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IN THE WATER
Release: Aug 06 - Review: 18 Aug 06 
Part real. Part
fable. All Night.
...truly what it sells itself
as - a bedtime story; make-believe of the highest order, taken with a generous
pinch of sandman salt and a mountainous suspension of disbelief.
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LAST CASTLE
Release: Oct 01 - Review: Nov 01
The Last Farcical
Redford takes a dislike to the way Warden Tony disses his marine
and army peeps behind bars, so launches a prison revolt, inmates rallying behind
him due to his iron-fisted reputation and rakish good looks.
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LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Release: Sep 06 - Review: 28 May 07
Acid Reign.
...director Kevin Macdonald scares up a visceral feast, dripping
searing fat into its blood trays; a scary fictional tale about a scarier real
dictator.
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LAST SAMURAI
Release: Dec 03 - Review: 2 Apr 06
Samurai Hei.
The
Last Samurai is a grandiose film, sweeping, majestic, inspiring - even WITH
Tom Cruise in it.
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FROM IWO JIMA
 Release:
Dec 06 - Review: 2 Feb 07
The Devil Wears
Red, White and Blue.
Promethean director Clint
Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima , followup to his daring Flags of Our
Fathers, is culturally, philosophically and artistically one of the great
Japanese films.
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LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
Release: Jul 07 - Review: 23 Jul 07
In Bruce We Trust.
... a ramped, incendiary, chest-beater of a thriller and surely the best Boy’s Movie of the summer...
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STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
Release:
Mar 99 - Review: 4 Nov 06
"Lock, Stock"
comes at us with two smoking barrels.
With
a frenetic energy that few films today possess, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels is the work of a film-maker who remembers that movies are, first and
foremost, Entertainment.
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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Release:
Dec 01 - Review: Feb 02
A Movie as
fully realized as The Book
...Balrog
faces off with Gandalf in a cinematic sequence so astounding, breath-stopping
and power-hammering that George Lucas is still trying to re-write Star Wars Episode
Three.
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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Release: Dec 03 - Review: 18 Dec 04
The Ring's The
Thing.
The wealth of creative staff employed
by Jackson brought a depth to the visualization of Tolkein's wonders that Tolkein
himself would never have had the capacity to envision.
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AND SEX
Release: Jul 00 - Review: 21 Jun 07 
Aiming for mediocre
- and succeeding..
Another savagely average
boy-girl "romantic comedy" with nothing new to say, nothing profound
to offer and nothing remotely involving...
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NUMBER SLEVIN
Release: Apr 06 - Review: 25 Nov 06
Überhip Ünderworld.
...if there is such a thing as "too hip," Paul McGuigan's Lucky Number Slevin would be choking on its own faux street cred.
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