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The Departed (2006)
Gangsters with cell phones, but the rest is vintage Scorsese. Nice twists and lots of exploding heads. The all-star cast dazzles. Farmiga is stunning, but she’s got crazy eyes in this one and it looks like she’s on drugs.
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Fantastic Four (2005)
Some nice effects, but not much drama. Needed to be a bit darker, and it needed another star (besides Alba).
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Jarhead (2005)
Some beautiful shots, and Gyllenhall is engaging. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have many redeeming qualities and that doesn’t give us any reason to care about his story.
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Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
A nice departure for Miller. Touching story, and a very cool real-life montage at the end. Sarandon’s pretty good. Nolte’s not bad, either, although his accent intermittently disappears. Where did they find those kids?
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
Pretty horrible. Arnold should be ashamed. He could have at least tried to make it funny with some muscle comedy or something…
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Paper Clips (2004)
Really took me by surprise. I’d heard the story on the news, but didn’t think much of it. But seeing young, non-Jewish, country bumpkins in the middle of nowhere getting emotional about the Holocaust really tugs the heartstrings.
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Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Kind of an interesting premise, but it’s a cheesy movie. Bullock’s ugly prostheses really work.
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The Commitments (1991)
Really good musical performances. Strong is a very interesting, very talented singer. Amazing that he was only 17… Interesting backstory to the film. Rowan’s appearance is very cool.
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Transamerica (2005)
Huffman is good. A woman playing a man playing a woman is a novel idea, and she pulls it off. A completely unselfish, emotional performance. Zegers is impressive, too.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Each scene is shot and scored like it is the climax of the movie when there’s really nothing going on at all. What you end up with is an extremely boring movie without a story and full of anticlimaxes. The excruciatingly slow camera movements and still shots lull you to…
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