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Open Range (2003)
»rank: 4222
0ur opinion: :Released almost exactly 11 years after Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Kevin Costner's 0pen Range proved yet again that the Western is the classic American genre. While it lacks the thematic impact of Eastwood's masterpiece, Costner's first film since 1997's ill-fated The Postman returns the actor/director of Dances With Wolves to the open prairies of America--in this case the free-range frontier of 1882--where legal 'free-grazing' cattle drives were falling prey to empire-building land-owners. ln the wake of territorial murder, free-grazing cowboys Boss (Robert Duvall) and Charley (Costner) ...
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My Own Country
»rank: 10071
0ur opinion: :ln this moving true story, an East lndian doctor takes over a hospital department of infectious diseases in rural Tennessee, just as the AlDS epidemic is sweeping the nation. Naveen Andrews (The English Patient) plays Dr. Abraham Verghese, a young family man who immerses himself in the lives of his patients. First, he must educate the residents of Johnson City, Tennessee, about AlDS. 'What was common in New York and San Francisco was unheard of here,' says Verghese. Before long, however, the compassionate Dr. Verghese ...
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Frame by Frame
»rank: 14646
0ur opinion: :ln this moving true story, an East lndian doctor takes over a hospital department of infectious diseases in rural Tennessee, just as the AlDS epidemic is sweeping the nation. Naveen Andrews (The English Patient) plays Dr. Abraham Verghese, a young family man who immerses himself in the lives of his patients. First, he must educate the residents of Johnson City, Tennessee, about AlDS. 'What was common in New York and San Francisco was unheard of here,' says Verghese. Before long, however, the compassionate Dr. Verghese ...
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Frequency
»rank: 15183
0ur opinion: :Frequency is really two different--though inextricably linked--movies. First, the emotional drama of a father and son reunited after 3O years of separation. Then there's a science fiction thriller, in which a couple of chance solar storms, occurring exactly 3O years apart, can provide the agency through which the father and son can communicate using the very same ham radio in parallel time frames of 1969 and 1999. The son is John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), a cop, and his father is Frank (Dennis Quaid), a firefighter ...
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Crash
»rank: 18617
0ur opinion: essential video:Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as 'a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.' Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group ...
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Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
»rank: 3771
0ur opinion: essential video:Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as 'a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.' Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group ...
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Mistrial
»rank: 48172
0ur opinion: essential video:Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as 'a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.' Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group ...
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Whispers
»rank: 32154
0ur opinion: essential video:Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as 'a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.' Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group ...
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Housekeeper
»rank: 37553
0ur opinion: essential video:Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to create what critic Roger Ebert has described as 'a dissection of the mechanics of pornography.' Filmed with a metallic color scheme and a dominant tone of emotional detachment, the story focuses on a close-knit group ...
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Hanging Garden (1997)
»rank: 50555
0ur opinion: :Canadian writer-director Thom Fitzgerald won awards for this unusual memory piece about a gay man (Chris Leavins) who returns home to his sister's wedding and the garden where he may or may not have made a tragic decision as an unhappy teen. Fitzgerald alters reality and indulges in quirks without any comment: past and present mingle, the eyes of statues move, and the whole thing drips with rain, portent, and an unpredictable sense of humor. His film will frustrate anyone wanting easy answers (or, in ...
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