| G.I. Jane |
Like these other characters, O'Neil is a woman of great potential who has been constantly stymied by the men around her. An outstanding athlete and Olympic medal-winner, O'Neil has been stuck at a ...
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| Galaxy Quest |
"Galaxy Quest" is a one-joke movie that makes such good use of its one joke that it almostdemands a kind of grudging admiration. The joke is, what would happen if an alien racemistook episodes of ...
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| Gallipoli [DVD] |
In making Gallipoli, Weir had two primary objectives. The first was to give a human face to a historical event that was so well-known in Australia that it was commended every year on Anzac ...
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| Games People Play |
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The levels of reality and artifice in Games People Play are so densely ...
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| Gangs of New York |
The thing I always remember most vividly after seeing Martin Scorsese’s best films is the momentum. Whether it be the slow, methodical burn of Taxi Driver (1976), the purposefully ...
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| Garden State [DVD] |
At the beginning of Garden State, an offbeat, genuinely moving dramedy that is Braff's triple-threat feature debut, his character, Andrew Largeman, is a zombified version of J.D. Living in a ...
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| Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon) [DVD] |
The story, taken from a novel by Taijiro Tamura, centers around a group of prostitutes who have banded together amid the ruins in Tokyo to protect themselves and their livelihood. They work without ...
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| Gattaca [Blu-Ray] |
These are the gnawing philosophical questions posed by Gattaca, an intriguing film that, along with Robert Zemeckis’ Contact, helped mark a long awaited return in the late 1990s to ...
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| General Idi Amin Dada [DVD] |
"Q. If you're on a football team with an 800-pound gorilla, what position do you let him ...
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| George Washington [DVD] |
In his debut feature, George Washington, 24-year-old Texas-born writer/director David Gordon Green captures the nuanced rhythm and flow of life in a rural Southern town in a postindustrial ...
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| Germany Year Zero (Germania anno zero) [DVD] |
Rossellini chose to tell the story of the aftermath of World War II on the German cultural psyche through a single family, but even more specifically through the eyes of the youngest member of that ...
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| Gertrud [DVD] |
> When Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) was released in 1943, its ...
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| Get Him to the Greek |
This is partially what makes Get Him to the Greek such a curious movie, as it is built entirely around the presence of a rakish British rock star named Aldous Snow, who first appeared in ...
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| Get Shorty |
"Get Shorty," based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, takes pot shot after pot shot below the belt of Hollywood. It is meant to be a satire of what goes on behind the scenes in Tinsletown, the running ...
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| Get Smart |
One of the biggest changes has been to the character of Maxwell Smart: No longer a bumbling, egotistical idiot whose last name is purely ironic, Smart has been refashioned into an extremely ...
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| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai |
Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already ...
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| Ghost World [DVD] |
Ghost World is an often funny, often painful portrait of the abyss that is postadolescence. In the void between high school graduation and full adulthood, we find Enid (Thora Birch) and her ...
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| Ghosts of Mars |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starts out as a fairly effective sci-fi horrorshow, then quickly devolves into a mindless action movie that involves a small group of survivors ...
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| Ghosts of the Abyss |
Six years after writing and directing Titanic, one of the most popular films of the last few decades, James Cameron has returned to the story of the ill-fated luxury liner that was supposed ...
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| Gigli |
When film scholars look back on Gigli in 10 years (and, believe it or not, they will), it won’t be for any of its cinematic merits (the best thing I can write about it is that it isn’t as ...
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| Gimme Shelter [DVD] |
After December 6, 1969, critics, pundits, and journalists rushed to declare that the '60s
were officially dead. ...
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| Girl With a Pearl Earring |
Girl With a Pearl Earring is a fictionalized imagining of how one of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings came to be. Set in 17th-century Delft, Holland, it is a ...
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| Girl, Interrupted |
At the beginning of "Girl, Interrupted,"18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (WinonaRyder) is sent to the fictional Claymoore hospital, an expensive mentalinstitution just outside of Boston, despite her ...
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| Gladiator |
After several years of major releases, it has finally become clear what the DreamWorks strategy is: Each summer, they try to revive somelong-dormant Hollywood genre by giving it a splashy, ...
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| Glen or Glenda? (a.k.a. I Changed My Sex) |
I was first introduced to this director by Tim Burton's finely crafted 1994 biopic "Ed Wood." I loved Burton's film, but I kept thinking, "Surely Wood's movies weren't that bad. I mean, how bad could ...
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| Glengarry Glen Ross [DVD] |
High-pressure salesmen are always walking a thin, dangerous line between their main purpose in life (which is to deceive or, at the very best, to bend the truth to their advantage) and how they must ...
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| Glitter |
Neil Diamond failed miserably in The Jazz Singer (1980). Rick Springfield couldn't do it in Hard to Hold (1984). So why should it be of any surprise that Glitter, pop diva ...
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| Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod) |
Gloomy Sunday, a 1999 German melodrama that is getting a belated theatrical release in the U.S., has all the expected elements of a historical melodrama—war, passionate love triangles, ...
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| Gloria |
Sharon Stone stars as the titular character, a New York blond bombshell with an attitude who just got out of the joint in Miami after serving three years for a crime she didn't commit. She took the ...
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| Glory [Blu-Ray] |
Shaw is portrayed by Matthew Broderick, who at the time was still primarily identified with his iconic teen performances in films like WarGames (1983) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ...
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| Go |
The three stories all begin at a supermarket in Los Angeles, where aimless twentysomething Ronna (Sarah Polley) and her friend, Claire (Katie Holmes), work the check-out lines. Ronna is about to be ...
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| God Told Me To (a.k.a. Demon) |
A television screenwriter who graduated to the motion picture director's chair during the blaxploitation era of the early seventies, Cohen first made himself known with "It's Alive," the classic 1974 ...
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| Godsend |
Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos star as the attractive, happily married couple, Paul and Jessie Duncan. After their beaming and beloved eight-year-old son, Adam (Cameron Bright), is killed in ...
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| Godzilla |
Even though his earlier incarnations were laughably fake, the Godzilla of the original Japanese movie had personality. In fact, audiences took such a liking to him, that most of his later films ...
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| Godzilla 2000 (Gojira ni-sen mireniamu) |
Having already starred in two TV shows and close to 30 movies in which he defeated
Megalon, Gigan, Monster Zero, Mothra, the Smog Monster, the Sea Monster, and the
Cosmic Monster, not to mention ...
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| GoldenEye |
But really, who ...
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| Gone Baby Gone [DVD] |
In this regard, Ben Affleck has wisely insulated his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone in several layers of protective insulation. It’s not surprising that an actor like Affleck, who has ...
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| Gone In 60 Seconds |
"Gone in 60 Seconds," this summer's Jerry Bruckheimer-produced would-be blockbuster, is actually a remake of a 1974 cult car-crash flick written, produced, directed by, and starring a Hollywood ...
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| Good Morning (Ohayo) [DVD] |
Yasujiro Ozu's "Good Morning" ("Ohayo") is a quirky comedy of manners that is filled
with fart jokes and comical misunderstandings and viewed mostly through the eyes of two
young children who impose ...
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| Good Night, and Good Luck |
The hero of Good Night, and Good Luck is Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn), the stern, chain-smoking CBS newsman who first made a name for himself reporting the blitz in London over the ...
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| Good Will Hunting |
In Gus Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting," this rare genius is embodied in a confused, embattled 20-year-old janitor at MIT named Will Hunting (Matt Damon). Will is a certified genius whose mind is ...
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| Goodbye, 20th Century! (Zbogum na dvadesetiot vek) |
"Goodbye, 20th Century!" ("Zbogum na dvadesetiot vek"), the feature-length directorial debut ofMacedonian filmmakers Darko Mitrevski and Aleksandar Popovski, is like an insane comic bookcome to life. ...
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| GoodFellas |
The success of Martin Scorsese's stunning Mafia epic is twofold. First, he makes a strong argument why a gangster's life of crime and violence would be so tantalizing to Henry, and secondly, he ...
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| Gosford Park [DVD] |
It will likely be different for each viewer, but, for me, it was the third time around that Robert Altman's Gosford Park finally clicked. On the first viewing, I was aware that I was seeing ...
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| Gran Torino |
Walt feels little more than contempt for everyone around him, including his own grown sons, with whom he has virtually nothing in common (one of them has made a fortune selling imported cars, which ...
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| Grass [DVD] |
What Grass most effectively demonstrates is the maddening inconsistency of how the "dangers" of smoking marijuana have been understood. Both informative and slightly sarcastic, the film shows ...
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| Grease 2 [DVD] |
There was a time when I might have tried to mount a vigorous defense for Grease 2, arguing that it is not nearly as bad as it is often made out to be. Following the original Grease, a ...
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| Grease [DVD] |
Not many movies these days get theatrical re-releases, but after the phenomenal success of the re-release of Star Wars in 1997, the '50s-style musical Grease was a logical flick to ...
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| Great Expectations |
The film opens along the Florida beaches when Finn, as a young boy (Jeremy Kissner), goes out of his way to help an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) escape the police (a seemingly random event that ...
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| Green for Danger [DVD] |
The story is narrated by Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim), who will not make his actual physical appearance in the film until nearly a third of the way into the narrative. Inspector Cockrill ...
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| Grey Gardens [DVD] |
Grey Gardens is a documentary that elicits deeply discordant responses, and therein lies its power. It is at once funny and sad, moving and pathetic, intriguing and repulsive. The ...
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| Grindhouse |
Writer/directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino have recreated pretty much everything else about the B-movie experience in Grindhouse, from the aural hiss on the soundtrack, to the ...
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| Grosse Pointe Blank |
Of course, this is hardly surprising about a movie whose main character, Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack), is a professional hitman with a developing conscience, who attends his tenth high school ...
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| Grown Ups |
The screenplay by Sandler and former SNL scribe Peter Wolf (who has also penned several David Spade vehicles, including Joe Dirt and Dickie Roberts) is centered around five best ...
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| Guess Who |
Both center on decent, earnest, hardworking young men trying in vain to impress a stern, uncompromising future father-in-law who will protect his daughter at all costs. Meet the Parents, and ...
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| Gummo |
The bottom rung of the moviegoing ladder, which has been littered with such lonely disgraces as "Caligula" (1980) and "I Spit On Your Grave" (1978), must now make room for "Gummo," the atrocious ...
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