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Cap's Movie Reviews
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The grading scale is: excellent, good, average, OK, poor, and terrible.
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Story
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Acting
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Imagery
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Music
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Overall
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Wimbledon - Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, Dam Neill, Robert Lindsay
Washed-up tennis star meets rishing star -- A Star is Born of tennis.
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Average
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Good
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Excellent
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Average
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C+
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Welcome to Mooseport - Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Marcia Gay Harden
The former president campaigns against the plumber for offoce of mayor.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Good
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C+
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The Aviator - Leonardo DeCaprio, Cate Blancett, Kate Beckensale, Alec Baldwin
The biographical story of the legendary Howard Hughes.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid - Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Salli Richardson
Greed vs. the big snakes, an odd story.
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Average
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Average
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OK
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Average
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C-
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Dodgeball - The True Underdog Story - Vince Vaughan, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn
This movie was about as close to absolute mindless entertainment as can be.
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Average
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Average
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Average
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Average
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C
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Bourne Supremacy - Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Franka Potente
The second of the Robert Ludlum Bourne novel brought to the silver screen.
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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B+
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Spiderman 2 - Tobey Macguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco
The Marvel Comics superhero does battle with Doctor Octopus.
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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B-
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The Alamo - Billy Bob Thorton, Jason Patric, Dennis Quaid
The latest version of the classic 1835 fight for Texas independence.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Average
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C+
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The Incredibles - Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson
Pixar's raises the bar with a family of super heroes saving thw world.
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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B
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Radio - Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger
The true story of an Andersen, SC, man who taught a town how to love.
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Good
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Excellent
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Average
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Excellent
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B+
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The Ladykillers - Tom Hanks,Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans Diane Delano
An odd comedy of casino robbers and elderly lady who proved more than a match.
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Good
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Average
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Average
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Good
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B-
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The Punisher - Thomas Jane, John Travolta,Will Patton, Rebecca Romain-Stamos
Another Marvel comic book avenger comes to life -- vengeance is a meal best served cold.
Raising Helen - Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Helen Mirren
A single, career-oriented woman inherits her sisters three children.
The Day After Tomorrow - Dennis Quaid, Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Jake Gyllenhaal
Global warming taken to its coldest inverse extreme.
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Average
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Good
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Good
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Good
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C+
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The Human Stain - Sir Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Racial tension and prejudice in an interesting and unique twist.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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B
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Intolerable Cruelty - George Clooney, Katherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thorton
A divorce attorney and a goldigger match wits in the game of marriage for money.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Average
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C
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Twisted - Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Andy Garcia
A homicide detective framed for a set of murders must find the key to these events.
Kiss the Girls - Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes
A race against time and a set of diabolical aerial killers.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Average
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B
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Taking Lives - Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
A persistent detective takes dedication to the extreme in assuming other identities.
Laws of Attraction - Julianne Moore, Pierce Brosnan
Opposing divorce lawyers who fall in love -- an interesting story.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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The Stepford Wives - Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close
The 2004 remake of the 1975 original movie of the the Ira Levin novel-- perfect wives.
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Average
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Good
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Good
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Good
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C+
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Secret Window - Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Charles Dutton
A Stephan King novella turned into a movie about a writer's demented mind gone wild.
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average
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Average
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Average
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Average
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C
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Bad Santa (Badder Version) - Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Bernie Mac
Prolific profanity .
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Average
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Average
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Average
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Average
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C
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50 First Dates - Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Dan Akroyd
Interesting interplay between a man and a woman who has no short term memory.
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Excellent
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Good
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Average
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Good
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C+
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Troy - Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Olando Bloom, Peter O'Toole, Julie Christie
The latest version of the classic story of Achilles, Odysseus, Hector and Helen.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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B
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Mystic River - Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne
Three childhood friends reunite with screwed up adult lives.
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Average
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Excellent
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Poor
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Average
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C
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Shrek 2 - Mike Meyers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas
The follow-on is even better than the orginial.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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Finding Nemo - Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
The incredible animated story of a father search for his son -- fantastic.
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Good
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Good
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Excellent
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Excellent
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B
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Miracle - Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Eddie Cahill, Noah Emmerich
The extraordinary true story of the 1980 United States Olympic Ice Hockey Team.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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The Shipping News - Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Densch
A troubled man finds his roots and his way in an odd familial way.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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Bend It Like Beckham - Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
A talented young woman struggles with conflict between her success on the pitch and her traditional Sikh parents.
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Good
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Average
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Good
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Good
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B-
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The Last Samuri - Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Koyuki, Billy Connolly
The 1876 enlightenment of a disaffected Union officer by his Japanese hosts.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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A-
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Master & Commander - Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall
An exceptional film of 1805 Royal Navy warfare at sea against the French.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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B+
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21 Grams - Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clea Duvall
A tragic accident interlinks numerous lives in a bizarre twist of life.
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Average
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Good
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Good
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Average
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C+
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Under the Tuscan Sun - Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova
A female writer takes a chance and makes a major change in her life.
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Average
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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The Runaway Jury - Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Kusack, Rachel Weisz
Jury tampering taken to an extreme intertwined on a grand scale.
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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Good
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B
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Out of Time - Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley
A rural sherriff is caught in an elaborate frame he races to unravel before he is caught.
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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Brother Bear - Jaoquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis
The children's animated story of love and commitment.
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Good
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Average
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Average
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Good
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C+
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Cheaper by the Dozen - Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Ashton Kutcher
A 2003 remake of the 1950's classic of the importance of family.
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Good
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Good
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Average
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Average
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C+
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House of Sand and Fog - Jennifer Connelly, Sir Ben Kingsley, Shohreh Aghdashloo
The clash of cultures and personalities intertwined with a house.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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B
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Something's Gotta Give - Diane Keaton, Jack Niholson, Amanda Peet, Keanu Reeves
An interesting study in relationships -- a lotta fun.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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B
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Gothika - Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Penelope Cruz, Charles Dutton
A very dark thriller of betrayal, madness and conspiracy.
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Good
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Good
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Average
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Good
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B-
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Mona Lisa Smile - Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Marcia Gay Harden
A young progressive professor shakes up 1950's Wellesley College.
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Good
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Good
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Good
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Average
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B-
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Lost in Translation - Bill Murray, Scarlet Johansson, Anna Faris, Giovanni Ribisi
Sophia Copolla's debut movie about loneliness and companionship in Tokyo.
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Average
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Average
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Average
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Average
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C
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Cold Creek Manor - Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis
a family leaves the danger of NYC only to find a new and more menacing danger.
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Average
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Good
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Good
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Good
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B-
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BEST: Cold Mountain - Nicole Kidman, Jude LaW, Renee Zellweger, Donald Sutherland
A classic unrequieted love story in the mountains of North Carolina circa Civil War era.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Good
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Excellent
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A-
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Monster - Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
The story of Aileen Wournos and her string of serial murders.
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Good
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Excellent
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Good
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Good
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B
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SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson, colin Farrell, LL Cool J, Michelle Rodriquez
LA SWAT special team does it's thing -- all action and that's about it.
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Average
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Average
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Good
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Good
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C+
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Frailty - Bill Paxton, Matthew McConnauhey, Powers Boothe
A bizarre murder mystery wrapped up in religious zealotry.
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Average
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Average
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Average
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Average
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C
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Dances with Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDowell
The glorious story of the Great Plains when it was still wild -- the standard of measure.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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A+
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Cap's favorite
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The Great Escape (1963) - Steve McQueen, James Garner, Sir Richard Attenbourgh, James Coburn
The true story of courageous and determined men in extraordinary circumstances.
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Excellent+
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A
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Cap's previous favorite
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This page was last modified:
31.December.2004