Genre: Drama

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Magnificent Magnolia, as I call it. This is a true modern classic.

All of the performaces are good and no one out does another cast memeber, which makes a perfect ensemble cast.

John C. Reilly is excellent as a lonley policeman;
Tom Cruise is fantastic as a sleazy televison personality who repesses his childhood;
Jason Robards is brilliant as a terminally ill old man;
Julianne Moore is outstanding as his trophey wife who actually begins to love him in her best performance;
Willian H. Macy is great as a man who used to be a famous child genious as is
Jeremey Blackman as a new child genious in one of the best performances from a child actor
and all the other primary cast are good too along with the people in smaller, though just as memorable roles.

The direction and screenplay is also great from Paul Thomas Anderson who carved a realistic drama from his wonderful imagination. Although over 3 hours long without interuptions (don't get put off, it flies by), I was never bored. Ever. That is because the cast nor Anderson let it get boring and each story has a some differences which offers change.

The loactions are also very interesting and different from each other.

The end is mindblowingly good and is done without to much pomp and exaggeration which could have ruined the film.

An epic drama you should make time for because you will not regret it and it will affect you in some way. An unforgettable, original and highly entertaining classic.

Saving Private Ryan is an astonishing war film and is so far the best of the genre, which is a massive achievement, considering it is one of the oldest genres of film.

With an all star cast as good as this and with the extraordinary talent of Steven Spielberg behind the camera, this was never going to fail. After viewing this, what I once though was impossible has happened. Jaws, my favourite Spielberg for several years has been over taken by this wonder. Hell, I wasn't even expecting it to take over The Deer Hunter, let alone The Great Escape and Spielberg's classic shark fable.

Everything I had heard about this film was correct. It is a gripping, stylish, solemn account of World War 2, and although it has been told in film countless times, once before by Spielberg himself with Schindler's List, this has risen above them all to be the best. I always knew this was going to be good. But not THIS good.

First of all, I'd like to write about the brilliant ensemble cast. With Tom Hanks and Tom Sizemore included, I was really excited about seeing this film. Sizemore is fast becoming one of my favourite actors and he really is an under-rated talent, with him at the top of his game here. He gives his character depth like he does with all his films, but none of them as good as this. Hanks is a brilliant actor, and was rightly cast in the lead role. I can't see any other actor play the role as good as he does here. He highlights the courage of his character really well, especially in the first combat scene. Among the other stand outs are three people I was really happy to see in this film. Giovanni Ribsi, Adam Goldberg and Jeremy Davis. I enjoy seeing all of them in television shows, with both Ribsi and Goldberg appearing in both F.R.I.E.N.D.S and My Name Is Earl and Davis sharing his talent amongst the stellar cast of Lost. As soon as I realised it was these three in the film, I knew I was really going to enjoy it. Davis, playing the jumpy, fish-out-of-water translator, was so good in his role. His acting talent really comes to light in the final combat scene, and Spielberg put his acting skills to perfect use. Ribsi was also good as Irwin Wade, who really impresses in one particular scene and going against his normal, funny, roles. In this film, he has revealed acting depths I never knew he had. Then there is Goldberg, who was also remarkable as Private Stanley Mellish. He is involved in one really intense scene which is also one of the most memorable parts of all 2 hours and 43 minutes of this picture. Among the cast is Vin Diesel who really went against my expectations and did a great job. Another stand out actor is Barry Pepper, as religious marksman Private Daniel Jackson. He gets everything about his role right and was again, perfectly cast, like all the others. Matt Damon is also great as the man of the title and delivers a performance that is probably one of the best of his career.

Steven Spielberg is a remarkable and versatile director, creating Horror classics like Jaws, Science Fiction classics like E.T-The Extra Terrestrial and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, and emotional drama's such as Schindler?s List, Amistad and of course this, his best. Truly deserving his academy award for directing, he uses masterful techniques to create atmosphere and tension and these come across perfectly on screen.

Amongst other great details are the dazzling cinematography, which also won the Academy award and John Williams' always reliable score. These combined with everything else really did help make one of the best films of all time.

I also like the strong use of contrasts within the film, such as Beauty and violence and life and death. For example, we see raindrops on a leaf, and beautiful fields of flowers inbetween violent and disturbing battles, and sheep running across a landscape, after some dark and moody scene.

As far as war films go, this is by far my favourite, ranking as 18th of all time. I can't see anything wrong with this mind-blowing film and now I really see what all the hype is about.

Wonderful. Amazing. Fantastic. Brilliant. Great. Unforgettable. Awesome. Wow. Film Defined. American Beauty is too hard to sum up in review so this will be short.

To say it is good is an understatment. To say it is one of the best films ever made, is an understatment. To say this is the best film of all time, is a bit of an over statement, but it damn near is the greatest.

I am shocked and appalled that some peope can find this crap. Are they watching the same film as we are? Is the question nagging at me.

Everything about this, directing, acting, score. plot, layout is fantastic. A true modern great. The way we look upon 40's films as classics now, this will be looked upon as a classic in 60 years too, and it truly deserves to be.

An unforgettable classic with iconic performances from both the major and the minor cast and a whole array of famous quotes.

This is a film I can see myself never tiring of. I am writing this after my second viewing, in which I loved it much more than the first time (which was still a 5 stars; this has just climbed much higher in my favourites list) and this time around I noticed even more depths of the film, which really must be the most romantic film of all time.

Firstly, the performances are incredible. Peter Lorre, although only in it for about 10 minutes, delivers the performance that really sticks in my mind. Afterall, he is in my favourite scene too. Of course, Bogart is incredible as Rick Blaine, saying his lines with such scathing cynicalness, too. He was perfect. Claude Rains, one of my favourite actors, was outstanding and after rewatching this, it has taken over The Invisible Man in my top 100. I am still torn between his best performance of the two, but what I can say, each are equally fantastic, even if he only does use his voice as The Invisible Man. Ingid Bergman is great too and she has a really chemistry with Bogart and all the other characters too. Speaking the lines with perfection. The cast also includes the brilliant John Qualen, one of my favourite actors from severel episodes of Alfred Hithcock Presents, in a tiny but memorable role, just like Lorre. Here he plays a the man selling the jewlry.

The direction by Michael Curtiz is amazing. He makes the film gripping (especially near the end) but mostly touching and romantic and from this he creates a perfect mixture.

The screenplay is one of the best i've ever heard. It often feels like a classic line is being spoken every minute. It has got to be the film with the most famous film quotes of all time. My favourite is "I stick my neck out for nobody", spoken bt Bogart. An under-rated line in comparison to others, but memorable nonetheless.

Casablanca is one of the best films of all time. Everything is perfect, from the acting to the cinmatography and from the directing to the editing and everyone should see this remarkable film.