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Romeo Must Die (2000) Review

Romeo Must Die is one of the substantial American martial arts productions of the early 2000s and one of Jet Li's substantial Hollywood productions follow. Jet Li had been working substantially in Hong Kong cinema across multiple decades before his…

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Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) Review

Run Silent, Run Deep is one of the great American submarine films and one of the most accomplished collaborations between Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Robert Wise had been one of the most accomplished American directors of the previous two…

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John Carter (2012) Review

John Carter is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the past fifteen years and one of the most expensive commercial failures in Disney history. The production was Stanton's live-action feature debut after his Pixar work on Finding Nemo…

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Fantasia (1940) Review

Fantasia is one of the great animated films in cinema history and one of the foundational documents of the entire American animation tradition. The film consists of eight animated segments set to classical music compositions.

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Destination Wedding (2018) Review

The film operates as substantial two-hander production featuring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder as basically the only significant on-screen presences across the runtime. Frank Crawley and Lindsay Hartway are middle-aged single travelers who meet at the small regional airport in…

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The Birds (1963) Review

The Birds is one of Alfred Hitchcock's great achievements and one of the most influential horror productions in American cinema history. The British-born filmmaker had produced substantial work in both British and American cinema across multiple decades.

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Apollo 13 (1995) Review

The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

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Argo (2012) Review

Ben Affleck directed and starred. The film adapts the historical events of the 1980 Canadian Caper, when six American diplomats escaped the Iranian hostage crisis through a CIA operation involving a fake Hollywood production.

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50 First Dates (2004) Review

50 First Dates is one of the more substantive Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the second major collaboration between Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer had established the romantic comedy partnership that 50 First Dates extended.

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Airplane! (1980) Review

is one of the great American comedies of all time and one of the most substantial parody films in commercial cinema history. The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker collaborative team had been working substantially in comedy production before Airplane!.

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