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Big Fish
Not Recommended. This is a story that showcases the worst that postmodernism has to offer....
Monster
Recommended with Extreme Caution. This movie is on par with Se7en, one of the most...
Cold Mountain
Not really recommended. You know, after the moral atrocity that was The English Patient, I...
Paycheck
Not Recommended. Pretty formulaic conspiracy story about seeing the future. Compared to Phillip Dick’s other...
Something’s Gotta Give
Recommended with caution. Finally, a movie about an older man who falls in love with...
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Highly Recommended (Did you have any doubt??) What can I say about this movie to...
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Recommended with qualifications. A fictional story of the historical Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the...
Stuck on You
Recommended. A Farrelly brothers comedy about a pair of conjoined twins (NOT Siamese! Conjoined!) played...
The Last Samurai
Recommended. Okay , this is “Dances With Samurai,” not a Cruise Braveheart, but it is...
Elf
Recommended with Qualification. Will Ferrel is a human that was abandoned as a baby and...
The Missing
Not Recommended. This is a very well done Ron Howard remake movie of the John...
Timeline
Recommended. This one is about some archeologists who go back in a time machine to...
Gothika
Partially Recommended. Just why they called this Gothika, I’ll never know. It’s about a psychiatrist...
The Cat in the Hat
Somewhat Recommended – but for adults. Well, not heartily, but for some good fun and...
21 Grams
Hard to say whether I Recommend or Not. Great for conversation about the meaning of...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Recommended. This is a great historical action story. It is not quite as rich or...
Love, Actually
Not Recommended. This movie is mostly about lust, actually. It’s central themes are that love...
Shattered Glass
Highly Recommended. This is the true story of Stephen Glass, who worked for the New...
The Passion of the Christ
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Opening in February 2004. Let me say right out that this is, for...
Matrix Revolutions
Not recommended. Not much to say here. Although I do have an article coming out...
Radio
Highly Recommended. This wonderful little sentimental heart-tugging true story stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as the...
Beyond Borders
Not Recommended. This was a potentially great idea ruined by Romanticism. It follows the path...
Dracula 2000
Rommended with Extreme Caution. Okay, if you don’t like horror films, you won’t like this...
The Station Agent
Highly recommend. Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. This is a little gem of a...
The Magdelene Sisters
Not recommended. I had no interest in seeing this film. But I was stuck at...
Mystic River
Medium Recommended. This film is a brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, superbly directed and edited piece...
Intolerable Cruelty
Not Really Recommended. I love Coen Brothers’ movies for their characters and unpredictable stories, and...
Kill Bill
NOT RECOMMENDED. This vile piece of trash has pretty much convinced me to stop watching...
Secondhand Lions
Recommend, but beware. This is a wonderful sappy, humorous little story about a young introverted...
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