A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
On the surface a simple rape-revenge story is ingeniously turned into a complex and at times riddling study a woman dealing with the adversities of her life; and Isabelle Huppert delivers an impeccable performance.
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Grandiose epic of a child's coming-of-age amidst the horrors as war, both adventure and affecting drama, full of detail and made with cinematic expertise; and Christian Bale's performance is sensational.
Halliwell***: "Intelligent and thought-provoking movie about the loss of childhood innocence through the horrors of war. Bale, as the boy, gives an extraordinarily believable performance."
Maltin**: "Strawling, ambitious, but emotionally distant and loaded with cinematic crescendos (replete with crane camera shots and overbearing music by John Williams) that simply don't have the emotional content to warrant all that fuss."
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for
his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a
collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department
ruled by a corrupt detective.
Ambitiously long-spanned drama offers good direction, cinematography and some good performances, but its intention to say something about guilt and fate doesn't quite convince and the narrative is more episodic than epic.
Maltin***: "Ambitious story of fathers and sons, fate and destiny...Deeply emotional story is played with great feeling by a fine cast.what some might see as a series of coincidences is well wrought by director and cowriter Gianfrance into a cohesive and credible saga. Also makes great use of its locations in Schenectady, N.Y."
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Anime masterpiece set in a dystopian future marvels with its detailed cityscapes and a complex storyline that actually raises serious questions about identity in our digital age.
Halliwell (no star): "Spectacular-looking Japanese animated film, but one that, like so many of its kind, involves a confusing narrative and peculiar metaphysics that reduce interest in its depiction of a corrupt future."
Sorcerer Arkadian has taken over Camelot with a zoo of beasts from his
magical book, and King Arthur's daughter Avlynn asks Merlin to help her take
back Camelot.
It shows badly that this movie was made for TV on a shoestring budget, they not only saved money on effects, but on the script as well.
