is the drama depicting how deeply into the " soldiers ' " families the traged... |
586,300 | 783,721 | 94,576 | 7 | A very British dramedy | A Very British Coup is a very British 3x50 minute TV dramady laced with typically British wry wit which tells of the election to Prime Minister of a Labor Party candidate who is determined to turn the conservative iron fisted grip on the UK into government by the people . As the new PM , Harry Perkins ( McAnally ) , ... |
586,146 | 783,721 | 280,778 | 7 | Beautifully told but incomplete | Iris tells of British novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband as they struggle together with her Alzheimer's affliction . The couple is portrayed in youth by Winslet and Bonneville and in old age by Dench and Broadbent with all delivering sterling performances . The plaintive and wistful story is told through interleav... |
585,777 | 783,721 | 157,216 | 7 | Edwardian soap opera | Berkeley Square is an Edwardian period TV 10x50 minute miniseries which examines the lives of three young women , all nursery maids for wealthy families in London's Berkeley Square . The series revolves around the trio of neighboring young women , their nannies and associated co-staff ( butlers , footmen , etc . ) an... |
586,154 | 783,721 | 148,573 | 7 | Curl up with this like you would with a Christie or Sayers novel | Painted Lady is a 3 . 5 hour , two part miniseries made for Masterpiece Theater and featuring Helen Mirren as Maggie , a down and out and aging ex-druggie / blues singer who inhabits a cottage on the Ireland estate of a well-to-do friend . When her friend is murdered , Maggie makes an unlikely transformation as she t... |
585,739 | 783,721 | 218,967 | 7 | A good watch family men and women . | A sort of contempo redux of Dickens Christmas Carol , Cage plays a wealthy and very eligible bachelor on Wall Street who suddenly finds himself married with children . Yeah , this is another romantic comedy in a very tired genre . However , it is a cut above the average sap dripping chick flick as it doesn't wade in go... |
587,122 | 783,721 | 239,935 | 7 | Dreamy , sentimental , sweet , and soothing film fare . | Sandy Bottom is a picture postcard perfect little midwestern town where everyone is perfect right down to their imperfections which , if course , being perfect , they always apologize for having in the most perfect way . " The Sandy Bottom Orchestra " is a dreamy , sweet , sentimental little made-for-tv film about a fa... |
585,818 | 783,721 | 113,774 | 7 | A slowly endearing , plaintive , quirky slice-of-life tale . | Margaret's Museum tells of a young Nova Scotia woman who's bound by her family ties to a coal mining town where frequent accidents in the " pit " take their toll on the mine workers and their families . Not just another coal mining flick , " MM " focuses with musings , humor , and poignant moments on Margaret , who's... |
585,960 | 783,721 | 265,298 | 7 | Fun , fun , fun | And cute too . " Big Fat Liar " tells of a 14 year old boy ( Muniz ) who bumps into a film producer ( who happens to be in his hometown making a movie ) who gets his hands on the boy's homework assignment , a story of the title name , and turns it into a movie which the boy sees previewed . The boy and his friend ( Byn... |
587,459 | 783,721 | 139,951 | 7 | How - do - you get four elephants in a Fiat ? | The Way We Laughed is plaintive , unhappy drama about two Sicilian brothers who migrate to Turin , Italy in the late 50's where the older and somewhat duller brother toils as a laborer so his younger brother can reap the benefits of school . This very Italian film peers deeply into the brotherly relationship as it sk... |
586,779 | 783,721 | 144,286 | 7 | An excellent mystery / drama Europic . | The Lost Son tells the story of a French private investigator ( Auteuil ) working in England who is retained by a wealthy family to find their adult son which leads to an investigation into a child slavery ring . A top tier film with all that we've come to enjoy about Europics and an excellent cosmopolitan cast , " T... |
585,712 | 783,721 | 197,384 | 7 | A compelling dark psychodrama . | C & P in Suburbia is a dark and somewhat staged psychodrama with misanthropic overtones which focuses on the teen daughter of a family in crisis and her search for self-actualization . This well cast , well acted , well shot , well directed flick's story is likely to be too black or severe for many . However , those ... |
587,635 | 783,721 | 187,738 | 7 | Where's Buffy when you need her ? | The B-Man is back slicing and dicing legions of a new breed of suckpuppies in an orgy of special effects which makes the original " Blade " pale by comparison . Hardcore horrific action from start to finish with a smattering of plot , a ton of silly putty , and a thousand gallons of red Kool-aid , " Blade 2 " is a must... |
585,644 | 783,721 | 311,519 | 7 | Like watching grass grow | The Man Without a Past is a doggedly plodding , austere , wan , and uneventful exercise in minimalism about a man who is beaten by thugs , gets amnesia , and then , with nothing but sheer determination , reconstructs his life anew . In spite of its critical acclaim and Oscar nom , this laconic subtitled Finnish film ... |
586,687 | 783,721 | 114,086 | 7 | A stroll through an art gallery | Beyond the Clouds is an over-the-top artsy group of four vignettes each a offering a glimpse into a man-woman relationship from the tenuous to the turbulent . Although the film offers superb cinematography , some exquisite visual beauty , and a cast of fine performers , there's little meat on the bones of this fragme... |
586,087 | 783,721 | 106,489 | 7 | Yous got a problem wid dis ? | Set in an Italian neighborhood of the Bronx in the 60's , " A Bronx Tale " is a coming of age flick about a boy ( Capra / Brancato ) who becomes a protege of the urbane boss of the hood ( Palminteri ) after refusing to rat him out to the cops for a shooting . From there the boy gets some serious lessons in life in the ... |
586,797 | 783,721 | 218,839 | 7 | Grrrr ! Woof ! | Best in Show is a mockumentary spoof of one of those things which people do but which most outsiders can only view with raised eyebrows and quizzical looks askance : The championship dog show . This cute lampooning of the complete dog lover looks at a handful of stereotypes ( gays , yuppies , a good old boy , etc . )... |
586,273 | 783,721 | 109,798 | 7 | All for one and one for all ! | A fun French comedy / adventure flick which resurrects the " Three Musketeers " and creates a beautiful daughter , Eloise , ( Marceau ) for an aging , portly D'Artagnan . The plot is a tad convoluted with subtitles which use some archaic English and nonstop dialogue making the story a bit of a challenge for non-French ... |
587,519 | 783,721 | 117,333 | 7 | Sometimes you just gotta go with it | Phenomenon is about a small town auto mechanic ( Travolta ) who experiences something he can only describe as being " light " and suddenly has peculiar powers such as being able to learn to speak Portuguese in 20 minutes or understanding Dianetics . At issue is , will these powers , which make him the object of fear ... |
587,534 | 783,721 | 179,098 | 7 | A good movie . | Moonlight Mile is a by-the-book drama which tells of a handful of grieving people in a small New England town circa 1966 though the location , the time , and the title have nothing to do with anything of import to the film . The film has a big upside including a stellar cast registering good performances , lots of 60... |
586,200 | 783,721 | 125,128 | 7 | Dysfunction junction | The Hanging Garden is a slice-of-dysfunctional-life dramady with a coming-of-age flashback which takes you into the tangled web of peculiar family matters and relationships of a Nova Scotia family who live in shadow of a drunkenly abusive patriarch . The quirk infested family includes a gay asthmatic son , a foul mou... |
585,919 | 783,721 | 300,471 | 7 | Equal sequel | Shanghai Knights , sequel to and by most accounts equal to " Shanghai Noon " , sticks the same Chan and Wilson characters in another adventure which takes them to London where they become embroiled in convoluted intrigues neatly worked around everything from Big Ben to Charlie Chaplin to Jack the Ripper to Queen Vict... |
587,475 | 783,721 | 102,004 | 7 | Wham ! Pow ! Bam ! | The Hard Way is a good old fashioned popcorn flick which gets off to a fast start and keeps moving until the credits roll . Fox plays an Indiana Jones type adventure movie star who goes to NYC to hang with a badass cop ( Woods ) to learn what being a cop is like and becomes embroiled in a serial killer caper . The we... |
586,739 | 783,721 | 244,094 | 7 | I laughed my a off . Thanks Eric , I'm now ale ! | Never Again tells of a single middle aged man ( Tambor ) and woman ( Clayburgh ) who find each other , have good sex , and then begin to wrestle with issues as they search warily for deeper meaning . The film jerks from the outlandish to the sublime and back again making for an unpredictably bumpy ride while conjurin... |
586,573 | 783,721 | 117,381 | 7 | An excellent small screen drama | Primal Fear is a solid drama in which a defense attorney ( Gere ) and a prosecutor ( Linney ) square off and do battle from opposite sides of a courtroom and opposite ends of a defunct love affair . All business and no pleasure , " PF " is 40 % courtroom drama , 40 % investigation , and 20 % plot backbone with Gere ,... |
586,036 | 783,721 | 315,733 | 7 | Excellent unpleasantness | 21 Grams tells a story of three people : A man who needs a heart , the widow of a donor , and the man who killed the donor . The film has critical plaudits aplenty , a couple of Oscar nom's for acting , a fine cast , and the work of budding " Ameros Perros " director Alejandro González Iñárritu . Unfortunately , the ... |
586,867 | 783,721 | 117,394 | 7 | Odd , dark , and not for everyone | Deep Crimson , a subtitled Mexican film , tells of a man who uses his hair-piece , good looks , and charm to bilk mature women out of their money . When he woos a very large and homely woman longing to be loved , she divests herself of her children , insinuates herself into his life , and goes off scamming with him w... |
585,651 | 783,721 | 117,398 | 7 | An excellent no-frills film about conscience and morality . | La Promesse , from the makers of " Rosetta " , is an award winning drama which gets down to business quickly . The film is shot with no frills and the hard edge of a documentary . It tells of a father and son , both of questionable character , who make their living on the backs of transient illegal aliens in Belgium ... |
587,383 | 783,721 | 144,084 | 7 | A good but pointless misanthropic dark satire . | Perhaps the real value to " American Psycho " is the fodder it will provide for film critics and pedantic cinematic devotees . It is a slick job of manufacturing on Harron's part with a superb performance by Bale . However , the general film-going public will likely find it ambiguous , pointless , grotesque , and lacki... |
586,215 | 783,721 | 197,569 | 7 | Tedious and over zee top | Humanite appears to be a film about a child murder / rape and the search for the killer . In fact , the film is a character study en masse which tediously examines a handful of players with Schotte at the center as a rural cop . A critic's darling because it is oh so different , " Humanite " could be said to be avant... |
586,760 | 783,721 | 366,532 | 7 | Sentimental comedy confection | Seducing Doctor Lewis tells of a French-Canadian fishing village which is on the dole and on the list of locations for a new factory . The latter would get the fishermen of the played out waters new jobs and off welfare , so the townspeople conspire to seduce a doctor to coming to their village with the hope he'll st... |
587,178 | 783,721 | 289,765 | 7 | Take a bite out of crime | Red Dragon , a prequel sequel ( or something like that ) to " Silence of the Lambs " , keeps Hannibal ( Hopkins ) in his cell while it pushes an FBI Agent ( Norton ) and a new whacko cannibalistic nemesis D . aka " The Tooth Fairy " ( Finnes ) into the spotlight . The film is seems somewhat more contrived than it's t... |
587,523 | 783,721 | 209,037 | 7 | A gem | Everybody's Famous tells of a middle-age Belgian ( ? ) father who wants see his overweight wannabe singer daughter become a celebrity / success and takes desperate measures to make that happen when he loses his job . The result is a warm hearted comedy romp which delivers more fun and sentimental bang for the buck th... |
587,507 | 783,721 | 165,986 | 7 | A film with a heart and some good jazz | The Tic Code tells of a boy ( Marquette ) with Tourette's syndrome who plays jazz piano and makes friends with a professional sax player ( Hines ) who also has the affliction . A well crafted , earnest , and honest effort , the film would appear to be a labor of love as , according to IMDB . com info , Draper , who w... |
587,231 | 783,721 | 296,166 | 7 | Chic-Ana flick | Pleasingly plump journeyman actress Ferrera is the centerpiece of " Real Women Have Curves " ; a slice-of-life , coming-of-age Chicana flick about a Mexican-American high school girl , Ana , from an East L . A . barrio who struggles with the opposing forces of American feminism and Mexican family tradition . An easy go... |
587,669 | 783,721 | 417,001 | 7 | What's not to like ? | Sarah ( Lane ) , the film's centerpiece , is fortyish , recently divorced , and , of course , cringing at the prospect of getting back into the dating game . The body of the film is all about Sarah , surrounded by assorted kith and kin , struggling to cope with the difficult process of finding Mr . Right . A light hear... |
587,392 | 783,721 | 265,591 | 7 | Somewhere between a 1 and a 10 . | Pumpkin slips mercurially through the genres ending up somewhere around black comedy with farcical overtones and biting undercurrents as it tells of a privileged , superficial sorority sister ( Ricci ) who " gets real " and falls for a mentally challenged man ( Harris ) while coaching him for a Special Olympics type ... |
586,572 | 783,721 | 114,319 | 7 | A wonderful retelling of a classic romantic comedy | Sabrina 1995 tells of a young chauffeur's daughter ( Ormond ) who grows up in the shadow of a wealthy family with two eligible bachelors ; one all work ( Ford ) and the other all play ( Kinnear ) . Forever in love with the latter as a girl , Sabrina studies in Paris and returns years later to the estate and the dream... |
586,464 | 783,721 | 139,362 | 7 | High marks | High Art peers into the lives of two NYC apartment dwelling women , the love which blossoms between them , and the effect of it on each of their lives . Sheedy plays a photographic artist of some renown living a Bohemian lifestyle while Mitchell plays the love interest as a heterosexual asst editor of an artsy magazi... |
586,614 | 783,721 | 116,999 | 7 | A poignant , sentimental , and warmly humorous story about living | Marvin's Room tells of two long estranged middle aged sisters ; one who's spent 20 years caring for her bed-ridden father in Florida ( Keaton ) and the other , a hair stylist who's raised two boys in Ohio ( Streep ) . When one is diagnosed with leukemia , the sisters reunite and begin long over due reconciliations . ... |
587,277 | 783,721 | 335,245 | 7 | Southern discomfort | In " The Ladykillers " , an erudite and refined Southern Gentleman ( Hanks ) takes a room with an elderly but sagacious black women in MIssissippi for the purpose of using her basement to tunnel to a vault full of gambling money with assistance from a group of four men , all stereotypical caricatures , who pretend to b... |
587,016 | 783,721 | 120,848 | 7 | A good flick which tries to do too much . | Such a Long Journey is a well crafted film , a good shoot , and a showcase for some good performances . However , the story is such a jumble of subplots and peculiar characters that it becomes a sort of Jack of all plots and master of none . Also , Western audiences will likely find the esoterics of the rather obscur... |
586,448 | 783,721 | 105,682 | 7 | It's not what you see , it's what you don't see . | Winter Heart is a character study which examines what happens when a beautiful violinist falls in love with a violin maker who is devoid of the passion and emotion which is so much a part of French film and life in general . The antithesis of almost everything Hollywood represents as it does not depict the presence o... |
586,287 | 783,721 | 285,441 | 7 | More noble than interesting . More interesting than entertaining . | The Fast Runner is a pedestrian story of treachery among a tribe of primitive natives - in this case the Inuits of the arctic region of Canada . On the upside the film has an abundance of raw Spartan arctic beauty ; haunting music and percussion ; real native actors speaking what is presumably the Inuit tongue ; and ... |
586,082 | 783,721 | 300,620 | 7 | Booty kickin ' boobies-to-the-wall babe power action flick | So Close is about two Hong Kong hottie sister assassins ( Qi & Wei ) who use martial arts , guns , and hi-tech gadgetry to take out an army bad guys . . . something about evil corporations and a score to settle for killing their father . Toss in a female cop with perpetual PMS ( Mok ) , a whiff of pathos , lots of sa... |
587,431 | 783,721 | 218,505 | 7 | Another excellent historical docudrama from HBO . . . | . . . on the heels of " The Gathering Storm " . " Path to War " begins with Lyndon B . Johnson's inaugural ball and ends with his rejection of candidacy for another term . Between , unlikely Brit-cum-Texan Gambon delivers a masterful portrayal of President Johnson as a crude but sagacious politician who struggled with ... |
586,228 | 783,721 | 149,151 | 7 | A funny and slightly sentimental flick for boomers . | Although a sort of comedy / drama-lite , " Still Crazy " does something which most of the recent raft of formula romantic comedies fail to do . Specifically , the film manages character development so well that their absurd nature , necessary to be funny , does not interfere with the emotional " buy in " making it poss... |
586,409 | 783,721 | 120,899 | 7 | Boredom for the many . Amusement for the few . | My Life So Far is a light hearted and somewhat stuffy coming of age film about a boy ( Norman ) and his father ( Firth ) living on a Scottish estate with sundry family members , servants , visitors , etc . in the years following WWI . A nicely laid out period piece , this film ventures into the busy-ness of the manor... |
586,481 | 783,721 | 315,983 | 7 | So ? | In his review of this film , Roger Ebert begins " It's so rare to find a movie that doesn't take sides . " Well , DUH ! People like movies that take sides . . . as in the good guys and bad guys . We like heroes and villains because we want to see good win over evil . " House of Sand and Fog " doesn't take sides which i... |
586,828 | 783,721 | 153,464 | 7 | Intelligent , sophisticated , and elegant drama-lite . | Up At the Villa is a plodding , understated , dialogue-intensive " little " drama about love , sex , misdeeds , and other intrigues of decadent British aristocrats occupying Florence , Italy in days prior to WWII . Built around the Thomas character , what the film lacks in depth it makes up for with a well crafted sc... |
586,501 | 783,721 | 308,476 | 7 | The highest common denominator | The Cuckoo is tells of the coming together of two wayward soldiers in the Arctic north of Finland at the farm of a lone Lapp woman during the end of WWII . The trio of players speak in different tongues making verbal communication impossible and though the men are sworn enemies they find common ground in a shared hum... |
586,361 | 783,721 | 143,861 | 7 | If it itches . . . . | . . . scratch it . Just as African's created rhythms with the jawbone of an ass and Virgin Islanders welded oil drums into ear pleasing steel bands , so did urban DJ's itch to scratch in the pursuit of new methods of creative expression . " Scratch " is a wholly unnarrated documentary which will take you to the heart o... |
587,593 | 783,721 | 139,462 | 7 | An excellent love story for those who love love stories . | Message in a Bottle is a beautiful and well told , highly romanticized story about a man letting go and a woman competing with a " ghost " . The film is obviously designed to tug at the heart strings and bobbles in the end but still offers some good old fashioned romantic melodrama under a slick contemporary veneer .... |
586,125 | 783,721 | 377,186 | 7 | Ranks with the better Victorian soaps | He Knew He Was Right is a 4x55 minute TV miniseries adaptation which is very much like the usual Victorian melodrama fare from such notables at the Brontes and Austen . The backbone of the story is about a young man of property who marries and then becomes obsessively jealous of attentions paid his wife by her Godfat... |
587,129 | 783,721 | 114,243 | 7 | The ugliness of children caught up in war | Red Cherry follows a pubescent Chinese girl , ChuChu , and boy , Luo Xiaoman , from their prewar children's camp in Russia through WWII as they become de facto orphans caught up in the horrors of war . The film leapfrogs through time and bounces back and forth between the two kids , who become separated , making for ... |
586,718 | 783,721 | 218,378 | 7 | Brrrrr ! | The Claim tells the tale of a ' 49er ( Mullen ) with the glitter of gold in his eyes who swaps his wife and baby for a claim in the rugged California Sierra-Nevada mountains . A beautifully filmed period piece which attempts to portray the difficulties and realities of the time with fidelity , " The Claim " offers ex... |
587,272 | 783,721 | 377,092 | 7 | The square root of " Clueless " | Mean Girls is another bop fodder comedy about a high school junior who , having been outschooled all her life , goes to public school and tries to become one of the in crowd , a trio of shallow hotties called the " Plastics " , only to find she's become a back stabbing beyotch like them and subsequently realizing the... |
587,418 | 783,721 | 343,818 | 7 | Lotsabots | In " I , Robot " , Will Smith is a cop with a sense of humor and a grudge against robots in the year 2030 something when humanoid robots are everywhere thanks to a giant corporation in a giant building in Chicago which manufactures friendly , helpful robots who have been programmed to protect humans . Sent to investiga... |
586,534 | 783,721 | 174,398 | 7 | Only for those with specific interest in Honoré de Balzac | Balzac , the 200 minute French TV docudrama , cannot portray Balzac the man with fidelity and be any more interesting than the man himself . And , judging from this film , Balzac was not all that interesting as historical characters go . Though the series beautifully represents 19th century France with perfection in ... |
586,776 | 783,721 | 244,244 | 7 | See Travolta smirk . See Berry's boobs . See Jackman type . See . . . | Swordfish is a rock'em , sock'em action no-brainer with Travolta as a deliciously likeable villain , Berry as a deliciously topless DEA agent , Jackman as a the world's faster typist , and Cheadle as an FBI agent . Not to be taken seriously , this flick rocks with all the stuff we've come to expect from Hollyweird . ... |
586,761 | 783,721 | 240,419 | 7 | A testament to the mundane | La Cienaga ( The Swamp ) spends its 1 : 45 run examining the trivial daily activities of two families spanning three generation as they vacation in the sweaty climes of a run down Argentinian resort . There's no story arc in this film which ends much as it begins with bored family members who seem as uneasy with each... |
587,590 | 783,721 | 200,720 | 7 | The higher your station the farther you fall . | The House of Mirth is a tour-de-force by Anderson who is cast as an early 1900's New York socialite who wrestles with conflicts between her integrity and her station . Beautiful but without a fortune of her own , Anderson must deny the opportunities for happiness which are numerous but tainted as she is slowly strang... |
585,950 | 783,721 | 390,022 | 7 | Excellent bone crunching varsity football flick | Friday Night Lights follows a season of football in a dusty little Texas oil town where varsity football is not just the only game in town but the only way out of town and the only hope for the future for many of the players . The film examines the team's key players and their good guy coach ( Thornton ) as they wres... |
586,532 | 783,721 | 316,356 | 7 | Seen it all before | There's little new in " Open Range " ; a cowboy tale with the tight lipped cow puncher who happens upon a town ruled by a cruel cattleman who owns the sheriff but not the doc who's sis is a babe who falls for the cowboy . . . blaa , blaa , etc . In spite of its apparent attempt to tell an old west story the way it real... |
585,670 | 783,721 | 365,885 | 7 | Muddling through midlife crises together | The Upside of Anger is all about a laid back retired baseball hero ( Cosner ) who becomes involved with a neighbor woman ( Allen ) who has a perpetual bad attitude because her husband has run off to Sweden with his secretary . The film is sweetened by the woman's four beautiful but disparate daughters who thicken the... |
586,037 | 783,721 | 101,605 | 7 | Like soul ? | You'd better like soul music if you're planning on watching " The Commitments " . The film is all about a young Dublin man who decides to assemble a rock band from his local cohorts and friends and that's all the film is about . From beginning to end , this raucous comedy tells of the coming together of a motley crew o... |
585,752 | 783,721 | 191,498 | 7 | What - is - after all the pomp and circumstance ? | That ponderous question is on the minds of the graduating students of a fictitious college and it shows in the apprehension on the fresh faces which are the focus of " Graduation Week " . Among the characters of this even tempered B-flick are a diehard feminist , a sexually conflicted model female student , a black man... |
585,862 | 783,721 | 253,200 | 7 | Sentimental old guy ensemble flick | Jack's ( Caine ) ashes are in the urn and the company of his old friends and pub mates as " Last Orders " recounts Jack's life via reminiscing and flashbacks . Jack's life was not sufficiently interesting to make this film worthy . Rather , the sweetness and beauty of " Last Orders " comes from the nostalgia , remembra... |
585,772 | 783,721 | 400,063 | 7 | Worthy | Sometimes in April attempts to tell the story of the 1994 wholesale slaughter of about 800 , 000 mostly innocent people during the 100 day national ordeal when the top blew off the powder keg which Rwanda , Africa had become . This film of civil war and genocide focuses on one man , Augustin ( Elba ) , a Rwandan sold... |
586,634 | 783,721 | 191,610 | 7 | Adultery medium rare sans jus | The Bridge is a slice-of-French-life flick which , like many French films , is fatalistic , character-driven , and an almost plotless film about life . The film tells of a middle class housewife and mother who has an affair . The adulterous relationship is treated cooly by the husband ( Depardieu ) , the wife ( Boque... |
586,406 | 783,721 | 110,308 | 7 | What a hctib ! | The Last Seduction is all about Fiorentino , a NYC hardened vixen and man-ipulator who spends the whole flick using her guile and unscrupulous ways to separate her husband from their his ill gotten gains . A well crafted , well cast , and not-to-be-taken-seriously darkish flick which gets out of the blocks quick and ... |
586,157 | 783,721 | 374,546 | 7 | Zensational | Spring , Summer , Fall , Winter . . . and Spring is a very East Asian art flick which moves like molasses with mesmerizing beauty as it spins its simple allegorical tale of the seasons of nature and life . The film centers on an elder Buddhist master and his young charge as the boy grows into manhood with considerabl... |
585,637 | 783,721 | 110,299 | 7 | A journey though a devastated land . | Lamerica takes the audience through the devastation of post-communist Albania as it follows the odyssey of a young Italian man who has come to make some easy money but finds himself caught up in the same curious mix of hopeful despair etched into the faces of people he's come to swindle . The film has little plot , t... |
585,742 | 783,721 | 200,849 | 7 | For insiders only | My Best Fiend : Klaus Kinski is a documentary retrospective by acclaimed film director Werner Herzog ( " Fitzcarraldo " , " Aguirre : The Wrath of God " , etc . ) which looks back at the peculiar symbiosis of the adventurous and obsessive Herzog and the volatile , explosive , and oft irrational Klaus Kinski . The fil... |
585,605 | 783,721 | 218,182 | 7 | If you don't love the Irish , find another movie . | An Everlasting Piece is a lively , smart little comedy which tells of two barbers in 1980's Belfast , one Prot and the other Catholoic , who start a toupee business and struggle to succeed against the adversity of a divided Ireland , commercial competition , and their own religious / political alignments . " AEP " is... |
586,242 | 783,721 | 116,905 | 7 | A good watch for those who missed it in 1996 . | In " Lone Star " , a skull is found in an isolated part of a Texas border county which begins an investigation by the local Sheriff who must unlock a closet full of skeletons to solve the mystery . Critically acclaimed and a high scoring flick on this website , " Lone Star " is a film to be reckoned with . It features ... |
587,234 | 783,721 | 94,828 | 7 | Worthy but not for general consumption . | Camille Claudel is an earnest biopic which tells of her rise to prominence in Paris as a student ( and mistress ) of renown sculptor Auguste Rodin , their love / hate relationship , her struggle for independent recognition as an artist , and her eventual descent into madness . A subtitled French film , " Camille Clau... |
586,582 | 783,721 | 125,659 | 7 | Powerful hokum | Open Your Eyes , later knocked-off as " Vanilla Sky " , is a bunch of hokum which muddles dreams with reality with an unsatisfying conclusion . However , for those who can get their head around sci-fi or paranormal flix or those who can overlook simple minded plot ploys , this flick will prove to be a worthy effort .... |
586,487 | 783,721 | 323,944 | 7 | Naked pictures of women ? ? | Shattered Glass tells the true story of Stephen Glass , a young upstart hotshot investigative journalist who wrote fiction or partial fiction and represented it as fact in the esteemed New Republic magazine and other publications . The film is a smartly pitched hardcore no frills drama which recounts events leading u... |
586,888 | 783,721 | 240,149 | 7 | A different kind of love story | The Girl From Paris tiptoes liltingly though a slice of life of a young French city woman who buys a farm and finds herself wrestling with the rigors of farm life and the stoic , laconic , and crusty old previous owner . The odd couple put of with each other at the outset but as time passes they find something of val... |
586,343 | 783,721 | 158,302 | 7 | What's with the jet plane ? | Under the Sun is a bucolic , warm , charming , and sentimental story about a 40 year old Swedish farmer who hires an attractive housekeeper who tends to somewhat more than cooking and cleaning . He's illiterate with an inheritance , she's smart and pretty , and he has a young male friend who may be after both his mon... |
585,758 | 783,721 | 309,912 | 7 | Bored the dickens out of me | Nicholas Nickleby , a par retelling of the lengthy Dickens novel on the silver screen , has little to praise and little to fault as it presents it's digest in a squeaky clean format with a very robust young man who never coughs playing a cripple with consumption and Nicholas himself with nary a single strand of hair ... |
587,088 | 783,721 | 246,677 | 7 | A very different love story | In " Heaven " , we get to watch a woman whose committed the ultimate faux pas wrestle with her humanity with the help of a quixotic police translator . On the upside , Blanchett carves out a compelling character with her powerful portrayal in a worthy character-driven cinematic effort which is technically and artistica... |
586,470 | 783,721 | 138,704 | 7 | An excellent film for a niche audience . | An obsessive , seziure-plagued , sociophobic genius crunches numbers in his apartment with home-grown super computer in an attempt to reach the ultimate conclusion of his obsession while being sought after by Hasidic and Industrial operatives . " Pi " - a creative , low budget , award winning independent flick shot in ... |
586,948 | 783,721 | 116,684 | 7 | A fine , uncompromising retelling of a classic gothic romance . | Jane Eyre ( 1996 ) does a good job of telling Bronte's oft told tale . The film's two central characters avoid the usual inclinations toward schmaltz and melodrama which romantic films often use to capitalize on the market potential of the mindless masses . Instead , Eyre is rigid and unemotional while Rochester is a... |
587,269 | 783,721 | 332,658 | 7 | A good film you'll want to miss | Intermission is a mediocre but well managed dark comedy which takes the slices of life of a bunch of Dubliners ( mostly bad people with bad attitudes ) and shuffles them like a deck of cards while keeping sufficient interconnectedness to hold the film together ala " Magnolia " . A high energy misanthro-pic built on a... |
586,473 | 783,721 | 116,692 | 7 | A warm , sincere look at a musical prodigy's struggle with her parent's handicap | Beyond Silence is a tender look at the rift which develops between a young girl and her deaf parents as she and her interest in the clarinet grow . The film delivers it's story with a soft touch , avoiding extremes while maintaining an earnest sense of legitimacy . Excepting a few minor glitches , the film is technic... |
587,688 | 783,721 | 120,449 | 7 | An excellent French people / reality film . | Dreamlife . . . is an award winning , much heralded , French people-flick shot in the typical austere Euro docudrama dogma-esque style . The film peers deeply into a short period in the lives of two footloose and broke young women who come together out of mutual need . A study in human nature sans the commercialism o... |
587,065 | 783,721 | 279,778 | 7 | A chick flick for all seasons | A chick flick for chicks of all ages , " The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood " tells of four Louisiana ladies who establish their secret Ya-Ya sisterhood , bound by blood and oath and honor , at a young age and who remain friends over the years providing each other with friendship and support . The film's thin s... |
586,222 | 783,721 | 309,987 | 7 | A Bertolucci pet project | The Dreamers is all about three young adult upscale hippy types who languish in a flat in Paris in the late 60's and talk about cinema , politics , sex , and other stuff while sharing some first experiences . Two are brother ( Garrel ) and sister ( Green ) identical twins ( or so we're told ) who have an almost metap... |
586,095 | 783,721 | 254,334 | 7 | Undertouted and underestimated | The Fourth Angel tells of one man's quest for retribution beyond all reason as he , the protag ( Irons ) , takes on a bunch of hijackers while trying to avoid inquiries from government agents . Typically British in its austerity of production , this flick makes for a good middle-tier drama by creating a series of bel... |
586,758 | 783,721 | 288,330 | 7 | Too nice to not like . | Zelary follows Eliska , a beautiful , young Czech woman through the course of her life during WWII as she is torn from her nursing work and antifascist movement support in the city to be secreted in a rustic mountain community where she finds herself having to cope with the tribulations of a hard rural life , a husba... |
587,538 | 783,721 | 258,153 | 7 | Assimilate this ! | In " Simone " , Pacino plays a down-on-his-luck small time film director in need of a break which he gets when he acquires some software which allows him to create holographic virtual people . To rescue his waning career , he creates Simone , a beautiful virtual actress who quickly becomes the hottest property in all o... |
586,489 | 783,721 | 340,376 | 7 | All Caine | Michael Caine carries " The Statement " on his back . In spite of an elegant cast , without him as the central character , this convoluted mess of a film wouldn't be worth watching . Telling of an aging French-Nazi war criminal who finds himself on the run and squeezed in the jaws of subterfuge , " The Statement " is t... |
586,398 | 783,721 | 250,494 | 7 | An enjoyable girl power flick with a mainstream message . | Legally Blonde is all about Witherspoon as a totally val blonde from Beverly Hills who goes to Harvard and makes good . Predictable formula fun , " LB " gets off to a good start with the freshness of " Clueless " , pushes its own envelope of believability in the middle , and ends with a major feel good moment . Along... |
587,225 | 783,721 | 215,750 | 7 | American & Brit actors play Soviets & Germans . Duh ! | Excellent production talent provides a gritty war-torn backdrop reminiscent of " Saving Private Ryan " for this weak story and poor historical account of the Battle for Stalingrad , a pivotal fight in the WWII European theater . The film tells of a Soviet war hero and sniper ( Law ) who squares off against a dogged adv... |
586,293 | 783,721 | 103,129 | 7 | The British " Ghost " ? | Juliet Stevenson proves her mettle in " Truly , Madly , Deeply " with a superb performance as a woman struck with grief who overcomes same in spite of her friends and with a little help from " the other side " . A definite chick flick according to the IMDB . com stats , this plaintive but hopeful drama with a dash of c... |
587,135 | 783,721 | 258,068 | 7 | A Caine tour-de-force | The Quiet American tells of an eternal triangle which evolves amid the tropical backdrop of Vietnam during the end of the French War in Indochina in 1952 . The triangle includes a British reporter ( Caine ) , and American aid worker ( Fraser ) , and a Vietnamese beauty ( Do Thi Hai Yen ) . The film opens after the st... |
587,625 | 783,721 | 212,346 | 7 | Cute , cute stuff . | Miss Congeniality is a fun little comedy with Bullock at the center playing an FBI agent who has to go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant . Bullock is finally in her element in this flick which sports a lively screeplay , a clever script with lots of " call backs " , and a good supporting cast . A must see for... |
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