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Review of The Verdict (1982)

By Issac L (177) on 14 Nov 2013

Another courtroom drama from the director who brings us 12 ANGRY MEN (1957, 9/10), Sydney Lumet inducted Paul Newman into a performance of…

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Review of The Letter (1940)

By Issac L (177) on 10 Nov 2013

To quell my intermittent Bette Davis mania, this time comes THE LETTER, a William Wyler helmed Film-Noir, garnered 7 Oscar nominations including…

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Review of Red River (2011)

By Issac L (177) on 31 Oct 2013

A cattle empire owner and his adoptive son undertake a massive cattle drive to avoid financial ruin; but the road is dangerous and even leads…

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Review of Red River (1948)

By Issac L (177) on 31 Oct 2013

A cattle empire owner and his adoptive son undertake a massive cattle drive to avoid financial ruin; but the road is dangerous and even leads…

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Review of Red River (1988)

By Issac L (177) on 31 Oct 2013

A cattle empire owner and his adoptive son undertake a massive cattle drive to avoid financial ruin; but the road is dangerous and even leads…

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Review of Red River (2009)

By Issac L (177) on 31 Oct 2013

A cattle empire owner and his adoptive son undertake a massive cattle drive to avoid financial ruin; but the road is dangerous and even leads…

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Review of Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)

By Issac L (177) on 03 Oct 2013

A prequel of the colossal moneymaker DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (2010, 7/10), which dominated the box office of Chinese…

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Review of Black Narcissus (1947)

By Issac L (177) on 21 Sep 2013

A Powell-Pressburger collaboration recounts a quintet of nuns, running a convent in the exotic Himalayas mountainside, they teach lessons to…

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Review of Heavenly Creatures (1994)

By Issac L (177) on 18 Sep 2013

Fabulously weird, curiously creepy and pretty enthralling…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Issac L (177) on 10 Sep 2013

This is too good to miss. A holy piece of art…

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Review of The Hustler (1961)

By Issac L (177) on 05 Sep 2013

For a non-billiards-player, one might cavil this monochromatic classic seems to be a shade monotonous for the first half an hour of the running…

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Review of Stories We Tell (2012)

By Issac L (177) on 27 Aug 2013

It is rather unusual for a director to shoot a documentary which pivots on her private family life, being the one behind the camera to interview…

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Review of Portrait of Jennie (1948)

By Issac L (177) on 25 Aug 2013

After two less than satisfactory cinematic experiences in a row, I think I needed a palette cleanser and boy what a palette it is…

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Review of Unbeatable (2013)

By Issac L (177) on 22 Aug 2013

Director Dante Lam has successfully improved from his flaws in The Viral Factor, making this new flick into an inspiring film in an awfully…

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Review of Another Country (1984)

By Issac L (177) on 22 Aug 2013

Adapted from Julian Mitchell's eponymous play, ANOTHER COUNTRY is a biographic recount of Guy Burgess' repressive campus days, which foreshadows…

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Review of Nashville (1975)

By Issac L (177) on 17 Aug 2013

Robert Altman's insightful dissection about Nashville, the cradle of American country music, astutely captures the zeitgeist of 1970s and deploys…

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Review of A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

By Issac L (177) on 12 Aug 2013

Emotionally shattering and intensely personal…

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Review of The Conformist (1971)

By Issac L (177) on 09 Aug 2013

Intellectually and aesthetically, I can see it's an important film, and it moved me…

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Review of Sullivan's Travels (1941)

By Issac L (177) on 05 Aug 2013

My Favorite Comedy Film Is 1933's Duck Soup…

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Review of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

By Issac L (177) on 29 Jul 2013

This 1970s Italian political drama opens with a compelling murder live show, a dapper man, Volonté (the head of homicide squad) artfully kills…

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