Unbreakable (2000)
M. Night Shyamalan, the heralded director of The Sixth Sense, follows up his mega-blockbuster with a very subdued but more profound thriller in Unbreakable. Although I admit that liked The Sixth Sense, I also must admit that...
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Diabolique (1955)
A sadistic principal of a boys’ boarding school is married to one of the teachers and his mistress is part of the crew there. They all are in the know and accept their situation,...
Caligula (1979)
Depicting the rise and fall of the infamous Roman Emperor Caligula (McDowell), an amoral and repugnant man who used violence to gain his throne and to deal with his subjects, this is the highly...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Before watching this movie, I heard such high praise as “Best Film of the Year”, “Best Kung Fu movie of All-Time”, and even “One of the Best Movies of Any Kind Ever”. I can...
Bring It On (2000)
Bring It On is the sort of mindless fluff I would expect on the Disney channel to pass for “quality entertainment”, but I doubt they would let the multitudinous cheesecake shots and phallic symbolism...
The Producers (1968)
What makes The Producers such one of the best comedies ever isn’t just the fact that it’s funny. It’s absolutely inspired. When you hear the plot, you can pretty much guess from the start things aren’t...
State and Main (2000)
Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he’s certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his...
Toy Story (1995)
The fact that Toy Story is the first full-length feature film done entirely in computer graphics would have made this interesting enough. The fact that it is also immensely enjoyable makes this one of the greatest...
Red Planet (2000)
Red Planet is the fourth attempt in the last year to try to make the same storyline work and come up short. Supernova, Pitch Black and Mission to Mars all dealt with an Earth-mission to another planet, only to have...
Little Nicky (2000)
I guess you can’t expect much when the writer of such crap films as Ready to Rumble, and the Mighty Ducks films is the ringleader writer-director of a film like Little Nicky (co-written by Adam Sandler and longtime Sandler...