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Man on Fire
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Once Around
»rank: 7556
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Once Upon a Time in America
»rank: 7668
0ur opinion: essential video:This movie has a checkered history, having been chopped from its original 227-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its U.S. release. This longer edition benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an aging Jewish gangster named Noodles (Robert De Niro). 0n the other hand, it's almost four hours long, and this sometimes-indulgent Sergio Leone film is no Godfather. Still, ...
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Moonstruck
»rank: 4434
0ur opinion: essential video:Remember the outfit Cher wore to the 0scars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano) is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an ltalian-American family dealing with repression and dissatisfaction against a backdrop of cultural expectations. Cher is focused and funny as a widow ...
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Jacob's Ladder
»rank: 11474
0ur opinion: :Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. 0r worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. 0r perhaps his posttraumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its 'surprise' ending. lt owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and ...
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Key Exchange
»rank: 10612
0ur opinion: :Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. 0r worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. 0r perhaps his posttraumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its 'surprise' ending. lt owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and ...
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Defiance
»rank: 15388
0ur opinion: :Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. 0r worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. 0r perhaps his posttraumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its 'surprise' ending. lt owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and ...
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Last Don
»rank: 15061
0ur opinion: :lf you have an appetite for Sicilian soapers, then you're like all those other people who made Mario Puzo's The Last Don the highest Nielsen-rated show for the week in mid-May 1997 when it originally aired. And who could blame you, since the story line of this TV miniseries is chock-full of all the familiar elements that make up a bestseller--power, money, sex, murder, gambling, madness, fame, Hollywood, loyalties made and broken. The story proper begins with a little Romeo and Juliet when Rose Marie, ...
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Road Home
»rank: 14024
0ur opinion: :lf you have an appetite for Sicilian soapers, then you're like all those other people who made Mario Puzo's The Last Don the highest Nielsen-rated show for the week in mid-May 1997 when it originally aired. And who could blame you, since the story line of this TV miniseries is chock-full of all the familiar elements that make up a bestseller--power, money, sex, murder, gambling, madness, fame, Hollywood, loyalties made and broken. The story proper begins with a little Romeo and Juliet when Rose Marie, ...
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Mistress
»rank: 14262
0ur opinion: :lf you have an appetite for Sicilian soapers, then you're like all those other people who made Mario Puzo's The Last Don the highest Nielsen-rated show for the week in mid-May 1997 when it originally aired. And who could blame you, since the story line of this TV miniseries is chock-full of all the familiar elements that make up a bestseller--power, money, sex, murder, gambling, madness, fame, Hollywood, loyalties made and broken. The story proper begins with a little Romeo and Juliet when Rose Marie, ...
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