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420,330 | 2,542,703 | 38,924 | 3 | Seventh Veil-Close it Up ! | Moody , rather dull piece dealing with a concert pianist's breakdown . After viewing this film , a breakdown was certainly in order . This dull period piece traces pianist Ann Todd , as a young child , who goes to live with a nasty cousin , played by James Mason . Mason appears frustrated with life as well as this film... |
420,451 | 2,542,703 | 32,264 | 3 | Blue Bird - An Oz Ripoff | A simply awful version of the wonderful " The Wizard of Oz . " How Gale Sondergaard , an Oscar winner , who turned down the golden role of the witch in " Wizard " allowed herself to be in this film is beyond me . She is catty here , please excuse the pun , and walks around like a " yenta " from Brighton Beach , Brookly... |
420,373 | 2,542,703 | 472,160 | 3 | Penelope-Even Miss Piggy Could Do Better than This 12 | The Ugly Duckling syndrome is brought back to the screen in this 2006 stinker . Amazing to me that former Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon would appear in this stinker in a supporting role . Christina Ricci is born with the face of a pig as a result of a curse put on the family from generations back . The one bright shin... |
420,884 | 2,542,703 | 32,349 | 3 | Comrade X - Mysteriously Miserable | Clark Gable and Hedy La Marr starred in this awful mess . This is certainly no Ninotchka , even with its anti-Communist theme . The film is just awful . It would have been funnier had they managed to make more fun of the Nazis in it . I realize that the film came out in 1940 and since we weren't at war with the beasts ... |
421,119 | 2,542,703 | 254,099 | 3 | Anniversary Party - You Don't Have to Save the Date on this One | Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming both wrote and directed this mess . An anniversary party is supposed to be one of joy but this is anything but that . A whole host of people come to celebrate-that is with their frustrations as well . Cumming is an up and coming Hollywood director who has just casted Gwyneth Paltro... |
420,598 | 2,542,703 | 120,764 | 3 | My Favorite Martian is Not My Favorite | Silly , often ridiculous romp involving the landing of a space ship and the resulting havoc this causes on Tim ( Jeff Daniels ) and the people in his orbit . Am always amazed by Daniels . He showed such depth and promise in 1983's " Terms of Endearment " as Shirley MacLaine's philandering son-in-law . As the years have... |
420,662 | 2,542,703 | 41,498 | 3 | Male War Bride A Fiasco | This is a very foolish picture . Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan are assigned to go on a mission to locate a black market gentleman . You'd think there would be some intrigue there . Instead , they locate an Edmund Gwenn look alike who is off to France . From two people who can't stand each other , they soon fall in love a... |
421,132 | 2,542,703 | 47,954 | 3 | Count 3 And Pray-Oy Vey ! ! ! ! ! ! | Awful , miserable film probably remembered as it was Joanne Woodward's first motion picture . This colossal bomb deals with a post-Civil war gentleman returning home to the south . He finds utter contempt from the people living there as he fought on the side of the north . What else should he expect - a ticker-tape par... |
421,336 | 2,542,703 | 323,298 | 3 | The Mother-Mildred Pierce in the Reverse Just Doesn't Work | The Mother is basically Mildred Pierce in the reverse without the shooting . When mama and papa go to visit their children and grandchildren , grandfather drops dead and grandmother decides to stay with her daughter . To make a long story short , the old woman has an affair with a carpenter who is also sleeping with ... |
420,752 | 2,542,703 | 396,555 | 3 | Meet the Robinsons-Take A Rain Check on this One | Other than the special effects , there is really nothing to " Meet the Robinsons . " The film is so cliché ridden . It is better to forget the past and pursue the future . How about people who are trying to find their real parents ? They will not exactly like what this film is trying to convey . I felt that this film i... |
421,225 | 2,542,703 | 47,878 | 3 | Big Combo is Combustible 1 / | Despite a sterling cast , this 1955 film noir is absolutely dreadful . The film is done in by weak writing an extremely poor character development . As always , Richard Conte gave a gem of a performance . This time he is an evil man caught up in being a gangster for all seasons . Unfortunately , we don't know what kind... |
421,570 | 2,542,703 | 369,441 | 3 | Fun With Dick & Jane-See Reviewer Run ( Away ) | A serious topic regarding the corporate scandals is foolishly dealt with in this inane comedy . Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star in this nonsense where Carrey is promoted as a VP of a corporation and is promptly used for the demise of the business . Naturally , the CEO ( Alec Baldwin ) runs away with the money . Reduced t... |
420,986 | 2,542,703 | 185,014 | 3 | Wonder Boys is Wonderfully Awful | Disintegrating film and real fast despite an excellent fast . The story starts out well as Michael Douglas , a tenured English professor , is teaching his creative writing class . The film soon falls apart due to the miserable writing . Tobey McGuire portrays one of his students who is sullen , an excellent writer , wi... |
420,696 | 2,542,703 | 39,636 | 3 | Mourning Becomes Electra A Colossal Dud | Eugene O'Neil or not , this 1947 film is pure junk . Rosalind Russell was favored to win the Oscar for playing the horrid Lavinia . The picture was so lousy , that's what did her in . A story of love and continuous death , people literally die off like flies in this one , is depressing . The cinematography may also be ... |
420,896 | 2,542,703 | 98,678 | 3 | Not Worth Winning A Loser | Mark Harmon in a ridiculous comedy about a swinging TV weather guy who bets with 3 friends that he can get engaged to 3 girls within a 3 month period . The lucky people in this inane foolishness are 2 of the 3 friends . After the wager is made , they are rarely if ever seen for the rest of this dismal flick . You don't... |
421,426 | 2,542,703 | 39,661 | 3 | Nightmare Alley - Belongs With the Alley Garbage | After seeing Tyrone Power masterpieces of " The Long Gray Line , " and " Witness for the Prosecution , " this " Nightmare Alley " is just that-one big nightmare . Power was 33 years old when he made this misery of a film . Joan Blondell , his first love interest in the film , looked old enough to be his mother . In fac... |
420,664 | 2,542,703 | 47,184 | 3 | Living It Up But You Can Just Die from This One | Absolutely inane Martin and Lewis film where Dino is the doctor and Lewis , a railroad employee , supposedly comes into contact with a radioactive car . Dean , at first , feels that Lewis is terminal but soon reverses himself . That reversal doesn't come before N . Y . newspaper lady , Janet Leigh , arrives and gets th... |
420,799 | 2,542,703 | 327,919 | 3 | I Am David . . . So What ? | Thanks to the brief performance by Joan Plowright , her entering the film near the end brings some semblance of understanding . A boy in a Bulgarian labor camp , at age 13 , is helped to escaped by a guard who is about to be transferred . The boy is told how to try and reach Denmark . While I realize that the escape sc... |
421,342 | 2,542,703 | 249,892 | 3 | Bad Seed , Bad Movie | You need a score card to figure out what's going on with " Bad Seed . " A woman confesses to her husband that she has been having an affair . Just then the other guy calls . Her husband storms out of the house and returns to find her dead . After the funeral , he finds a letter with the guy's address . He goes there an... |
420,722 | 2,542,703 | 382,077 | 3 | Hide & Seek - Hide & Don't Seek This Out-Should Never Be Made | This is supposed to be a psychotic thriller . With all the problems we have with today's children , we didn't need such a stinker of a movie like this . Amy Irving was really fortunate that she dies quickly and didn't have to appear that much in this horror where a child psychologist takes his daughter to the country f... |
420,353 | 2,542,703 | 477,347 | 3 | Madness At this Museum | Ben Stiller plays a loser with a former wife who is engaged to a bond-holder . Stiller has drifted from job to job but still manages to have the love and respect for this son . All this could possibly change when he takes a job as a night watchman at a local Museum of Natural History . There he meets veteran watchmen M... |
421,508 | 2,542,703 | 373,445 | 3 | Wendell Baker Story - A Nothing Biography | The Wilson Brothers - Owen and Luke star in this film which is basically nothing with nothing . Luke , as the corrupt individual bilking Medicare patients , is totally unconvincing here as well as out-of-character . He still appears that he can be taken to the cleaners at any time . Who cares if Eva Mendes wants Owen o... |
420,972 | 2,542,703 | 37,610 | 3 | Confidential Agent-Let's Keep it that Way | Lauren Bacall and Charles Boyer do not provide the right chemistry here in this 1945 film . There is a good story here about the Axis trying to obtain coal to use for the upcoming war . Unfortunately , this part of the story is not emphasized . Instead , we deal with a supposedly bungling Boyer . By the way , Bacall is... |
421,646 | 2,542,703 | 479,537 | 3 | Seraphim Falls - A Major Flop | You go over an hour and a half before you know why Pierce Brosnan is being pursued by Liam Neeson . The latter comes off as a vicious killer , killing his own people along the way . This is a post-civil war western . Believe me , the westerns they made in the 1950s were far superior to this long and often boring cat an... |
421,432 | 2,542,703 | 367,089 | 3 | How Deep is the Ocean ? Not far Enough for Squid And Whale ? | for " The Squid and the Whale . " This picture has been filmed in Brooklyn , N . Y . and that's how exciting it gets ! Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney , two excellent thespians , are liberal Ph . D husband and wife . Their doctorates are in literature . They were apparent failures in their marriage and as the film begins... |
420,384 | 2,542,703 | 195,022 | 3 | Liberace : Behind the Music-Casts A Sour Note | Too much is attempted to be told in 1 hour and 36 minutes . Victor Garber does turn in a convincing performance as the flamboyant Lee . Maureen Stapleton is his doting mother who appeared on the way to another wonderful performance when the writing for her part did her in . As is the case with all those who orbited aro... |
420,515 | 2,542,703 | 58,329 | 3 | Miserable Maladjusted Marnie | What a miserable 1964 Hitchcock film this was . It starts off well with Marnie absconding with a lot of money from the firm she worked for . Instead of continuing with this story , the film begins to relate why Marnie is so maladjusted . In fact , they should have named this mess " Maladjusted Marnie . " Sean Connery i... |
420,910 | 2,542,703 | 430,304 | 3 | Littleman - Is Worth Very Little | Inane farce about a young black couple . He wants to have a child and she is so happy to get a promotion at work . In the meantime , a dwarf leaves prison and plots with another dimwit to steal a large diamond . They're both working for Chazz Palminteri who comes off as a real stiff here . When the diamond gets into th... |
420,318 | 2,542,703 | 379,865 | 3 | Leatherheads is For Knuckleheads | Poor material makes even the decent chemistry between George Clooney and Renee Zellwegger really nothing . The story is about 1925 college football , or is it beyond college ? That point is really not established and at times becomes confusing . While you do get a feel for the roaring twenties period , the writing is r... |
420,486 | 2,542,703 | 48,728 | 3 | To Catch A Thief - Don't Bother | This is probably one of Alfred Hitchcock's worst films . He would certainly redeem himself the following year with the classic " North by Northwest . " Other than breathtaking cinematography of the French Riviera , this film really has little to offer . It is said that Cary Grant came out of retirement to make this . T... |
420,976 | 2,542,703 | 373,926 | 3 | The Interpreter Gets Lost in Translation | Muddled , often confusing account of an assassination attempt on an African leader . Nicole Kidman translates an African dialect at the U . N . but how increasingly involved does she become in the assassination plot ? In a post - world , we don't need seeing a Nostrand Ave . bus being blown up . The corrupt African lea... |
421,325 | 2,542,703 | 373,908 | 3 | The Honeymooners - Skip It And Come Home | Chauncey Street , where the Kramdens and Nortons lived , never looked so good as depicted by the famous series with Jackie Gleason . Even though the movie is in color , Ralph and Alice don't exactly look like their apartment is lacking . The original apartment told the story in a nutshell . Alice , in this movie , is f... |
421,530 | 2,542,703 | 1,045,670 | 3 | Happy-Go-Lucky is Anything But | Disappointing Mike Leigh venture with Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins as a British schoolteacher full of life . The problem with this film is that Hawkins comes off as a silly goose in many scenes with the most obnoxious laugh imaginable . This inane quality affects what could have been a reasonably good performance ... |
421,453 | 2,542,703 | 39,092 | 4 | Wake Up and Dream is A Real Sleeper | Rather routine fanfare of a young girl in pursuit of her missing navy brother during World War 11 . John Payne and June Haver top the cast of this rather benign film . Where exactly is this young girl and group pursuing Payne ? This is never fully explained and is ridiculous at best . Charlotte Greenwood , a wonderful ... |
420,939 | 2,542,703 | 120,533 | 4 | This Celebrity is Just Not that Famous to Me | Kenneth Branagh assumed the part that a younger Woody Allen would have had in " Celebrity . " As always , this Woody Allen creation deals with relationships . Judy Davis steals this film in the role of a plain-Jane looking woman who is divorced by Branagh , as he is looking for more fulfillment in his life . While in a... |
420,446 | 2,542,703 | 39,110 | 4 | Keep Your Reservations With this One - Without Reservations | John Wayne once said that Mervyn LeRoy was not adept at directing comedy . What made the Duke feel that he was adept at comedy ? In fact , what made Wayne think he was adequate as an actor . To me , John Wayne seemed to be annoyed with the whole film . While I disagreed with him politically , he appeared justified in h... |
421,083 | 2,542,703 | 35,320 | 4 | Ship Ahoy-Don't Go Overboard on this One | The film was made in 1942 and with World War 11 around , the movie industry decided to capitalize on the fact that spies were around . The film is fun to watch due to the fabulous dancing of Eleanor Powell . The late Miss Powell was certainly a great hoofer in every sense of the word . She is again paired with a very y... |
420,828 | 2,542,703 | 50,500 | 4 | Just Say No to Not Exactly Hail to the Chief | Routine submarine warfare film engaged in the old story of how one reacts when one is in command . Obviously , when the shoe is on the other foot , we act accordingly . Nancy Davis did a poor job here . She was certainly no Jane Wyman . Thank the lord that she just said no to a further movie career and went on her way ... |
420,364 | 2,542,703 | 50,549 | 4 | Island in the Sun is Far From Paradise | Disappointing film dealing with life in the Caribbean . The film might have fared better if it had been a musical . The movie marked the re-teaming of Harry Belafonte and the late Dorothy Dandridge from " Carmen Jones " fame 3 years before . Belafonte sings well at the beginning before this film evolves into too many p... |
421,451 | 2,542,703 | 414,055 | 4 | Elizabeth : What's So Golden About this Royal Clinker ? | Thoroughly boring , tedious and choppy film dealing with Queen Elizabeth . While Cate Blanchett is suited for the part , see the television version with Helen Mirren . The latter displays outstanding acting . The writing here is the major problem . History is really chopped up as Mary Queen of Scots is implicated in an... |
420,561 | 2,542,703 | 47,647 | 4 | Vera Cruz - Don't Drink the Water ( or see this picture ) | Not even the star power of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster can save this not very good movie . The plot sounds great . A Mexican senorita is used to move money to Europe so that guns and men can be used by Emperor Maximilian to fight off Benito Juarez and his supporters . The trouble is that the senorita and practically... |
421,014 | 2,542,703 | 50,438 | 4 | Not Likely to Like " The Girl Most Likely " | Disappointing 1957 musical where within an 1 hour and 40 minutes , Jane Powell gets engaged to 3 guys at the same time . The Gauer Champion choreography is its usual greatness . Dancing sequence of " Keeping up with the Joneses " is memorable as well as the scene with all the dancing in Mexico . Powell does nicely in t... |
421,321 | 2,542,703 | 837,119 | 4 | Jane Doe-Keep Her Anonymous | Muddled story with stolen art , American Nazis , and an entire host of things included . Despite a stellar cast , the film suffers from constant confusion . Why was that art dealer killed ? Would we actually think that an elderly Holocaust survivor was trying to fool people with the Veneer portrait ? Do we have to be t... |
420,471 | 2,542,703 | 63,094 | 4 | Hot Millions-Give Me Cold Cash Anytime | Maggie Smith and Peter Ustinov as a very unlikely couple in a very not likable film at all . The film shows promise for Ustinov is released from prison for embezzling . He convinces Robert Morley to go away so that he can assume his identity and begin hacking away at computers at a very fancy firm run by Karl Malden an... |
420,368 | 2,542,703 | 41,859 | 4 | The Set-Up : A Routine Boxing Film | What's all the fuss regarding this 1949 routine film noir dealing with the corruption of the boxing industry . Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter do deliver knock-out performances in this film , but the story is so played out . He is the washed up boxer attempting a comeback . She is his girl who is against his latest fight... |
420,796 | 2,542,703 | 427,470 | 4 | Look out for The Lookout | Our protagonist Chris has a big problem . Since he drove without headlights one evening , he was involved in a major accident that crippled a beautiful girl in the passenger's seat and killed two innocent victims sitting in the rear . That was 4 years ago . Amazingly , Christopher was not imprisoned for this one . Ther... |
420,831 | 2,542,703 | 61,398 | 4 | You Could Go Nuts Over Berserk | The circus . Bodies are beginning to pile up and Joan Crawford owns the joint ! Crawford must have thought that it's about 20 years earlier and she is back on " Flamingo Road . " Unfortunately , for her she wasn't . Crawford leads a very much unknown cast with the exception of Judy Geeson , who became popular thanks to... |
421,271 | 2,542,703 | 54,750 | 4 | Don't Be Deceived by this Deception | Bradford Dillman in a dilly of a movie with the late Suzy Parker . The story concerns itself with British intelligence choosing someone they know will crack under Nazi torture and divulge secrets that will be false in nature pertaining to the D-Day invasion . Naturally , the female ( Parker ) falls for our hero . ( Dil... |
421,533 | 2,542,703 | 120,831 | 4 | Slums of Beverly Hills-People Make Neighborhoods & Films | This is a story of a Jewish dysfunctional family . The parents have divorced and mom remains back east in the house . The father , Murray Abromowitz , moves with his children to California , and moves around Beverly Hills so that his children can get the best education possible . Things really become funny when Marisa ... |
420,715 | 2,542,703 | 32,829 | 4 | My Love Came Back - Maybe It shouldn't have ! | The best part of this film was the musical interlude where a serious band plays swing . Other than that sequence , you can forget this film . It's 1940 and everyone is so young here . Fresh from her Oscar nomination as Melanie Hamilton in " Gone With the Wind , " Olivia de Havilland plays a promising violin student who... |
421,458 | 2,542,703 | 30,396 | 4 | What's So Mad About Miss Manton ? | Some people say that this Stanwyck-Fonda vehicle was a perfect warm up for their " The Lady Eve " film in 1941 . To me , both were equally bad to the core . This film is so uninteresting that you couldn't care less who committed the murder . Miss Manton finds a dead body in a deserted house and the police department do... |
420,509 | 2,542,703 | 41,513 | 4 | Intruder in the Dust Doesn't Hit Pay Dirt | Miserable film . Not even to be compared in one breath with " To Kill a Mockingbird , " or " In the Heat of the Night . " Yes , there is racial prejudice but the film is at most ridiculous . Come now . Would you really have Elizabeth Patterson , of all people , guarding a jail so as to avoid a lynching ? Patterson , in... |
420,445 | 2,542,703 | 45,866 | 4 | Here Come the Girls - Thank Heaven for Them | Inane Bob Hope farce where the Great Bob portrays Snodgrass , a jerk who has only succeeded at failure in his life . He gets the show business bug and of course he is completely inept . He is about to get the heave ho in 1900 New York , until a serial N . Y . killer is bitterly jealous of co-star Arlene Dahl and her lo... |
420,385 | 2,542,703 | 65,400 | 4 | The Angel Levine Unsettling and Morally Tragic | I was very disappointed in this 1970 film based on a Bernard Malamud story . This is basically a story of possible redemption , racial bias and the unfulfillment of life based on mistrust . A black Jewish angel is sent to help a struggling tailor and his critically ill wife . If Morris Mishkin ( Zero Mostel ) will only... |
421,047 | 2,542,703 | 70,290 | 4 | The Last Detail Needs More Specifics | While viewing this inane film , did anyone else besides myself think that how could two guys like Nicholson and his partner be assigned to bring a naval prisoner to jail ? If anything , these 2 guys were the embodiment of no good . You just know that they are going to go on some adventure with this jerk , played admira... |
421,191 | 2,542,703 | 78,056 | 4 | Paradise Alley is Really from ? ? ? ? ? | An after World War 11 film set in Manhattan where Sylvester Stallone further hurts the image of Italian-Americans with his Rocky like talk . This is most disparaging . At least , the award winning " Rocky " had a good story . In " Paradise Alley " Stallone plays a low-life hustler named Cosmo Carboni . He looks to take... |
421,543 | 2,542,703 | 26,388 | 4 | Front Page Woman-Don't Run to Read or See All About It | Routine Bette Davis and George Brent film devoted to two reporters , who love each other but work for rival papers , trying to scoop each other on a murder story . Davis becomes very good at searching for clues but Brent is in it to bag the story while getting the news before Garfield . ( Davis ) As the film goes on , ... |
420,918 | 2,542,703 | 37,365 | 4 | The Thin Man Goes Home - Should Have Stayed Away | Nick and Nora Charles go home to see his parents . Myrna Loy and William Powell were usually wonderful as the detective and his lovable wife . The script does them in in this film . Supported by the usually elderly looking Harry Davenport and his wife , veteran actress Lucile Watson add really nothing to the plot . Nat... |
420,932 | 2,542,703 | 361,127 | 4 | The Woodsman : Lead Us Away from Temptation | Memo to Kevin Bacon : Making the film " The Mark , " in 1960 , also about a child molester , brought Stewart Whitman an Oscar nomination but may have very well ruined his career . Pay attention Mr . Bacon . Out on parole as a molester , Bacon encounters a condescending cop ( nicely played by up and coming actor Mos Def... |
420,936 | 2,542,703 | 39,286 | 4 | Crossfire-Cross Over to Gentleman's Agreement | Crossfire will always be remembered by movie trivia experts as the 1947 film that was also nominated for best picture and like " Gentleman's Agreement , " the winner , dealt with anti-semitism . Robert Ryan won a supporting nomination as an ex-soldier filled with hate . He represents the epitome of bigotry when he ki... |
421,291 | 2,542,703 | 876,137 | 4 | A Girl's Conviction-Sentence This One Out | Routine who did it film where a young lady comes home just in time to have her mother arrested for shooting her 4th husband . Naturally , the daughter feels that everyone else is a suspect . Each time she meets someone , she envisions that person pressing the trigger . The film becomes obvious because the one person sh... |
421,632 | 2,542,703 | 385,013 | 4 | I Want to Marry Ryan You Can Have Him and the Film Too | Ridiculous film where two swinging college graduates move out to California and one becomes a movie star and the other his manager . As 10 years pass , the star's popularity is decreasing so it is determined that there will be a television show where women will compete for his affection . The film is obnoxious and ridi... |
421,544 | 2,542,703 | 39,556 | 4 | The Late George Apley - Film Should Have Departed As Well | In the same year that he won the Academy Award for the great " A Double Life , " Ronald Colman starred in this colossal stuffy bomb about an idealistic Boston family of 1912 . They're a wealthy bunch although the film never tells us where they got their money from . Colman was an outstanding actor and he is able to ris... |
420,482 | 2,542,703 | 387,059 | 4 | Bee Season-Bewitched , Bothered and Bewildered Am I | Madonna and mysticism . Madonna and the Kabbalah . . . . And now Richard Gere . What's next ? Believe it or not , Gere is Jewish in this film and he marries Juliette Binoche , a Catholic turned Jewess . They have two bright children . Gere teaches about kabbalah with Jewish mysticism at a college . He is immersed in re... |
420,735 | 2,542,703 | 39,589 | 4 | Lured - Don't Be Enticed | Pretty bad film with George Sanders and Lucille Ball starring . Their chemistry is about non-existent . This is supposed to be a murder thriller and for a change there is absolutely no violence shown as 7 women fall victim to a mysterious killer . Charles Coburn is the inspector of Scotland Yard yet he has no British a... |
421,331 | 2,542,703 | 67,805 | 4 | Sunday's Mess | To me , a very disappointing and complex film . Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch share the same lover , for Jackson he is a much younger man and for Finch , he is a British Jewish doctor carrying on with this guy , nicely played by Murray Head . We have no idea why Jackson and Head are in the countryside caring for sever... |
421,051 | 2,542,703 | 47,264 | 4 | Naked Jungle-Strangers in the Day and Night | Routine film of the jungle with Eleanor Parker , for a change was not over-acting and a dashing Charlton Heston who seems to have lost his mind in this 1954 film . Marrying Heston by Proxy in Louisiana , Parker seems to get much more than what she bargained for when she meets her new husband - Christopher Leiningen . H... |
421,137 | 2,542,703 | 449,059 | 4 | Little Miss Sunshine Is A Little Hit-Miss Stupidity | The tale of a dysfunctional family who leave New Mexico in order to enter their homely teenage daughter into a California beauty contest . The family to put it mildly is absolutely ridiculous . The girl has no chance whatsoever of succeeding in such a contest . Her older brother has taken a vow of silence . While on th... |
420,589 | 2,542,703 | 33,628 | 4 | Four Mothers Need More Maturity | Very disappointing film after the wonderful " Four Daughters " made in 1938 . Claude Rains and May Robson do well in their parts as brother and sister . They are given little help but some weak written material . Everyone seems to be investing in Florida land and when a hurricane ravages the land , everyone is wiped ou... |
421,343 | 2,542,703 | 119,874 | 4 | Peacemaker a Colossal Bomb | After seeing this film , we will all agree that war and the movie industry can be hell . Nicole Kidman plays a Ph . D scientist who meets up with a Casanova army like guy , George Clooney , who is on the hot-seat being interrogated by a Madeline Albright-look alike condemning his behavior . A Yugoslavian is assassinate... |
421,109 | 2,542,703 | 39,456 | 4 | Don't Bother With Her Husband's Affairs | Lucille Ball tries to be funny but she really can't be given the written material that she is given to work with . In fact , it's really pathetic . Franchot Tone co-stars and proves that he certainly was not adept at comedy . As a husband and wife advertising team , they are always bound for Bermuda until something com... |
420,464 | 2,542,703 | 98,258 | 4 | Say Anything Says Basically Nothing | A very beautiful Ione Skye and a teenage-like John Cusack try to bring life to this rather lackluster 1989 film . Cusack is really a step above the rebel without a cause here . He falls hook , line and sinker for the outstanding graduate Ione Skye . Love does happen between these 2 unlikely candidates . Jack Mahoney is... |
421,390 | 2,542,703 | 408,839 | 4 | This is a Heartbreak When Compared to 1972 Gem | Very disappointing remake of the 1972 hit film . To say , give me that old time religion is to put it mildly . Remember in the 1972 film when the distinct differences are shown between the Jewish and Christian girl ? That important element is totally missing here and the film suffers for that and other problems as well... |
421,157 | 2,542,703 | 115,988 | 4 | The Crucible is Much Ado About Nothing | Miserable , off-the-wall film dealing with Arthur Miller's supposed masterpiece . Let's get something straight . This idea that the idea of the film is to emulate the witch hunt of the 1950s is absolutely ridiculous . It's a totally different genre , people , places and misery . Are we to believe that Daniel Day-Lewis ... |
420,946 | 2,542,703 | 958,145 | 4 | Murder 101 : College Can Be Murder-Drop this Course | Disappointing film with Dick Van Dyke as a criminology professor caught up in a murder at his college . We have the usual list of suspects with some excellent motivation for wanting to kill the chairman of the English Department . Who is accused ? A professor who was on the verge of being denied tenure by the vote of t... |
421,534 | 2,542,703 | 67,975 | 4 | What's the Matter With this Film ? | The film is almost laughable with Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters teaming up as the mothers of convicted murderers . With the horrible notoriety after the trial , the two women team up and leave N . Y . for California in order to open and song and dance studio for Shirley Temple-like girls . From the beginning , it... |
421,524 | 2,542,703 | 37,691 | 4 | Fallen Angel - Not Exactly a Devilish Plot | Disappointing film noir despite the stellar cast . Anne Revere and Charles Bickford must have been thinking back to two years before when both received supporting nominations for " The Song of Bernadette . " While an example of film noir , a student of Jessica Fletcher ( Murder , She Wrote ) could unravel the mystery v... |
420,668 | 2,542,703 | 31,762 | 4 | Only Angels Have Wings - A Devil of A Film | Cary Grant is terribly miscast as Jeff Carter , who heads a mail flying outfit out in an area filled with bad weather . Jean Arthur comes off the boat and falls for Grant . What else is new ? Grant looks ridiculous in a sombrero like hat and is always asking for a light . Even a bigger joke is his sidekick Thomas Mitch... |
420,747 | 2,542,703 | 26,029 | 4 | 39 Steps-Not Good for Your Heart | Surprisingly , an absolute stinker by Alfred Hitchcock . Debonair Robert Donat is so thoroughly stiff here as a man encountering a foreign woman who knows about espionage and suddenly has a knife put in her back in his apartment . This leads to a very wily chase with the supplies in hot pursuit of the Donat character a... |
420,292 | 2,542,703 | 452,702 | 4 | Vacancy-Just Don't Move In | This well-paced thriller fails since we may certainly ask : What's going on here ? A young couple , about to divorce , lose their way and wind up at a place on par with the Bates Motel of " Psycho " fame . Imagine , they are able to view what has happened to previous people who stayed at this chamber of horrors previou... |
421,578 | 2,542,703 | 39,926 | 4 | Two Mrs . Carrolls - And Alexis Smith Nearly Makes 3 | You've got Humphrey Bogart , Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith in a film and yet it stinks . Where did this film go wrong ? Bogart stars as a crazed killer who has already murdered his first unseen wife and is well on his way to do in wife # 2 played by Barbara Stanwyck . In a way , I thought Miss Stanwyck was using th... |
420,741 | 2,542,703 | 416,508 | 4 | This Film Does Not Become Jane | Stop with tales of Jane Austen already . They are constantly boring with everyone spewing forth his own philosophy . Obviously , this definite period piece tries to overdo the mannerisms and tenets of a long bygone era . As the players say , they live in a period where it is believed that a wife who has a brain is dang... |
420,506 | 2,542,703 | 41,198 | 4 | Border Incident Borders on Disaster | How could a film dealing with illegal Mexican immigrants being robbed and beaten over the border be dull ? Well , " Border Incident " is . No wonder that song and dance man George Murphy's career ended not long after this terrible film came out . Politics was certainly a way out for this future senator who dies a horri... |
421,104 | 2,542,703 | 1,034,331 | 4 | Righteous Kill-Nothing Sacred About this One | Al Pacino and Robert De Niro star as two overworked police officers who begin to investigate a serial murder who seems to be doing society a favor by bumping off undesirables . Of course , this last statement might become tacky when a priest takes 2 bullets in the confession booth . What was that priest up to ? Both me... |
420,428 | 2,542,703 | 33,477 | 4 | Come Live With Me-Move Away from this One | To paraphrase : " When you wed , you don't have to know that much about your partner , but when you're getting a divorce , you should learn about them . " This is basically what this film is about and it is as foolish as my first sentence . The plot sounds good . A woman who escapes Nazi controlled Austria must marry a... |
420,937 | 2,542,703 | 73,692 | 4 | Shampoo-Wash That Man Right Out of Your Hair | Disappointing film as Warren Beatty plays a non-homosexual hairdresser who rides around in a motorcycle as if he is part of " Easy Rider . " Obviously , George does more than hair with his clients . The film is Robert Altman-like with its jumping around as it follows Beatty's sex escapades . Julie Christie and Goldie H... |
421,007 | 2,542,703 | 29,675 | 4 | This ' Toast ' Burns On All Corners | Dreadful 1937 film where three con men played by Cary Grant , Jack Oakie and Edward Arnold con their way to success . For them , the worst thing could have been was that the civil war ended . They wind up with a fortune ; that is , a fortune in confederate bonds . While they are worth nothing , the trio manages to parl... |
421,317 | 2,542,703 | 27,189 | 4 | Wedding Night is Dated and Pathetic | When people talk of a film being dated , " The Wedding Night " is a perfect example of this . Anna Sten looks at you from the screen with those sad eyes . You know you're in for a tear-jerker . By the title , I thought I was in for a comedy . Comedy ? That's a laugh in itself . Instead , the viewer is subjected to a tr... |
420,530 | 2,542,703 | 115,710 | 4 | Blood and Wine Uneven Drama | Again , a stellar cast cannot help this miserable film . Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine are on a caper to steal a necklace . Nicholson seems to be in a very bad marriage with Judy Davis . Davis is the bright moment in this otherwise uneven drama . She is explosive and pulls out all the stops in her violent scenes wit... |
421,123 | 2,542,703 | 58,265 | 4 | Kiss Me Stupid is Just That | Imagine a Billy Wilder flop and you have 1964's " Kiss Me Stupid . " Why this picture wasn't in color was beyond me . I see where Wilder was trying to somewhat imitate his 1960 Oscar winner " The Apartment , " but that attempt falls flat . Dean Martin , as Dino , plays himself . While driving to California , he has to ... |
420,800 | 2,542,703 | 45,009 | 4 | Park Row Takes A Skid Row Course | What could have potentially been a wonderful movie , instead turns into an amateurish like production . I heard that this film could have been made with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in Technicolor . It would have been a musical with Peck singing . How delightful that would have been . Instead , we are subjected to an o... |
420,281 | 2,542,703 | 383,694 | 4 | Vera , Not Nice Dearie , | Just caught Vera Drake on television as it was shown at 4 o'clock in the morning on Starz . To me , the standout performance is that of Vera's daughter , Ethel , who is either severely retarded or dumbfounded by what is going on in this film . Vera is made to come off as a victim . Her stupidity is unmatched . She knew... |
420,681 | 2,542,703 | 53,308 | 4 | Put this Story on Back Page | The acting is great here except for Mildred Dunnock who is cast with that sympathetic voice as a vicious mother trying to be in full control of her grown son-Gig Young . Dunnock's voice is similar to that character of Elsie Thornton , the beloved teacher in 1957's " Peyton Place . " The story is too unbelievable here .... |
420,901 | 2,542,703 | 385,307 | 4 | Nothing Congenial Here | Stop with the sequel to this nonsense . This beauty pageant queen is kidnapped along with William Shatner . It might just be the time for Shatner to consider retirement after this film . This is not Star Trek . True , it can't be an award winning role as in TV's Boston Public , but this is real bad . As for the queen ,... |
420,991 | 2,542,703 | 79,336 | 4 | These Inlaws Need Total Separation and Divorce | Inane farce with Peter Falk involving future in-law Alan Arkin is a CIA romp . The chase scenes and shootings become actually annoying in this film which lacks real humor . When our two heroes meet a dictator of Honduras , he tells them that his army people once worked as security guards for J . C . Penney ? This is su... |
421,643 | 2,542,703 | 29,442 | 4 | Prisoner of Zenda Sure Takes No Hostages | Major disappointing swashbuckling romantic film with the great Ronald Colman playing 2 parts - a cousin who goes to Zenda to attend his cousin's coronation only to be involved when the monarch is kidnapped . Douglas Fairbanks plays the villain here who hatches the kidnap plot to help the evil half-brother , a sinister ... |
421,165 | 2,542,703 | 67,451 | 4 | Mrs . Pollifax-Spy A Yenta in Espionage | Nosy body Emily Pollifax wants to work for the CIA after she is widowed . A typical New Jersey widow , she is given some case . She is supposed to get a book in Mexico that has important microfilm but the plan naturally goes awry and she is held in Albania with Darren McGavin as a fellow spy . The film goes downhill ra... |
421,006 | 2,542,703 | 421,729 | 4 | Big Momma's House - Same Old Laughs | The person who does the make-up for Martin Lawrence deserves the Oscar-hands down . In this sequel , Big Momma again goes undercover , this time as a maid to a family that has little time for its 3 children . Seems that daddy , the typical nice guy , has gotten mixed up with enemy agents . The latter want to steal a di... |
421,175 | 2,542,703 | 31,334 | 4 | Four Feathers-Pluck the Plumes from this One | This 1939 piece has 3 good things going for it . What does it in is a relatively flat story . We have a fine musical score from Miklos Rosza . He would top anything else he had ever done , 20 years later , when he scored " Ben-Hur . " We have beautiful technicolor done by Natalie Kalmus , who certain was queen of color... |
421,017 | 2,542,703 | 40,366 | 4 | See No Force of Evil | John Garfield in another film noir . Problem with this film is in terms of explanation . Why after so many years of estrangement does Garfield want to bring his older brother , Thomas Gomez , a small time gambler into the big time ? Beatrice Pearson makes her first appearance in a brief career . She sounds like and tri... |
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