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Captain Phillips
Really Great 83 Points 2013

Tom Hanks has his best role in years as Captain Rich Phillips, yet ends up second banana to the U.S. Navy in general and the SEALs in particular. The combined effect elevates Captain Phillips to true greatness. That it is also the rare history lesson delivered while still current elevates it …

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Pirates of the ...
Barely OK 77 Points 2011

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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Pirates of the ...
Great 28 Points 2006

Not so much a film as it a series of interesting characters, settings, and ideas weddged together in seemingly random order with just enough of a convoulted plot so that it all barely makes sense. However it still entertains. Not as good as the first but better than third only because the thrid h…

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22 minuty
OK 17 Points 2014
Pirates of the ...
OK 17 Points 2017
Pirates of the ...
Good 16 Points 2007

Not terrible, but a disappointing end to the trilogy that started with so much potential. Like many trilogies, the POTC story grew too convoluted as the movies moved along, and by this third film there’s about an hour worth or unnecessary material that does nothing but distract the audience from …

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Pirates of the ...
Perfect 9 Points 2003

A movie based on a ride should never be this good. The jokes shouldn’t work this well. Depp shouldn’t have been able to put forth such a solid performance. But it all worked. Every last bit of this movie just…worked. The key, I think, is that it never takes itself too seriously. This movi…

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The Rum Diary
OK 5 Points 2011

Johnny Depp plays Kemp, an alcoholic journalist in Puerto Rico in the early 1960’s, stumbling around a paradise island in a drunken stupor, and learning about plans to displace locals in the name of greed from a playboy buisnessman named Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Based on the book by Hunter S. T…

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The Buccaneer
None Yet 0 Points 1958
The Buccaneer
None Yet 0 Points 1938