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A Sound of Thunder
Not Recommended. This is a movie based on the famous short story about time travel...
Grizzly Man
Highly Recommended. A brillianté documentary by Werner Herzog about a loser LA actor turned grizzly...
The Cave
Not really Recommended. Alien under the earth. The movie is half decent as a survival...
The Brothers Grimm
Partially recommended. This Terry Gilliam creation has a fictional version of the brothers who created...
Four Brothers
Not Recommended. Four adopted brothers return to their home town to get revenge on their...
The Great Raid
Partially recommended. This is the true story of the greatest rescue of American POWs in...
March of the Penguins
Highly Recommended. This little documentary about the mating and child-rearing of Antarctic Emperor Penguins is...
The Upside of Anger
Not really recommended. This is a movie about a woman, Joan Allen, and her four...
Skeleton Key
Not Recommended. The story of a Northerner do-gooder nurse (Kate Hudson) who is hired to...
Broken Flowers
Not Recommended. This is a story with a powerful moral theme that I think is...
My Date with Drew
Recommended. This delightful little cheapo documentary about a Joe Average guy seeking to win a...
The Legend of 1900
Not Very Recommended. This is a movie that is not a great story and has...
Sky High
Recommended. This is a live action version of The Incredibles, and I loved it. And...
The Island
Recommended. Okay, Michael Bay, formula action movie with tons of non-sequitur action sequences. But so...
Wedding Crashers
Hard to Recommend. This is a story of two sleaze balls, played perfectly by Vince...
Bewitched
Kinda Recommended. Another brilliant feminist tale written and directed by my favorite female director, Nora...
Saints and Soldiers
Recommended. A great little story about a small group of Allied soldiers behind enemy lines...
Fantastic Four
Ambivalent Recommendation. I say ambivalent because, while on the one hand, I enjoy comic book...
War of the Worlds
Not recommended. Another humanistic epic that destroys transcendence and in so doing, destroys the goodness...
Batman Begins
Recommended. Best of ‘em all. A more realistic Batman. And Deeper Batman, one that probes...
Dark Water
Not Recommended. So many of these adapted foreign thrillers start out with a real scary...
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Recommended with caution. This is a young chick flick about four girlfriends in high school...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Recommended. Two Assassins (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) are married to each other and don’t...
Cinderella Man
Highly Recommended. Definitely the new Rocky of the millennium. Fabulous pro-family movie about blue collar...
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
Not Recommended. I wanted to see this movie because of the fact that it was...
Crash
Highly Recommended for mature viewers (Lots of harsh “language”). This is an incredible movie about...
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Not Recommended. A gazillion dollar extravagant waste of two and a half hours. Yeah! It’s...
The Kingdom of Heaven
Not really recommended. Ridley Scott is one of the finest filmmakers in Hollywood. He is...
The Interpreter
Hard to recommend. This was a well done political thriller about an attempted assassination of...
Chocolat
Not Recommended. My brother-in-law recently did a detailed analysis of this movie to point up...
Sahara
Kinda recommended for popcorn fun only. I was a Dirk Pitt fan when I was...
Sin City
Not Recommended. This is a visual masterpiece of cinematography that more accurately translates a black...