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Dodsworth (Wyler, 1936)
Dodsworth, released in 1936, is a surprisingly powerful and incredibly realistic marital drama. Walter Huston plays the titular character, Sam Dodsworth. Hes worked his entire life and has just sold his business. ...
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Through four feature films, writerdirector James Gray comes closest to disappointment in his third, 2007s We Own the Night. Were in Brooklyn, New York, 1988, and it feels like weve been here before, exploring two sides of the same coin.
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Kitty Foyle (1940): 5.910
I was expecting to like this film more than I actually did which is disappointing. Maybe it is because a lot of the film has not aged well and comes off as very dated. There is another melodrama I have recently...
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Guy Ritchie has created a delightful movie with lots of fun and excitement. I am looking forward to this movie on Christmas Day.
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I recall vividly the book written by Maurice Sendak from my childhood and therefore was very keen to see how the movie played out. I actually attended this movie as part of a school excursion in order to supervise my kindergarten aged daughter and...
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It was a momentous occasion in 1989 when the Berlin Wall finally crumbled at the hands of the people it had separated for so long. The celebrations were overwhelming as families, countries, and continents reunited.
But when the dust settled...
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The Dead is a quiet gem in the vast world of cinema. The film was director John Hustons last, (released posthumously) a love letter to Ireland and favorite author James Joyce. Huston enlisted his son to adapt Joyces short story The Dead from...
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Michael Winterbottom is constantly in motion; this most prolific of directors - you could see him as the British equivalent of Steven Soderbergh - continues to churn out a fascinating and enviable diversity of films. From the bleak, icy lamentations...
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It sometimes seems a monumental risk for a first-time feature-maker to tackle a subject too close to his or her own personal experience. A reverence for the...
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Matt Damon looks good with his shirt off. Go Matt!
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The Road is a pretty bleak movie, but some say that's why we should see it. What do you think?
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There were more than a few peculiar looks when Departures won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at this years Academy Awards. In a category stacked with fine nominees,...
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Watching The Long Good Friday its easy to imagine Guy Ritchie and his friends circa 1995 sitting on a crisp-scattered velour couch, smoking joints, drinking lager and furiously taking notes.
Good Friday is all that to which Ritchie paid...
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Occasionally a single performance has the power to galvanize an entire production, elevating it beyond its humble origins. Michael Sheen, a chameleonic British actor with a recent history of perfecting portrayals of famous figures, has outdone...
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The story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been...
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Matt Damon is running around with guns and shaking it up as he uncovers covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region.
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A new contingent of prisoners arrives in Buchenwald from Auschwitz. Amid the throng, an old man is struggling to lug a suitcase as they enter the grounds of the camp.
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Perhaps more than any of their other collaborations, Puberty Blues illustrates the supreme skill of director Bruce Beresford and cinematographer Don...
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