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"Wirkola does a good job of setting up the elemental story....The characters are well distinguished, the actors are appealing, and the cinematography by Matt Weston makes the most of the eerie snowbound setting."Hollywood Reporter "With Nazis literally popping up out of the snow, Wirkola plays a game of fascist whack-a-mole where ravenous midnight audiences are bound to feel like winners."A.V. Club "Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in DEAD SNOW, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick..."New York Times "[A] sufficiently nightmarish splatter flick....Any horror movie with the moxie to play Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' during a zombie attack can't be all bad."Los Angeles Times "[A] comedy, but played absolutely seriously by sincere, earnest young actors....The movie is pretty funny."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "A blackly comic, terrifically violent riff on the Evil Dead template..."Total Film23.46976

"Wirkola does a good job of setting up the elemental story....The characters are well distinguished, the actors are appealing, and the cinematography by Matt Weston makes the most of the eerie snowbound setting."Hollywood Reporter "With Nazis literally popping up out of the snow, Wirkola plays a game of fascist whack-a-mole where ravenous midnight audiences are bound to feel like winners."A.V. Club "Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in DEAD SNOW, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick..."New York Times "[A] sufficiently nightmarish splatter flick....Any horror movie with the moxie to play Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' during a zombie attack can't be all bad."Los Angeles Times "[A] comedy, but played absolutely seriously by sincere, earnest young actors....The movie is pretty funny."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "A blackly comic, terrifically violent riff on the Evil Dead template..."Total Film15.34964

"[W]oven from dazzling imagery, inspired design and a pair of powerful performances: Charlize Theron as Snow White's persecutor, Queen Ravenna, and Chris Hemsworth as the put-upon heroine's protector, the Huntsman of the title..."Wall Street Journal 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN reinvents the legendary story in a film of astonishing beauty and imagination."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] baroque enchantment....It is an absolute wonder to watch and creates a warrior princess for the ages."Los Angeles Times "[T]he visual elements are riveting, with production designer Dominic Watsonand costume designer Colleen Atwoodmaking major statements with their fabulously detailed and rich-looking creations..."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "A dark and gritty take on the classic, Sanders succeeds mightily in the look and feel of his film..."Box Office "Sanders' take on the classic fairy tale is as grim as, well, the Brothers Grimm originally intended. It has a darkness that seeps into the soul."Rolling Stone "There is something exciting about how seriously SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN takes its themes."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[D]irector Rubert Sander's is keen to subvert the original tale for goth-action thrills....The images are stark and effective..."Total Film "[There] is a brave and understated finish....Not bad for a Tolkien-esque adventure as good-looking as it is spirited."Sight and Sound10.5853

"...Gore just doesn't get any giddier than Raimi's sequel-slash-remake..."Entertainment Weekly "...EVIL DEAD 2 delivers the goods nonstop..."Total Film "...EVIL DEAD 2 is one of the goofiest, goriest movies this side of the grave....Genuine, if bizarre, proof of Sam Raimi's talent and developing skill..."New York Times "...A flashy good-natured display of special effects and scare tactics..."Variety "...There are images of satanic grace that actually recall Bosch, thanks to the darkly mischievous power of Raimi's bizarre imagination....Raimi is a dynamo who knows how to make a movie as cinematic as possible....DEAD BY DAWN is a terrific trip..."Los Angeles Times "The effects -- a combination of puppetry and stop-motion animation -- are both inventive and obvious enough to lift the grotesque humor safely into the realm of high stylization."New York Times10.42468

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"[With] a kinetic visual style that imbues contemporary London with all the glossy swagger of a Michael Mann production, THE SWEENEY feels muscular and dynamic..."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's illicit fun to be had if you buckle up for a bumpy ride....The action scenes are urgent and efficient..."Total Film "[T]he action sections are the film's high point and its guilty pleasure, all punchy, quick-cut and visceral..."Sight and Sound "Spewing profanities and bashing heads, the great Ray Winstone charges through THE SWEENEY like a bulldog in a leather jacket."New York Times "[A] briskly involving British crime entertainment of the old school....THE SWEENEY benefits greatly from Ray Winstone's performance as Jack Regan..."Los Angeles Times8.964573

Spin (p.65) - Ranked #23 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "Feel-good Britpop for nonbelievers."Spin (p.100) - "[A]rena-ready songs about long good-byes with right-angled guitar fuzz."Entertainment Weekly (4/2/04, p.66) - "[FINAL STRAW] proves the Irish quartet keeps getting better....The band has added pulsing strings and staticky textures to its luscious mix." - Rating: AMagnet (p.108) - "[A] soaring, super-polished album replete with dreamy anthems, superior pop moments....All in all, pretty crafty. And pretty smart."8.830942

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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The actors take the words and actions at face value and invest them with all the conviction they can."Chicago Sun-Times "[The cinematographer] has created a succession of somber images that refuse to loosen their grip..."Wall Street Journal "The images will singe your eyeballs. Dafoe and Gainsbourg, who won the Best Actress prize at Cannes, fills the screen with ferocity and feeling."Rolling Stone "Shooting on high-definition digital, director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle coaxes a textured, layered richness from a limited palette of woodland shadows..."Movieline 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's melodramatic, explicit, bleak -- and it looks and sounds incredible....A harrowing exploration of gender, grief and the power of nature..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Von Trier's woodland setting is a palpably creepy setting, evoking everything from Shakespeare's dark, enchanted forests to THE EVIL DEAD."Uncut8.466015

3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] churning blender of gags, mugs, kinks, quirks, sneaks, nods, wink-winks, zingers and stingers that thunders along..."Total Film "Full blooded as the action is, Wright and Pegg's comedic verve and detail-conscious writing shine through..."Sight and Sound "[A] very funny cop comedy....These guys are as much A-level scholars of movie genre conventions as their better-known, better-hyped Stateside colleagues Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "[D]eeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious..."Premiere 3 stars out of 4 -- "You can't beat these Brits for blood lust and belly laughs....It's a blast."Rolling Stone "Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost, who played best buddies in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, have an easy, believable rapport....Think of it as THE FULL MONTY blown to smithereens."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]illed with gentle British laughs and chaotic American ultraviolence....[HOT FUZZ] knows who it's shooting for and picks them off expertly."Uncut "In director Edgar Wright and Pegg's tight script, the humor works on several levels....Best is Wright's slick style, with quick cuts that move the action along at a clip."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOT FUZZ is pure fun from start to finish and is so chock full of blink-and-you'll-miss-it gags that it's endlessly watchable."Ultimate DVD8.457211

"...Dead-on, kitsch-free period detail and a wonderfully agitated performance by Bale..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental <BR> Premiere "...A satire of conspicuous consumption..."Variety "...A mordantly funny and agreeably blatant satire with genuinely subversive bite..."Film Comment "...An ingenious adaptation....Excellent direction and a set of self-effacing performances..." Sight and Sound "...AMERICAN PSYCHO is really brilliant in the way it takes the viewer inside Bateman's world..." -- 4 out of 5 starsBox Office "[D]irector Mary Harron impressively mines the dark social comedy from this scathing satire of the 1980s."Entertainment Weekly8.456889

"...Mr. Wedge and Mr. Saldanha handle the mix of verbal jokes and slapstick well..." New York Times "...A delight....ICE AGE deserves to pass animation's survival-of-the-fittest test..." USA Today "...ICE AGE has some groundbreakingly realistic digimation and plenty of laughs. Think a prehistoric JUNGLE BOOK..." Total Film "...There's enough cool fun here to warm the hearts of animation enthusiasts of all ages..." Box Office "...Chris Wedge has done nifty, amusing things on the visual side....His style is a kind of storybook photo-realism, giving those characters the unusual look of living and breathing plush toys..." Los Angeles Times "...The film's stylized, blocky humans and personable, exaggerated creatures have the feel of three-dimensional cartoons....There are emotional resonances beyond the obvious..." Sight and Sound "...There's something matter-of-factly astonishing about the vivid precision of key details....Arresting and often laugh-out-loud funny..." Variety "...A pleasure to look at....The visuals are rich with character touches for the animals..." Chicago Sun-Times8.453778

"There is something so inherently likable about Lopez on screen that it's easy to forget that she doesn't so much become the characters as they become her."Los Angeles Times "[The first] set piece -- a heist at the Ohio State Fair undertaken by five guys dressed as clowns, a firefighter and a priest -- provides a master class in how to balance chaos and coherence."New York Times "[T]he new PARKER is still plenty of violent, nasty, fun....Statham gets the chance to show Hollywoods tough guys how a real man throws a punch..."Total Film8.445082

"...SCARFACE is a grandiose modern morality play....[The film] possesses an engaging topicality and packs a punch..."Variety "...Pfeiffer, now as then, steals the show..."USA Today "...[It's] fun to simply enjoy this amazing Al Pacino vehicle for the bloody, politically incorrect, relentlessly macho potboiler that it is..."Entertainment Weekly "[A] brilliant, bloody Prohibition-era gangster movie..."Premiere 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's undoubtedly the larger than life quality of the film which pleases many, but young turk Oliver Stone also delivers a potent screenplay..."Ultimate DVD "...The most stylish and provocative -- and maybe the most vicious -- serious film about the American underworld since [THE GODFATHER]....Vivid and arresting."New York Times "...Still perhaps De Palma's most genuinely convincing work..."Sight and Sound "...An exciting crime picture....A gallery of wonderful supporting performances....SCARFACE is a wonderful portrait of a real louse..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Pacino plays the odious Tony Montana with a dead-on mix of predatory steel and flawed flashiness..."Total Film "...This Brian DePalma butcher block has found a thriving life of its own..."Movieline's Hollywood Life8.444322

3 stars out of 5 -- "This funny and touching movie depends on two can-do actresses....Adams and Blunt get the job done. They come highly recommended."Rolling Stone "[A]n offbeat and oddly endearing drama....Dig in a bit deeper, and you uncover a smartly done morality tale that couldn't be more in sync with these troubled times."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Dark humor intersperses with poignant moments....Light but not insubstantial, charming without being glib, SUNSHINE CLEANING is a heartfelt and funny story of complicated family dynamics and life's bizarre twists."USA Today "[T]he director and her co-stars, Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, bring a steadfast sense of truth to the story of two sisters trying to jump-start their stuck lives and grow up....They're just wonderful, these two actresses, and quietly spectacular in different ways."Wall Street Journal "This is definitely one to make you feel good all over....Adams and Blunt do an outstanding job and Jason Spevack is adorable..."Premiere "As blooming Rose, Adams taps into a delicate vein of warmth and humor that makes her every reaction fresh....Blunt complements Adams' honeyed energy with her own irresistible, more dead-pan vigor."Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Adams gives a delicate, empathetic performance that validates her calling as her generation's Julia Roberts. She and Blunt strike some bright, flashy sparks..."Total Film8.438037

ZOMBIELAND has its tongue planted firmly in its rancid cheek while still delivering the visceral goodies.Hollywood Reporter Eisenbergs often inspired neurotic dithering recalls the likes of early Gene Wilder, while Harrelson again proves himself an actor willing to go out on any limb...Variety "This road movie/horror flick/dark comedy/earnest romance/action film hybrid laces a gentle drollness through all the bloody mayhem....Mostly, it's just wicked fun."USA Today 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is very funny, reaching comic perfection when Bill Murray pops up to play himself in a truly inspired cameo."Box Office "[T]he filmmakers sustain an impressively high level of sillinesss....The cast sinks its teeth into juicy material with steadfast zest."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 4 -- "The filmmakers show invention and well-tuned comic timing..."Chicago Sun-Times "There are plenty of exploding heads, sure, but while there are a number of gross-outs and jolts in it, ZOMBIELAND is mostly about character-based laughs."Los Angeles Times "[I]t focuses on the comic possibilities of four misfits indulging their most cherished fantasies under the bleakest circumstances imaginable....The filmmakers get a lot of mileage out of Harrelson's amusingly over-the-top means of dispatching the undead..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "Director Ruben Fleischer mixes fright and slapstick with bloody glee."Rolling Stone "At the bone, ZOMBIELAND is a polished, very funny road picture...starring four likable actors..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A perfect mix of comedy, horror, and action, making it the most innovative and enjoyable zombie movie since SHAUN OF THE DEAD."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "ZOMBIELAND is about as much fun as you can have at the end of the world....Rarely has a post-apocalyptic flick been so appealingly unhinged in its pursuit of pleasure."Total Film8.431752

3 stars out of 5 -- "[An] offbeat horror, the debut feature of Polish short film director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo."Total Film8.428309

3 stars out of 5 -- "It's actually a subversive genre comedy, and a pretty hilarious one, at that."Box Office8.428309

"[A]musing....Wry touches abound, from the retro titles onward..."Hollywood Reporter "[T]he project, a feat of stop-motion animation, is made with generous care by the same impressive LAIKA studio artists who conjured the gorgeous CORALINE." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "[The filmmakers] lace the fun and fright with keen visual wit....There's magic in it."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "Norman and his co-stars are amusing...and the zombies themselves are a whole lot of ghoulish fun..."Total Film "PARANORMAN hits a confident, crowd-pleasing tone."Sight and Sound8.42579

"...A mightily absorbing mystery that also represents the best sustained filmmaking of director Alan Parker..." Variety "...It is a movie cool to the eye....It is the film's cumulative atmosphere that builds its mounting sense of doom..." Los Angeles Times "...With spine-twisting atmosphere, oodles of sly wit and a nightmare-birthing ending..." Total Film "...A definitive 1980s period piece..." Sight and Sound "[Rourke] gives off a vibe of mangy cool..." Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's still a kick to see the two Method men lock acting antlers -- particularly with both at the peak of their pomp." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "ANGEL HEART grows richer with each viewing, especially in its autumnal palette."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "ANGEL HEART duly remains a well-regarded Faustian puzzle of a film."Ultimate DVD8.422886

"FASTER is a pure thriller....Director George Tillman Jr. does a lean, efficient job of creating stark action scenes."Chicago Sun-Times "The movie exists for its squealing-tire spins and high-speed-in-reverse moves."Los Angeles Times "Johnson is always watchable, and, given his hulking physicality, is a natural action hero."USA Today "FASTER was built for speed, and for an action-savvy audience....It's a film about The Rock's intensity-in-10-cities glare and giving it to them that bloody well deserve it."Movieline8.422885

4 stars out of 5 -- "[An] exuberant actioner....CRANK wouldn't work without Jason Statham. Battered, weary, wiescracking and astoundingly, viciously lethal, he's the working class angel of death cinema..."Total Film "[A]s showily amped and amiably amoral an extreme action pic as the exhaust-end of summer deserves." Entertainment Weekly8.420174

"...[Williams's performance] pulls together Peter Weir's mystical paean to youthful spirit..." -- Rating: BEntertainment Weekly "...[The film has] a gorgeous look and smashing rhythms....THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY commands respect and affection..."Los Angeles Times "...[Williams gives an] exceptionally fine performance....Some very good performances from the younger actors [as well]..."<BR> New York Times8.21115

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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The performance of Jim Sturgess as McGartland helps place his decision into the day-by-day process of acting on it."Chicago Sun-Times "The decibels, energy and overall quality are high in writer-director Kari Skogland's FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING, her supremely well-made, highly stylized, graphic tale..."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "The suspenseful spy thriller FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING will surprise espionage fans....Canadian filmmaker Kari Skogland uses a brutal shooting to launch her film into action."Box Office "The scenes between Sturgess and Kingsley are riveting, as Kingsley alternately cozens and commands, playing his reluctant informer like a fish on a line." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "Sturgess has been The Next Big Thing for about three years now, and he legitimately earns that distinction here: All crazy eyes and sneering charm..."Movieline "Writer-director Kari Skogland's sharp-edged, doc-style drama is loosely based on the true story of Martin McGartland..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "Terrific performances and an array of kinetic action scenes help distinguish FIFT DEAD MEN WALKING..."Los Angeles Times "Kari Stogland's thriller turns the story of torment, torture, and perpetual betrayal into a fleet-footed pop item....The action is swift and sure."Film Comment8.001441

"Winstone's interaction with Gibson provides the movie with much of its interest....Gibson is a credible, attractive hero, as he has always been..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Mel Gibson shines in this kind of role, and he's at his very best in this politically charged thriller..."Box Office "EDGE OF DARKNESS hangs in there and fleshes out its '70s-style symphony of paranoia....The best of the violence carries a brutal jolt."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "Mel Gibson is back to doing what he does best....This tense tale of a father's love for his daughter and his blinding sense of revenge artfully blends emotion and suspense."USA Today "Mel Gibson returns to form in EDGE OF DARKNESS....Also sturdy are the supporting players, particularly Ray Winstone as a quietly threatening government op..."Hollywood Reporter "Gibson speaks in a dry Boston accent and really gets the gruff, blunt working-class Boston Irish 'tude behind those inflections." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Nobody goes postal quite like Mel, giving a white heat to his personal mission that keeps us watching."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Gibson brings the pain -- either with a pistol or his eyes, which carry the same wounded, vulnerable quality they always have, here fully exploited."Empire "Mel Gibson's return to acting is a welcome sight....[He] shows his movie-star shine hasn't dimmed."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "A slow-burning conspiracy with an incredible performance by Gibson."Premiere 3 stars out of 5 -- "A sturdy big-screen remake....Ray Winstone steals the show as an enigmatic 'fixer' who may or may not be one of the good guys."Uncut7.754743

"...Packed with solid-gold dialogue, tight performances and way too many classic scenes to list here..." -- 5 out of 5 StarsTotal Film "...GOODFELLAS makes poetic drama of warped ambitions. It's a prodigious achievement..."Rolling Stone "...Awesome GOODFELLAS is a punk movie, both in subject matter and attitude..." -- 4 out of 4 stars USA Today "Martin Scorsese regained the explosive force of his '70s heyday with this true-life mafia memoir."Premiere "...Breathless and brilliant....GOODFELLAS is memorable for the ensemble nature of the performances..."New York Times "...Filmed like a rainbow-hued thunderbolt and celebrating Mob lore in the fastest 2 1/2 hours in film history..."Film Comment "...GOODFELLAS is RAGING BULL squared....[The film] flows with the exuberance of a filmmaker who has every detail nailed and a few new lovely moves he wants to show us..."Los Angeles Times "GOODFELLAS is Martin Scorsese's violent and intense view...of organized criminal life, with powerful performances by De Niro, Oscar-winner Pesci, Bracco, and Sorvino.."Widescreen Review7.71361

"...The pleasures of JUMANJI lies in its echoes of JURASSIC PARK, the incontrovertible evidence that magic exists and can..."Sight and Sound "...[A] very entertaining special effects extravaganza..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars USA Today "...The film unleashes an arsenal of special effects that are dazzling to the eye....In addition to Williams' heartfelt, vulnerable performance, Hunt elicits humor and pathos..."Variety "...Filled with magnificent, computer-animated fantasy images..."Los Angeles Times7.699141

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"Some of the performers -- especially Maria Bello as the hero's wife and Ed Harris as a mysterious stranger -- are gripping." Movieline's Hollywood Life "The family tableau that ends the film is as chilling and redemptive as anything Cronenberg has ever crafted....You won't know what hit you." Rolling Stone "Cronenberg plays that pulp-revenge thriller plot with a perfectly pitched straight face throughout..." Uncut "It's about the violence that surpasseth all understanding -- a cataclysm of awful consequence that unfolds with insidious intimacy and a Cronenbergian delight in the animal squish and shock of torn bodies." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly "A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year." New York Times "Cronenberg's masterful, intelligent and gripping meta-thriller leaves us pondering about our enduringly perverse desire for alternative realities, in which surrogate violent alter egos run righteously and preposterously amok." Sight and Sound "[With] a fabulous Ed Harris in Blues Brothers shades as a mutilated Mob smoothie; the best William Hurt in years; and career-topping work by both leads. Always keeping us unbalanced, VIOLENCE finally seems less eccentric than scintillatingly original."USA Today "[I]t's tight, exciting, and, let's not forget, hilarious." Premiere Ranked #1 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "An heroic mainstream comeback for director David Cronenberg....A modern American masterpiece." Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "Right to the last shot, this thrilling, hardheaded movie refuses to draw conclusions....This is the best movie of the year." Entertainment Weekly7.318756

"[B]eautifully crafted....While the film has the rousing action of the best Hollywood war films, it ends on a note of melancholy that testifies to the maturity of these gifted filmmakers."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "Martin Koolhoven's film makes telling use of his snow-bound landscapes to suggest the frozen limbo-time the Dutch found themselves in..."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Koolhoven is mostly good with actors, the period is strongly evoked and there are strong moments..."Empire "The film is relatively well appointed, especially in its recreation of historical period and detail..."Sight and Sound "Straightforward and solid....Director Martin Koolhoven elicits strong performances in the handsomely photographed feature..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Koolhoven manages the difficult balance of entertaining as well as offering a high emotional impact, with considerable agility."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller....The story, directed by Martin Koolhoven, is impeccably paced and lean, with a visually gorgeous, icy blue pallor that underscores the cold, hard choices that its characters must make."Washington Post7.316751

"...Rod Steiger gives one of the performances of his career..."Chicago Sun-Times "...It influenced fashion and inspired men to grow mustaches....It also launched a best-selling soundtrack album of Maurice Jarre's score and made a superstar of Julie Christie..."USA Today "...Breathtaking..." -- 4 out of 5 starsTotal Film "...Hollywood's last great romantic epic....A Panavision marvel of snow-swept vistas, ice-glazed architecture, and elegantly choreographed legions of extras..."Entertainment Weekly "...Unabashedly romantic and beloved by moviegoers around the world. Omar Sharif became an international superstar with his performance..."Los Angeles Times "[T]he cast is aces across the board....Even better: cinematographer Freddie Young's wide-screen shots, which capture the snowy steppes with the same haunting beauty he found in the desert on Lean's previous film..."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "It boasts huge sets and great epic scenes....Lean delivers the heavy breathing through his choreography of extras, extraordinary cinematography and a stirring score."Empire7.31675

"[A]n intense, surprisingly serious study of a man making his way through a wilderness of catastrophic destruction and human cruelty like a latter-day prophet."Hollywood Reporter 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Directing team The Hughes Brothers have chosen ELI as their first film in nearly a decade and though it certainly delivers all the fireworks you might come to expect from their earlier work, its religious undertones separate it from the pack..."Box Office "The Hughes brothers have a vivid way with imagery here, as in their earlier films....The film looks and feels good, and Washington's performance is the more uncanny the more we think back over it."Chicago Sun-Times "A lean, stark, surprisingly effective headliner in Hollywood's ongoing apoc-a-pala-looza."Los Angeles Times "An attractively grizzled Denzel Washington plays the enigmatic Eli, a true believer with quasi-mystical fighting skills..."USA Today "[Washington] beautifully inhabits the film's titular hero, a laconic, solitary gunslinger who's also a custodian of a mysterious tome..."Washington Post "One of the clever conceits of the script by first-time Gary Whitta is that there are only a handful of people still alive who remember how things were 'before'..."Variety "[A]n intense, surprisingly serious study of a man making his way through a wilderness of catastrophic destruction and human cruelty like a latter-day prophet."Hollywood Reporter "THE BOOK OF ELI takes the form of an ultra-violent graphic novel, with Washington as a steely Man With No Name type who cuts a righteous path through the gullets of sinners and savages." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[A]mong films about material scarcity, religion and power, it compares favourably with THERE WILL BE BLOOD."Sight and Sound "The real draw is the spaghetti western homages, Tom Waits bartering goods and hand grenades being 10-pin bowled under trucks."Total Film7.315218

"THE DEPARTED is splattered with moments of pure, dead-eyed, blood-soaked Scorsesean violence....Nicholson provides a menace that's half silky, half seedy." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "DiCaprio fully justifies his place as Marty's new muse....[He delivers] THE DEPARTED's most dangerous turn."Total Film "The speed and Mr. Scorsese's sureness of touch, particularly when it comes to carving up space with the camera, keep the plot's hall of mirrors from becoming a distraction."New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "The actors bring their A games to this triumphant bruiser of a film, its darkly wanton wit the only defense against complete chaos."Rolling Stone "[A] juicy and enjoyable gangster picture. It has generous salty humour, tremendous narrative drive, an absorbingly complex plot of multiple betrayal, and a roster of entertaining actors."Sight and Sound "Martin Scorsese here succeeds in creating a bleak picture with a fatalistic Irish sensibility."Box Office Included in Premiere's "10 Best Movies Of The Year" -- "[With] enough bravura acting for a dozen such pictures..."Premiere Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" -- "[A] model of what directing is when craft rises to the level of art."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "Scorsese's got the best of men at the tops of their games. THE DEPARTED is this year's meatiest movie diversion."Entertainment Weekly Ranked #1 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment "[T]his 'gangster movie' feels like a direct emanation from a society in a state of severe moral disorientation....THE DEPARTED reminds us that if there's truly an enemy, it's within."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "[I]t's a rare treat for moviegoers to see six major actors, all in strong roles, together in one movie."USA Today 5 stars out of 5 -- "DiCaprio stands tall, even when sharing the screen with Nicholson....THE DEPARTED is his master class..."Ultimate DVD 5 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith Nicholson and DiCaprio together on screen for the first time, a performance masterclass is assured."Ultimate DVD "THE DEPARTED has become a classic in its own right, thanks in no small measure to William Monahan's script..."Wall Street Journal7.303229

"The fight scenes in this Indonesia-set pressure cooker of an underworld thriller are done in the vintage hand-to-hand style of highly choreographed martial arts."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "An orgiastic barrage of violence, THE RAID: REDEMPTION is, at least in its finest moments, one of the most breathless, blistering action movies in recent memory."Box Office "Opening with the image of a ticking watch placed beside a gun, THE RAID: REDEMPTION is, as those props would suggest, a tense, hyper-violent action thriller..."Sight and Sound "Prizing speed and impact, THE RAID unfolds as a series of high-impact setpieces....The focus is on grace and skill, the blistering speed of the choreography, and the personal panache the performers inject into their combat."Film Comment 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "RAID is the year's most turbo-charged film, an Indonesian martial-arts movie that ups the violence by giving its characters a modern-day worldview -- and weaponry."USA Today "[A] slam-bang, knock-your-socks-off action bonanza with some of the most peerlessly shot, performed and choreographed fight sequences you're likely to see on screen."Los Angeles Times "[A] genre mash-up -- part John Carpenter B-movie, part high-concept action thriller, mostly a martial arts kick-em-up....It's inventive..."Uncut "The emphasis here is speed: The fight choreography is blisteringly quick, designed to make viewers gasp, and then cheer." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club7.295509

"[T]his is a movie content with just being good, old-fashioned fun."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is what Arnold does best: big-gun violence and one-liner laughs. He's still got it."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] return to form....Is it a coincidence that classic action is making its comeback at the same time Schwarzenegger is making his own?"Movieline "It scores laughs from its goofy, trigger-happy characters in the breaks between Kims thrilling flourishes of visual invention." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "THE LAST STAND is still a lot of fun, a lot of the time."Total Film7.295509

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"...Seagal is effective for both his novelty value and his ability to be both literally and figuratively disarming. And the film itself is a lively one..."New York Times7.289774

"[I]t is infused with a great deal of sitcom sass by screenwriter Kay Cannon..."Los Angeles Times 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] wicked blast....PITCH PERFECT proves no one is too cool for the perfect pop song."Box Office "Kendrick, in her first front-and-center lead role, has a skeptical and wryly alluring presence..."Entertainment Weekly "[It's] a real pleasure to see Rebel Wilson in the first role to truly showcase her talents since BRIDESMAIDS."Washington Post7.28667

"[A]musing....Wry touches abound, from the retro titles onward..."Hollywood Reporter "[T]he project, a feat of stop-motion animation, is made with generous care by the same impressive LAIKA studio artists who conjured the gorgeous CORALINE." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "[The filmmakers] lace the fun and fright with keen visual wit....There's magic in it."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "Norman and his co-stars are amusing...and the zombies themselves are a whole lot of ghoulish fun..."Total Film "PARANORMAN hits a confident, crowd-pleasing tone."Sight and Sound7.281832

4 stars out of 5 -- "Making the villains both human and spectral is a sly maneuver by cunning scriptwriter Simon Barrett..."Box Office7.281639

"...A compassionate, perfectly performed look at the real heart of youth. It stands, sweet and strong, ribald, outrageous and funny....It's one of those treasures absolutely not to be missed..."Los Angeles Times "...While Reiner succeeds in building the story around Wheaton's convincing vulnerability, he also has achieved a rare feat of getting equally empathetic and outstanding performances from everyone else in the cast..."Variety "Rob Reiner's evocative rites-of-passager is still memorable for the performances of its four young stars..."Total Film "Rob Reiner's film is all about the journey, not the destination. And all of his young actors are great." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly7.278928

"...A crisp and agreeable futuristic adventure....Witty and sophisticated..."Sight and Sound "...It's a well-crafted entertainment....Schwarzenegger once again gets mileage out of the contrast between his muscular presence and his everyman persona..."Chicago Sun-Times "...The 6TH DAY comes complete with the gripping car chases, shoot-'em-ups, great gimmicks, and, of course, mano-a-mano combat with sadistic henchmen..."Total Film "...Packed with amusing satirical details of a not-so-brave new world."Entertainment Weekly7.278928

3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan is a strong presence and his scenes with Saldana crackle....Short and Elba have strong moments, and Jaenada always seems to appear just in time to save the day."Box Office 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] clean, efficient and entertaining thriller....THE LOSERS looks, feels and plays like a real movie."Chicago Sun-Times Evans, the Human Torch in FANTASTIC FOUR and next up as Captain America, gets just the right blend of humor and hardass into his role.Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "THE LOSERS is brash, fast and funny enough to get away with murder."Total Film "[T]he escalation of set-piece raids, stunts and scams offers enough self-contained adventures to hold the attention."Sight and Sound 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] fun and exhilarating action film....Sylvain White makes a live action comic the way all directors should by keeping the energy level cranked at all times."Premiere7.278928

"...A heartwarming, toe-tapping delight....Daldry elicits a star-making turn from 14-year-old newcomer Jamie Bell..." -- 4 out of 5 starsTotal Film "...Stephen Daldry anchors [the film's] melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism....Jamie Bell [conveys a] convincing mixture of sullenness and innocent charm..." New York Times "...An inspirational Brit-prole dance fable..."Entertainment Weekly "...Gracefully executed....The fleet-footed BILLY ELLIOT illustrates how classic storylines, in the right hands, can work over and over again..."Box Office "...Jimmy Bell is an engaging Billy, earnest and high-spirited, and a pretty good dancer, too..."Chicago Sun-Times "...If Dickens had written FLASHDANCE after seeing THE FULL MONTY, it probably would have come out something like this infectious, feel-good bundle of ambition in the face of adversity..." -- 3.5 out of 4 stars USA Today "...Daldry scores a sensational film debut....Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart..."Rolling Stone7.278928