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Review of Doctor Zhivago (1965)

By Vijay L (64) on 28 May 2010

Epic in length and scale - the story is set to a time of great political significance in Russia - Doctor Zhivago is awfully long at more than…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Vijay L (64) on 16 Apr 2010

Predictably good performances all round; with particularly good chemistry between the male leads. The story at no point gets exciting though…

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Review of Dirty Harry (1971)

By Vijay L (64) on 07 Apr 2010

Everything else about this might be disgustingly dated (although, from where I'm sitting, it's hard to say realistically), but Harry Callahan…

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Review of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

By Vijay L (64) on 20 Mar 2010

Epic for sure, but unforgivably long at 3 hours and 40 minutes…

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Review of Cube (1998)

By Vijay L (64) on 07 Mar 2010

I suspect that the idea is original. But the movie is shit in every other way…

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Review of The Apartment (1960)

By Vijay L (64) on 20 Feb 2010

If I was ever forced to make an all-time top movies list, there's almost no way that The Apartment wouldn't be very near the top of the list…

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Review of The Lost Weekend (1945)

By Vijay L (64) on 13 Feb 2010

Follows the structure of a drug-scare movie of the period but with an A list cast and crew…

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Review of Out of the Past (1947)

By Vijay L (64) on 08 Feb 2010

I saw this under the UK title build my gallows high out of the past is a better title…

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Review of Event Horizon (1997)

By Vijay L (64) on 15 Jan 2010

Event horizon combines stylish visuals - effects as well as camerawork - with some nice space-bending theory…

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Review of Battleship Potemkin (1925)

By Vijay L (64) on 14 Jan 2010

Along with its visual achievements, the Battleship Potemkin also displays the worst propagandist features…

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Review of Dead Space: Downfall (2008)

By Vijay L (64) on 01 Jan 2010

Sure, there's ultra-violence and a healthy amount of gore, but the writing is unoriginal and the voice-acting is mediocre at best…

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Review of Firefox (1982)

By Vijay L (64) on 09 Dec 2009

A poor attempt at an espionage movie, and a lot of the acting is poor, but still watchable…

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Review of The Elephant Man (1980)

By Vijay L (64) on 02 Dec 2009

Pretty much, Lynch's most perfect movie, this movie is so moving it almost makes you feel ill at certain points…

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Review of Manhattan (1979)

By Vijay L (64) on 08 Nov 2009

Such an entertaining film about relationships, man/woman differences, love, and with such funny and accurate dialogues...To watch again and again…

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Review of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

By Vijay L (64) on 03 Nov 2009

Greed is good... Not! According to this movie at least…

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Review of On the Waterfront (1954)

By Vijay L (64) on 28 Oct 2009

Gritty classic…

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Review of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

By Vijay L (64) on 17 Oct 2009

One more classic I had missed and watched it today, and surely one of the best I've seen lately…

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Review of The Killing (1956)

By Vijay L (64) on 03 Sep 2009

Good & real about heist crimes & getting caught & killed... if you do the crime, you must do the time…

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Review of Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

By Vijay L (64) on 05 Jul 2009

The first half is pretty good, as it actually explores frustrated teenagers. It later just descends into finding some sort of conclusion…

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Review of Ikiru (1952)

By Vijay L (64) on 01 Jul 2009

Carpe diem'. The acting and the pace are quite off for people watching the movie 50 years after its release…

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