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Babel
Really Great 12 Points 2006
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Away from Her
None Yet 0 Points 2006
Awakenings
Very Good 17 Points 1990

Robin Williams plays a nerdy researcher who gets a staff job at a special needs hospital, where he is presented with practically comatose victims of an epidemic that occurred decades ago. Only now, a cure exists and Dr Sayer won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The story that ensues is both heart-warm…

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Australia
Very Good 66 Points 2008

Retro, romantic, and refreshingly revisionist, Baz Luhrmann’s latest stylized production hits more than it misses in its grand sweep of his native country. A great date movie for grownups, this big, big show has something for both men and women, though I can’t imagine many guys taking it in on t…

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August: Osage C...
Good 66 Points 2013

Unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way, wrote Tolstoy. The Oklahoma family in August: Osage County is unhappy because their matriarch is a pill popping shrew. This monstrous maternal presence is masterfully played by the incomparable Meryl Streep. She’s vividly entertaining, albe…

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August
Very Good 17 Points 2008

Any movie about struggling startups is likely to get my attention - seeing how I have lived that a few times! :) August chronicles the adventures of Tom, the cocky CEO of a startup trying to survive the Dot-com bust, or at least the lock-out period unscathed. Josh Hartnett does a great job po…

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Atlas Shrugged:...
Good 66 Points 2012

Atlas tried, again. If only Part II was double the fun or carried twice the load of Part I.

Instead, the new casting ends net neutral while the story remains mired in the Fifties.

Plus the sheer weight of putting on an economic thriller remains overwhelming. Still, all hail the attempt….

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Atlas Shrugged:...
Good 66 Points 2011

Gas at $37 a gallon and economic depression are hardly inconceivable these days, auspicious timing for a movie about American civilization reacting to such a disaster scenario. Atlas Shrugged’s refreshing celebration of economic risk-takers steps into the breach, a political economy lesson in …

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At Eternity's Gate
OK 66 Points 2018

Vincent van Gogh deserves a great biopic. At Eternity’s Gate isn’t it, not even close.

Frequent screen blackouts and repeated dialogue are just two flaws. At Eternity’s Gate has several more, including scenery that isn’t beautiful until Van Gogh makes it so. Yet its worst flaw is to waste …

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At Any Price
Good 17 Points 2012

Dennis Quaid and Zac Effron work well as father and son in this small town heartland drama. I’ll spare the details, but small town drama, is, well small town – and it takes some heavy hitting dramatic acting to make it interesting. Dennis fits his role like an old glove, and Zac is a natural as t…

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