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Director: Walter Salles Genre: Horror/Thriller Year: 2005 Let us preface this review with the fact that Jennifer Conelly is in this movie. That alone was reason to watch this movie, even if most of the reviews I heard or saw were nothing more than tepid. Unfortunately I am going to side with the mainstream idea [...]
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Director: Antoine Fuqua Genre: War/History/Drama/Romance Year: 2004 I am not even going to get into the historical fact of this movie, partly because I know nothing of the subject and partly because I do not care. As a movie, this flopped into my lap as a tremendous disappointment. It is amazing to me how so [...]
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Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance Year: 2003 I do believe this was my introduction to Thai film and after having watched this movie I have no regrets about making this my first. Set in Thailand but with a Japanese man (Tadanobu Asano) on the lead, this movie takes advantage of Thai, Japanese and the English [...]
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Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev Genre: Drama Year: 2003 One of those great movies that somehow manage to slip under the radar even when the do well in the Festival Circuit. Every year seems to have those and this one was one of those for the year of 2003. I heard of it, I read an article [...]
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Director: Fernando Meirelles Genre: Drama/Thriller Year: 2005 Another of the 2005 movie greats? Yes indeed! Even though I this movie came out before Syriana, I watched it sometime after and I seem to put the two at pretty much the same level. The acting is superb on both movies and ‘Gardener’ is to pharmaceudicals what [...]
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Director: Stephen Gaghan Genre: Drama/Thriller Year: 2005 I saw this movie a while ago…way back when it first came out and I am not even sure how the review slipped me, but I must add it in here, because I seriously think that is one of the best movies of 2005. Based on the book [...]
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Director: Stanley Kubrick Genre: War/Drama/Action Year: 1987 Yes, it took me this long to see it, even after hearing so much about it and having seen so many references in other movies. It is a classic by any definition, and yet I felt slightly unfulfilled by it. I liked it, do not get me wrong, [...]
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Director: Jaques Audiard Genre: Drama/Crime Year: 2005 If you were to ask Thomas Seyr what he did for a living, he would say he is in the Real Estate business. If you were to shadow him during one of his typical days, you would know that part of that business includes setting rats loose on [...]
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Director: Andrew Adamson Genre: Adventure/Action/Family/Fantasy Year: 2005 I was pretty excited going into this movie, the teasers and trailers had been working at my nogging many times so that I actually got that itch to get to it. Unfortunately it did not happen on opening weekend, but it did happen and that is what matters. [...]
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Director: Ingmar Bergman Genre: Drama/Mystery Year: 1966 This film was released in 1966. It opens with a series of flashed black and white stills in rapid succession and then “ding” there is that recognizable sound and the image of an erect penis. Not even a pair of minutes into the film and already I am [...]