Movie Reviews by Lee M - Page 140 of 201

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Review of Restaurant (1999)

By Lee M (4,001) on 22 May 2009

Some films, oddly enough, can be too ambitious for their own good, which is the case with Restaurant…

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Review of The Fourth Protocol (1987)

By Lee M (4,001) on 17 May 2009

What is missing is any real tension or psychological detail that might lend plausibility to all the hocus-pocus about East-West political and…

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Review of Stir Crazy (1980)

By Lee M (4,001) on 15 May 2009

The big problem is Stir Crazy seems to change its mind, halfway through, about the kind of movie it wants to be…

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Review of Gumshoe (2014)

By Lee M (4,001) on 10 May 2009

A wonderful performance by Finney is wasted in a throwback mystery comedy that never quite comes together nor manages to be very funny…

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Review of Gumshoe (1971)

By Lee M (4,001) on 10 May 2009

A wonderful performance by Finney is wasted in a throwback mystery comedy that never quite comes together nor manages to be very funny…

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Review of How to Rob a Bank (2007)

By Lee M (4,001) on 09 May 2009

I loved this movie. Somewhat of a black comedy but more a commentary on banks, and power, and greed and desperation…

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Review of Where God Left His Shoes (2007)

By Lee M (4,001) on 09 May 2009

A very touchng story, hard to watch in parts due to the reality of how hard life is for this family. But they stick together through it all…

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Review of The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

By Lee M (4,001) on 06 May 2009

One of the few cynical spy films made at the silly height of Bondmania, and also one of the most enduringly fascinating to this day…

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Review of Mojave Phone Booth (2006)

By Lee M (4,001) on 04 May 2009

Experiment in mixing collectivist production ideals and experienced Hollywood talent is a noble one, though in this case, it's wrought just…

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Review of Blue Collar (1978)

By Lee M (4,001) on 03 May 2009

The perfect example of an American film of the seventies…

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Review of Love and Death on Long Island (1998)

By Lee M (4,001) on 03 May 2009

This is arguably Hurt's best role in years, and he bites into it with relish, managing to seem both manipulative and vulnerable, dour and droll…

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Review of The Auteur Theory (1999)

By Lee M (4,001) on 02 May 2009

Has A Bunch Of Quirky And Actually Funny Bits But It's Not Enough To Save It From It…

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Review of The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)

By Lee M (4,001) on 28 Apr 2009

I'd forgotten about this film, I must give it a re-watch (If my VHS still works!). From what I can remember, I quite liked it…

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Review of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

By Lee M (4,001) on 26 Apr 2009

Beautiful classic and Loren is and always will be a stunner…

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Review of Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)

By Lee M (4,001) on 26 Apr 2009

Loved the music. Nice to see local scenes in here…

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Review of Funny Ha Ha (2003)

By Lee M (4,001) on 26 Apr 2009

Certainly has style and a gritty realism about it, but there's little depth in this character driven piece who just get on with life, nothing more…

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Review of Sounder (2003)

By Lee M (4,001) on 23 Apr 2009

Honest and touching, Martin Ritt's Oscar-nominated Sounder, a Depression-era saga, does proud the American family and the American family movie genre…

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Review of Sounder (1972)

By Lee M (4,001) on 23 Apr 2009

Honest and touching, Martin Ritt's Oscar-nominated Sounder, a Depression-era saga, does proud the American family and the American family movie genre…

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Review of The Champ (1979)

By Lee M (4,001) on 22 Apr 2009

The strong acting just wasn't enough for me to really like this film. All of the standard stops are pulled out to play with your emotions…

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Review of Played (2006)

By Lee M (4,001) on 20 Apr 2009

With dialogue that is mostly improvised, the appeal of Played resides mostly as an experiment in acting than it does as a form of entertainment…

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