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Across the Universe (2007)

Across the Universe (2007)

The story, set in the USA in the 1960s, centers on a trio of friends: Liverpudlian immigrant Jude (Jim Sturgess), girlfriend Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), and Lucy’s rebellious older...

Vickie
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Saturday Night Fever has one of the most iconic title sequences in movie history. It is a pop-culture snapshot of the disco-era 1970s: As soon as the opening funky...

Linda
Titanic (1997)

Titanic (1997)

Psst. Come on. You can admit it… after all, it was ten years ago. No matter how much you trash-talk the movie today, I’ll bet you saw it in...

Linda
The House Without A Christmas Tree (1972)

The House Without A Christmas Tree (1972)

The reason I wanted to see The House Without A Christmas Tree would best be expressed in three little words: Mary. Katherine. Gallagher. Remember the Molly Shannon character on...

Linda
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

More than a little over-the-top and art-directed to within an inch of its life, this sequel to 1998’s Elizabeth is set in 1585 and tracks, among other things, the...

Vickie
The Reflecting Skin (1990)

The Reflecting Skin (1990)

The Reflecting Skin is one of the most peculiar, striking films I have ever seen, and a week after watching it, I still can’t shake the story of little...

Jennifer
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge) (2007)

Flight of the Red Balloon (Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge) (2007)

Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge features several performances that are so good, you might overlook how good they are—because they don’t seem like performances. They don’t feel like performances....

Eric
A Mighty Heart (2007)

A Mighty Heart (2007)

Angelina Jolie is (or can be) a very good actress. Angelina Jolie does a lot of great things with her celebrity. Alas, Angelina Jolie is also extremely overexposed in...

Linda
Once (2006)

Once (2006)

The two main characters of Once are never named. The “guy” (played by Glen Hansard) is a street busker in Dublin. He is kind of down on his luck,...

Linda
Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Dolores Claiborne (1995)

I saw Dolores Claiborne when it first came out on video, but I think I was too traumatized by the disturbing turn of events to fully appreciate it. For...

Jennifer
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

Before watching Black Book, the Verhoeven film that I’d watched most recently was Showgirls—and I spent the two hours and eleven minutes that movie lasted wriggling around scandalized. Showgirls...

Vickie
Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Sylvia Scarlett is one of those bafflingly erratic movies that is as frustrating as it is fascinating. A good movie, it is not. It is not a good George...

Linda