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Rear Window
A lavish Hitchcock treat, full of glamour, suspense and wit. The establishing scene is a virtuoso display of filmm…
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Unforgiven
Just as Goodfellas is the ne plus ultra of mob movies, Unforgiven is the apotheosis of Westerns. In classic Wester…
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Apollo 13
Gripping from start to finish, though the end is never in doubt. Stands as a testament to American heroism, ingenu…
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Very Good
3.5
A three hanky weeper of the best kind – uplifting and funny. I was fortunate to watch it in the darkened cabin of an o… |
Very Good
3.5
Sandra Bullock was great: strong, sassy and wonderfully maternal. Was she Best Actress Oscar great? Nope, but so what… |
Very Good
3.5
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Tame
1.5
A bit of bigotry gets voiced and nicely put down. A bit of gunplay gets threatened and shown as the empty bravado it i… |
Glib
1.1
Racist? Some on the Left say it is. This seems to qualify as an example of Clare Boothe Luce’s aphorism that "no good… |
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Very Good
3.5
Prime Clint, the reluctant avenging hero, forced here to battle a faulty heart and a cleverly playful serial killer. T… |
Great
4.0
In his last starring role before looking elderly, Clint comes to terms with his mortality as an FBI agent who has a hea… |
Very Good
3.5
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Mild
2.2
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Glib
1.4
The ins and outs of heart transplants are explored. I’ve no personal exposure to this most intimate of all medical pro… |
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Great
4.0
Mannered, overtly creepy, and a bit wearying, Scorsese’s trip inside one man’s tortured mind is never less than showy g… |
Great
4.0
Another forced march with Leonardo, this one even more harrowing than in Body of Lies… |
Great
4.0
A film school clinic, Shutter Island steers clear of camp while revisiting old school pulp. Thus Scorsese is the dir… |
Risqué
2.7
Several instances of once-in-a-century inhumanity are brought to life: a mother drowns her children (a la "Andrea Yates… |
Glib
1.9
The movie makes much of DiCaprio’s character having been one of the GIs who liberated Dachau. This seems accurately sh… |
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