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Manohla Dargis:
WITH his latest film, “Munich,” Steven Spielberg forgoes the emotional bullying and pop thrills that come so easily to him to tell the story of a campaign of vengeance that Israel purportedly brought against Palestinian terrorists in the wake of the 1972 Olympics. An unsparingly brutal look at two peoples all but drowning in a sea of their own blood, “Munich” is by far the toughest film of the director’s career and the most anguished. Mr. Spielberg has been pummeling audiences with his virtuosity for nearly as long as he ...
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil Reviews
Hitler: The Rise of
[12 November 2007]
By Marco
Arguably, the biggest challenge of any biographical effort about Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) is the negotiation of the huge cultural and ideological baggage associated with the infamous German leader. Indeed, no other historical figure is surrounded by such an aura of pure evilness, that it truly reaches mythical proportions.
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Dear Johning the world
I expected this to be really bad but it wasn't as bad... I loved Channing Tatum in A guide to recognize your saints so he is capable of other things besides showing off his bod. I am yet to decide whether I actually like Amanda Seyfried but she is definitely one to watch. The movie is pretty standard... nothing surprising but if there ever in these types of movies. Mediocre ...
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Romantic Sci-Fi
This film initially comes across as a fairly light romantic comedy with a sci-fi twist. Upon further reflection, the film is quite deep as it explores the expectations of relationships, a belief in soul mates, arranged marriages, fate, etc.
The film doesn't address the possibility that the soul mate might not exist for everyone--but rather it chooses to be more optimistic suggesting that there is "one" person for all of us. Although, it does ...
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Film of the Decade
A beautiful film, based on the recordings of a troop of actors, that brought the worlds attention back to the hurtful, desperate pain in the death of a young man who did nothing but love.
The film's script is taken from the transcripts that an acting troop had gathered before the trials of Aaron James Henderson and Russell Arthur Henderson. The play that was created from these interviews helped to pass Hate Crime legislation in ...
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A Forgotten Favorite
I think perhaps I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this film until I'd watched it again this evening. The story of Peter Pan - the boy who never grew up - is one that lives in the memory of every person who watched Disney as a child. In recent years the story has been retold through live action and with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet ...
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A beautiful reason
A truer story about finding peace hasn't been found on film before. I've watched thousands of movies in my time and I can honestly say that Peaceful Warrior is a touching and moving experience. By finding this man, Socrates, Dan Millman opens his mind to something greater than winning.
Similar to the film The Celestine Prophecy, this movie sheds light on the human condition. Buddhist philosophy resides in the knowledge that every moment is ...
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Oh wow
That's what was on the top of my mind after seeing this movie. Some parts felt so very familiar. Kinda like watching myself a few years back. The movie's timeline is in the 50s, but it's very adaptable to our day too. April's idea of moving to Paris was almost exactly what happened when our family moved to Australia. And the comments we got were surprisingly similar to what April and Frank got. Even today the idea of a working mum and a stay-at-home dad seems odd to people. Fortunately we ...
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Documents Disney's changing of the old guard and the arrival of the new with Eisner and Katzenberg. It opens with the description of the failure of the Black Cauldron and how that led to revamping the system and the eventual production of the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion KIng. Its mostly archival footage shot between 1984 and 1994 with contemporary interviews. It feels a bit superficial, but does show the animators in their working environment. It shows Eisner and Katzenberg marketing the company as well as themselves; ...
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Zhan Ke films take place mostly contemporary China and tend to focus on the daily and often monotonous life of the average citizen. He strives for a preponderance of ordinariness through the use of diminutive shots and dull color tones.
The narrative traces one man's search for is wife paralleled by one woman's search for her husband. Ultimately, the two protagonists confront and accept the reality that their relationship had likely died so long ...
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