True Stories

Hotel Rwanda

Highly Recommended. A simple black hotel manager in Rwanda rescues over a thousand refuges from...
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Flight of the Phoenix

Recommended. Great popcorn adventure movie. Actually, a survival adventure movie about a group of people...
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Beyond the Sea

Not Recommended. Boring biography about Bobby Darin. This guy’s life and character and music was...
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The Aviator

Not Recommended. All right. I have decided to announce the Triumvirate of Mediocrity: Martin Scorsese,...
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Kinsey

Not Recommended. This movie is terribly dishonest and morally criminal. It is the cliché accusation...
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Finding Neverland

Hard to Recommend. This is a complex one. This film is really quite brilliant, and...
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Alexander

Not Recommended at all. BORING. A movie about Alexander the Great done by Oliver the...
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Woman, Thou Art Loosed

Partially recommended. Very thoughtful and poetic. This movie does for black Gospel culture what The...
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King Arthur

Kinda recommended for it’s interesting take on an epic legend, but not really recommended because...
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To End All Wars

Very Highly Recommended. Possibly one of the best films ever made. Okay, I wrote the...
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Troy

Excellent production values, but hard to recommend. A hollow epic. This movie was well-written. It...
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The Alamo

Somewhat Recommended. Not a very exciting movie, by modern action movie standards, but acceptable. Okay,...
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Walking Tall

Not Recommended. Not as good as the original. And you know, this one was only...
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Hidalgo

Recommended with reservations. Now here is a thematically rich story. I was impressed. This buddy...
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Judas

Not recommended. Okay, they pulled this one out of the crapper because they thought that...
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Miracle

Recommended. You do not have to be a sports person to love this movie based...
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In America

Recommended. Written and directed by Jim Sheridan with his daughters, this film, part autobiography, is...
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Calendar Girls

Hard to recommend. This is another movie that has some wonderful character moments, great lines,...
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American Splendor

Ambivalent Recommendation. This is an interesting movie based on the real life, below average existence...
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Monster

Recommended with Extreme Caution. This movie is on par with Se7en, one of the most...
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Girl With a Pearl Earring

Recommended with qualifications. A fictional story of the historical Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the...
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The Last Samurai

Recommended. Okay , this is “Dances With Samurai,” not a Cruise Braveheart, but it is...
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Shattered Glass

Highly Recommended. This is the true story of Stephen Glass, who worked for the New...
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The Passion of the Christ

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Opening in February 2004. Let me say right out that this is, for...
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Radio

Highly Recommended. This wonderful little sentimental heart-tugging true story stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as the...
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Beyond Borders

Not Recommended. This was a potentially great idea ruined by Romanticism. It follows the path...
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