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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Seabiscuit (2003) Matt Easterbrook Written and directed by Gary Ross, whose last film was the amazing Pleasantville, this one doesn't quite attain the heights of its predecessor but is still a solid piece of old-fashioned moviemaking.
Posted Feb 04, 2004
4/5
Hamlet (1948) Matt Easterbrook Of the four versions of Hamlet that I've seen, this one is the most psychological, the one that truly delves into Hamlet's mind and psyche.
Posted Jan 30, 2004
4.5 / 5
Cold Mountain (2003) Matt Easterbrook A rapturous, moving experience that's filled with drama, comedy, music, and action.
Posted Jan 22, 2004
4/5
Peter Pan (2003) Matt Easterbrook A requiem for lost childhood, which simultaneously stands in light judgment of Peter's refusal to grow up. It's a frank and rather beautiful conundrum that's wonderfully addressed.
Posted Jan 11, 2004
4/5
Lost in Translation (2003) Matt Easterbrook Lost In Translation is a subtly moving movie that stays with you longer than you expect.
Posted Jan 05, 2004
4.5 / 5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Matt Easterbrook Not to be missed -- a wonderful blend of Old Hollywood-style entertainment with modern technical skills, of brain candy and food for the soul. You'll never look at epics the same way again.
Posted Jan 04, 2004
5/5
Paths of Glory (1957) Matt Easterbrook
Posted Dec 27, 2003
2.5 / 5
House of Sand and Fog (2003) Matt Easterbrook Everything that happens in the movie could have been avoided if Kathy had just opened her freaking mail.
Posted Dec 27, 2003
5/5
The Godfather, Part III (1990) Matt Easterbrook
Posted Dec 25, 2003
4/5
The Last Samurai (2003) Matt Easterbrook If there was any justice in the world (and if there were no such thing as The Return Of The King), The Last Samurai would sweep up the technical awards come Oscar time.
Posted Dec 25, 2003
3.5/5
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Matt Easterbrook While there are a few battle scenes, there's also an hour and a half of talking, and with so many characters, you need to have someone you can identify with.
Posted Dec 16, 2003
4/5
Elf (2003) Matt Easterbrook How can you not love a guy who can say, "An elf's four major food groups are candy canes, candy CORNS, candy, and syrup," with a straight face?
Posted Dec 11, 2003
5/5
The Palm Beach Story (1942) Matt Easterbrook
Posted Nov 24, 2003
3/5
The Little Princess (1939) Matt Easterbrook
Posted Nov 06, 2003
3/5
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Matt Easterbrook I definitely can't fault Gentleman's Agreement for its subject matter, but man, does it ever beat you over the head with it.
Posted Oct 26, 2003
5/5
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Matt Easterbrook I was transported back to my childhood watching this movie. I honestly felt like a kid again.
Posted Oct 06, 2003
5/5
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Matt Easterbrook The Best Years Of Our Lives is a wonderful character study, and touches on points of humankind's psychiatric makeup that are so obvious they are rarely discussed in cinematic form.
Posted Oct 01, 2003
4/5
Anything Else (2003) Matt Easterbrook Easily the most enjoyable Allen flick since Everyone Says I Love You, and on a par with his 1970s and early 1980s work.
Posted Sep 26, 2003
5/5
The Lost Weekend (1945) Matt Easterbrook More realistic than sentimentalized Hollywood crowd-pleasers like Harvey, and more accessible than complete downers like Leaving Las Vegas, The Lost Weekend is, to me, the definitive film on the subject of alcoholism.
Posted Sep 18, 2003
3/5
Going My Way (1944) Matt Easterbrook Even though I love a good family film now and then, this was too much even for me. It was like having a root canal of cream filling.
Posted Sep 15, 2003
5/5
Mrs. Miniver (1942) Matt Easterbrook One of the most powerful and effective propaganda films of all time ... the job of propaganda is to work your emotions and make you believe in the cause it's selling, and in this, Mrs Miniver succeeds 100%.
Posted Sep 01, 2003
4/5
How Green Was My Valley (1941) Matt Easterbrook While I can't say How Green Was My Valley is the most enjoyable movie ever, it's definitely well-made, and sticks with you.
Posted Aug 24, 2003
5/5
Rebecca (1940) Matt Easterbrook Judith Anderson dominates every scene she's in.
Posted Aug 19, 2003
5/5
You Can't Take It With You (1938) Matt Easterbrook It's one of those movies that's just so enjoyable, you're disappointed when it ends.
Posted Aug 12, 2003
3/5
The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Matt Easterbrook If you sit down to watch The Life of Emile Zola, skip the first third of the movie, because frankly, the beginning blows goats.
Posted Aug 08, 2003
4.5 / 5
American Wedding (2003) Matt Easterbrook The scene in which Jim brings Michelle's parents to the house for a serious talk, not realizing Stifler's organized a bachelor party with strippers, hearkens back to the screwball comedies of the 1930s.
Posted Aug 03, 2003
4/5
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Matt Easterbrook Gable makes a great Fletcher Christian, in his last movie without a mustache. The emotions which cross his face as Bligh commits one indignity after another upon various crew members is great 1930s dramatic acting.
Posted Jul 28, 2003
5/5
It Happened One Night (1934) Matt Easterbrook Not only will the Walls of Jericho fall, but so will the walls of your heart.
Posted Jul 24, 2003
4.5 / 5
Cavalcade (1933) Matt Easterbrook It's all very stiff-upper-lip stuff, but 70 years after it was made, it still remains a very rousing, moving experience.
Posted Jul 18, 2003
3/5
Grand Hotel (1932) Matt Easterbrook Less a movie than a series of vignettes starring some of the greatest names Hollywood and the stage have ever produced.
Posted Jul 17, 2003
2/5
Cimarron (1931) Matt Easterbrook Taken by itself, as a film, without moral conundrums, it's actually a fairly engaging yarn. However -- and this is a HUGE however -- it's incredibly racist in its stereotyping of all sorts of people.
Posted Jul 13, 2003
5/5
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Matt Easterbrook A gripping, disturbing, emotionally affecting movie about the loss of innocence and idealism.
Posted Jul 08, 2003
2/5
The Broadway Melody (1929) Matt Easterbrook It's dated, sexist (get a load of the ending!!!), and technically quite inept.
Posted Jul 02, 2003
4/5
Wings (1927) Matt Easterbrook The main attraction for this movie is the aerial fight sequences. They're some of the most exciting combat scenes I've seen, and this is for a film that was made in 1927!
Posted Jul 01, 2003
3.5 / 5
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) Matt Easterbrook I really enjoyed Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Oh, who am I kidding, my libido LOOOOOOOOVED this movie.
Posted Jun 29, 2003
5/5
Finding Nemo (2003) Matt Easterbrook This movie reaffirmed my love for the cinema.
Posted Jun 18, 2003
2/5
A Man Apart (2003) Matt Easterbrook Oh, the mediocrity.
Posted Jun 17, 2003
3/5
Boat Trip (2003) Matt Easterbrook Apart from my disappointment that Roger Moore didn't use any funny Bond-related lines (let's face it, "license to drill" or "for your eyes only" would have been hilarious coming out of his mouth), the movie more than exceeded my expectations.
Posted Jun 10, 2003
4/5
The Pianist (2002) Matt Easterbrook It's the rare film which can still grab your attention months after viewing, and The Pianist was one of them.
Posted May 11, 2003
2.5 / 5
The Hours (2002) Matt Easterbrook What a disappointment.
Posted Apr 25, 2003
2.5 / 5
The Recruit (2003) Matt Easterbrook Your average generic action programmer, made a bit more interesting by the addition of some good actors.
Posted Mar 28, 2003
1.5/5
Adaptation (2002) Matt Easterbrook Avoid it like the plague. You may be intrigued until the very Donald Kaufman-esque climax. Who, by the way, isn't even a real person. Therein lies both the joke of the movie, and this joke of a movie.
Posted Feb 26, 2003
5/5
Chicago (2002) Matt Easterbrook I don't think I've had more fun at a movie theater in a long time. The whole viewing was spent tapping my toes and trying not to sing aloud. Heck, I even wanted to clap after each number!!!
Posted Feb 07, 2003
2/5
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002) Matt Easterbrook One of the most highly-praised disappointments I've had the misfortune to watch in quite some time.
Posted Jan 17, 2003
3.5 / 5
The Cat's Meow (2001) Matt Easterbrook A wonderfully speculative character study that made up for its rather slow beginning by drawing me into the picture.
Posted Jan 17, 2003
2.5 / 5
Maid in Manhattan (2002) Matt Easterbrook Love may have been in the air onscreen, but I certainly wasn't feeling any of it.
Posted Jan 13, 2003
3/5
Minority Report (2002) Matt Easterbrook Spielberg apparently can't resist throwing in a cheerful, make-em-weep ending, which pretty much ruins the movie.
Posted Jan 09, 2003
4.5/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Matt Easterbrook I enjoyed it even more than the first movie.
Posted Jan 06, 2003
4/5
Gangs of New York (2002) Matt Easterbrook I'm going out on a limb and predicting that Gangs Of New York will win best picture, best director, and a boatload full of other Oscars come late March. Not because it deserves all of them, but, as is the case with so many other Oscar-winning movi
Posted Jan 06, 2003
4/5
Igby Goes Down (2002) Matt Easterbrook There are some movies that hit you from the first scene and you know it's going to be a trip. Igby Goes Down is one of those movies.
Posted Dec 27, 2002
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