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One of the best pictures of 2015 is an accurate and relevant movie about a truly difficult subject. Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton,…
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Otto Preminger looks at police corruption and comes up with a classy noir starring Dana Andrews as a rogue cop and Gene…
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Millennium / R.O.T.O.R.
Two 1980's science fiction efforts from the 'eighties: Millennium is an expensive book adaptation with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd navigating a…
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Remember Tower Records? The saga of the massive brick & mortar music retailer is a great story with marvelous characters. When you…
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel and Ethan Coen drop most of the sarcasm for their deeply felt character study. Everything's a big problem for Llewyn: a…
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The Vikings
Richard Fleischer's Viking saga is a great star showcase for the grinning one-eyed Kirk Douglas, sullen one-handed Tony Curtis and the heavy-breathing,…
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The Big Sleep
We've waited long enough: Bogart's take on Raymond Chandler's tough guy Philip Marlowe is finally on Blu-ray, with Lauren Bacall hyped as…
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The Emigrants & The New Land
Jan Troell knocks us for a loop with his masterful epic of a Swedish farming family in the 1840s, making the big…
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The Happy Ending
Jean Simmons is the original frustrated Mad Housewife who runs away from a 'dream marriage' in search of something more fulfilling. Uncompromising,…
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GOG 3-D
Now, after 62 years, viewable again in beautiful 3-D! Scientists are being murdered in a secret underground laboratory overseen by a super-computer…
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Woman in the Moon
Fritz Lang applies rigorous realism and excellent science in the first half of his final silent film, a treat for fantasy fans…
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Deep Red
Stabbings, scaldings, hideous lacerations from broken glass and even more brutal manglings for our sanguinary delectation! Dario Argento's smartly directed murder mystery…
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Station West
Army investigator John Haven is out to catch some crooks using stealth, his wits and a limitless supply of marvelous hardboiled dialogue.…
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Harlock Space Pirate 3-D
Ray guns! Space armadas! Storm troopers! Toei's manga became a pricey 3-D animated motion capture epic just three years ago, but was…
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Crimson Peak
Here's where angels sit down to weep next to devils -- the often-brilliant Guillermo del Toro's big Gothic romance / gory ghost…
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Bridge of Spies
Steven Spielberg's entertaining true life account of a chapter in the Cold War concerns a crucial negotiation by a brave attorney (Tom…
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Death by Hanging
You want radical? Look no further. Nagisa Oshima's near-legendary issue drama makes a wickedly frightening protest against the death penalty, but then…
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Gilda
This adult film noir masterpiece showcases the most glamorous pin-up dream girl of the 1940s. Rita Hayworth, a young Glenn Ford and…
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The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson found his personal favorite role in this fine road picture: Navy signalman Buddusky, charged with escorting sad-sack prisoner Randy Quaid…
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The Wrong Man
Alfred Hitchcock's true-life saga of a man wrongly accused may be Hitchcock's most troublesome movie -- all the parts work, but does…
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Hawaii
Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow and Richard Harris bring James Michener's true saga to life -- but it's the story of the…
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
This is my film review and it FREAKS ME OUT! Girlie-art legend Russ Meyer and then- tyro critic Roger Ebert fashion the…
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The Southerner
Looking to discover a top-quality film that honors lasting values? Jean Renoir gives Zachary Scott and Betty Field as Texas sharecroppers trying…
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Curse of the Faceless Man
Everybody sing!: An Italian boy from Napoli, got petrified by the scenery. Now his face is white and his arms are long.…
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I Confess
What's it all about, Alfie? The master of suspense goes in an unusual direction with this murder mystery with a Catholic background.…
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The Undesirable (1914)
What? Not another Hungarian silent film from 1914 -- how many can the market bear? Actually, the rarity and high quality of…