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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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LAKEVIEW TERRACE
 Release: Sep 08 - Review: 27 Apr 09 
Jules Winnfield in the 'burbs.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE puts Jules Winnfield from PULP FICTION in a quaint suburban setting, and lets him live like his wallet: a bad mother fucker.
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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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LIONS FOR LAMBS
 Release: Nov 07 - Review: 6 Oct 08 
Roaring Thunder for Republican Muttonheads.
...a wake up call to America - wake up and smell the lunatic euphemisms the Republican administration is shoveling down your incognizant throat!
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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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LOCK,
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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THE LOVE GURU
Release: Jun 08 - Review: 23 Feb 09 
Half-Spreading the Love.
...another excuse for Mike Myers to act unutterably stupid - and get paid for it.
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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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