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All for one and one for … naught. Paul W.S. Anderson’s CGI-crazy take on The Three Musketeers has some great visuals to recommend it and gobs of silly gimmickry to destroy it. The gimmickry won, meaning the viewer loses. Steer clear. The movie consists of cockamamie action scenes inter…
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The King & his Minister in the Louvre
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Hail the maximum sword and sandal movie. Gladiator tells a relatively unadorned story stupendously well. Its great star – Russell Crowe – fights above his weight class, delivering a superman performance while hewing to his characteristically understated readings. Highly watchable then and … |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? looks stupid but is actually brilliant and brilliantly funny. Classic Coen Brothers is also what it is, a movie only their fertile minds and clever craft could conceive and consummate. For instance, George Clooney’s escaped con clambers aboard a box car and begins his…
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Constant Sorrow? More like Constant Joy.
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Entirely serviceable entertainment for young boys, and those in touch with their inner boy. Note that I saw it as an airplane movie, so it was most assuredly not the 3D version. I bet it’d be a hoot and a half in 3D. But why stop there? The movie was clearly designed with a future theme p… |
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Slog-a-thon. Johnny Depp, great costars, fabulous visuals: all for naught. The fourth installment of Disney’s thrill ride franchise reinforces much, mostly that more is not more when it’s a mess. A convoluted plot about the search for the Fountain of Youth scaffolds countless action sequence…
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Tempestuous beauty fails to catch fir...
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A rich swamp of a movie, Adaptation teems with genres and ideas, truths and lies, self-referential irony and – not least – outstanding acting. A Florida swamp containing a rare orchid gestates the interlocking stories of a crazed plant dealer, the New Yorker writer who falls for him and the …
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Mellow Meryl after she's had the good...
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Classic Kurt Russell can’t fully rescue an otherwise charmless martial arts fantasy. That spells moderate trouble for John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China, which lost a ton of money upon its premiere and lives on to this day mostly out of the affection that we Kurt Russell fans have for…
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Jack Burton's Best Quotes
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Cravenly exploitative and sporting a bad title, The Eagle mostly lays an egg. While it’s kinda worth watching for hard-bitten war movie guys, slumming history buffs should steer clear. As one of those stories that starts where the legend leaves off, the history is tripe. Fortunately the prod…
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Great visuals of Roman-era Britain
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Disappointing summer blockbuster, thy name is Prince of Persia. Not a complete flame-out, this video game come to the silver screen nonetheless proves convoluted, silly and forgettable. On the plus side, Jake and Gemma have charisma and more than a bit of chemistry together, the well burnishe…
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Gemma: Princess now, Screen Queen soon
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Need a lift? I did and The Adventures of Tintin provided it. Light-hearted, highly inventive, magnificently assured, the Belgian boy wonder’s big Hollywood movie proved just the ticket. LOLs are rarely so airy. A Tintin newbie, I had no familiarity with the comic-page hero: his investigat…
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"Well, this is a fine mess..."
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