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"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4614513

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4614513

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4614513

4 stars out of 5 -- "What works in ANONYMOUS is that Emmerich's first focus is the plot. Fleet and fascinating, he convinces the audience that this centuries-old half-true melodrama demands attention."Box Office "There are palace intrigues, beddings and beheadings, and lots of well-staged theater. Rhys Ifans turns out to be the best surprise of all..."Los Angeles Times "[W]ith some clever casting and a few very fine performances at its core."Movieline0.4037699

4 stars out of 5 -- "What works in ANONYMOUS is that Emmerich's first focus is the plot. Fleet and fascinating, he convinces the audience that this centuries-old half-true melodrama demands attention."Box Office "There are palace intrigues, beddings and beheadings, and lots of well-staged theater. Rhys Ifans turns out to be the best surprise of all..."Los Angeles Times "[W]ith some clever casting and a few very fine performances at its core."Movieline0.4037699

4 stars out of 5 -- "What works in ANONYMOUS is that Emmerich's first focus is the plot. Fleet and fascinating, he convinces the audience that this centuries-old half-true melodrama demands attention."Box Office "There are palace intrigues, beddings and beheadings, and lots of well-staged theater. Rhys Ifans turns out to be the best surprise of all..."Los Angeles Times "[W]ith some clever casting and a few very fine performances at its core."Movieline0.4037699

4 stars out of 5 -- "What works in ANONYMOUS is that Emmerich's first focus is the plot. Fleet and fascinating, he convinces the audience that this centuries-old half-true melodrama demands attention."Box Office "There are palace intrigues, beddings and beheadings, and lots of well-staged theater. Rhys Ifans turns out to be the best surprise of all..."Los Angeles Times "[W]ith some clever casting and a few very fine performances at its core."Movieline0.4037699

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"...Leigh's funniest and most moving film..." New York Times5.586079

3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan clearly has a deep affection for the source material and its protagonist while, as clough, Sheen hits screamers into the back of the net pretty much every time he's on screen."Total Film "Sheen's typically scrupulous channeling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right, but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth....Period styling throughout is on the money..."Variety "[The film] has an authentic aroma of English football in the Seventies....Michael Sheen nails his charismatic swagger; Colm Meaney is especially good as the mirthless Revie..."Film Comment "[T]his is historical fiction that continues Morgan's intriguing inquiry into the uses and abuses of power and how personalities get distorted by a taste of fame or success."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "Well-made, with a seamless interweaving of archival footage, THE DAMNED UNITED is a straightforward character study. What vaults the film above the standard sports movie is the stellar performance by Michael Sheen."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It skillfully uses some archival footage, which evokes the pitch of feeling during a match."Chicago Sun-Times "THE DAMNED UNITED shares with THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON not only a writer and a star, but also a precise and satisfying sense of proportion."New York Times "It's no accident that Sheen displays some of the same incisive understanding of human inconsistency and political strategy that he demonstrated in THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON: Peter Morgan wrote all three screenplays..."Entertainment Weekly "It's more than a detailed account of one man's petty vindictiveness in a bygone era. It's about how our hatred can consume us so deeply that we lose sight of everything."Washington Post5.581331

3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan clearly has a deep affection for the source material and its protagonist while, as clough, Sheen hits screamers into the back of the net pretty much every time he's on screen."Total Film "Sheen's typically scrupulous channeling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right, but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth....Period styling throughout is on the money..."Variety "[The film] has an authentic aroma of English football in the Seventies....Michael Sheen nails his charismatic swagger; Colm Meaney is especially good as the mirthless Revie..."Film Comment "[T]his is historical fiction that continues Morgan's intriguing inquiry into the uses and abuses of power and how personalities get distorted by a taste of fame or success."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "Well-made, with a seamless interweaving of archival footage, THE DAMNED UNITED is a straightforward character study. What vaults the film above the standard sports movie is the stellar performance by Michael Sheen."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It skillfully uses some archival footage, which evokes the pitch of feeling during a match."Chicago Sun-Times "THE DAMNED UNITED shares with THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON not only a writer and a star, but also a precise and satisfying sense of proportion."New York Times "It's no accident that Sheen displays some of the same incisive understanding of human inconsistency and political strategy that he demonstrated in THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON: Peter Morgan wrote all three screenplays..."Entertainment Weekly "It's more than a detailed account of one man's petty vindictiveness in a bygone era. It's about how our hatred can consume us so deeply that we lose sight of everything."Washington Post5.581331

4 stars out of 5 -- "Creepy enough to get in your bones and convincing enough to stay there, David Keating's film juxtaposes the grim minutiae of death with the ravages of grief."Total Film5.581331

4 stars out of 5 -- "Creepy enough to get in your bones and convincing enough to stay there, David Keating's film juxtaposes the grim minutiae of death with the ravages of grief."Total Film5.581331

3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan clearly has a deep affection for the source material and its protagonist while, as clough, Sheen hits screamers into the back of the net pretty much every time he's on screen."Total Film "Sheen's typically scrupulous channeling of Clough gets the tics and mannerisms right, but also carves a moving portrait of a braggart suddenly out of his depth....Period styling throughout is on the money..."Variety "[The film] has an authentic aroma of English football in the Seventies....Michael Sheen nails his charismatic swagger; Colm Meaney is especially good as the mirthless Revie..."Film Comment "[T]his is historical fiction that continues Morgan's intriguing inquiry into the uses and abuses of power and how personalities get distorted by a taste of fame or success."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "Well-made, with a seamless interweaving of archival footage, THE DAMNED UNITED is a straightforward character study. What vaults the film above the standard sports movie is the stellar performance by Michael Sheen."USA Today 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It skillfully uses some archival footage, which evokes the pitch of feeling during a match."Chicago Sun-Times "THE DAMNED UNITED shares with THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON not only a writer and a star, but also a precise and satisfying sense of proportion."New York Times "It's no accident that Sheen displays some of the same incisive understanding of human inconsistency and political strategy that he demonstrated in THE QUEEN and FROST/NIXON: Peter Morgan wrote all three screenplays..."Entertainment Weekly "It's more than a detailed account of one man's petty vindictiveness in a bygone era. It's about how our hatred can consume us so deeply that we lose sight of everything."Washington Post5.581331

4 stars out of 5 -- "Creepy enough to get in your bones and convincing enough to stay there, David Keating's film juxtaposes the grim minutiae of death with the ravages of grief."Total Film5.571547

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"[With] beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else..."Wall Street Journal "[With] dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism."Los Angeles Times "[A] Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls...[with] visual imagination to spare..."Hollywood Reporter5.503061

"[With] beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else..."Wall Street Journal "[With] dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism."Los Angeles Times "[A] Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls...[with] visual imagination to spare..."Hollywood Reporter5.503061

"[With] beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else..."Wall Street Journal "[With] dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism."Los Angeles Times "[A] Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls...[with] visual imagination to spare..."Hollywood Reporter5.503061

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"...[A] rousing, smoothly assembled historical fantasia....A handsome epic..." Entertainment Weekly "...Cruise plays the role with fierce energy and swings a Bushido blade like a pro..."Rolling Stone "[With] some of the most impressively realised battles this side of Middle Earth." Sight and Sound "Mr. Zwick has absorbed the lethal agility of Akira Kurosawa; what registers just as powerfully as the sureness of the combatants is the ugly futility of the battles themselves." New York Times "THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights."Los Angeles Times "Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic."Chicago Sun-Times "THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick." Widescreen Review4.815178

"...[A] rousing, smoothly assembled historical fantasia....A handsome epic..." Entertainment Weekly "...Cruise plays the role with fierce energy and swings a Bushido blade like a pro..."Rolling Stone "[With] some of the most impressively realised battles this side of Middle Earth." Sight and Sound "Mr. Zwick has absorbed the lethal agility of Akira Kurosawa; what registers just as powerfully as the sureness of the combatants is the ugly futility of the battles themselves." New York Times "THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights."Los Angeles Times "Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic."Chicago Sun-Times "THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick." Widescreen Review4.815178

"...[A] rousing, smoothly assembled historical fantasia....A handsome epic..." Entertainment Weekly "...Cruise plays the role with fierce energy and swings a Bushido blade like a pro..."Rolling Stone "[With] some of the most impressively realised battles this side of Middle Earth." Sight and Sound "Mr. Zwick has absorbed the lethal agility of Akira Kurosawa; what registers just as powerfully as the sureness of the combatants is the ugly futility of the battles themselves." New York Times "THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights."Los Angeles Times "Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic."Chicago Sun-Times "THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick." Widescreen Review4.815178

"...Cruise plays the role with fierce energy and swings a Bushido blade like a pro..."Rolling Stone "Mr. Zwick has absorbed the lethal agility of Akira Kurosawa; what registers just as powerfully as the sureness of the combatants is the ugly futility of the battles themselves."New York Times "THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights."Los Angeles Times "...[A] rousing, smoothly assembled historical fantasia....A handsome epic..."Entertainment Weekly "[With] some of the most impressively realised battles this side of Middle Earth."Sight and Sound "Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic."Chicago Sun-Times "THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick."Widescreen Review4.815178

"...Cruise plays the role with fierce energy and swings a Bushido blade like a pro..."Rolling Stone "Mr. Zwick has absorbed the lethal agility of Akira Kurosawa; what registers just as powerfully as the sureness of the combatants is the ugly futility of the battles themselves."New York Times "THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights."Los Angeles Times "...[A] rousing, smoothly assembled historical fantasia....A handsome epic..."Entertainment Weekly "[With] some of the most impressively realised battles this side of Middle Earth."Sight and Sound "Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic."Chicago Sun-Times "THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick."Widescreen Review4.815178

"The poetic Houdini tale transports to 1920s Scotland and has magic that's sure to surprise."Los Angeles Times "Pearce's intelligent, dignified performance is complemented by a typically scene-stealing character turn from Timothy Spall..."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "[E]nlivened by a spirited performance from Zeta-Jones and another charismatic turn from ATONEMENT's Ronan....It's visually pleasing..."Empire "The picture's modest charms sneak up on you scene by scene, and as shot by Haris Zambarloukos it has a burnished, seductive glow."New York Times4.321137

"The poetic Houdini tale transports to 1920s Scotland and has magic that's sure to surprise."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[E]nlivened by a spirited performance from Zeta-Jones and another charismatic turn from ATONEMENT's Ronan....It's visually pleasing..."Empire "The picture's modest charms sneak up on you scene by scene, and as shot by Haris Zambarloukos it has a burnished, seductive glow."New York Times "Pearce's intelligent, dignified performance is complemented by a typically scene-stealing character turn from Timothy Spall..."Sight and Sound4.321137

"...[Wahlberg] becomes the spirit of heavy metal....Not since BOOGIE NIGHTS has Wahlberg created so winning and personal a character..." Entertainment Weekly "...Aniston and Spall lead the supporting cast with considerable conviction..." Variety "...The film uses its easy sense of humor to convey what is sometimes lost in rock films, the sense of fun involved in playing and listening to the music..." Los Angeles Times "...The film is front-loaded with plenty of funny, authentic-feeling snapshots from the life of an earnest steel-belt metalhead..." Film Comment "...[Spall] is charming....Mr. Stockwell and Mr. Herek balance mockery with affection..." New York Times "...One-time teen-pop idol Mark Wahlberg is a good metal-mimic, and manifestly enjoys the strutting and the squealing..."Sight and Sound "...There are good performances and the period is well captured..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Mark Wahlberg gives one of his better performances..." USA Today0.1715011

"...One-time teen-pop idol Mark Wahlberg is a good metal-mimic, and manifestly enjoys the strutting and the squealing..."Sight and Sound "...[Wahlberg] becomes the spirit of heavy metal....Not since BOOGIE NIGHTS has Wahlberg created so winning and personal a character..."Entertainment Weekly "...Mark Wahlberg gives one of his better performances..."USA Today "...Aniston and Spall lead the supporting cast with considerable conviction..."Variety "...The film uses its easy sense of humor to convey what is sometimes lost in rock films, the sense of fun involved in playing and listening to the music..."Los Angeles Times "...The film is front-loaded with plenty of funny, authentic-feeling snapshots from the life of an earnest steel-belt metalhead..."Film Comment "...[Spall] is charming....Mr. Stockwell and Mr. Herek balance mockery with affection..."New York Times "...There are good performances and the period is well captured..."Chicago Sun-Times0.1715011

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