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Created Dec 16, 2010 02:22AM PST • Updated Dec 16, 2010 02:22AM PST

Title Released Trust Weighted Summary Viewable
1st Touch of Evil
1958 Very Good 69 Points

"Do you realize I haven't kissed you in over an hour?" says Charlton Heston to Janet Leigh at the end of Touch of Evil's famous opening scene, three and a half minutes of directorial perfection. One long tracking shot, it features close-ups leading to long shadows, followed by long shots of choreographed people and vehicles at the US-Mexico border. Legendary director Orson Welles had a touch of genius, that's for sure.

The rest of the movie disappoints in comparison, not that it's not without a touch of intrigue, several even. Serious movie fans won't be…

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1st The Godfather
1972 Really Great 39 Points

This movie is a classic. I rarely like to watch movies over and over again — but I never tire of this one.

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1st Bull Durham
1988 Great 66 Points

Bull Durham set a new standard for sports movies. Jocks on screen had never been this smart, this sexy, this suave. It's also a classic Susan Sarandon liberated-woman picture, here a JuCo English teacher with a thing for baseball players. She's pretty and they're dumb, until she runs into Kevin Costner's Crash Davis.

The upshot is sports movie immortality of the baseball and romcom varieties. As it happens, writer-director and onetime minor league ball player Ron Shelton wasn't just a baseball guy. He went on to make two more great sports movies: "White M…

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Movie Posted Summary Acting Film Edge Reality
Moneyball
  Sep 24, 2011 11:47PM PST
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Really Great 4.5

Baseball is once again on the silver screen in the terrific new film Moneyball. The tone from the beginning is that th…

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Really Great 4.5

The acting is solid across the board. Brad Pitt is at the top of his game as Billy Beane, general manager of the 2001 …

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Really Great 4.5

The film works because the elements of filmmaking are in concert from the beginning. Bennett Miller's direction is on …

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Tame 1.5

Beane's well documented temper is on display and colors several scenes with angst and anticipation. What could have be…

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Natural 1.0

As the film is based on true events, nothing seems out of the ordinary or implausible. The weight of expectation on Be…

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Iron Man 2
  Jul 31, 2010 08:57PM PST
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Good 3.0

The first Iron Man was one of the best Superhero films of the last ten years, perhaps only bested by the Dark Knight an…

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Good 3.0

The one truly redeeming factor of the film is Robert Downey Jr. While there is some rather unremarkable dialogue, agai…

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OK 2.5

The film is not as tightly produced as the first film. There are a few effects that feel incomplete, and some of the l…

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Sordid 2.7
Surreal 3.0
Up in the Air
  Jan 26, 2010 11:25AM PST
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Great 4.0

The story is fairly solid – George Clooney is an ax man for hire (firing employees for various corporations too chicken…

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Great 4.0

George Clooney is top notch. This might be his best performance. Vera Farmiga is equally as good, and sexy as hell in…

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Great 4.0

The film looks great. Jason Reitman is really coming into his own as a filmmaker. There was nothing that took me out …

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Sordid 3.1

There is more of an edge emotionally, than physically. The aftermath of the sex is more important to the story than th…

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Natural 1.0

Almost perfect in presentation, as the story unfolds in a very naturalistic way. The characters make real choices, and…

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