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384,795 | 391,152 | 97,937 | 6 | Nothing special | This film strikes me as little more than typical Oscar bait . A man disabled with cerebral palsy grows up in a poor Irish family . His father is hard and critical and his mother is loving and shoots words of inspiration at him at measured intervals . The film shows us that the disabled can do everything a normal person... |
385,065 | 391,152 | 55,152 | 6 | Eh | This film has a pretty promising beginning ( although that promise is camp ) , it's slack pace makes for a very dull experience in the long run . The only good part ( although it is also lame ) is when Charles Bronson ( who seems miscast ) and David Frankham are left to hang below the airship tied to ropes . It is a bi... |
385,320 | 391,152 | 76,637 | 6 | SPOILERS | I can't believe Paul Schraeder had anything to do with this . I'm kind of wishing they just credited him because the film shares many similarities with Taxi Driver , but it's too different to be considered plagarism . The film starts off very well . William Devane plays a POW just returning home from Vietnam . The perf... |
384,813 | 391,152 | 43,118 | 6 | Joseph Cotten & Alida Valli reunited | Ever wonder what happened after Anna walked past Holly Martins in the final shot of the 1949 masterpiece The Third Man ? Well , apparently , Holly followed her and broke her legs . . . In Walk Softly , Stranger , Joseph Cotten plays a crook who assumes a new identity in a small town in order to start a new life . Gangs... |
385,567 | 391,152 | 20,442 | 6 | Weak Keaton flick | Easily the least good Buster Keaton film I've ever seen , made after he gave up his status as an independent . It is his last sound film and he is working with director Edward Sedgwick , who directed several of his sound films . I've seen three of those , Sidewalks of New York ( 1931 ) , The Passionate Plumber ( 1932 )... |
384,619 | 391,152 | 74,710 | 6 | A fairly disappointing picture from Ray | It starts out well enough , with a recent college graduate ( Pradip Mukherjee ) desperate for work . The montage of his looking for work is great , especially a scene where he is interviewed for a job and asked the most irrelevant questions imaginable , including " How much does the moon weigh ? " He looks at the inter... |
384,853 | 391,152 | 52,918 | 6 | Sloppy . | This film flies all over the map , and equals little by its conclusion . The film's main foci are two sets of a mother and daughter . One is made up of Lora and Susie . The father has just died , and Lora is trying to make it as an actress . This is one of the oldest plots in the book , and it gives us little or nothin... |
385,101 | 391,152 | 990,404 | 6 | Bahrani doesn't impress me much | I remember finding Ramin Bahrani's first film , Man Push Cart , a fairly good debut , but one that lacked any real depth . He hasn't grown much in his sophomore feature , Chop Shop . It also focuses on the urban immigrant poor . The main characters of this film are homeless Hispanic orphans , Ale and his teen sister Iz... |
385,429 | 391,152 | 58,461 | 6 | Decent , but doesn't hold a candle to Yojimbo | A Fistfull of Dollars has its moments , but the original film , Kurosawa's Yojimbo , was much better . Clint Eastwood , though very good , is no Toshiro Mifune . Mifune's nameless man had much more of a character and a personality than his ever-scowling counterpart , Eastwood . The supporting characters were much more ... |
385,331 | 391,152 | 67,958 | 6 | Too loose and random for my taste | The film for which director Dusan Makavejev is best known . It's similar to his later Sweet Movie , which I watched last week , in that it's made up of a bunch of disparate parts edited together . The most prominent thread is a documentary about sexual psychiatrist and ( pseudo - ) scientist Wilhelm Reich , a refugee f... |
385,758 | 391,152 | 126,662 | 6 | A goofy piece of WWII propaganda | A black boy , obsessed with buying a horn at a local pawn shop , tries to earn the final $2 he needs by shining the shoes of rich white men . They are musical scouts , and when they find out that he wants the $2 to buy a horn , they ask him to demonstrate his abilities . He does so in a wonderful musical number . When ... |
385,680 | 391,152 | 28,141 | 6 | Warner Baxter is great , but the film is only so-so | Not among Ford's best films , unfortunately . Warner Baxter is excellent as Dr . Samuel Mudd , the doctor who set John Wilkes Booth's leg after he broke it jumping from the balcony in which he shot Abraham Lincoln . Like most Hollywood films , it completely ignores history . It's not generally believed that Mudd was a ... |
385,135 | 391,152 | 412,596 | 6 | I'm that guy who doesn't like Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Eh , I thought this was slightly above average for Hou . Which means I still didn't care for it much , but I didn't exactly dislike it , either . As far as the ( non - or possibly anti - ) story goes , it's probably his slightest yet . A young woman is newly pregnant . She wanders around , rides the trains , hangs out ... |
384,863 | 391,152 | 370,032 | 6 | Hardly terrible . It might qualify as stupid fun if it were just a tad more fun . | I should begin by saying that I am overly forgiving toward films of the sci-fi genre . I generally enjoy even the worst sci-fi flicks . According to most , Ultraviolet is one of the worst ( current IMDb rating : 3 . 7 ) , but I didn't think it was that bad at all . Not good , either . Just rather mediocre . If you're l... |
384,554 | 391,152 | 94,606 | 6 | Unsatisfied with this acclaimed drama | Strange , unsatisfying drama with a tinge of quirky comedy . I don't know , it didn't do too much for me . At first , I was infuriated . It felt forced and the dialogue felt so utterly written . It almost felt like the actors were reading the book out loud . I half expected Kathleen Turner to end some of her sentences ... |
384,893 | 391,152 | 71,458 | 6 | I feel exactly the opposite way of this film's first commentator below | I did not find Fassbinder's filmmaking static and boring . I found it brash and exciting . His style is superb . HOWEVER , I have to say that I found the story , with which I am unfamiliar , incredibly bland . How many 19th and early 20th Century novels have this exact same plot ? It's the simplistic " fallen wife " sc... |
385,195 | 391,152 | 81,353 | 6 | Below average Altman , but still interesting | This film , generally considered one of Altman's greatest follies , is not all that bad . Unfortunately , it's not all that good , either . The director , along with his production team have created a unique and amazing world in Sweethaven , populated by bizarre and amusing live-action cartoon characters . It's an awes... |
385,090 | 391,152 | 60,304 | 6 | The least successful Godard film I've seen , and I've seen more than a dozen others | Although it was a critical success when it was released , and it still has strong supporters today , I personally found Two or Three Things I Know About Her a very weak film . It represents a day in the life of a prostitute / housewife , though that itself is difficult to tell . The film is rather amorphous . Maybe tha... |
385,093 | 391,152 | 89,066 | 6 | Not entirely successful late Godard film | The films in Godard's late ( and not yet over ) period present some of the greatest challenges to cineasts . Detective is no exception . It is extraordinarily complex in narrative ( or , more precisely , anti-narrative ) , visual composition , and editing structure . Unfortunately , I don't think it's worth it . It's k... |
384,858 | 391,152 | 425,598 | 6 | Watch if you like the music . . . | but skip it if the main reason you wanted to see it was for Chappelle . I quite like Dave Chappelle . I have since long before he got really famous with his Comedy Central sketch show . That is perhaps why I wasn't especially impressed with his film . He's not the focus . He's engaging when he is on screen , but most o... |
384,682 | 391,152 | 114,086 | 6 | A moderate failure ; still worth seeing | Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the major figures of cinema history , even if most people haven't heard of him . He was nowhere near as prolific as filmmakers such as Fellini , Godard , Bergman , Kurosawa , or Truffaut . And his films now are difficult to procure . There are only a few readily available , and I have s... |
385,086 | 391,152 | 51,201 | 6 | Ridiculously overrated , but Laughton and Lanchester are excellent | Typical of Billy Wilder films , Witness for the Prosecution is mediocre and overrated . I don't know how his fans defend him so passionately . Sure , he made a few great films , but looking at this courtroom drama , one of his more popular films , how can anyone deny how hackneyed , predictable , and often just how pla... |
385,892 | 391,152 | 44,706 | 6 | Predictable , with the depth of a mediocre TV Western teleplay | Three criminals wander into a Western town to wait for the 12 : 00 noon train to arrive . Their leader , Frank Miller , will arrive on it and together they will get revenge for Miller's jail time ( he was supposed to be hanged ) . The man who put him in jail is Will Kane ( Gary Cooper ) . He has just been married ( to ... |
384,731 | 391,152 | 20,620 | 6 | Yes , it is bad , but . . . | I think it qualifies as a must-see film for all true scholars of the cinema . That is not to say that it is a good film . It is most certainly not . But this is really a perfect film in which to study the biggest change that this artistic medium ever experienced , the change from silence to sound . The whole film comes... |
385,727 | 391,152 | 465,602 | 6 | It aims to be ridiculous , but , even knowing that , I couldn't quite bring myself to like it | Hmm . What to say about this one ? Well , if you're the type that thinks action movies like Die Hard 4 are way too realistic , then Shoot ' Em Up might be for you . I mean , it is an action comedy , so you're definitely not supposed to take it seriously . When all kinds of crazy , physically impossible things happen , ... |
385,694 | 391,152 | 387,131 | 6 | Weak mystery / thriller with mediocre direction by the man who made City of God | Disappointing followup to the exhilarating City of God . I can appreciate some of what The Constant Gardener tries to do . It wants to put a spotlight on the way the West exploits Africa . But it gets too bogged down in an overcomplicated and only moderately interesting mystery-thriller . I'm not too big on mysteries o... |
384,802 | 391,152 | 430,357 | 6 | Mediocre | Opinions have been all over the map on this film , some calling it a masterpiece , others one of the worst of 2006 . I'm pretty much exactly in the middle : I just think it's distinctly mediocre . It's hardly terrible , but I can't for the life of me see anything special about it , either . I really appreciate the low-... |
385,414 | 391,152 | 107,613 | 6 | Not bad , but too predictable in the end and it has a terrible score | Anthony Minghella's sophomore feature , and easily his least well known film . It's not too hard to see why . It seems like a pretty generic romantic comedy . I would say that's being unfair , though , as the characters are a little better written than you would expect from the genre , and there is a little more emotio... |
385,080 | 391,152 | 62,362 | 6 | Some fun to be had , but it disappoints in the end | Often a lot of fun , but also often really annoying . The fun is more prevalent , but the bad stuff tends to weigh the good stuff down , so that , in the end , my feelings about it are leaning more towards the negative . It's a goofy late ? 60s look at the 1920s and the flapper fad . Julie Andrews stars as the title ch... |
385,895 | 391,152 | 59,956 | 6 | Interesting failure | Two vaudeville performers touring South America get involved in a revolution . It's somewhat similar to Woody Allen's Bananas . These two women are played by the impossibly gorgeous Brigette Bardot and the eternally pensive Jeane Moreau . The film is an action comedy , or at least that's what it's going for . But Louis... |
385,923 | 391,152 | 247,425 | 6 | Great first act , great third act , but the middle is so weak that the film buckles under its own weight | And it collapses . While there is plenty of good material , and even some moments of greatness in In the Bedroom , ultimately it is a failure . Because of the vast amounts of SPOILERS in the remainder of this review - yes , even more than was spoiled by the Academy Awards - I'll say right now that I give this film a . ... |
385,594 | 391,152 | 84,805 | 6 | Second Funniest Movie my Butt | I have never understood the popularity of this film . Perhaps when it was made in the early 80s it was considered original or daring . To me , it seemed extremely laughless and predictable for most of its running time . Nothing that I saw made me laugh all that much . Nothing surprised me at all . The only person who m... |
385,138 | 391,152 | 339,291 | 6 | Ought to be better | Has great promise , but delivers too little . It's always amusing , but I wish it would be more than just amusing . The production design is absolutely fantastic . It's the selling point of the film . Jim Carrey is very funny , and I like at least two of the three child stars . Emily Browning is sure to be the next Chr... |
385,439 | 391,152 | 119,567 | 6 | I laughed more than anything else . SPOILERS | Most people thought this was the biggest cinematic disappointment that they had ever seen , that is , until Star Wars : Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace was released two summers afterwards . I write this right after having come home from the third installment , Jurassic Park III , and I can safely say that JPII is the wo... |
385,453 | 391,152 | 835,787 | 6 | Hong seems to be making the same film again and again | Hong Sang-Soo reminds me a lot of Eric Rohmer , which seems to be a comparison many have made before . But I would definitely rank him quite below Rohmer . I've seen four films by Hong now . I liked the first one I saw , Woman Is the Future of Man , a lot , but the other two , besides the one about which I'm currently ... |
385,358 | 391,152 | 291,350 | 6 | Interesting concept , but I don't think it worked | Great concept , so-so execution . An interviewer and his cameraman sit down to interview a long-retired actress who's been shunning other reporters for years . The interviewer brings her a gift , a key that she lost long , long ago . It opens up her memories of a man whom she helped in her youth , in the era before WWI... |
385,076 | 391,152 | 395,584 | 6 | Wait to rent , for sure | This looked like it might be a genuinely good exploitation / horror flick . It almost is . It's a pretty horrific serial-killer-on-the-lam story , but it's undermined by weak performances from a couple of the main characters , a ripped - from - the - classic - rock - station song score , and some very incompetent direc... |
384,725 | 391,152 | 47,034 | 6 | Oh please ! | To me , Ishiro Honda is Japan's answer to Ed Wood . It's true , he's not quite as bad as Wood , and his films were actually hugely successful . Still , Honda shows almost no artistic abilities when it comes to film-making ? it all moves too slow , half the film is stock footage and the miniatures never look like anythi... |
385,471 | 391,152 | 10,208 | 6 | Fear the unrelenting wrath of the Buddha ! | It's always cool to see rare , barely seen films from famous directors . This one is Fritz Lang's take on M . Butterfly ( a story ( a novel ? a play ? ) with which I am unfamiliar ) , about a Japanese woman who marries a European man , only to be abandoned by him , poor and pregnant . The story of the film is very good... |
384,722 | 391,152 | 459,666 | 6 | I'm that guy who doesn't like Hou Hsiao-Hsien - but I actually did like at least one part of this film | A triptych film about love in different time periods . The first segment takes place in 1966 , the second in 1911 and the third in 2005 . Like all multiple-segment movies , the segments are of varying quality . People will of course prefer different segments . The first segment is simple and sweet . A man , about to em... |
385,566 | 391,152 | 69,393 | 6 | Not good . Duvall is especially bad . | Based on a William Faulkner story to be found in the collection Knight's Gambit , possibly his best work written after WWII , Tomorrow is the story of a dull Southern man who falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband has run away and then raises the child . The script , written by Horton Foote ( who won an Osca... |
385,216 | 391,152 | 86,631 | 6 | Rarity from Hou's commercial period ( but you're not missing much , even if you're a fan ) | It's not a good movie , but not a terrible one , either . I think this was actually Hou's most profitable film in Taiwan . I know it was successful , anyway . It's certainly more commercial than any of his other films that I've seen . It stars a famous pop singer of the time , Kenny B ( and , let me tell you , if this ... |
384,780 | 391,152 | 40,665 | 6 | A poor movie with a couple of great bits , especially Cyd Charisse's two numbers | Thin and fairly dull Esther Williams vehicle , with Peter Lawford as her love interest . Williams and Lawford are both boring , and have no chemistry together . They are upstaged by just about every single other person in the cast , Cyd Charisse , Ricardo Montalban , Xavier Cugat , Jimmy Durante ( whom you'd think was ... |
385,353 | 391,152 | 50,105 | 6 | The first half promised a masterpiece that the second half couldn't deliver | I've had this DVD in my collection for several years now , having picked it up cheap at a Black Friday sale . Deborah Kerr's unfortunate passing finally got me to pull it out . Should have went with my first choice , Black Narcissus , instead . An Affair to Remember starts off fine , with Cary Grant and Kerr , both eng... |
384,700 | 391,152 | 387,877 | 6 | Maybe worth renting ; definitely a weak film with some terrible moments . Some good ones , too , though . | Like all the De Palma films I've seen at least , The Black Dahlia is all style and flash and no substance . Hey , that's cool when the results are fun to watch , as in Sisters , Carlito's Way or Femme Fatale . It doesn't work here , though . It's a busy , hard-boiled police investigation flick that doesn't make a whole... |
385,137 | 391,152 | 395,972 | 6 | Great performances augment a film that is , in reality , quite awful | Note to Niki Caro : tone it down , just a little . I believe it had to be bad for women in this situation , but , even if it's true , it's difficult to buy that men would break into the women's locker room and smear feces all over the walls . There's more than a fine line between misogyny and insanity . And even if I c... |
385,333 | 391,152 | 852,726 | 7 | Tsukamoto's most conventional and probably his least good , but still a pretty decent flick | Probably the most conventional film Shinya Tsukamoto has directed . Really , it would only take a couple of tiny clichés for that to happen , since every other film he has made is so utterly unconventional . Nightmare Detective is sort of a police procedural . Detectives are investigating two apparent suicides that see... |
385,788 | 391,152 | 83,702 | 7 | Not as good as I was hoping | Such interest in Fitzcarraldo was sparked in my mind that I was compulsively forced to purchase the DVD version of it . It was fascinating , a near-masterpiece , I would say . And I desperately wished to see the documentary about its making , Burden of Dreams . Well , probably a year after I first saw Fitzcarraldo , I ... |
384,900 | 391,152 | 39,090 | 7 | Not among Kurosawa's better films , but certainly interesting | An interesting film in Kurosawa's canon : it deals explicitly with the WWII era and , alone amongst the man's films , has a woman as the protagonist ( played by Ozu's favorite star , Setsuko Hara ) . Hara plays Yukie , the daughter of a college professor who is fired after expressing leftist ideas . This plot catalyst ... |
385,952 | 391,152 | 80,380 | 7 | Worst musical ever ? Maybe ! | Infamously bad musical , often considered the worst movie of that genre . This film is a treasure for bad movie lovers . It's just transcendently awful , an assault to the ears and eyes . Ed Wood-level auteur Menahem Golan , who produced such classics as Over the Top , The Forbidden Dance , the Breakin ' movies , Ameri... |
384,657 | 391,152 | 256,380 | 7 | I think I should watch it once more | A frustrating film in a way . I was hugely disappointed in it for a long while , but as the film progressed I kept wondering if my disappointment was merely a product of my unfair expectations . That's probably the case . I expect a daring comedy from the Brothers Farrelly , but Shallow Hal is surprisingly low-key . It... |
385,647 | 391,152 | 173,840 | 7 | Entertaining . Just don't expect too much | And if you're a fan of the Final Fantasy video games , you certainly will be expecting too much . I , like many , have been really excited about this movie for four or five years now , drooling at every little pic or clip we were given by the film's web site . The finished product is , unfortunately , little more than ... |
384,948 | 391,152 | 427,327 | 7 | The young cast really makes this movie | I famously predicted that this movie would bomb in the theater , but I was incredibly wrong . It's actually one of the top-grossing films of the year . When I was fumbling for an excuse as to why it was so successful , I guessed that the film's Disney Channel alumni had brought in a younger audience and recaptured them... |
384,649 | 391,152 | 41,841 | 7 | null | Good but mostly cliché WWII film about the storming of Iwo Jima . The soldier characters are rather forgettable , and the whole film frankly looks bad after seeing Wellman's superb Battleground , made the same year . When you see Battleground , it gives you a feel of how horrible it would be to have been in combat . Iw... |
384,640 | 391,152 | 390,384 | 7 | Good ; surprised Carruth hasn't gotten any other jobs yet | Famous for being made for $7000 , this is a sci-fi flick about a couple of engineers / inventors who stumble upon a way to travel back in time . While it's pretty clear how this could be made for so little money ( location , location , location ? it was probably made in the director's garage and stuff like that ) , it ... |
385,678 | 391,152 | 480,249 | 7 | It starts off pretty well , but then hobbles itself with its cliché baddies | The latest cinematic adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel , and the first one to use its real name . The other two are The Last Man on Earth , starring Vincent Price , and The Omega Man , starring Charlton Heston . Haven't seen the Price version yet , but The Omega Man is a sentimental favorite of mine . Cheesy and... |
384,739 | 391,152 | 462,499 | 7 | Brutal but good | Holy crap ! It's kind of silly that they even brought this character back after so much time . I mean , he was a relic of the Vietnam War and , while that's not forgotten , not even in the political spectrum , the political arguments those original films moronically made are pretty dead . The new Rambo doesn't even men... |
385,082 | 391,152 | 63,149 | 7 | Don't give up | Looking at the number of imdb voters for both the I Am Curious films , it seems that few who watch the first end up watching the second ( there are 194 votes for Yellow , and 46 for Blue ) . That's not surprising . Four hours of near-randomness is surely a bit difficult to sit through . And the four hours provide limit... |
385,069 | 391,152 | 184,503 | 7 | Good for this genre | Often considered the best kaiju film ever made , or at least second best after the original Gojira . I would perhaps concur , though I myself don't consider that title to be particularly difficult to win . But Gamera 3 does have a script that goes a bit deeper than all the others , and the special effects are almost as... |
385,667 | 391,152 | 36,880 | 7 | No , it's not a great film , but it's better than you may have heard | The Great Moment , as I'm sure you know , is not a typical Preston Sturges movie . It is a historical drama with a few comic moments , all of which are clunky ( although a couple of the stranger ones are so bizarre they're entertaining in a way , especially when Morton tries to knock out his dog with ether ) . The film... |
385,134 | 391,152 | 436,078 | 7 | Often hilarious | Documentary about the world's filthiest joke , as told by dozens of famous ( and not so famous ) comedians . The joke involves a man describing a family act to a talent agent . The act includes any scatology a comedian can invent in his or her head , but normally involves feces , blood , sperm and urine , at the very... |
385,125 | 391,152 | 455,326 | 7 | Fun , if you like the show . God knows what you'd make of it if you haven't seen it . | Hmm ? what to say about this movie ? The first question one must ask is why they bothered to release it to theaters . Perhaps to make the title make sense ? That is , if you can make any sense out of the title . The people I feel most sorry for are all the film critics with unwarped minds who were forced to sit through... |
385,872 | 391,152 | 316,654 | 7 | I prefer Spider-Man 1 | Good action movie , but I much prefer the first installment . 2 has arguably the greatest comic book villain of all times , Doctor Octopus , which kind of makes the movie a disappointment since , after him , it's rather forgettable . It really should have been better with such a cool bad guy . Unfortunately , it really... |
385,890 | 391,152 | 270,957 | 7 | Worth a watch | Fuckland is an interesting film . I personally love the Dogma movement . I wish it had lasted longer . It seems to have already died . Many critics tried their damndest to shut it down . I don't know why . It's the most interesting movement to happen in the cinematic world since the French New Wave . Besides Fuckland ,... |
384,775 | 391,152 | 795,368 | 7 | Not great , but it ends up being pretty funny by the end | Amusing , if obvious comedy . It pretends to be one of those wry , British comedies , but the laughs come mostly from cheap jokes involving drugs , sex and poop . But , hey , I can't complain much because there are some good laughs . The cast is good . I especially liked Andy Nyman as a hypochondriac . Alan Tudyk of th... |
385,444 | 391,152 | 28,275 | 7 | Decent short , but more of a curio for Tati fans | Wow , Tati was a young man . Here he plays someone's young son , 17 years before M . Hulot's Holiday . The action centers around a boxing match between a champ and Tati , who knows nothing about boxing and has to consult a manual during the fight . It sounds funnier than it really is . Chaplin's boxing match in City Li... |
385,638 | 391,152 | 28,270 | 7 | Jeeze , RKO really was a factory , wasn't it ? | This film is nearly identical to one of those Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies , except minus music , in place of Astaire is Gene Raymond and in place of Ginger Rogers is Ann Sothern . The supporting characters are taken right from Top Hat or Swing Time . Helen Brodericik , Eric Blore , and Erik Rhodes are all in ... |
384,907 | 391,152 | 499,455 | 7 | A little slow to start , but that last half hour is excellent | One can't talk about this film without ruining a long-held secret . Then again , I'm not sure that not knowing would help one to enjoy it , either . Without knowing the film's sense of purpose , it would be easy to get bored , I think . It's not that hard even if you do know , unfortunately , but it might be excruciati... |
384,786 | 391,152 | 499,448 | 7 | No Lord of the Rings , but probably a tad better than the first Chronicle of Narnia | I went into this with low expectations , and they were exceeded . I liked it quite a bit , perhaps more than the first film in this series , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe . I think it's because the religious allegory is much more subtle . I also liked the plot line of royal intrigue and power struggles , which ... |
385,319 | 391,152 | 63,205 | 7 | Good , not great film from the Japanese New Wave | The story involves four people whose work is blackmail . They're successful in their " business , " but their eyes eventually get too big for their stomachs when they think they've found a way to rip off the yakuza . The job proves harder than the easy money it initially seemed . While it is generally well done , its t... |
384,829 | 391,152 | 105,197 | 7 | Good , but far from my favorite Zhang Yimou ( or Gong Li ) film | Probably my least favorite Zhang Yimou film . Oh , it's not bad . It's pretty good , to tell the truth . But it's the kind of film where you get the point right away and you have to spend 100 minutes watching the filmmaker stumble toward the foregone conclusion . Gong Li plays the title character , a hugely pregnant wo... |
384,570 | 391,152 | 405,159 | 7 | Probably wouldn't crack my top 50 of 2004 | I don't understand all the praise . Sure , it's a pretty good movie , but it's flat , obvious , and not at all memorable . Eastwood's last film , Mystic River , was ten times better . Hilary Swank plays a boxer who persists in trying to get trainer Clint Eastwood to make her his student . He finally does accept her , e... |
385,064 | 391,152 | 52,700 | 7 | Good acting and good script bogged down by a courtroom ending | This film is based on the Leopold / Lobe murders , which was also developed into an earlier film , Alfred Hitchcock's magnificent Rope . Now , Compulsion is a good film , but it pales in comparison to Rope , so I would definitely advise people to watch it over this . Leopold and Lobe were two homosexual college student... |
385,480 | 391,152 | 26,174 | 7 | Nice ; maybe a bit overrated | A fun swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn . It's not especially great , but Flynn himself elevates it to a level far beyond what it would have been without him . Really , he's in full form here . The only other Flynn vehicle that I've seen is The Adventures of Robin Hood , which is a far better film . Still , I think Fly... |
385,858 | 391,152 | 37,055 | 7 | Decent | An okay international intrigue picture , in the same vein as The Maltese Falcon , but not nearly as good . It's very flawed , and only moderately good . One pro is that Peter Lorre is ( arguably ) the film's star . How often did that happen ? He plays a mystery writer from Holland who runs into a great story while he's... |
385,937 | 391,152 | 32,671 | 7 | Frustrating | Oh , it's a good picture , but , well , it is just hairs away from being a great film . Actually , a lot of hairs . They're all small , individual problems , but there are tons of ' em . Just some small changes in the script , ones that wouldn't have been too difficult to make , and it could have been a Hollywood class... |
385,359 | 391,152 | 851,578 | 7 | Brief review | Trippy Japanese animé that mixes dreams with reality . You never really know what's going to come next in this picture . It's very entertaining , but only up to a point . It never establishes its own reality , so the constant surrealism does grow tiring after a while . And the characters are thin . A movie with such fa... |
384,785 | 391,152 | 41,944 | 7 | Betty Garrett and a few choice numbers make this a decent musical | Not one of the great musicals of the classic era , to be sure , but a fairly enjoyable one . The plot is nothing special , with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as ball players both smitten by their new owner , Esther Williams . Another woman , Betty Garrett , shows up about midway through the picture so each of our stars ... |
385,199 | 391,152 | 217,869 | 7 | a good follow-up to the smash hit The Sixth Sense | MAJOR SPOILERSThe fundamental flaw of Unbreakable is that Shyamalan clings tenaciously to the structure , pace , themes , characters and mood of The Sixth Sense . That film was the surprise blockbuster in August of 1999 , so it only makes ( financial ) sense for him to emulate it , and the studio to approve it . Alas ,... |
385,981 | 391,152 | 266,697 | 7 | Don't go too far in your praise : it's merely okay | I have , for a long time , been skeptical of whether Quentin Tarantino was a worthwhile talent . Certainly Pulp Fiction was a seminal film of the 1990s , for better or worse , and Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown were at least worthwhile . But it was my burgeoning opinion that his style of goofy , self-referential filmm... |
385,459 | 391,152 | 337,978 | 7 | Extraordinarily silly , but pretty fun | This afterthought , coming a full 12 years after the third Die Hard movie and 19 years after the original , was destined to be not as good as its predecessors . I mean , after the first one , the people responsible for the sequels were obsessed with packing them more and more full of action . In the new one , the strat... |
384,953 | 391,152 | 765,429 | 7 | Well made , but too familiar | Ridley Scott is one of those directors who has built up a lot of good will from audiences , including myself , over the years . But as each successive film of his is released , I find myself wondering why that is . Two of his movies , Alien and Blade Runner , are arguably masterpieces . Does he have more than maybe a c... |
384,847 | 391,152 | 52,618 | 7 | Weak with a couple of great set pieces and one great performance | For a long while , I've described Ben-Hur as the biggest film that I had not yet seen . Now I have . This is one of those classics whose status has been fading with time , and it's no wonder once you've seen the film . Sure , there are a few scenes that are very memorable , and have become part of our common culture . ... |
385,053 | 391,152 | 398,808 | 7 | A little thin , but good for children | THIS COMMENT DEFINITELY CONTAINS SPOILERSI read the book by Katherine Patterson way back in grade school . I remembered nothing about it but that the little girl died . It's a charming little story about imagination and friendship , and for kids it's mostly excellent just because it's so easy to recognize one's own lif... |
385,369 | 391,152 | 35,140 | 7 | Good but very flawed film | Now , Voyager begins excellently : Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale , the youngest child of an affluent Boston family . In fact , she was a " late child , " had late in her mother's life . She was not planned , and the doctor who delivered her comforts her mother by telling her that a late child would be a great compan... |
385,781 | 391,152 | 93,409 | 7 | Hardly a classic , but a good piece of entertainment | A major piece of modern pop culture that I had not yet experienced . Now I can finally get all the references , parodies , rip-offs and trivia questions . And I can finally put Lethal Weapon 4 , which for some reason I watched back when it came out on DVD , in context . Maybe I should give it another watch now , but my... |
385,865 | 391,152 | 37,059 | 7 | A bit overrated | A very sweet musical starring Judy Garland . The plot concerns a family living in St . Louis whose patriarch has accepted a job in New York City . His family is devastated . The two oldest daughters both have beaus , and the oldest son has a girl as well . The plot is passable . If it weren't for the exceptional songs ... |
384,800 | 391,152 | 457,430 | 7 | It's good , but nowhere near as good as the reviews would have you believe | I had unsurmountable expectations for this one , and , alas , they remain unsurmounted . It didn't even come close . It is an entertaining film , but , as a whole , it feels half-baked . Near the end of the Spanish Civil War , a little girl , Ofelia , is taken with her pregnant mother to an old mill , where her new hus... |
384,874 | 391,152 | 41,886 | 7 | Minor Archers , in my opinion | Newly released by Criterion , The Small Back Room was made by the Archers right after The Red Shoes . I had never even heard of it , and it's definitely a less well known film by the directors . In my opinion , it really is a lesser Archers movie . It reunites two of the stars of Black Narcissus , David Farrar and Kath... |
385,748 | 391,152 | 780,571 | 7 | Rather entertaining , but there are way too many subplots | Not a great movie , to be certain , but at least I can say it is ambitious and original . Kevin Costner plays a CEO who is driven by his imaginary friend ( played by William Hurt ) to murder people . On what was supposed to be his last murder , a man from across the street ( Dane Cook ) witnesses him . Instead of turni... |
385,780 | 391,152 | 97,733 | 7 | Slightly better than the first | A worthy sequel . In fact , I think it's a bit of an improvement , with tighter plotting and more kinetic action sequences . I also liked , to my surprise , the addition of Joe Pesci as a witness Riggs and Murtaugh are protecting . Yes , he's more than a tad annoying , but he's annoying in a mostly funny way . I also v... |
385,391 | 391,152 | 914,798 | 7 | Emotionally draining , if at times overly simplistic | A classic " through the eyes of childhood " story about the Holocaust . Asa Butterfield plays Bruno , a German 8 year-old whose father ( David Thewlis ) is the officer in charge of a concentration camp . Bruno has no clue what goes on at the camp , which he initially thinks is a farm where the weird farmers wear pajama... |
385,269 | 391,152 | 303,658 | 7 | Certainly one of Miike's lesser films | Even if , in the future , he becomes the world's most beloved director and everyone everywhere seeks out all his films , Andromedia will be forgotten . There's really no such thing as " typical Miike " , but this film is somehow definitely atypical Miike . It's a teeny cyber-thriller that stars not one , but two Japane... |
385,112 | 391,152 | 420,609 | 7 | Good , even if it pales in comparison to Capote ; it wouldn't have been popular even if Capote never had existed | This film had the unfortunate luck to open only slightly after a film about the exact same subject appeared and won a bunch of awards , but , honestly , it would have been overlooked in any case . It's notable for some of the acting , and mostly because actor Toby Jones is a dead ringer for Truman Capote , but it doesn... |
384,981 | 391,152 | 128,445 | 7 | Nothing special | I don't understand the enormously positive reaction this film has had . I mean , yeah , it's a decent flick , quite entertaining , but it's nothing all that memorable . The story is generally a good one , and pretty original . It does have some major flaws , though . I didn't buy it when Max and Herman began warring ag... |
385,329 | 391,152 | 497,465 | 7 | Dull , but the story's not bad and the performances are good | The latest Woody flick is set in Spain , where friends Vicky ( Rebecca Hall ) and Cristina ( Scarlett Johansson ) both get involved with an artist ( Javier Bardem ) . Both women sleep with Bardem , but eventually Johansson ends up with him . Hall goes back to her boring finacé , though her brief affair has distorted he... |
385,282 | 391,152 | 45,891 | 7 | Marilyn is pretty good , as are the jokes about Bogie and Bacall | In this film , three women , played by three huge stars , Lauren Bacall , Marilyn Monroe , and Betty Grable , move in together with the plan to each land a millionaire . They each get involved with millionaires , but men of more humble means ( and at least one man pretending to be ) end up winning them over in the end ... |
385,818 | 391,152 | 418,689 | 7 | Pretty good , but somehow failed to move me | Clint Eastwood's curiously unaffecting WWII picture about the famous picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima , and what happened to the three men who survived the rest of the battle ( the flag was raised on the fifth day , and the island wasn't taken entirely until a month afterward ) . Well , " unaffecting " is a bit ... |
385,578 | 391,152 | 246,460 | 7 | Fun enough | A cinematic sinner am I , as I have only seen one James Bond film not starring Pierce Brosnan , Dr . No , and I have seen each of the films starring Mr . Brosnan ( although I've never seen Goldeneye in its entirety ) . I quite loved Dr . No , and I have no good excuse for avoiding all the ones between it and the Brosna... |
384,902 | 391,152 | 120,831 | 7 | Good but sloppy | After falling in love with Tamara Jenkins ' sophomore feature , The Savages , a short while back , I have finally caught up with her debut . It's pretty obviously a first film . Jenkins has created some memorable characters and some good situations , most certainly culled from real-life experiences . But the story arc ... |
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