My Favorite Movies


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The Dark Knight (2008,  PG-13)
The Dark Knight
Wow, wow, wow...By the time I wrote this review, all the Joker line is still inside my head. "let's put a smile on that face !!!" still banging my mind and made me believe this is the real Joker at the real life. Salute to the late Heath Ledger that by his performance put him above previous Joker played by Jack Nicholson and put him in the same level of Daniel-Day Lewis in terms of Acting skills. I would support Heath Ledger and Christopher Nolan to get an Oscar for this movie, not only it's a good movie with the great, fresh, pschycotic and mind twisting story and plot, he actually able to bring all his cast to the maximum level of acting and influence. Aaron Eckhart is the wild card that make this movie even better since he played his role very well and magnificent beyond expectation, from now on his name will be remember by all of us since he just raised his standard. And as usual, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine were also the strong pilars that holds this movie upwards to certain limit and cannot be taken as an ordinary movie. Christopher Nolan is great director, no one can see this coming, especially by the hyped that already live since last year, and he prove it that it's not just about the hype. In my eyes watching the Dark Knight is a proof that The Prestige concept can be blend with Batman Begins foundation with a lot of additional x-factor, one of them is the late Heath Ledger. I'm surely want to watch it again and bought the Blu-Ray. Phenomenal movie
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994,  R)
The Shawshank Redemption
The best movie of all time, definitely my favourite one, great cast and all of them delivered a world class acting, the story plot was amazing and the ending was unexpectedly amazing, a must watch movie in your life
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007,  R)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
One word that describe this movie. Beautiful!. Why?, infact it was Dark, Gore, Disgusting and not much script involved in this movie. However, if you able to see it as a whole, this movie was made from a beautiful collaboration between Cinematography, Music, Script, Acting, Story Plot and all those Disgusting, Dark, Gothic and Violent scenes. I've made my choice, this is my favorite movie of all time to date. Salute to Tim, Johnny and Helena.
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Casino Royale (2006,  PG-13)
Casino Royale
The best bond movie ever made, great story, great acting by all cast, and great martial art visualization, Daniel Craig is the real and best bond ever, after watching this movie, I don't have the feel to watch other bond movies before
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The Prestige (2006,  PG-13)
The Prestige
Superb cinematography and story plot, dramatic and unexpected ending, all cast acted brilliantly and Christian Bale has become one of my favorite actor with his acting in this movie
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Inglourious Basterds (2009,  R)
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Star Trek (2009,  PG-13)
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Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003,  R)
Kill Bill: Volume 1
What a movie, fresh and fantastic story plot, great cinematography and acting by all the cast, even Daryl Hannah act amazing in this movie, love all the fight coreography, my fave fighting movie of all time
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Minority Report (2002,  PG-13)
Minority Report
One of my favourite movie of all time, great and fresh story plot, fantastic technology, Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell are giving their best to fit their character in this movie, the ending was so good and unpredictable, nice one mr. Spielberg
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Frost/Nixon (2008,  R)
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Saving Private Ryan (1998,  R)
Saving Private Ryan
Fantastic scene minute by minute, the best part was the amazing battle in the first quarter of the movie, great acting by all cast and the ending was so dramatic, the best war movie ever
12
Big Fish (2003,  PG-13)
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The Kite Runner (2008,  PG-13)
The Kite Runner
This movie is become my favorite movie of all time, leave Sweeney Todd to the second and Shawshank Redemption to the third. It's a beautiful story, magnificent cinematography and fantastic acting from all the actors in this movie. I couldn't even blink my eyes to let myself loose one scene after another since the emotional bounding between actors and audience is so strong and I should remind myself that Life will not always beautiful, you need to stand out for your self and overcome the ups and down. Great movie of value of life that can teach everyone to be grateful for what you have.
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Gangs of New York (2002,  R)
Gangs of New York
Five stars from me for this movie. Not because of DiCaprio, Scorcese nor Diaz, but because of Daniel Day-Lewis presence and the story itself. The story is grade A supported by grade A cinematography. Scorcese can take the credit here since he manage to turn a long story and script to a very exciting movie with a full grip through it. I've even cannot miss any line in the movie since its all very intimidating and sarcastic. However, Daniel Day-Lewis was the highlight in this movie, by successfully once again delivered his performance standard and transform Bill "The Butcher" Cutting to be iconic as Day-Lewis in the real life and other movie as well. Comparing his performance in "There will be blood", this one deserve an oscar more than that one. Violence, intense, psychotic, elegant and cunning were the right words to describe this movie. Well done guys.
15
Munich (2005,  R)
Munich
I've watched this movie for more than 4 time and never get bored, superb cinematography and story plot, one of my fave, Eric Bana's acting was so suitable for the role
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Crash (2004,  R)
Crash
Brilliant movie with great plot, you can see all major problem of humanity in this century, it give us something to think about to make everything better, they deserved their oscar for best picture
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There Will Be Blood (2007,  R)
There Will Be Blood
Outstanding movie. Fresh story line and plot gave us a new feel of twisted movie by its uniqueness and characteristic. False prophet combined with greedy oil businessman is the best intelectual combination of evil theme that you can get, especially supported by unbelievable performance of Daniel Day Lewis that surely deserve his oscar, now I realized that even Johnny Depp is nowhere near him on acting. Paul Dano was brilliant as well, however I need to give credit to Paul Thomas Andersen that pull this off by putting the all the pieces to be a world film masterpiece.
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Training Day (2001,  R)
Training Day
The best performance ever from Denzel Washington was captured in this movie, once you start watching this movie, you'll get carried away with how Denzel play his role along the story line, perfect cinematography will make you think and feel this is real life documentary rather than a movie, a collectible item
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The Game (1997,  R)
The Game
A masterpiece from David Fincher. Fresh and great story combined with fantastic cinematography and great acting from all cast made this movie interesting and intriguing which forced the audience to keep guessing the big picture. As always David Fincher bring his own signature to this movie as well with his out of the box concept and mind game. A great movie to watch though it's been quite late for me to watch it, well, better late than never.
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Black Hawk Down (2001,  R)
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008,  PG-13)
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The Pianist (2002,  R)
The Pianist
What a movie, one of my favourite movie, great story, very real life visualization, love the story plot and the acting that Adrien Brody gave, perfect cinematography as well
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Changeling (2008,  R)
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Million Dollar Baby (2004,  PG-13)
Million Dollar Baby
I really don't know how to start to review this movie. It blown my mind. Wonderful story about life, courage and spirit to fight the pain. Hillary Swank was awesome colliding with the master in acting such as Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman which always fantastic from their experience. Marvelous script and cinematography bring up this movie to be semi-documentary style of movie that still respectable and enjoyable to watch more than once. They deserve all of their oscar appreciation, but even without all of that, they surely got high appreciation from all of the viewers around the world. Brilliant to highest level.
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Ratatouille (2007,  G)
Ratatouille
Pixar is unbeatable in animation, fresh idea supported by advance technology, all the food's animation looks amazing, superb digital art, lighting and story plot
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300 (2007,  R)
300
Great movie, advance visual effect and great classical story plot, fantastic and dramatic martial art movement and great visualization of ending, one of my favourite war movie
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Requiem for a Dream (2000,  R)
Requiem for a Dream
Everyone should watch this movie to be grateful of what God gave us from the first time, once you watch this movie you'll realized that life on "that" road is full of "surprises", and at the end all you get is regret. Great acting from all the cast, nice cinematography and story plot as well, especially the very sadly and touching ending. A must watch movie.
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Arisan! (The Gathering) (2003,  Unrated)
Arisan! (The Gathering)
One of the boldest and greatest Indonesian movie of all time that put a shock theraphy to the society, all cast was perform their best acting in this movie and I have to give the credit to Nia on her achievement of putting all the pieces together to be able to shows society the phenomena in a pleasant and enjoyable way. Great work, Nia !!!
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Cidade de Deus, (City of God) (2003,  R)
Cidade de Deus, (City of God)
One of the best movies ever made, so real, so life and full of life messages, one of my fave, and please don't forget the main character in this movie is not a person, but a neighborhood called "City of God"
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The Good Shepherd (2006,  R)
The Good Shepherd
What a story, great directing by Robert De Niro, Matt Damon was acted properly in this movie, lovely cinematography and the story path, the ending was amazingly unexpected
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Magnolia (1999,  R)
Magnolia
Awesome and meaningfull movie, direct languange make it more dramatic, Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore acting was superb on this movie, interesting story plot of humanity
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Schindler's List (1993,  R)
Schindler's List
One of Spielberg's Masterpiece, great humanist story and cinematography, amazing visualization of Nazi's camp, they deserved their oscar on best picture by emphasizing the humanity value to all of us
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21 Grams (2003,  R)
21 Grams
Great humanist movie, the strength of this movie was the messages and story line, Benecio Del Toro's acting was amazing and the ending was so unpredictable, a must have movie
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Gladiator (2000,  R)
Gladiator
The strength of this movie was its dynamic story line, great acting by Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crow, fantastic cinematography as well make this movie the best roman empire movie of all time
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Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004,  R)
Kill Bill, Volume 2
great sequel but not as bombastic as the first one, still with fresh and fantastic story plot with great cinematography and acting by all the cast, the best part is when Uma Thurman fighting with Daryl Hannah, my fave fighting series of all time
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The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001,  PG-13)
The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
One of the best fairytale series of all time, great visualization of imagination, fantastic visual effect and very entertaining story plot and flow, the minute you watch this movie, you're in another world
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The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002,  PG-13)
The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
great sequel continuing the first part, the story plot still fantastic, special effect was unbelievable, love the dark cinematography, this series was hard to beat by any other series in this world
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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003,  PG-13)
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
The best of the series, dramatic ending, fantastic dark cinematography near the Sauron's castle, no more cliffhanger at the end of the movie and this movie ended itself in good and elegant way
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Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003,  PG-13)
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
One of my favorite series, great cinematography and fantastic acting by the cast, especially Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, the visual effect was advance and the story plot was so great, a collectible movie
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006,  PG-13)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Even better than the first one, Johnny Depp acting was so great, the story plot was fantastic, especially when Davy Jones character come to the picture, great cliffhanger at the end of this part, can't wait to see the third part of this trilogy
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007,  PG-13)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
The final part of the trilogy, not as good as the former two, especially the ending, Disney should make the ending more dramatic, not just by letting the pirates shot Lord Beckett's ship without a fight (since he has the strongest ship and a big sea armada). However, Johnny Depp acting was still good, Geoffey Rush and Bill Nighy was awesome as well
42
The Bourne Identity (2002,  PG-13)
The Bourne Identity
The best spionage action series, this part was blown my mind. Fresh story, great directing in acting and fighting moves, great cinematography and story plot
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004,  PG-13)
The Bourne Supremacy
This part is more powerfull than the first, still with great story plot and action moves, they even improved the cinematography and the script, great series
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007,  PG-13)
The Bourne Ultimatum
The flow was flawless, great story plot with more emotion script throughout the movie, the fighting moves is still entertaining as before, the ending of this series mistery was brilliant, a collectible movie
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The Matrix (1999,  R)
The Matrix
Fantastic visualisation of fresh imagination, one of great movies combining technology with martial art and action, Keanu Reeves acting style is suitable in this movies, but in this movie I'm impressed with Laurance Fishburne acting
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003,  R)
The Matrix Reloaded
Still consistent with the first part of Matrix, great visual effect and good story plot to distinguish real world scene and in-the-matrix scene, good cliff-hanger at the end of this part
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003,  R)
The Matrix Revolutions
This part of The Matrix is more on the robotic story plot rather than matrix one. However, I'm impressed with the robotic war at the end part of the movie, really heroic and entertaining
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Sin City (2005,  R)
Sin City
One of my favourite movie, great adaptation from the comic, fantastic black and white artistic story visualisation, perfect story plot, cast and acting, a must have movie collection
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The Incredibles (2004,  PG)
The Incredibles
Another fantastic animation movie, thanks to Pixar's technology and Disney's story. I must admit that I'd rather watching this movie, rather than watching superman return, it's so relaxing, amusing and easy going, never bored watching this so many times
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Finding Nemo (2003,  G)
Finding Nemo
Pixar was so fantastic, their animation technology is ahead than anyone else for them to bring us something to enjoy with our surrounding, great story and fantastic plot, bravo Pixar for the next generation of animation
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Enemy of the State (1998,  R)
Enemy of the State
Thriller on every minute, you'll never want to miss any scene in this movie, great story plot with fantastic ending, Will Smith and Jon Voight was awesome, great movie to watch again and again and again
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Man on Fire (2004,  R)
Man on Fire
This is the second best Denzel Washington movie after Training Day. The Story is marvelous and one of a kind. Great crime movie, terrifying and dramatic, Denzel and Dakota gave top knotch acting between them in this movie and you'll love the ending of this movie, one of the best ending you'll ever see. Highly recommended by my standard.
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Troy (2004,  R)
Troy
Fantastic movie, I watched several time and not even feel bored, artistic remembrance of Troy's war and one of the best fighting scene of all time is in this movie, Hector vs Achilles, Bana vs Pitt, superb ancient fighting visualization
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004,  R)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Fresh idea and story, full of messages of life, great cast and they all delivered world class acting, Jim Carrey is the best person to play Joel, his brilliant acting really make us follow their adventure in the movie
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Underworld (2003,  R)
Underworld
One of my favourite series, I watched it more than 2 times just because of its cinematography and technology, the acting was at par, but the martial art move was so entertaining and well directed
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Underworld: Evolution (2006,  R)
Underworld: Evolution
This was even better than the first one, again cinematography and visual effect technology was the strength of this movie, with addition of good visualization of Marcus (especially when he fight with his wings), the fighting moves are still top knotch
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Constantine (2005,  R)
Constantine
The strength of this movie was cinematography and special effect, the ending was dramatic, especially the part of the last battle in the pool, great story flow and plot, Keanu just done enough in this movie
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The Departed (2006,  R)
The Departed
Good adaptation from HK's Infernal Affairs, two tumbs up for Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg's acting, great cinematography as well, Leo and Matt just done enough in this movie.
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American Beauty (1999,  R)
American Beauty
Fantastic movie, great and fresh story flow and plot, the cast acting was so amazing, especially Kevin Spacey's brilliant acting which is the key of this movie ups and downs, a memorable movie of all time
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Seven (Se7en) (1995,  R)
Seven (Se7en)
Horror and crime masterpiece, the cast and their acting was so amazing, the story plot was fantastic and the ending was just a blast to the sky, especially the part when David look at the content of the box, Kevin Spacey's acting was brilliant in this movie, enough said
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Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (2006,  R)
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
Great movie with unique story plot and cinematography, the flow was neat and the acting was incredible, but the best of this movie was its great ending, a movie that I recommend to watch
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The Truman Show (1998,  PG)
The Truman Show
Incredible touching and humanist movie, love the script, this is the best Jim Carrey "serious type" movie of all time because he pull this movie of with great acting and feel, the ending was so fantastic
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The Insider (1999,  R)
The Insider
I enjoyed this movie so much because the story is not easy to digest and acting from the cast was so mysterious. I always like how Russell Crowe play character, especially with Al Pacino at the other end, it was indeed really great movie. One of Michael Mann's great movie among a few of them.
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A Beautiful Mind (2001,  PG-13)
A Beautiful Mind
Superb acting by Russel Crowe and Ed Harris, despite of good story line and cinematography. This movie really deserve an oscar for the complete package of excellent. The end was blown my mind away and since I was a math student before, I really have a connection to this movie.
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Good Will Hunting (1997,  R)
Good Will Hunting
Awesome!, especially the script and Matt Damon's acting that really make a big different for this movie compared to other similar drama movie. The story plot was amazing and Gus really done a good job in directing this movie.
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Alien (1979,  R)
Alien
This one is one of my favorite sci-fi thriller movie of all time. The technology really bring us to visualized somewhere in the future, while the story plot keep ourself to the maximum attention to the movie. I really like the visualization of the Alien, it's so awesome I must say. A collectible one.
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Aliens (1986,  R)
Aliens
Fantastic sequel from the first one, with additional strong acting from the cast. The technology are still amazed me and the story line is even better than the first one. I watched this movie for more than 10 times and I'm still want to watch it again. One of my favourite thriller sci-fi movie of all time.
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Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1998,  PG-13)
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella)
Actor and Director is the same person and he is a genius. The acting was superb, the directing was fantastic and the script was so wonderful and successfully touch all audience feeling to get into this movie. A world's masterpiece I must say.
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Final Destination (2000,  R)
Final Destination
Eventhough people give bad mark on this movie, I would still make this movie as my favourite horror series. Why? I feel that the idea was a breakthrough, and for this kind of movie, eventhough the actor only perform at par, you will get carried away by the story path that the director gave. You will enjoy every minute of this movie just as like you're also in that scene. By the time you reach the ending, you will face a classic cliffhanger and you will ask "what will happen after that".
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Final Destination 2 (2003,  R)
Final Destination 2
Successfull sequel for the first part. More tragic, more dramatic, more action throughout the movie. Once again I let myself followed the path that the director gave to me and still wondering "what happened next" in every minute. I must said that I never see the "next thing" coming in every scene of this movie.
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Final Destination 3 (2006,  R)
Final Destination 3
This one is the least favorable movie from the series. I guess maybe the 2nd gave us more realistic visualization of the "accident" and get us to more creepy situation when watching it. This one cannot continue the "Excitement". The plot was the same as the first one and the "accident" are far from reality compare to the 2nd. But I'm glad someone maintain the idea for us to watch.
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Batman Begins (2005,  PG-13)
Batman Begins
The best Batman movie so far. Not only captured the heroic related performance, but also acting between cast with a fantastic script to be performed. Liam Neeson is perfect for that character, while Christian Bale was so talented and amazing. I couldn't wait "The Dark Knight" in 2008. Bravo Christophet Nolan!
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Inside Man (2006,  R)
Inside Man
Impressive Spike Lee's work. The idea was so fresh and simple, and it goes into fantastic script. Clive and Denzel are awesome, other cast only gave their par performance. The end of this movie indicates demand for a sequel. Then it will be sequence that I will wait for. Worth movie to watch for.
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Mystic River (2003,  R)
Mystic River
Story line and cast's acting are the strengths of this movie. The pace is a bit slow but you will be entertained by the script and acting that given by the cast. Great movie of day-to-day story. I guess I must appreciate what Clint Eastwood's effort in this movie.
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Thank You For Smoking (2006,  R)
Thank You For Smoking
This movie has a great script quality to be enjoy with. Aaron Eckhart is doing a good job with his performance in this movie. The theme was simple but this movie make it more twisted and complicated. At the end, you'll feel that life full of ups and downs, but there's always a way out.
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The Simpsons Movie (2007,  PG-13)
The Simpsons Movie
Fun, fun, fun. I need to watch it 3 times to get the full joke in each of the sentence in the script. Totally brilliant full-packed script. The cinematography was standard, but you shouldn't concentrate only on that part to enjoy this movie. A collectible movie.
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Heat (1995,  R)
Heat
Good crime drama movie. The cast is magnificent, however , De Niro Vs Pacino acting war window was too short. I'm impressed with Val Kilmer performance on this movie. Despite to be a long movie, this movie manage to guide the audience through it without getting bored. Great one to watch.
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Collateral (2004,  R)
Collateral
One of the best Cruise's movie. His acting in this movie is marvelous. So thrill, tense and exciting. Michael Mann manage to get the casting balance. The story plot was great and the ending was memorable.
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The Last Samurai (2003,  R)
The Last Samurai
Fantastic cinematography and movie script. Tom Cruise gave us memorable performance in this movie, despite fantastic acting by Ken Watanabe's Katsumoto. Marvelous setting and story make this movie a story that worth to watch again and again and again.
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Catch Me If You Can (2002,  PG-13)
Catch Me If You Can
Fantastic movie based on amazing true story and nicely directed by Steven Spielberg. However, I must say that the acting in this movie is not so strong, but one you begin to watch it, you'll enjoy and get carried away with the story plot and will forget about the quality of acting that the cast gave.
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Edward Scissorhands (1990,  PG-13)
Edward Scissorhands
A classic that worth watching anytime as long as the world exist. Brilliant story line and plot, perfect "Tim Burton" cinematography, and perfect cast makes this movie is a legend and well-known movie of all time. Johnny Depp's acting was so awesome in this one.
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V for Vendetta (2006,  R)
V for Vendetta
Movie full of acting war, that's what V for Vendetta consist of. Great story plot, perfect cinematography and memorable ending, this movie will be one of the movie that worth watching several time. Natalie Portman has shown her talent once more to the world through this movie. A collectible movie.
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The Butterfly Effect (2004,  R)
The Butterfly Effect
I always enjoy movies that try to twist your mind and logic throughout their plot. This movie is one of them. Fresh story and great story plot made this movie memorable and I think Ashton Kutcher really shows his tallent in acting on this movie. A collectible one.
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Enemy at the Gates (2001,  R)
Enemy at the Gates
Jude Law and Ed Harris gave us memorable performance in this movie. Perfect pace, cinematography and script made this movie is one of the best war movie in the decade. The cast is also properly selected to suit their role. A must see movie.
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Spider-Man (2002,  PG-13)
Spider-Man
My favourite superhero series, perfect cast, nicely directed by Sam Raimi, he did deliver this movie better than expected with great cinematography and fantastic plot, the best part of this movie is the real life of Peter Parker, and the unlikely part of this movie is the visualization of the villain which I think can be better.
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Spider-Man 2 (2004,  PG-13)
Spider-Man 2
Better than the first one, still with great cast and nicely directed by Sam Raimi, maintaining great cinematography and fantastic plot, however I still think the visualization of the villain can be better. I still fancy the real life story of Peter Parker and his best friend Harry, at least it involves some one-to-one acting between those two.
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Spider-Man 3 (2007,  PG-13)
Spider-Man 3
Personally I think this one is the best Spiderman movie in the series so far, since it involves more acting, both related to Peter Parker and the villain. I appreciate the visualization of the Venom, however the Sand Man didn't give us strong impression for a villain. I still like the cinematography and the story plot though.
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The Green Mile (1999,  R)
The Green Mile
Michael Clarke Duncan should have an oscar nomination for the performance that he gave in this movie. Strong, touching story plot, great cinematography and cast, and I must say amazing acting by all cast. The ending was so perfect and memorable. What a great visualization for a great Stephen King's story.
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Ada apa dengan cinta? (What's Up with Love?) (2002,  Unrated)
Ada apa dengan cinta? (What's Up with Love?)
A fantastic Indonesian movie, great and fresh stoy plot, cinematography and soundtrack, all cast perform the acting beautifuly and properly throughout the movie, I really blown away by Dian Sastro's acting in this movie, especially at the time when she's happy for the relationship and suddenly turnout to a sad situation about her bestfriend. One of the best Indonesian movie of all time.
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999,  R)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Funny as it can be, another brilliant funny movie with unique "Guy Ritchie" style, very entertaining, great acting and great cast, the ending is hillarious, must have movie
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The Terminator (1984,  R)
The Terminator
I watched this movie in my teenage era and I must admit at that time, this movie was so awesome and a breakthough in the sci-fi movie genre. Fresh story plot and acting, however, Arnold's acting not really impressed me, but it still a good movie though
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991,  R)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Robert Patrick is so memorable in this movie, that's the first impression that i've got, great sci-fi and thriller story plot and cinematography, exciting and so far from boring, as usual Arnold's acting wasn't outstanding. However, it's the best of the Terminator series.
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Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003,  R)
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines
Not as good as its predecessor, however, I still love the story plot and all the action, Its successfully told us where the story of the terminator series begin, Claire Danes performance was memorable, while Arnold's performance still not impressed me much, and I feel the technology part of this movie isn't better than the Terminator 2
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The Lion King (1994,  G)
The Lion King
This maybe was the best Disney's cartoon movie of all time before Pixar's come in the world of animation world. Great and touching story line, perfect narration for all the character and beautiful soundtrack. I guess it will be even better if this movie has Pixar's technology involved in it.
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Toy Story (1995,  G)
Toy Story
Stunning Pixar and Disney collaboration, great story line combine with brilliant technology make this movie as a breakthrough in the world of animation. Disney & Pixar, keep suprise the world with your next masterpiece !!!
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Toy Story 2 (1999,  G)
Toy Story 2
Another higher level Pixar and Disney collaboration compare to the first one, still with great touching story line combine with more advanced technology to make this movie as a good sequel for the first one. great work guys !!!
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Casino (1995,  R)
Casino
What a movie, you can feel all the complexity of the story line, acting war from the cast, and the proper cinematography to make this movie is a legend, Joe Pesci was so awesome in this movie. Enjoy it with passion and patience !!
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004,  R)
The Manchurian Candidate
Mind game, this was the movie was all about, the story line and plot was awesome, the cast are perfectly selected, and to represent the "mind game" of the acting on this movie, Denzel and Meryl are the best, and they did gave outstanding performance in this remake of 1962's "The Manchurian Candidate".
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968,  G)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Simply Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, great simbolic story plot of mankind journey over their life and they will be back to their limited state of mind represent by the "room" at the end of the movie. The 3 part of the movie was so brilliant, ancient part of mankind represent their behaviour, the technology part represent their ambition and handicap, and at the end, the "evolution room" part represent mankind destiny through this life. One of the best movie of all time.
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Downfall (Der Untergang) (2004,  R)
Downfall (Der Untergang)
This movie deserve an Oscar for best picture and Bruno Ganz deserve the oscar for the leading role. I'm blown away by Bruno's acting and self actualization, making the story more stonger and stronger and stronger, one of the best non-english speaking movie of all time.
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Memento (2000,  R)
Memento
Wow, wow, wow, wow...brillliant and fresh story idea from Jonathan Nolan, greatly directed by Christopher, and perfectly performed by all the cast, a totally new experience in watching movie. One of movie's masterpiece of all time, a must have.
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Amores Perros (2001,  R)
Amores Perros
Inarritu was one of brilliant director in the world today, this movie is one of the proof, meaningful 3 fragment of life story, all collided into one single meaning which is the meaning of its title, "Life is a Bitch" and it's will always was, unless you change your perpective on how you look at it.
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Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs) (2002,  R)
Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs)
Perfecto, fresh story line, unpredictable plot, great acting by the cast, good cinematography and properly directed by Wai-keung and Siu Fai, one of the best HK movie of all time
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006,  R)
Lucky Number Slevin
Fantastic story plot and unpredictable ending, You won't even know what's going on this movie until 10 minutes before the end, fresh, funny and entertaining
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The Illusionist (2006,  PG-13)
The Illusionist
wow, what an amazing movie, the story was so fresh and the ending was unpredictable, fantastic cinematography and acting as well, Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti proved themself as great actors in this movie
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Closer (2004,  R)
Closer
My first impression of this movie was full packed of amazing acting, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman pull this movie of with great acting and passion, interesting story plot as well
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Fight Club (1999,  R)
Fight Club
Great movie full of world class acting by Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, fantastic story plot and ending, you'll never see the real story coming at you until you reach the last quarter of the movie, worth to watch again
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Snatch (2001,  R)
Snatch
What a funny movie, would love to watch it again and again and again, great cast and very unique "Guy Ritchie" movie style, great story plot and funny naration along the scene, a collectible one
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Kung Fu Hustle (2005,  R)
Kung Fu Hustle
One of my favourite comedy movie, great cinematography, entertaining story plot and coreography, fresh and great acting by the cast, fun, far from boring and so relaxing, a must have and watch movie
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Before Sunrise (1995,  R)
Before Sunrise
One of the best romance movie of all time, fantastic script and cinematography using the beautiful europe scenery are the strengths of this movie, great acting and interesting story plot as well
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Before Sunset (2004,  R)
Before Sunset
great sequence for "Before Sunrise", still with the amazing script and cinematography, this movie is successfully maintain the beauty of its predecessor to be one of the best romance series of time. Great acting from Ethan Hawke as well.
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Serendipity (2001,  PG-13)
Serendipity
One of my favorite romance movie of all time, and be honest, i'm experiencing the same story at the very moment i watch this movie, great story line and cinematography, and I start loving Kate Beckinsale's acting in this movie.
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Ocean's Eleven (2001,  PG-13)
Ocean's Eleven
I like the story line of this movie, however, i don't think pulling all the star together in this movie was necessary, they should've promote a new star with fresh acting to perform in this movie, however, all the cast did put their best into this movie, the most enjoying part is its great ending
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Ocean's Twelve (2004,  PG-13)
Ocean's Twelve
Once again, i still like the story line of this movie as well as the first one. Despite all the stars in this movie, i'm enjoying the acting of Vincent Cassel, the most enjoying part is the lazer dance in the museum
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007,  PG-13)
Ocean's Thirteen
I guess the story line have a lot of potential to be develop to be more dramatic movie to certain extent, once again i don't feel that pulling all the star together in this movie was necessary, especially Al Pacino, they should've promote a new fresh star to be more dynamic, however, i must agree that this movie enjoyable and fun, worth to watch
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Cold Mountain (2003,  R)
Cold Mountain
Awesome performance from Renee Zellweger!!!, I've never been so blown away with the acting of Renee until this movie come out, great acting skills and complete self actualization, great story line and cinematography as well
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Pulp Fiction (1994,  R)
Pulp Fiction
Honest, transparent, brutal and full of message inside its story line and script, great cast and unique Quentin Tarantino's cinematography, all cast was performing all their top knotch acting. This movie is a legend.
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Children of Men (2006,  R)
Children of Men
Transparent, brutal and honest, these are what the movie about, you can see the trend of human is going backward in this movie, they fight each other, destruction, racistme and egoistic, and when they face extinction, they still keep doing those thing that jeopardize themself. Great cinematography and acting by all cast, a must watch movie.
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006,  PG-13)
The Pursuit of Happyness
Salute to Will Smith, he shows us his acting skill and talent in this movie, it is so real and we can feel what he feels in that movie, the best part was the acting of Will Smith is when he and his son need to spent the night of subway station restroom and someone knock the door several time. One of the best movie of 2006
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Sunshine (2007,  R)
Sunshine
Great movie complete with advance special effect and good cinematography, nice sci fi story plot and imagination, the best part is the ending fight along the big cubicle.
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El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) (2006,  R)
El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
A fantastic movie that combined real life story and meaningful fairy tales, the real life side of the story was amazing and you'll have to go deeper to find the meaning of the fairy tales part. Very unique movie with great cinematography
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American Gangster (2007,  R)
American Gangster
Fantastic movie, one of the best movie in 2007, great cast, story plot and cinematography, Denzel and Russel give their top knotch acting performance on this movie, have to give a lot of credit to Ridley Scott that can put this movie together to become a fantastic movie.
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Stranger Than Fiction (2006,  PG-13)
Stranger Than Fiction
Fantastic movie, easy going, meaningful, properly directed and act by all cast, strong script and story plot, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emma Thompson performed very good in this movie.
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Empire of the Sun (1987,  PG)
Empire of the Sun
Spielberg always have an eye to watch great talent. He did found the fantastic Christian Bale, which I think perform magnificent in this movie. The story plot was so fresh, entertaining and neat. Spielberg also manage to bring good cinematography on this movie, and I couldn't believe that in 1987 he could do it in such a elegant way. A memorable movie.
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GoodFellas (1990,  R)
GoodFellas
Great mafia type kind of movie. I must said that Joe Pesci always suitable for this kind of role. He and De Niro are always able to make gangster atmosphere in such movies. However, I'm quite impressed on Ray Liotta performance in this movie, he gave us a memorable performance.
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3:10 to Yuma (2007,  R)
3:10 to Yuma
This movie's highlight belongs to Ben Foster. Christian Bale was good at this movie, so was Russell Crowe, but the attention of acting performance goes to Ben Foster. The story line was already good and Mangold manage to improve the cinematography significantly to be inline with the good script.
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Superbad (2007,  R)
Superbad
A movie that I appreciate for the honesty and the script. The acting was at par, but the strength was the reality that being bring up to be the theme of this movie, which is awful life of nerd teenagers. It's really visualized what happened in the real life these days.
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Hot Fuzz (2007,  R)
Hot Fuzz
Great movie to release some nerve. Good cinematography with marvelous funny script make this movie as enjoyable as it can be. I found it amusing since it represent the coallition between thriller, action and humor.
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Little Children (2006,  R)
Little Children
Great humanist movie. Great performance by all casts, Jackie Earle Haley deserve his oscar nomination with his performance in this movie. Wonderful story plot and script make this movie enjoyable in a smooth way.
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Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) (2001,  PG)
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
One of Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece. Great story and plot, good animation as well. This movie is about life and its value, and these values priceless. They should remake this movie and collaborate with Pixar to produce even better movie.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006,  R)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Hilarious!, Crazy! Disgusting! but enjoyable. Brilliant idea on the story, fresh and well executed jokes throughout the movie. All the jokes are easy to remember and uniquely "Borat". However, the Cinematography have a lot of room for improvement.
132
Zodiac (2007,  R)
Zodiac
Great thriller with fantastic script. wonderful acting by all cast especially Jake. The story plot was so amazing and make us didn't remember the time spent for watching this movie. However, the ending may not be satisfactory.
133
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005,  PG-13)
Memoirs of a Geisha
I admire the cinematography in this movie. Fantastic!. It's also enjoying watching all the asian superstar ladies perform their best through their acting in this movie, and make the story plot as exciting as it can be.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007,  R)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
I must congratulate the person who come up with the script in this movie, since it's so beautiful, direct and emotional. Brad Pitt is always emotional when doing this kind of movie, while Casey Affleck got to perform the main character in this movie, which is so mysterious, agitating and provocative. Andrew did a fantastic job on directing and he can mobilize all casts' talent and transformed it into a good acting. Beautiful cinematography and landscape setting are some of the best thing of this movie. One of 2007 movie masterpiece.
135
Blade Runner (1982,  R)
Blade Runner
This is one of the best sci-fi movie in the 80's. Ridley Scott is a genius, he's able to put beyond imagination gothic-sci fi cinematography in to the movie and carefully executed the script. Great acting by all cast, and I'm enjoying the young Harrison Ford's performance in this movie.
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Atonement (2007,  R)
Atonement
Beautiful cinematography and marvelous script. All the cast gave their A class performance in this movie to execute the script and story line about regret. I must gave credit to young Saoirse Ronan and James McAvoy for their acting. This movie is full of message of life and love that can make you drown deep down your thought.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971,  R)
A Clockwork Orange
Absolute masterpiece by the all-time greatest director ever in this world, Stanley Kubrick. Once again, he succesfully throw a punch to your face with this movie and you cannot even blink in watching it. Everything is there, from artistical, disturbing, disgusting, good script, psycho acting and Kubrick's unique cinematography. The theme about young people behaviour cannot disguise the true essence of this movie, which is surprises and karma of life. And if you want to break it to pieces, every scene has its own meaning, with visualization of life values through Kubrick's symbolic way. Brilliant Mr. Kubrick
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Léon (The Professional) (1994,  R)
Léon (The Professional)
Even though the theme of this movie is action and crime, you will easily spot that the essence of this movie is about love without boundries. Neat story line and good script make this movie enjoyable scene by scene. But the strength is nevetheless the acting from all the cast. Just like Christian Bale in "Empire of The Sun", young Natalie Portman performed outstanding and beautifully in this movie by giving good visualizations in all the script she has. Jean Reno and Gary Oldman was fantastic as well in this movie. I take my hat off to Luc Besson for the great directing.
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Reign Over Me (2007,  R)
Reign Over Me
Another great movie about life which contain the best acting of Adam Sandler's to date. The story line just amazingly moving and touching, the script was brilliant as well, properly place and emotionally attached. Mike Binder is able to put the story in a good relaxing and enjoying way with the message delivered. One of the best movie in 2007.
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006,  R)
Little Miss Sunshine
One of the best comedy drama movie of all time. Fantastic script and plot make the message of this movie delivered to all the viewer. The good thing about this meaningful movie are the choice of the cast and the character build up plot, it was properly place and selected. It was entertaining and exciting to know what happened next scene after scene.
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999,  R)
Eyes Wide Shut
The final masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick and this time it's involving one of the greatest acting couple of all time, Cruise and Kidman. Magnificent script, great cinematography, fantastic acting and artistic screenplay throughout this movie is the formula of perfection on watching a work of art, and please do remember, this is Stanley Kubrick's work, hence, all scene has their own meaning and delivered in Kubrick's symbolic way of viewing.
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Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004,  Unrated)
Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Brutal and honest documentary on behind the scene media role on our world these days. It was an amazing experience to know all the dirty tactics, corupt system and unappropriate behaviour influencing the people by manipulating public opinion. I'm so lucky I watched this and now take precaution for myself to be able to believe what's the right thing to believe in.
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Gone Baby Gone (2007,  R)
Gone Baby Gone
First movie directed by Ben Affleck. It's not bad actually since this movie has a good story line and really close to reality. In acting wise, I must gave credit to Ed Harris since he was amazing in acting, especially as a bad guy. Casey done good, even better than his performance in Jesse James. I guess if the story plot is fresh, has emotional bounding between actors and even with audience, this movie is definitely above average and worth to watch.
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The Last King of Scotland (2006,  R)
The Last King of Scotland
If you haven't see this movie, you better buy it, borrow it or do anything to be able to watch it. It's kind of fascinating to see a twisted movie like this, that collaborate between real life history with an additional fiction story line along the movie. Forest Whitaker deserve his oscar on this movie since he was great in this movie by performing himself as Idi Amin, one of the famous dictator from Uganda, Africa. However, I still amazed by the acting of McAvoy with his great scottish accent, really amazing. Great directing and cinematography, but the best part of this movie is to realized that some of the scene did happened in the real world history, or I should say the cruel and crazy world history.
145
Traffic (2000,  R)
Traffic
what an epic, great intense story line drown us to a very deep of thinking on human behaviour against one of the worst global problem, drugs. It gives us learning point that different people have different mind especially when you count human feeling into the picture. Beautifully directed and all cast gave excellent performance throughout, I really appreciate the plot and cinematography on this movie. Great one to watch !
146
Breach (2007,  PG-13)
Breach
A movie that represent the worst espionage scandal of the US. Cooper acting chemistry is suit the role here better than the acting that he gave in "The Kingdom". Ryan Phillippe could be as good as Matt Damon for the Jason Bourne role, and I've begin to admire Laura Linney's beauty and cannot wait for her next movie. Great cast, script and directing. Overall, cinematography need to be highly appreciated.
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The Kingdom (2007,  R)
The Kingdom
Very intense movie with heavy loaded political perceptions. Despite the based story is questionable, I like the cinematography and script that this movie gave to its audience. However, I found it quite wierd and funny that the 4 main cast didn't gave memorable performance in this movie. The other supporting actors that plays the arabic characters act much more intense and memorable than those 4. If you looking for the action-packed heavily loaded political perception movie, you better watch this one.
148
The Usual Suspects (1995,  R)
The Usual Suspects
One of the best twisted movie ever made, great cast delivers fantastic acting and great directing by Brian Singer. Really enjoy the plot and the story line while the ending was beautiful. This movie really thought you to be thinking outside the box. Kevin Spacey deserve his Oscar, however, Gabriel Byrne also done outstanding act on this movie.
149
Full Metal Jacket (1987,  R)
Full Metal Jacket
Whatever the theme is, you'll know that this movie is made by Stanley Kubrick. Why ? the script is very symbolic of sanity and insanity of human being. The script of the first half of this movie is blown my mind away for its uniqueness and meaning behind it. The second half was also fantastic and totally different compare to the first one by its visualization and part of the script. Without even a big star on the cast line-up, this movie still able to smooth its way to be a legend, and finally I pick my hat off to the director, Mr. Kubrick.
150
Blood Diamond (2006,  R)
Blood Diamond
TIA (This is Africa) !!, the theme of this movie was so strong about humanity value in the whole world, even though it's filming a condition in Africa, this things also happened anywhere else in the world. Strong memorable performance from Caprio, Connoly and Hounsou triggered us to sit tight and watched the movie carefully on all its dialog. Great cinematography and directing by Edward Zwick successfully bring the essence of survivalness on this movie. A must watch humanity movie.
151
L.A. Confidential (1997,  R)
L.A. Confidential
One of the best movie of the 90's. Superb cinematography and story line, supported by incredible acting performance by the cast made this movie one of the legend on "police-investigation" kind of movies. Crowe and Pearce was brilliant, Spacey was awesome, all under magnificent guidance from Curtis Hanson. Great ending too !! Watch it, it's worth it.
152
Notes on a Scandal (2006,  R)
Notes on a Scandal
Fantastic movie. I appreciate it with 5 star since the acting from Cate and Judi was so brilliant. They're both so talented dealing with feelings and the script, and I must say successfully bring this story to the edge of extreme drama performance from those two. Richard Eyre's cinematography and directing was faboulous, perfectly delivered the message and the intense of this story to the viewer. I want to watch it again to catch all the phrases.
153
No Country for Old Men (2007,  R)
No Country for Old Men
Great thriller and psychotic movie, compare to the other 2008 Oscar nominee, I agree this is the strongest candidate and yet, they've won. Javier Bardem deserve his oscar for supporting role, however the story line didn't impress me much. Cinematography and directing from Coen brother is brilliant, they also deserve their oscar. However, compare side by side with "There Will Be Blood", I guest they deserve the oscar for best picture in 2008 more rather than this movie. But despite all of that, I've still appreciate this movie for 5 star overall. Great one to watch, bravo Coen brother!
154
The Mist (2007,  R)
The Mist
Masterpiece !!, yet again from Mr. Darabont. Stephen King really twisting our felling and beliefs in this movie. Thrill, psychotic and full packed of intense added with sci-fi horror theme made this movie one that you won't miss a minute of it. Prepare yourself towards the ending, since they will hit you from nowhere with great mind setup and reality, although actually what you need to do is stick to your beliefs in the first place rather than falling deep on their story line. Surely recommended!.
155
Monsters, Inc. (2001,  G)
Monsters, Inc.
Fabulous movie. Top knotch technology from Pixar collaborated with wonderful story from Disney made this movie fun and enjoying. Life values blend in fun, imaginative and excitement shows this movie can be enjoyed by wide range of ages and perfect for family occasions. Marvelous script and story plot made this movie one of the best animation movie of all time, and yet once again it's from Disney Pixar.
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Michael Clayton (2007,  R)
Michael Clayton
What a script. Twisted plot in beginning part of this movie made this movie mysterious as it can be, but when it reach the middle part, we'll begin to get a strong grip from the script and plot. The ending was the best as the script is getting better towards the end. Tony Gilroy, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson are performed fantasticly in this movie, they deserve their oscar nominations as this movie does.
157
Iron Man (2008,  PG-13)
Iron Man
Second best superhero adaptation after "Batman Begins" on my favorite list. Perfect casting by choosing Robert Downey Jr. into the leading role. He really made this movie as human as it can be, which was perfect. Great technology collaborate with fantastic story plot combined with great acting from the cast really make this comic adaptation come alive in the big screen. Jon Favreau really did a great job by making superhero theme movie as human as it can be without ignoring the acting part, which is what the audience want.
158
The Great Debaters (2007,  PG-13)
The Great Debaters
Amazing talent from Denzel Washington, both acting and directing. In his first movie as a director, he pull it off by delivering both great story and cinematography on top of his undeniably great acting inside. Fantastic performance by all other cast as well without any week point among them that combined together in one movie which has faboulous script throughout the movie. Great movie, great debate and great story.
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Juno (2007,  PG-13)
Juno
Simple but good. Everyday life condition and story bring up to the big screen with modesty and simple presentation. Great script and reality based cinematography make the message on this movie well delivered and easy to be digested. Great acting from all cast, especially Ellen Page and Jennifer Garner, which can bring the best emotion and chemistry captured in this movie. Great movie to watch for family and teenagers such that they know their life values.
160
Equilibrium (2002,  R)
Equilibrium
One of the best action movie of all time. All the cast to gave extra miles in this movie by delivering great action performance combined with heavy mix feeling and pretending since the story made them supposed not to feel anything. I guess it's the proof that it's very difficult to play with our feeling as a human being. Every time people would have feeling as long as their breathing. Great one to watch and the action coreography at the ending was fantastic.
161
Coach Carter (2005,  PG-13)
Coach Carter
This one is the best Samuel L. Jackson movie that I've watched until today. Full of value of life and great story line made this movie is very enjoyable and touching in every minutes of it. Fantastic script based on true story and acting from all cast, even small part actor and actress in it. For those who really love basketball, they should watch this movie, it's really enjoying. Great one.
162
Amadeus (1984,  R)
Amadeus
Very entertaining movie in all aspect, especially on "Mozart's Laugh" part. Great plot and story line by showing the history of Mozart on third person perspective, especially if that person is dominated with anger, jealousy, shade and power. Great cinematography and costume design just to replicate the exact situation on that time in every detail. Love the acting of Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abrahams, greatly directed by Milos Forman. A classic that you must watch.
163
Rescue Dawn (2007,  PG-13)
Rescue Dawn
I always love Christian Bale's acting and this one is not exceptional. This is his second prisoner type of movie that his been starred since empire of the sun, but this one is more interaction with the enemy and the jungle. Great acting from all cast and fabulous directing by Werner Herzog. Even though the pace is quite slow, but all the scenes are perfectly compose and beautiful. Be patient and you'll enjoy it.
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Secretary (2002,  R)
Secretary
James Spader is one of my favorite actor to fill lawyer characters, and in this movie he's done it again, played the lawyer part with his unique personality. While, Maggie also perform magnificently for the secretary part. Great script, twisted feeling and interesting story and plot, however, somehow, the concept of this movie is similar with american beauty, I still like it though.
165
Into the Wild (2007,  R)
Into the Wild
This is a perfect 2.5 hours creepy movie. Why is this movie creepy ?, this movie based on true story and the story is a wicked one about a person that try to denied any human invention and modern behaviour, such as politics, pretenders and etc, and jump him self into conclusion that living in the wild is more natural, meaningful and more exciting compare to living the modern world. Sean Pean and Emile Hirsh done fantastically to present this true story into the big screen. The plot is intimidating and twisted, the ending was creepy and sad. The moral of the story is "Happiness only real if can be share". Great one.
166
Central do Brasil (Central Station) (1998,  R)
Central do Brasil (Central Station)
A classic movie of all time story. Walter Salles is brilliant director that always come up with fresh meaningful story of life and package it with great humanist cinematography. He really take the surrounding beautifully with great choices of camera angles in each scene such that the viewer can enjoyed the background and more get into the story. Script and acting from the casts were fabulous and this is one of the prove that low-budgeted movie can still be a fantastic movie through its story and cinematography. Another great one from Walter Salles.
167
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007,  R)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Marissa Tomei is the main distraction of the story plot as well as the main atraction of this movie. Great directed by Sidney Lumet, with performably well acted cast such as Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawk make this movie is total package twisted-drama-thriller. Setting the plot follow "memento" technique is quite thrilling and we couldn't guess any of the next scene, and at the end we need to wrap it up and conclude it ourself. He conclusion is evil can be blended to anyone, young or old. Overall, interesting movie.
168
Lord of War (2005,  R)
Lord of War
Just watch it on Blu-Ray, I must say that this is great movie on humanity and life values. Good script and acting from all the cast made the movie memorable and enjoyable. Using the theme that synchronized with public opinion about weapon and all its producer is quite provocative and direct. However, all example on what happened today that being captured by the movie did sent through the underlying message on this movie to all the viewer. Great cinematography and background in each scene.
169
L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003,  R)
L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment)
It's unique, entertaining, cultural and twisting in ears and tongue. Great movie with unique cross cultural theme with fantastic more than three european language blend together in every scene. Great acting from these youngster including the beautiful Audrey Tautou. Great story plot and underlying values of life with its problems and fun.
170
Mean Girls (2004,  PG-13)
Mean Girls
I watch it again for the second time. Actually the acting is just at par, however, this movie is quite entertaining. Combination of conflict, hate, humor and silly-ness make it not bored to watch several times. Rachel McAdams was marvelous as always, and Lindsay Lohan just perfect for this kind of comedy movie. Worth to watch if you're looking for teenager movie.
171
The Lake House (2006,  PG)
The Lake House
Personally, I think this movie is quite good if you don't think about the fact that it's an adaptation movie of the original "Siworae" movie from Korea. Keanu Reeves was quite fit to the role, since there's not much emotion required for his part of the movie other than cool and romantic. But my attention was always on Sandra Bullock with her lovable face and beauty supporting her sadness and lonely role that demanded to be hungry for romance. Overall, it's quite good movie with great story and cinematography, even though it was an adaptation from previous movie.
172
Serenity (2005,  PG-13)
Serenity
Watch out, It's Reavers!!!, Fresh story and casting selection is the most precious thing about this movie. Joss Whedon can pull this off by bringing great acting, story plot and special effect cinematography to this movie, even though he must know it's very difficult to impress the audience for this kind of space science fiction movie. This movie also bring one of the life values which is human can only desire, but only God knows this life will be and its faith through the future. Great action sci-fi for 20th century.
173
The Thing (1982,  R)
The Thing
I just watch this movie today and I'm very disappointed of myself for not to watch this movie for long time since it's released. This movie was awesome, with its act from the cast, surrounding setting and cinematography. If you think that this movie is about Alien and its terror about us, then you have to watch one more time, since if you see it in a little bit different perspective, you'll see that this movie is about trust, human relationship, moral and mental ability. I think the Alien part is just a small part of the movie. One of the great sci-fi movie in the 80's, must watch guys.
174
Live Free or Die Hard (2007,  PG-13)
Live Free or Die Hard
I just watch this movie on Blu-Ray. As one of Len Wiseman fans (from the underworld series), I found no exception as well in this movie. The story plot was fantastic, the visual effect was off the chart, plus the Bruce Willis factor that drive this movie to be a very intense and entertaining movie, especially on Blu-Ray. Bruce, Justin, Timothy was performing fantasticly, plus all the cinematography surrounding the plot of this movie. Great action movie to watch. Great work mr. Wiseman.
175
Wanted (2008,  R)
Wanted
After seeing this movie from the cinema today, I've beginning to think that McAvoy is the UK version of "Tom Cruise". Great range of acting, similar figure and character, I guess James is already climbing his tree to success and becoming mega movie star in the future. This movie is quite standard action movie, but with McAvoy inside, plus Morgan Freeman factor, this movie deserve respect and its credits. Timur has put this movie to the highest limit of cinematography, plot and action, and transforming this movie to be one of the better action movie in the 2000 era. Hat off for James and Timur.
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Hancock (2008,  PG-13)
Hancock
People might not like this one, well then, this time I must stand out for myself cause I like this one. I see this movie as more drama rather than action. I've put out the superhero blanket of this movie and see the connection inside between having normal life and true love or superhero power to live and save the world. Of course sacrificing all for love is the ultimate answer, but if it is risking both individual that in love, then maybe not, I think the message of this movie is quite strong, love is not about being together, love is about doing the best for the one you love. Will Smith and Charlize Theron was great in this movie. Good one to watch.
177
The Jacket (2005,  R)
The Jacket
What a blast in my face!!!, this movie rocks like crazy. All casting giving top notch performance, inparticular Daniel Craig, Adrien Brody and Kiera Knightley. The story is fresh supported by great cinematography by John Maybury. It's mind twisted drama plus violence attributes all over the movie, touching to the heart in an unusual way. Great underrated movie.
178
The Darjeeling Limited (2007,  R)
The Darjeeling Limited
Begin with short movie, hotel chevalier, which is very provocating on behaviour, it's a perfect way to introduce Jason Schwartzman to us. Nevertheless, in the main movie, Jason Schwartzman was brilliant that he successfully made his character memorable and being the drive towards excitement of this movie. Great movie with great settings and cinematography, also well directed by Wes Anderson. The theme is emotional comedy, however it's all about trust. If you haven't watch this movie, do enjoy the performance of Jason.
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Sleepers (1996,  R)
Sleepers
I'm so shock that this movie didn't even have any nomination on academy awards at that time. I believe this movie was oscar standard movie with bold and strong true story line and plot with great acting from all the cast plus great cinematography and directing from Barry Levinson. All cast was great, the beautifully performed and maintain balance of the film. A very great plot end with dramatic happiness and bitter feeling in each of the audience, touch the heart to the deepest feeling on a bit of everything. Total compact of feeling captured in this movie. Fantastic movie by my standard.
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Hotel Chevalier (2007,  R)
Hotel Chevalier
I really like this short movie, since I found it amusing on watching this one. I've watched before and After Darjeeling Limited. This short dialog movie was so intense, ridiculous and provocative at the same time while both Jason and Natalie exchange their line. Ending was so hilarious. Jason Schawrtzman was very funny and innocent while Natalie Portman are experience and mature in acting. Great combination.
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Tsotsi (2006,  R)
Tsotsi
Bold, simple and real. It reminds me of City of God, however, this one is so much better since it is not only related to violence, but love to a child as well. Great acting from all cast and great directed by Gavin Hood. The feeling I got from watching this is that crime comes from poverty but surely cannot beat the love that already embedded in each individual. They deserve their oscar for the best foreign film even though it's a low budgeted movie. You need to watch this guys, low budget but great.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988,  R)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
This is the most sexiest movie i've ever watched in my entire life till now, I believe no other movie can top this movie on the total package of emotion and sexyness. Great and beautifully performed oscar-worthy acting from all cast, inparticular Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. Fantastic directing and cinematography by Phillip Kaufman supporting the beauty of this movie which has been very passionate, provocative, mind twisted and emotional from the first second. The plot will pull you up and down in each of every scene attributes by love, betrayal, survival and politics. All these pieces blend beautifully into one beautifully crafted piece of art. Incase you haven't see it, I highly recommend this movie to you
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In the Bedroom (2001,  R)
In the Bedroom
If you're looking for mature and emotional day-to-day human being acting of deep regret, loneliness and loss feeling caught on tape, this is the movie that you're looking for. By watching Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek interact each other in the movie, you will feel the strong emotion and real life relationship of losing a son that being kill by somebody else because of something that they already aware of. These actor performed in this movie deserve their oscar nomination, however, the main point in this movie is weak, which is the story. So if you are interested to watch this movie, don't expect to much on the story, but pay attention on the acting of all the cast inside.
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You Can Count On Me (2000,  R)
You Can Count On Me
If you want to see the best performance from Mark Ruffalo and Laura Linney, this is the movie that you should watch. They are beautifully talented actor/actress and they really give us all the feeling that a brother and sister always has. Fantasticly directed by Kenneth Lonergan which make this beatifully story keeps its charm and aura in the movie. Lonergar made this movie sexy, warm, harsh, fragile and emotional which was actually fulfill what this movie about, a story about orphan brother and sister feeling and relationship. You must watch this one, I promise you'll love this.
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The Painted Veil (2006,  PG-13)
The Painted Veil
Great romantic movie that blend poverty, survival, love and nobel vision into one beautiful story about love. The weakness was its slow pace, however the strong point was its cinematography that really beautiful. Great classical setting view and background collide with the condition that unsafe physically make this movie a unique collaboration of all of that. Naomi Watts was marvelous, Edward Norton was great, however, my hats off for the director, John Curran. Good movie for romance fans, just please be aware of its slow pace.
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WALL-E (2008,  G)
WALL-E
I just don't know how I felt on this particular movie. As always, Pixar is still the most brilliant animator in this century. The picture quality, animation, lighting and details are marvelous and lovable. But, making a movie that focus on the feeling of a robot is not easy and it is indeed not easy to being captured by the viewer as well. Especially the sound or conversation when there is an interaction between robot, I couldn't get the feeling that they have emotion. Story was great amd innovative, however script needs a lot of improvement. This is now the least Pixar movie I like that I've been watched. Monster Inc. and Ratatouille still my favorite, I'm sorry Wall-E.
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The Dreamers (2004,  NC-17)
The Dreamers
One of the hell wicked movie of all time. Bold, transparent and full of mind game for every second of it. Eva, Michael and Louis give us memorable performance throughout this movie by successfully delivered performance involved mix feeling that change in almost every scene. Good directing by Bernardo Bertolucci, he manage to keep the difference between bold movie and sexually-abused theme inside the movie. Please don't let the nudity side of this movie blinding your fair perspective on this movie. Keep going and wrap it up in the end of the movie.
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Frequency (2000,  PG-13)
Frequency
I never have been impressed by Dennis Quaid acting and performance in his movies. But that prejudice changed today. I watch this movie today and totally love it. Why ? first, "fresh story". Take the logic out of the equation, this movie has the total package as a exciting thriller movie that involving past and future concept, by not abusing it but used it properly. Second, the "love" factor of this movie is stronger than any other movie. There's no love stronger than a love to a family and all cast did really terrific job on performing their family love expression throughout the movie. Third, the "story plot", which has been the strongest point. By changing something in the past, you'll change the future as well. Once you changed the past, you must keep on that track and take the consequences, even though it's a tough one. Forth, great "lovable ending". This one you've to see it by yourself caused I won't spoil the movie by telling it first before you guys watch it. Promise me you'll watch this one.
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Black Snake Moan (2007,  R)
Black Snake Moan
One of the most underrated movie of all time. Why ? based on the complexity of this movie which drag all of human side together in wicked way, I believe this movie is worth to watch more than once. Religious blend with music wrapped by common living problem such as sex, married, commitment, drugs and violence give us strong grip to the story and keep following it with help on all cast performance. Of course, Samuel, Christina or even Justin performed the best way as possible. Especially for Justin since acting was not cup of tea, but he done it in style. Great directing and cinematography from Craig Brewer as well. Underrated but good.
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Trainspotting (1996,  R)
Trainspotting
Trainspotting ? this is a classic movie that bring drugs-life problems comes to silver screen. The concept was brilliant dark drugs-life blended with disgustingness, silliness and humor. However, if take those accessories away from this movie, you will only feel the dark side of this movie, which was the feeling that I've got, it's almost follow this formula "Requiem for a Dream" + "Snatch" = "Trainspotting". This was the best performance from Ewan McGregor as far as I know and definitely Danny Boyle masterpiece. Great scottish cinematography make this movie one of a kind and memorable throughout the decade. Great classic that breakthrough the community to accept drug-life story in silver screen.
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The Bank Job (2008,  R)
The Bank Job
Absolutely amazing movie. Just watch it on Blu-Ray, this movie really delivered everything that exceed my expectation. The setting was in the 80's and this movie delivered that in style together with marvelous cinematography throughout the movie, thanks to Roger Donaldson great directing. The story was good, the acting from all cast was great as well, however they would never exceed the beauty of the setting and the cinematography of this movie. It's almost 2 hours movie, but I guarantee you that you wouldn't get bored, not one bit. Surely, I would watch it again in this few days, especially in Blu-ray, I couldn't resist it.
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Freedom Writers (2007,  PG-13)
Freedom Writers
Great humanist movie. Very bold, strong and inspiring on telling the story of youth condition in the US neighborhood. Racistme is always being a problem in any where in the world and this movie bought it to the silver screen in a very elegant style. Fantastic acting from all cast, especially Hillary Swank and Imelda Staunton performance was top notch. What I've enjoyed the most of this movie was the script and story plot which made this long movie enjoyable and not boring. Richard LaGravenese delivered this movie in high quality with his great directing, cinematography and definitely achieve respect to do a noble effort on directing an educative movie which become one of the best educative movie I've watched so far. Great movie to watch.
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Get Smart (2008,  PG-13)
Get Smart
This is the only comedy movie that rock this summer. The concept may not be original, however, the execution was fantastic, classy, funny and entertaining way better than Johnny English. Steve Carrel is maximized in this movie, while Anne Hathaway give this movie a diamond shine over the silliness of each scene. I believe this movie is one of the movie build by character inside and cast's chemistry supporting it, such as The Rock, Alan Arkin and everybody else. Not much hype on this one, but surely way over our expectation. Great movie to release stress.
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Cars (2006,  G)
Cars
Do you want to know what I feel about this movie after I watched it ? Only one word, Beautiful. How to explain it ? first, it's really beautiful peace of animation art that Pixar delivers in this movie. They successfully make character framed in form of car, but maintain the beauty and uniqueness of the cars itself. Second, beautiful character. Each of them really represent a beautiful individual that bring this cars to life. Emotions showed from this character was so real and touching, couldn't believe that it's coming from cars. Third, beautiful story line. OMG, the frame of sadness of transformation of great town to forgotten town due to interstate highway are still in my mind as one of the touching moment in the animation history. As well as the ending, which was the best ending of all Pixar movie that I've watch. Great movie, thanks to Pixar.
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002,  R)
Punch-Drunk Love
This movie is the weirdest Paul Thomas Anderson's movie that I've watched so far. Story line is very simple, but the script is very twisted. In this movie, Adam Sandler was push himself over his limit of emotion acting and put himself in face-to-face act fight with Philip Seymour Hoffman which was the climax of this movie. The story line and script is very dark, violent, bold and sarcastic, that represent a life of a retarded emotional boy that looking for love and respect. Great acting from all cast, with very empirical setting in each scene. Good movie to watch, but mind the mix feeling after watching it, since in every Paul Thomas Anderson's movie, his weapons are always the word and sentences.
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Babel (2006,  R)
Babel
This movie is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu personality. Fragment of life was always the main point of all his movie and his uniqueness was those fragment of life will collide in one thin red line in some point, just like amores perros. But for this, he used human relation as the collision point of those stories inside the movie. Successfully maximized all the cast to live up those stories and push it to certain extreme stories of human lives. Fantastic cinematography, script and acting captured in this movie. One message come across, our life is really previous, however, we need to be able to value it ourself before we can see it that way.
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The Squid and the Whale (2005,  R)
The Squid and the Whale
Pretty good movie that told us a common family condition these days with all the complication arises and norm fighting towards the children. It successfully brings a worst situation of divorce and competitive husband and wife relationship and its impact towards their children. Completely over the hill ego of parents may damage the perspective of their children to believe what was wrong and denied what was right. Presented in very bold, sarcastic, mind twisting script and plot collide with common husband and wife emotion make this movie as real as the common live. One thing for sure, by watching this movie, both parents and kids should understand what their doing to them self and their surroundings. Great common condition movie to watch.
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A Bug's Life (1998,  G)
A Bug's Life
This is a must movie for me to watch considering I'm a Disney Pixar movie lover. I'm not going to comment about the animation since definitely over my expectation, or should I said brilliant. The main attraction of this movie was the story. This movie bring forward the point that everything comes in the mind. The ants is not weak, they are very strong if the realized it and they can fight anything if they are united. That's actually a very good value of life. Teamwork and unity can overcome anything in this world. The strength is not in our physical power, but in our mind and heart. If we want it, we will achieve it. Great one to watch and very educative for children.
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We Own the Night (2007,  R)
We Own the Night
We own the night : More than just a crime drama movie. Why is that? it is because the underlying emotion plot on this movie is based on love to people closed to them. Family love is substantially takes more than half of the movie mood, while love to people trusting them takes the rest. The action and crime was only on small bit of the movie, which makes this movie full pact of great acting from its casts. I really appreciated Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg's direction on producing this and of course, give their best acting on this movie. James Gray should get the credit as well since he successfully make the cinematography memorable and motivate all cast to give their best which result brilliantly, even Eva Mendes act above the par and Robert Duvall plays important emotion plot inside the movie. Definitely must watch 2007/2008 movie.
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Shoot 'Em Up (2007,  R)
Shoot 'Em Up
I found this movie is entertaining. Talking about all the nonsense inside it and the one man show concept through the movie, we shouldn't forget the plot set and acting from the cast. Monica Bellucci was marvelous and sensual in the movie blend with great sarcastic and psychotic acting from Clive Owen. Paul Giamatti really trying very hard to play a bad guy in this movie but still doesn't maximized his talent yet. One thing I still remember about the movie is the compact shooting coreography that Michael Davis put inside the movie and the cinematography and setting which successfully bring dark and cruel environment. Entertaining action movie, but may not be suitable for Drama lovers.
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Paris Je T'aime (2007,  R)
Paris Je T'aime
One word that describe this movie. Sweet. The concept was brilliant, which is maximizing several short movie with free interpretation ending for the viewer to conclude them self. Great setting for love story, without limitation, bold, honest and transparent which taken place in paris. Fantastic fresh cast from different part of the world with magnificent director in the world today including Coen brothers, Walter Sales and many more. Beautiful script and story throughout the movie made the viewer captured a lot of value of love through the story. Great compilation for true love seeker.
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Rocky Balboa (2006,  PG)
Rocky Balboa
This movie doesn't have strong base story from start to beginning. However, I really appreciate the performance from all cast in this movie, that quite strong and passionate, in particular Sylvester Stallone and Milo Ventimiglia. Sylvester Stallone as director can definitely bring the best cinematography and direction for the actor to keep continuing the momentum of the previous rocky with all his history and interpretation of a boxing champion and legend. Entertaining movie but surely not as exiting as previous series.
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Radit & Jani (2008,  Unrated)
Radit & Jani
One of best Indonesian movie that I've watched to date. Fantastic base story with beautiful performance from all the cast especially Vino, makes this movie great, dark and gritty. Fantastic cinematography and directing from Upi Avianto, that always put the story as consistent as possible to the real life, which has been so cruel these days. Vino has prove the world that he has the ability to play any kind of role with great acting and interpretation of the character that always amazed the viewer again and again and again. Bravo Vino, fantastic movie bang Upi.
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Laskar pelangi (The Rainbow Troops) (2008,  Unrated)
Laskar pelangi (The Rainbow Troops)
This is the first time I see an Indonesian movie that really describing the real condition of life outside the big city and outlying island of Indonesia. Great directing by Riri Riza and definitely great performance by all cast including the newly introduced young actor and special applause to Ikranagara's performance in this movie. We surely feel the pain, love and spirit inside Laskar Pelangi, however the movie doesn't have the answer to those problems. Be grateful for what you have right now, since there are still lots of people that not so fortunate like us, like the story of Laskar Pelangi, great movie to watch.
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Three Days to Forever (3 hari untuk selamanya) (2007,  Unrated)
Three Days to Forever (3 hari untuk selamanya)
Nice road story concept and implementation by Riri Riza from the beginning to the end of the movie. However, don't expect any turbulence or peak point inside the movie. The scene inside the movie are just reporting and brought up of what happened this day in Indonesia in the teenager perception. Quite alarming for parents but something need to be done with it. Adinia and Nicholas was perfect to play those role and what I like was the chemistry is there and they can make the viewer keep guessing what happened next, and by the time the movie reach the ending, the viewer still keep guessing what happened next, and found out what the director want to say. The thing that must not happened need to be stress out that it must not happened. Full of life warning and values. Please pay attention and avoid it.
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Body of Lies (2008,  R)
Body of Lies
Well, despite of several negative fact about the movie, I quite like this one. The cinematic concept almost the same with another Ridley Scott's movie American Gangster, but this one is darker and bolder. Great cinematography and directing by Ridley Scott as always can make the story more contrast and radical in every second of it. Di Caprio doing very well on playing an unstabilized undercover agent while Crowe successfully played the master mind of the operation (which I think the role style is almost the same as the one that he has on The Insider). Great controversial movie with a lot of blast to the screen and set in several big City in the world. Entertaining I must say.
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Quickie Express (2007,  Unrated)
Quickie Express
Full packed entertaining movie. Humor, action, love, silliness and etc. can be found in Quickie Express. Nice real concept cinematography by Dimas Jay to bring up the successfully silly acting by Tora Sudiro and Aming on sensitive issue like prostitution, gay-ness, employment, love, violent or even economy into a easy watching moral movie such that the viewer can be relaxed while keep paying attention to it. Sandra Dewi performed not bad in this movie which is her first big screen movie. A must watch Indonesian movie.
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Love for Share (Berbagi Suami) (2006,  Unrated)
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Ayat-ayat cinta (The Love Verses) (Verses of Love) (2008,  Unrated)
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Love (2008,  Unrated)
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Quantum of Solace (2008,  PG-13)
Quantum of Solace
Marc Forster really dissapointed me with this one, I almost feel this is not his work, it is nowhere near Finding Neverland and The Kite Runner. I really love the re-boot of 007 series that bring the essence of survival and roughness on Bond character as root of the theme, blended with fight and mind game that weâve seen in recent year Casino Royale, and based on that, I have such a high expectation from Quantum of Solace that at least this movie can maintain the essence that beautifully pioneered by its predecessor. It did not meet that expectation, and I found that Marc has turn Bond movie to be more like a Bourne movie with all the 4 kind of chasing, boat, automobile, foot, plane. You wonât find the mind game in this movie. Despite those particular flaw, Daniel Craig still amazed me with his acting, while other character was so plainly performed, the casts surely can do better, the director surely can be stricter. If you want to watch this movie, please lower down your expectation, you wonât find this one in the same level of the last bond movie, Casino Royale. Hope the producer re-think how to make it better in the next one, as for Marc, I believe he will make a way better movie next time.
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Kung Fu Panda (2008,  PG)
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Phone Booth (2003,  R)
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The Brave One (2007,  R)
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Eight Below (2006,  PG)
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Twilight (2008,  PG-13)
217
21 (2008,  PG-13)
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008,  PG-13)
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Shooter (2007,  R)
220
Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008,  R)
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) (2001,  PG)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002,  PG)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004,  PG)
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005,  PG-13)
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007,  PG-13)
226
Jumper (2008,  PG-13)
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The Transporter (2002,  PG-13)
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Transporter 2 (2005,  PG-13)
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The Wrestler (2008,  R)
The Wrestler
First, this is Darren Aronofsky’s work, and if you remember Requiem for A Dream, he is always consistent to the word, realistic. So is this movie, realistic story, plus realistic setting, plus realistic emotion, plus realistic tragedy, and this is turns out to be a beautiful collaboration in his direction. Great decision to choose Mickey Rourke to play the leading role, it was similar to what his been through, so as expected, Rourke makes the role personal and perform it beautifully. Hope he gets the oscar for this one, although Sean Penn maybe difficult to conquer. Marisa Tomei is one of actress that can bring herself to the edge to add significant feel to the movie by her performance. And yes, in this movie, Marisa is fantastic, she takes the role as if she has been through those situations, and expected oscar nomination finally came to her. The wrestler is one of the movie highly valued in 2008, definitely a memorable movie for myself.
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Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001,  R)
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The Reader (2008,  R)
The Reader
Dramatically beautiful movie. I can take a paint as analogy for this movie, since there’s significant contrast and lots of strokes between the emotion and mood on the first half of the movie that totally different with the one in the second half of the movie. The story was fresh and supported by a great script, successfully describing the emotion of love and denial, also give another point of view of ex-Nazi SS members that only following orders and what they feel. The casting was perfect, Kate Winslet perfectly potrait Hanna Schmits, while David Kross was unexpectedly perform very well as the young Michael Berg with his innocently hunger for love and sex, and Ralph Fiennes plays the ending point role as successful lawyer and reader Michael Berg. Kate Winslet acting was very memorable on the court scene which mixing all human emotion within short scene, she deserved her recent oscar winning. Stephen Daldry deserve his oscar nomination which this beautiful directing of his. Overall, one of the best movie in 2008.
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Defiance (2009,  R)
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008,  R)
Slumdog Millionaire
I bet many of you watched or want to watch this movie on the basis that people talk about how good it was or the nominations/awards that this movie get in this year movie awards all over the world. Yes, I get that feeling as well, and rushing to watch this movie once I’ve time. Before watching this one, I’ve imagine that the setting and cinematography aren’t far from other Danny Boyle’s legend “Trainspotting†and it is what I actually found indeed. The strength of this movie is the story, which is life survival story combined with love, and dream. The acting was at par, nothing special. However, Danny Boyle make this movie memorable in his direction and with a good touching story and beautiful innocent script in place, it wasn’t hard for him to make this one an impressive movie. Definitely a must watch movie, great contender for this year oscar.
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Transporter 3 (2008,  PG-13)
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Burn After Reading (2008,  R)
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008,  R)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
I'm not a fan of this kind of movie, I watched this one to release my stress. I found this movie not there enough to release the stress, not that entertaining, the script is so-so, and the acting is definitely not there. However, I still appreciate the underlying essence of this movie, which is about true love to your best friends that has been hiding for years that always being denied. Totally love Elizabeth Banksâs performance in this movie, but I believe she has more talent to show to the world by taking up more challenging role in the future. If you have enough time, go ahead watch it, but I suggest using your time to watch lots of beautiful movie out there.
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Doubt (2008,  PG-13)
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Seven Pounds (2008,  PG-13)
Seven Pounds
Lots of my friend associated this movie to "The Pursuit of Happyness", and I'm one of the admirers of that movie, so, I finally dedicate some time to watch this one. Better than expected, the story may not be as strong as The Pursuit of Happyness, but definitely directed better and contain far better acting from Will Smith and other casts. Will Smith is the highlight of this movie, since he gives his full capacity as an actor in this movie. When you see it, you may not directly understand what his character trying to do, but if you see it in a bit and pieces in each scene, you will find out that he is surely doing the best that he can and give a lot of passion and feeling to the character. I believe this movie has give the world a proof that Will Smith is not just a regular actor, heâ??s ready to take challenge in any kind of part. The story is beautifully scripted by Grant Nieporte and properly directed by Gabriele Muccino. Watched it, and I believe you wouldn't regret it.
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In Bruges (2008,  R)
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Valkyrie (2008,  PG-13)
Valkyrie
First, I always like movie based on Nazi history due to their pride, intense and politics. This one is not an exception. Considered this movie as a historical documentary, viewers already know the outcome of this movie before they even see the trailer, however there are still some potential points to make this movie good such as acting, directing, dramatizing plot, cinematography and etc. Bryan Singer and the production team did a good job on several of them such as cinematography and directing, however there’s still something missing on acting and dramatizing the plot. The plot can be explore further or deeper to expand the emotion, and as for acting, I believe the movie could be more intense to give Stauffenberg’s part to actor in Denzel Washington’s caliber rather than Tom Cruise, and also gave Hitler’s part to Bruno Ganz (from the movie “Das Untergang (The Downfall)â€), Bruno Ganz is the best actor to play Hitler, hands down. Final say, good movie, but once you watched it, you’ll feel it’s enough for you.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008,  PG-13)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Overall, this is a very enjoyable movie. Although the story is not that strong and considered tasteless, I quite enjoy the setting and acting from all cast. Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz are my highlights, while Bardem and Johannson just there to complete them. The script has been the main point of this movie, and I found it very amusing and entertaining, furthermore, it’s also diversified by two languages. Very good movie for family and friends occasion, pay attention to the script and you’ll find what I found. Nice going Woody Allen...
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Yes Man (2008,  PG-13)
Yes Man
The reason why I watched this movie is purely because Jim Carrey. I’m not expecting this movie to be the same level of “The Truman Showâ€, but at least can humour me with the silly acting from the man himself. The truth is, despite of very usual straight story and “not seriously†acting from all casts, I found that this movie is quite amusing. The director didn’t unleashed Jim Carrey to be as funny as he can be, but through the script, he gives Jim appropriate and proper scene to maximize his humour forces. Nevertheless, one of the flaw of this movie was the plot towards the ending. Since more than first half of the movie plot are dedicated to built up the character image and the climax point, the rest of the movie dedicated to rushingly lead down the plot straight to the ending. Viewers will feel the plot is not smooth and the ending is not the best. Overall, it was a better movie of Jim Carrey, where the balance between serious and fun meet.
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Running Scared (2006,  R)
244
Pineapple Express (2008,  R)
245
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008,  PG)
246
Horton Hears a Who! (2008,  G)
247
Walk the Line (2005,  PG-13)
248
Unleashed (Danny the Dog) (2005,  R)
249
The Devil Wears Prada (2006,  PG-13)
250
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005,  PG)
251
Bad Boys II (2003,  R)
252
50 First Dates (2004,  PG-13)
253
Bolt (2008,  PG)
254
Bruce Almighty (2003,  PG-13)
255
Click (2006,  PG-13)
256
Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004,  PG-13)
257
The Girl Next Door (2004,  R)
258
The Holiday (2006,  PG-13)
259
Hitch (2005,  PG-13)
260
Intolerable Cruelty (2003,  PG-13)
261
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004,  PG)
262
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005,  PG-13)
263
No Reservations (2007,  PG)
264
Prime (2005,  PG-13)
265
Robots (2005,  PG)
266
The Rundown (Welcome to the Jungle) (2003,  PG-13)
267
Rush Hour (1998,  PG-13)
268
Rush Hour 2 (2001,  PG-13)
269
Rush Hour 3 (2007,  PG-13)
270
Something's Gotta Give (2003,  PG-13)
271
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999,  R)
272
Gran Torino (2009,  R)
273
Finding Neverland (2004,  PG)
274
Transformers (2007,  PG-13)
275
Blindness (2008,  R)
276
Revolutionary Road (2008,  R)
277
Taken (2009,  PG-13)
278
Cloverfield (2008,  PG-13)
279
Road to Perdition (2002,  R)
280
Dan in Real Life (2007,  PG-13)
281
Fast and Furious (2009,  PG-13)
282
Bee Movie (2007,  PG)
283
Flushed Away (2006,  PG)
284
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008,  R)
285
Knocked Up (2007,  R)
286
He's Just Not That Into You (2009,  PG-13)
287
Definitely, Maybe (2008,  PG-13)
288
Top Secret! (1984,  PG)
289
Eurotrip (2003,  R)
290
Road Trip (2000,  R)
291
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009,  PG-13)
292
State of Play (2009,  PG-13)
293
Crank (2006,  R)
294
Terminator Salvation (2009,  PG-13)
295
National Treasure (2004,  PG)
296
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007,  PG)
297
The Bucket List (2007,  PG-13)
298
27 Dresses (2008,  PG-13)
299
Role Models (2008,  R)
300
Redbelt (2008,  R)
301
Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009,  R)
302
The International (2009,  R)
303
Ice Age (2002,  PG)
304
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006,  PG)
305
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) (2008,  PG-13)
306
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,  R)
307
Tropic Thunder (2008,  R)
308
The Soloist (2009,  PG-13)
309
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008,  R)
310
I Love You, Man (2009,  R)
311
Traitor (2008,  PG-13)
312
Lars and the Real Girl (2007,  PG-13)
313
The Hangover (2009,  R)
314
Adventureland (2009,  R)
315
Watchmen (2009,  R)

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