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Next (2007, PG-13)
Very good action movie, have a good story, very good casting and accepted direction. but what stops me at 3 stars, is editing and special effects that seems not good enough to get along with cast performance. It also must be mentioned that Cage-Biel relation is not belivable , but do not forget this is action not romance. |
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Stranger Than Fiction (2006, PG-13)
I have to confess that at first, I expected another average "Ferrel comedy" which is not my fav. but names of Hoffman and Thompson made me watch it, and now, I am Happy!! Brilliant story, Great casting and an acceptable directing and editing. very funny and simple special effects. Ferrell made me to start changing my mind about him. I think it was the first movie I saw with maggie Gylenhaal as leading role in it, she is a real actress in this movie, she doesn't have sex attractions like Johansson or Alba or obvious talent like Julia Roberts but has something special that makes you take her as an old buddy. Hoffman and Thompson are great as usual and Latifah , She is OK, better than other movies of her like Taxi. ~ |
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The Contract (2006, R) |
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Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) (2006, R)
If you like adventure, and mythology, this movie can be a good suggestion to you. It is about the oldest tale in this world, battle between Good and evil. they are equal so a man can set the final destiny of world by joining one of them. casting is acceptable, special effects are wonderful for a non american movie. director knows his job, so, he can make you sit , sometimes grab your seat and watch his product non-stop. |
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The Family Stone (2005, PG-13)
If you like the family drama, this movie is yours. Although it has not a great casting, the performers did their job Over average. Directing is standard for a comedy/drama like this and story is very good. Writers try to give us an image from an ideal middle class American family during a Christmas story and it can be told that they among the cast and crew teams have made it. It worth watching once to make you feel better and increase your spirit?s inner peace. |
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All The King's Men (2006, PG-13)
Zailian did a well done job in bringing this wise politician's life into motion picture. But I wonder how Anthony Hopkins (sir) accepted to play such a neutral, short and narrow character, maybe personal relations with director is the correct answer?!? Penn is great as always. Sean is a man with idealism in his mind, so whenever he casted for roles of idealists, he doesn?t play, he lives the role. Law is acceptable although he didn?t give much energy to the project and didn?t try as hard as he used to, to make the reporter?s role believable. Patricia Clarkson is only average and sometimes below it. A better casting may save the relation between Law and her character, but here this relation is almost lost. ?Sugar? supposed to be a different character but director and actor failed to make it different. My conclusion is it worth watching once or twice. You can find something about power and its ability to ruin wisdom in this movie |
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Snatch. (2001, R) |
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Tsotsi (2006, R)
I have a friend who lives in Johannesburg for more than 10 years now. She told me that she loves there and its beauty and nature but she hates that for more than 10 times the family has been rubbed. Yes more than 10 times in 10 years for one family. This is the crime rate of this city. In this movie, you do not see the beaty of Johannesburg but lots of violence, crimes, shack lands and miseries are ready there to ruin your inner peace. I suppose although the director comes from south Africa, but he hates his mother land to make such a disgusting image from its capital. if ask me, this is not realism, this is hatrate. |
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Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (2006, R) |
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Breaking and Entering (2007, R)
Mingela as director, Binoche , law and Wright Penn as cast, Seems to shape a great team. YES , and they have made a great movie. If you like drama , this movie is for you. For sure this is not another "English patient" but it has its own power points and great seconds. I will always remember this with the scene in which Binoche as a moslem Bosnian mother begged his boy friend (Law) for sake of his son and tried to persuade him by dirty movements desperatley. Binoche's performance is not forgetable in this scene, anybody else could have ruined the whole but She made you cry for justice! |
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The Animatrix (2003, Unrated) |
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Code Name: The Cleaner (2007, PG-13) |
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Deja Vu (2006, PG-13)
Jerry Bruckheimer is one of the greatest producers in Hollywood; He used to produce some of Blockbusters |
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The Butterfly Effect (2004, R)
Forget the sci-fiction, it was not director's worry to be accurate scientifically, he wanted to show us how little iny,winy,tiny decisions and events in our lives shape what we called destiny. After watching this, you will be more careful about your behaivor and thoughts :) |
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975, R) |
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Heat (1995, R) |
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Dirty Pretty Things (2003, R)
If you emigrate , if you are a refugee, if you lost your home land, if hunger, war , unemployment, epidemic disease , or government violence pushed you out of the land you have always loved. watch this movie, this is your story. |
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The Squid and the Whale (2005, R) |
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The Straight Story (1999, G) |
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Sirens (1994, R)
It is good to see that somebody learns to free his(her) soul from borders and limits not set by almighty God but church. Sirens show us this freedom in a well managed way , full of beatiful landscapes of Australia. Hugh Grant is not so good, maybe the role he performed limited him to this level. but you can find one of the best performances of Tara Fitzgerald in this movie. Duigan proves his ability to make 4 star movies and also shows that he loves his country and Australians way of life. IT MUST BE MENTIONED THAT THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR KIDS!!! |
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Duel (1972, PG) |
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Population 436 (2006, R)
This is what I called neutral movie. It supposed to be a horror movie, but shows nothing more than a bunch of stupid people who try to keep their population fixed even by humiliation, murdering and brain shocks. if it scares you , I have to remind you there are more stupid people who try to keep their society steady in more brutal ways. |
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Seraphim Falls (2007, R) |
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Letters from Iwo Jima (2007, R) |
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Coyote Ugly (2000, PG-13) |
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Eragon (2006, PG) |
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88 Minutes (2008, R)
What saved this movie from falling into a disaster is nothing but one man's talent. Alpacino's great performance make a difference between this movie and other B series trillers. Director , camera, other members of cast and crew did nothing special . It worth watching only to see Pacino's excellent done job. |
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Epic Movie (2007, PG-13)
What on earth made the team of writers to consider themselves comedy writers? They do not have any kind of creativity, they only used the humors in original movies once more and made them badly out of reason. they also added some rudity and nudity and shit to the original ideas and paste them as a movie. It make you itching how some one can make a mistake in choosing his/her carrier as writer. Directors!! are wandering around trying to make head and tails for a rubbish story with cheap special effects. |
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Casino Royale (2006, PG-13)
If I wanted to give stars to an action, I should have given 4 stars, but this is a Bond movie and I couldn't find any Bond foundamental elements in it. Bond supposed to have sense of humor even in his battles but here I found only violence and depression. In one scene a man took Bond as Hotel's ganitor!!! Bond , even if comes out of a submarine or involved in a bloody expolsion must remains neat, well dressed and handsome as a prince. but Craig with Tshirts and jeans .... finally I want to say that Bond girls are supposed to be beautiful, blonde and narrow minded , but this Bond girl is a psycologist and phylosopher! No this was not a Bond movie but a good action. |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006, R) |
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Man of the Year (2006, PG-13)
It worth 2 hours of your life to see what I call a pure hollywood political movie. Story: rubbish, unlogical and irrelevant. Directing: average Casting: good, I like Williams performance as usual but Walken is wandering around on his wheel chair with no space for his abilities. the other actors are doing average . Camera / editing: So so to me |
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Freedom Writers (2007, PG-13) |
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She's the Man (2006, PG-13) |
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Syriana (2005, R) |
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, PG-13) |
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A Good Year (2006, PG-13)
Scott took a great risk making this movie. It is not his genre. I think I can feel why he made such a movie . he is tired . tired of business, tired of block busters making, tired of metropols, tired of big challenges and have a desire for peace, for childhood, for wine , for Provence vineyards... He is getting old and mid life crisis got him with this question; "Is money making and winning everything???" and his answer by mean of this movie is a big NO. Crowe made it acceptable to have him in a romance movie and the other members of cast are also good. landscapes are very beatiful. Good for Provence redsidents, it will increase tourism rate for them. in total, this movie is a cry for farmers' peaceful life from one of top business men of Hollywood. |
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984, R)
The greatest movie from late Serigio Leone. I have seen american cut (3 hours) and it was fantastic. I watched it more than 20 times. but it must be mentioned that Leone claimed that American distributor has ruined his movie by all means. He showed a SIX hours version in Eruope which was the original movie in his opinion. Up to now, I searched hard but nobody has this version. but anyway it is not a movie to lose |
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Brick (2006, R)
At first I rated this movie as "not interested" but some way I had to watch it and it changed my opinion, this is a different movie with different story which reminds me Hammett and noir genre. |
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Red Eye (2005, PG-13)
very well arranged story, with less flaws than other movies in its genre. Flight terror movies. Murphy made a psycho terorrist character with horrible manner and Die-hard :) I can not understand what was the role of Oaks character in the story except for finding the couple in toilet !!! By the way it is more interesting than Flight plan which was a bigger production. |
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Music and Lyrics (2006, PG-13)
Another Nothinghill but without Julia Roberts talent in it. It is another comedy/romance movie with Hugh Grant in it. He told to some reporter that he hates playing in comedy genre , but it is obvious that like it or not , he knows how to perform in this genre and he is one of the best comedians now. Drew Barymore is not a great co-star for Grant. their chemical reaction is not working in the movie. I think this is a good movie for a peacful saturday night to watch and relax. There is no bad guy or bad event just like what comedy/romance movies supposed to be. |
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Paris Je T'aime (2007, R)
This is an episodic movie made by some of greatest directors and its leading role belongs to one of the loveliest cities on earth, Paris. If you have the great experience of exploring Paris ( which I had once) or do not have the chance to be among the 15,000,000 annual visitors, This movie gives you an image of it inspiring by love, some violence and landmarks. Try not to lose it. |
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The Color of Money (1986, R)
Continuing the story of Edward "Fast Eddie" Felson from The Hustler? No way!! I suppose they tried their best to recreate "Fast Eddie" but this character they made has nothing in common with 1961 role played by Newman except the actor's name. In no way one can imagine a young man Like Eddie becomes such a weak, low spirit, money lover old man like showed in this 1984 movie. Richard price the screenplay writer seems not to understand the character, the story and the hidden reasons of Walter Tevis, Writer of original novel. In my opinion Price did it for the right price not for the right motive. Cruise as a future star did a good job, acceptable not astonishing. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (|Robin Hood's Marian, 1991) played one of her worst in this movie, an illogical, stupid, narrow minded girl she made when the writer desired to show a talented, smart and quick learner character. My conclusion? This is a wasted great idea of bringing fast Eddie back into life and satisfying fans of ?The Hustler (1961)? . I think the comparison between Box office and budget shows that it is also a financial nightmare for Touchstone Pictures. |
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007, PG) |
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The Messengers (2007, PG-13)
Another B-series horror movie. Although it tries to be another "Signs" (M. Night Shyamalan) with some flavor of "the others" and of course getting help from some elements of "Grudge" and "Dark water", It turns to be more like "Scary movie 4" . Stewart is the only actor who takes it serious , the other members of cast and crew knew that it is an ordinary horror movie and spend their energy as much as it needs. |
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The Good Shepherd (2006, R)
First of all, I should confess that I am an admirer of De Niro the actor but I am not very fond of De Niro the director. ?A Bronx story? was a disaster and this movie is not much better than that. I have reasons to believe that De Niro the director doesn?t know his job well; |
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The Invisible (2007, PG-13)
I tried to count the holes in the plot, but to tell you the truth, it were too much to be counted. To this kind of screen play, add some amateur actors and a beginner editor and mix it with some bugs in directing and you will have a movie like INVISIBLE. Remember ghost movie? What about final destination? And also girl interrupted? Mix them together in an illogical way add some irrelevant psychology and you have something like this movie?s plot. Now hire an American comic book writer, screenwriter, who also sometimes directing some disasters like Blade: Trinity and let him casting and directing the project. What would you expect to have? If you respect your knowledge and time, trust me and do not waste your time on this out of genre movie. |
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The Last King of Scotland (2006, R)
All the people of my age or older, remember the terror coming from Uganda and frightened the world in 70?s. Idi Amin was one of the first, but (unfortunately for the world) not the last uneducated , full of hate , paranoid terrorist who comes to power in a country and use its diplomatic service, army , economy and labor force to serve his devil ideology. Giles Foden wrote a book about this international terrorist/ dictator era in format of a story about a young Scot physician who went to Uganda as a humanitarian and become a spy of Amin and been butchered by his guards. Scottish director, Kevin MacDonald did a great job to bring this story on silver screen. Casting of this movie is wonderful and I can not imagine actors better than that to fit exactly in their characters, physically and mentally. Forest Whitaker, funny old Whitaker become a real funny MONSTER in his Amin?s character, he really did a great job in this project and deserved the Oscar that was given to him. The other performers also doing well and make the audience to follow their destiny curiously. Editing and cameras are also great. I think this movie faced with serious rivals in 2006 Oscar, if else, there would be more awards waited for it. Conclusion? Do not miss it. |
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1408 (2007, PG-13)
This is the best movie of its genre since "the others". Mikael Hafstrom did a great job in picturing such a twisted , complex , new in its kind , and full of surprises story. the thin border between reality and illusion is keeped by director in the most beautiful and professional way and the cast performance glue you to the silver screen until last 10 minutes of movie in which we feel a sudden bad fall into some melancolic sections that are totally irreleavent with genre. there are also some holes in the plot which prevent this movie from being a masterpiece but in summary, it worth watching once or twice. |
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Snow Cake (2006, Unrated)
I didn't heard about Autism before, but after watching this movie, I surfed a little about this brain disease and found out that Mr. Evans pointed to a right point; Autism cases, unfortunately , increased grew dramatically in north America in 1996?2005.(6 times more). It is unknown how much, if any, growth came from changes in autism's prevalence but I can guess that the main cause is dramatic chemicals in mothers? bodies. |
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Hors de Prix (Priceless) (2006, PG-13)
After davinci code, Tautou jumps back into her favorite genre, Comedy drama. she came into this genre with her most famouse movie, the Oscar winner Amelli but left it for testing her chance on other genres like drama (dirty pretty things) , Thriller (Da vinci code) , and history ( a very long engagement) . But in my opinion, she is a comedian by all means and I think selling rate of other movies shows that I am not alone with this idea. |
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The Reaping (2007, R) |
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Vacancy (2007, R)
What was this nonsense? That is the question I've asked myself several times after watching this movie. To tell you the truth, I can not make any difference between badman of this movie the motel keeper and the director of this disgusting movie. They both make rubbish violence raping movies to sell !! |
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Code Unknown (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages) (2000, Unrated)
Want to watch a different movie? This is the one. Code unknown has everything a good one has but in a different way. from its name to its plot to its editing , everything seems different. but to consider this difference in a good way or bad, I think it is totally depends on your mood and taste for movies. |
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, R)
To tell you the truth, the second movie of this series disappointed me and I decided to stop following. It seems that I was not alone in this idea and the sound of protests penetrated the walls of producers? office. They changed their policy and hired a very good director and crew for this one. The change management really works. The ?Extinction? one is as good as first one, not to mention that it is far beyond my expectations based on the ?Apocalypse?. |
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3:10 to Yuma (2007, R)
I don't see the 1950's movie, and can not compare them, but this one is an acceptable western movie about a soldire (Bale) a Gangster (Crowe) in a western enviorment including Cattles , Railroad, rubberies, gun shots , Indians and Pinkertons !!! |
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John Q (2002, PG-13)
Another "Casavetes" movie, just like the other movies of his, in this one also the most impotant thing is humans and their problems in a modern society. |
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Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007, R)
I can not write a review on this movie , because of my feelings about the story. Jewish people suffer too much during world war II and afterwards. I didn't watch this movie , I have felt it, I felt the young , wealthy jewish girl's misery and torture. |
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, R)
This is a movie about pyschology in my opinion. The story is about a 2 face man (Sam Rockwell) who has a dark side as a CIA killer and a regular face as a TV talk show director. |
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The Color Purple (1985, PG-13) |
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Four Minutes (Vier Minuten) (, Unrated) |
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Ensemble, c'est tout (Hunting and Gathering) (2007, Unrated)
Want to see a fairy tale without any magic or miracles in it? If yes, this "haunting and Gathering" movie is tailor made for you. |
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El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007, R) |
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The Brave One (2007, R)
Disaster, this is what I called this movie. aged Jodie Foster is the worst casting one can imagine for a psycho killer woman. story is full of holes and bugs with many ilogical twists. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008, PG-13)
Fabulous , unbelieveable , interesting. |

































































niyayesh56 posted 429 days ago
bonour
comment je peux obtenir le film de " c'est tout" mercie