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1.5 StarsMy reviews of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers focused fairly exclusively on how those films played as individual movies. In this review of the third and final chapter, The Lor
Well, another year has come and (nearly) gone. My erstwhile co-hosts will no doubt be promulgating their best and worst lists of 2016 back at A Review Too Far. I just thought I would beat them to the punch. I saw seventeen new release films thi
2 StarsIn my review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, I remarked on how interesting it was to return to Fellowship in the wake of Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit, because I thought many of the critiques reviewers ma
The Points BreakI only vaguely remembered that they made a remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 film Point Break last year when I caught a few moments of it on TV. The next week, a friend told me that the remake of Point Break, this time directed b
5 StarsSpirited Away is quite simply one of my very favorite films. The story is hardly revolutionary. It tells of Chihiro Ogino (Daveigh Chase), a ten-year-old girl upset that her family is moving to a new home. On the way, her father (Michael
2.5 StarsThe first of Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a spectacular technical achievement. However, none of the wizardry that went into creating the breathtaking visuals is present in ter
4.5 StarsOf all the films on the Best of the 2000s list, The Dark Knight is probably the film that I have seen the most times. It is an exceptional film, one of the best comic book adaptations of all time and an excellent crime drama to boot. T
5 StarsI had been steeling myself against 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days almost since this project began. I even made a brief reference to it in my review of Finding Nemo when I commented on the emotional grind that many of the films in this Best
2.5 StarsI’m going to begin the review of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth where I usually end these reviews – a discussion of why this film is here on the list. Pan’s Labyrinth is on this list because six of the thirty-seven critics survey
4.5 StarsWALL-E is one of the best films of the Science Fiction genre and a triumph for animation as a medium. Pixar was, without a doubt, the most valuable player of the 2000s, so far as studios were concerned, and WALL-Eis another part of its
5 StarsI so loved Amelie - both the film and the central character it’s named for. Amelie tells the story of Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tatou), a shy and mischievous waitress working in a restaurant frequented by a group of eccentric customers. Ame
3 StarsThe second entry by Alfonso Cuaron on the best of the 2000s list, Children of Men, is set in London in 2027 amidst an ongoing mass infertility crisis that has led to the collapse of most nation states. England, under an authoritarian gov
3.5 StarsI have a sort of annoying habit as a film reviewer where I will give a film a relatively high rating, but then give it a mediocre review. In general, I would say that this habit comes out most prominently when I am reviewing films that
4 StarsUnited 93 depicts the events of September 11, 2001 from the point of view of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated eponymous flight, as well as the points of view of the various civil air and airport and military authorities. It is un
5 StarsTodd Haynes' exquisite Far From Heaven is obviously a conscious attempt to mimic and update the style of Douglas Sirk (especially All That Heaven Allows). Set in the 1950s, Julianne Moore stars as Cathy Whitaker, an affluent housewife in
3.5 StarsAnyone familiar with my tenure on the Void Zone Podcast will know that I have soured on Quentin Tarantino since the 1990s. So imagine how surprised I was to find that I genuinely liked The Hateful Eight. I’m serious. I really liked it.
2 StarsIn folklore, a revenant is a reanimated corpse that rises from its grave in order to torment and drink the blood of the living. It is some hybrid of a vampire and our modern conception of a zombie. The Revenant is like the reanimated cor
3.5 StarsThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s (Mathieu Amalric) memoir of the same name. In life, Mr. Bauby was an actor, writer, and editor of ELLE. In 1995, at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a stroke whi
5 StarsThe first time that I saw Almost Famous, 15 years ago, I dismissed it. To me, it felt like some kind of teenage wish fulfillment less realistic than The Lord of the Rings. Sure, a 15-year-old kid could talk his way into covering a tourin
4 StarsBrokeback Mountainis a great film, but it is neither as good as its adherents claim nor as bad as its detractors say. Still better than Crashthough (more on that later).Brokeback Mountaintells the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) an
3.5 StarsI last thought of Lost in Translation in October when I reviewed Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love. The connections between these two films are easy to see. Both are set in Asia. Both are about people who could be romantically involv
3.5 Stars“In Vino Veritas” the old saying goes, but Sidewaysbegins with a lie we have all told: “I’m on my way.” Miles (Paul Giamatti) and Jack (Thomas Haden Church) are old friends. They tell many lies to their friends, to the women they meet
5 Stars“Who is HGW XX/7?” Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) asks late in The Lives of Others. By that time, the audience is well aware of who Haptmann Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe), codename HGW XX/7 is. He is a Stasi operative who spies on his own p
It’s that time of year again. Soon, the guys (and Dakota) will be letting you know what they thought the best and worst films of 2015 were. So, I figured that I’d get in a preemptive strike. My list of the best/worst films of 2015 comes with th
2.5 StarsThe New Worldtells the story of the settlement of the Jamestown Colony in 1607, particularly the exploits of Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell), his capture by Powhatan (August Schellenberg), and his fateful encounter with Pocahontas (
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