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Amelia
OK 17 Points 2009

Hillary Swank and Richard Gere star in this biopic of Amelia Earhart. Shot in a flashback style – switching between the infamous last flight and the history of her achievement and adventure, this film is interesting more for Amelia’s story than for any great filmmaking. Sure, Hilary and Rich…

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American Gangster
Really Great 123 Points 2007

Denzel and Crowe at the top of their games, combined with a compelling (if familiar), interesting and assured story make this an almost perfect gangster movie, just shy of the Godfathers and Goodfellas….

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American Made
Very Good 83 Points 2017

The wages of sin are very good for Tom Cruise for a very long time in American Made, a fanciful recounting of one smuggler’s blues during the 1980s cocaine explosion. It’s a very satisfying movie, with a modicum of truth, a surfeit of crazed sexiness, and a satisfactory ending when the wages of…

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American Sniper
Perfect 66 Points 2014

Saving Private Ryan has a new neighbor atop the pantheon of Great American War movies. Chris Kyle, Bradley Cooper and Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper illuminates the reality of America’s 21st century war as never before, just as Steven Spielberg’s classic did about the Greatest Generation’s …

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Amy
None Yet 0 Points 2015
An Honest Liar
None Yet 0 Points 2014
Andrei Rublev
OK 5 Points 1966

Considered by many to be one of the best films ever made, Andrei Rublev is a sweeping epic about a 15th Century Russian priest by that name who was known for his religious icon paintings. Filmed by the legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, it is a massive 220 minute story, broken into di…

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Anthropoid
Great 17 Points 2016

An extraordinary story about the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich – the butcher of Prague. This famous chapter in history has plenty of drama, suspense , and a shocking account of the Nazi treatment of both the innocent and the complicit. The resistance from the Czech and Slovaks …

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At Eternity's Gate
OK 66 Points 2018

Vincent van Gogh deserves a great biopic. At Eternity’s Gate isn’t it, not even close.

Frequent screen blackouts and repeated dialogue are just two flaws. At Eternity’s Gate has several more, including scenery that isn’t beautiful until Van Gogh makes it so. Yet its worst flaw is to waste …

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Awakenings
Very Good 17 Points 1990

Robin Williams plays a nerdy researcher who gets a staff job at a special needs hospital, where he is presented with practically comatose victims of an epidemic that occurred decades ago. Only now, a cure exists and Dr Sayer won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The story that ensues is both heart-warm…

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