Beauty and the Beast (1991) Review
Beauty and the Beast is one of the great Disney animated films and the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.
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Bambi (1942) Review
Bambi is one of the great American animated films and one of Walt Disney's most personal achievements. The film runs seventy minutes.
Baby’s Day Out (1994) Review
Baby's Day Out is one of the more interesting commercial failures in 1990s American family cinema. Patrick Read Johnson directed.
The Aristocats (1970) Review
The Aristocats is one of the substantial Disney animated productions of the post-Walt era and the studio's most successful cat-focused feature. The Aristocats was the first Disney animated feature originated and produced entirely after his death.
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.
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.
Antz (1998) Review
DreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022) Review
The Nazis later burned it and strip. The Nazis later burned it and stripped Remarque of his German citizenship.
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Review
Alice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…
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!.
A Bug’s Life (1998) Review
The 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.
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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