| V for Vendetta |
In that light, V for Vendetta is a particularly intriguing movie in that it celebrates the potential of terroristic violence to enact positive social change at a time when politicians of the ...
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| Vacancy [DVD] |
When the film opens, a married couple, David and Amy Fox (Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale), are driving down a dark, lonely two-lane road. David has made the mistake of getting off the interstate ...
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| Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) [DVD] |
Mona is the very epitome of alienation, and each of her encounters bears witness to the impossibility of her connecting with a society of which she wants no part. Sometimes the people she meets only ...
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| Vampyr [DVD] |
The irony is that Dreyer had set out to make what, in his mind, would be a “commercial film,” but his unique artistic sensibilities and spiritual leanings virtually ensured that the film would ...
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| Van Helsing |
The opening sequence, which takes place in the distant land of Transylvania, is in black and white and clearly evokes the 1930s Universal horror pictures that are the film's underlying inspiration. ...
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| Vanilla Sky [DVD] |
Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. ...
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| Vanishing Point [Blu-Ray] |
Alas, director Richard C. Sarafian, who started his career directing television in the early ’60s, never reached the echelon occupied by those filmmakers, but his name will forever be associated ...
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| Vanity Fair |
Unfortunately, while Witherspoon's cinematic persona makes Becky immediately modern and imminently watchable, it robs the story of some of its sharper edges, turning Thackery's greedy, ...
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| Variety Lights (Luci del varietà) [DVD] |
"Variety Lights" ("Luci del varietá") is a poignant melodrama set against the
backdrop of a group of struggling variety performers that travels from town to town
entertaining people for not much ...
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| Varsity Blues |
It's not hard to guess what his notepad might have looked like. It would certainly have included something along the following ...
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| Vengeance Is Mine (Fukushû suruwa wareniari) [DVD] |
The film’s protagonist is Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), a fictionalized real-life criminal and murderer who held the entirety of Japan in rapt attention for several months in the early 1960s while ...
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| Vertical Limit |
Vertical Limit establishes the stakes of its dangerous game in the openingsequence, which makes abundantly clear that rock climbing, despite the high-techequipment and experienced enthusiasts, ...
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| Very Bad Things |
The central idea lurking beneath the grotesque surface of "Very Bad Things" is that we are all capable of the worst sort of human behavior. The various atrocities depicted here are committed by ...
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| Videodrome [DVD] |
Yet, that goriness is central to the philosophical and ideological obsessions that elevate his films above their B-movie premises. His fascination with the details of corporeality and reintegrating ...
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| Viridiana [DVD] |
A man sees a poor, tired dog tied up and forced to trot behind a peasant’s horse-drawn carriage. He attempts to convince the peasant to put the dog in the empty carriage, but he is rebuffed with ...
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| Virus |
"Virus" is about an alien superintelligence, an ethereal electrical entity that attacks the Mir Space Station and gets beamed down into the mainframe computer on-board a Russian communications ship. ...
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| Vivre sa vie [DVD] |
Which brings us to his fourth film, Vivre sa vie, which has been translated variously as My Life to Live and Her Life to Live. The film is both a mixture of elements from his ...
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| Volcano |
As Mike Roark, the head of L.A.'s Office of Emergency Management, Tommy Lee Jones finds his hands full containing the unexpected eruption. The title of the movie is a bit misleading because there is ...
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