| Eagle Eye |
Eagle Eye is a techno-paranoid nightmare on steroids. Its underlying fear is based on interconnection, the idea that all technologies--traffic lights, security cameras, cell phones, spy ...
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| Eastern Promises |
Director David Cronenberg, following his superb thriller A History of Violence (2005), establishes the ugliness of his setting in the film's shocking first scene, in which a man has his ...
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| Eat Pray Love |
Roberts stars as Liz Gilbert, the screen surrogate of the real-life free-lance magazine writer and novelist Elizabeth Gilbert who, in her 2006 memoir of the same title (unread by me), chronicled her ...
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| Eaten Alive [DVD] |
"Eaten Alive" is a bizarre, rarely seen Southern Gothic horror-comedy that has been released at various times under so many different titles (including "Death Trap," "Brutes and Savages," "Horror ...
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| Edge of Darkness |
The story is transposed from England to Boston, where we meet the protagonist, Tom Craven (Gibson, looked lined and world-weary), a veteran police detective who is meeting his beloved ...
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| Edtv |
There have been other films in recent months that have satirized "Edtv's" themes of undeserved fame and national obsessions over nothing (Woody Allen's over-criticized "Celebrity" jumps to mind). ...
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| Edward Scissorhands [DVD] |
In one way or another, all of Tim Burton's films are about misunderstood outsiders. Even
when working with a well-known superhero in his 1989 hit "Batman," Burton still managed
to focus on how ...
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| Eight Below |
This got me thinking on my way home about why dog movies have such power over people (by sheer coincidence, I also caught Old Yeller on television the night before, surely the pinnacle of ...
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| Eight Legged Freaks |
Eight Legged Freaks is a throwback horror-comedy that emulates the basic structure of a '50s-era creature-feature all in the good name of digital special effects. It's not really a spoof or a ...
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| El Norte [Blu-Ray] |
The story is neatly divided into three chapters. The first chapter opens in a small, rural village in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala, where we are introduced to the Xuncax family. First-time ...
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| Election |
Every American high school has one: the ultra-involved, over-ambitious, perfectly groomed goody-goody who always knows every answer in class. Every high school has one of these bubbly busy bees, the ...
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| Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud) [DVD] |
In this case, the protagonist is Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet), a war veteran-turned-businessman who, in the film’s opening passages, murders his boss and makes it look like a suicide. The ...
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| Elf |
Will Ferrell’s greatest gift as a comedic actor is his ability to convey a complete lack of self-awareness. All of his best characters from his seven-year run on Saturday Night Live, from ...
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| Elizabeth |
This opening sequence is both cinematically exhilarating and difficult to watch. That Kapur does not maintain this gusto throughout the entire film is unfortunate, but still not much of a fault. ...
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| Elizabethtown |
In his first movie role that doesn’t involve wearing armor, swinging a sword, or shooting a bow and arrow, Orlando Bloom plays Drew Baylor, a young man who has just crashed in a way few people ...
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| Empire of Passion (Ai no borei) [DVD] |
In its broad parameters, Empire of Passion derives from the folkloric tradition of kaidan, or ghost stories, which first developed during the premodern Edo Period (roughly 1603 to ...
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| Enchanted [DVD] |
The story begins in the animated realm of Andalasia, where a beautiful peasant girl named Giselle (Amy Adams) longs for a Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet. That is precisely what happens ...
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| Encounters at the End of the World |
No, Herzog is after something deeper, darker, and infinitely more unnerving than the mating and birthing rituals of emperor penguins. Unfortunately, exactly what he’s after is never quite clear ...
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| Enemy at the Gates [DVD] |
Jean-Jacque Annaud's Enemy at the Gates takes place during the Battle of
Stalingrad, in which the Soviet Red Army fought to keep their city from falling into German
hands (it is thought to ...
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| Enemy Mine [DVD] |
Enemy Mine is a throwback to the era of science fiction when movies and
television had a hard time dealing with sensitive social issues, so they had to dress them up
as stories about aliens ...
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| Enemy of the State |
"Enemy of the State" takes "The Conversation's" constant fear of always being recorded and ups the ante with the inclusion of satellites, miniature cameras, tracking devices, and digital ...
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| Entrapment [DVD] |
"Entrapment" is a technically efficient thriller with no human interest or
development. Despite the fact that the leads are played by the always
charismatic Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, ...
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| Equinox [DVD] |
So, in the summer of 1965, a group of Southern California teenagers named Dennis Muren, Mark McGee, and David Allen, all of whom were avid readers of FM and were subsequently high on the ...
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| Equus |
The story is one of the oddest you'll find in recent cinema. A somewhat troubled psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) accepts a new patient, a seventeen-year-old stable hand, Alan Strang ...
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| Erin Brockovich |
There are but a handful of actresses who could have pulled off the role of the real-life busty, feisty, and determined heroine crusader of "Erin Brockovich." However, of that handful, it is quite ...
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| Escape From New York [Blu-Ray] |
Along with George Miller’s Mad Max (1979) and its sequel The Road Warrior (1981), John Carpenter’s Escape From New York is arguably the best candidate for progenitor of this ...
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| Escape From the Planet of the Apes [DVD] |
(Warning: As it is difficult to discuss adequately the Planet of the Apes series without giving away some important plot information and potential surprises (especially in the first film), ...
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| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
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In his previous screenplays, particularly Being John Malkovich (1999) and ...
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| Europa [DVD] |
For all its technical and aesthetic brilliance, though, Europa remains a rather cold and distant film, one that is easy to appreciate but difficult to love. The gliding camera movements and ...
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| Event Horizon [DVD] |
The story takes place in the mid-21st century. Event Horizon is the name of a massive deep-space craft that disappeared while supposedly surveying the planet Neptune. Seven years later, a ...
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| Ever After |
Of course, this version is just as much a fairy tale as the Grimm Brothers' version is. In fact, the movie seems to confuse what the Grimm Brothers wrote with what Walt Disney put on celluloid in ...
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| Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) [DVD] |
It is that magical, freeing quality of photography that director Jan Troell captures so beautifully in his film Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick). Troell, who began ...
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| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) |
However, Allen does use the book's structure of asking and then answering potentially embarrassing sexual questions by re-positing a half-dozen of the question on title cards throughout the movie, ...
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| Evil Dead II [DVD] |
Slapstick comedy has always been based on some form of pain and violence, and Raimi simply takes it to the next logical level. So, rather than simply getting poked in the eyeballs or bopped on top ...
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| Evilspeak [DVD] |
Coopersmith is clearly intended to be a male version of Carrie White, a teenager who has so much stacked against him that he has no chance of winning even a small victory playing by the rules ...
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| Evolution |
Evolution is an enjoyable, but uneven special-effects-laden sci-fi comedy in whichthe special effects eventually overwhelm the comedy. It was directed by Ivan Reitman, whopioneered the ...
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| Excess Baggage |
So what to do? Emily has already burned down half of the boarding school she was sent to, and that didn't seem to get her anywhere. To up the ante, she decides to fake her own kidnapping. Everything ...
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| Executive Decision |
This is the conflict at the heart of the new Joel Silver-produced political action-thriller, "Executive Decision." A group of extreme Islamic terrorists seize control of a 747 with more than 400 ...
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| Exorcist II: The Heretic |
Instead, director John Boorman ("Deliverance") decided to take the sequel, "Exorcist II: The Heretic," as far in the opposite direction of William Friedkin's original as he could, substituting ...
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| Exorcist: The Beginning |
But, here we have a production company, Morgan Creek, that was handed a completed film budgeted at $30 million that it deemed unfit for public exhibition, not because it was incompetent, but because ...
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| Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed |
This is not to say, of course, that I can't and don't have an opinion about the film and at least a gut instinct for whether or not it's being honest about its subject matter. I have also read ...
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| Extract [Blu-Ray] |
Jason Bateman stars as Joel, the owner and founder of a small company that makes food extracts--not a particularly exciting venture, to be sure, but one that is quite successful and that he has ...
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| Extraordinary Measures |
Dr. Stonehill is contacted by John Crowley (Brendan Fraser), a desperate father with two young children who have been diagnosed with Pompe. The disorder involves a missing enzyme that makes it ...
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| Extreme Measures |
And so the question is posed: what price are we willing to pay for ...
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| Eye of the Beholder |
Look high and low, but you are unlikely to find a more bizarre, disjointed, and utterly aimless film in recent months than Stephan Elliott's horribly misguided psycho-noir "Eye of the Beholder." ...
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| Eyeborgs [Blu-Ray] |
The Patriot Act, which is frequently invoked throughout the film, has been expanded to allow for the networking of all the country’s surveillance cameras and devices, which now feed into a ...
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| Eyes Wide Shut |
"Eyes Wide Shut" has been with Stanley Kubrick for a long time. He first purchased the rights to the source material,Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella "Traumnovelle" ("Dream Story"), ...
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| Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage) [DVD] |
Nineteen fifty-nine saw the release in England of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, a powerful psychological thriller about a soft-spoken serial killer who uses his camera tripod as a weapon to ...
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