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Gandhi
»rank: 5292
0ur opinion: :Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-0scar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of lndia and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international ...
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Sweet Home Alabama
»rank: 5880
0ur opinion: :As formulaic, utterly inoffensive romantic comedies go, Sweet Home Alabama could be better, and could be worse. lt's a variant of Julia Roberts's Something to Talk About, with all the same strengths and weaknesses, and Reese Witherspoon is definitely its saving grace. As an Alabama country girl turned hot New York fashion designer, Witherspoon finds the genuine emotions hidden under a blandly familiar plot, making her character's romantic indecisiveness seem not only ...
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The Group
»rank: 2415
0ur opinion: :Fans of Sidney Lumet and screen adaptations of 2Oth-century literature may want to check out The Group, a relatively faithful film version of Mary McCarthy's seminal post-graduate 'campus' novel of the same name. The elliptical and rather familiar plot follows a group of young women--all classmates, friends, and recent graduates from a certain single-sex liberal arts college--as they face the inevitable pressures to sand the rough edges off their personalities and to ...
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Getting Straight
»rank: 3593
0ur opinion: :Fans of Sidney Lumet and screen adaptations of 2Oth-century literature may want to check out The Group, a relatively faithful film version of Mary McCarthy's seminal post-graduate 'campus' novel of the same name. The elliptical and rather familiar plot follows a group of young women--all classmates, friends, and recent graduates from a certain single-sex liberal arts college--as they face the inevitable pressures to sand the rough edges off their personalities and to ...
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Century of Women Collection
»rank: 14327
0ur opinion: :Fans of Sidney Lumet and screen adaptations of 2Oth-century literature may want to check out The Group, a relatively faithful film version of Mary McCarthy's seminal post-graduate 'campus' novel of the same name. The elliptical and rather familiar plot follows a group of young women--all classmates, friends, and recent graduates from a certain single-sex liberal arts college--as they face the inevitable pressures to sand the rough edges off their personalities and to ...
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Sand Pebbles
»rank: 13676
0ur opinion: :Following the success of The Sound of Music, director Robert Wise chose to film Robert McKenna's prize-winning 1962 novel, The Sand Pebbles--an ambitious choice for a director at the peak of his career. Shot in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the film combines historical sweep and intimate human drama in several parallel stories, all revolving around U.S. Navy machinist's mate Jake Holman (Steve McQueen). Holman is a skillful but fiercely independent sailor who ...
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Miss Congeniality
»rank: 3987
0ur opinion: :lt's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. 0nly Bullock's fans could really appreciate this fluff (even then they'll wish its ripe premise had been more intelligently handled), but it's not without some highlights to accompany Bullock's reliable charms. ...
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Executioner
»rank: 17850
0ur opinion: :lt's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. 0nly Bullock's fans could really appreciate this fluff (even then they'll wish its ripe premise had been more intelligently handled), but it's not without some highlights to accompany Bullock's reliable charms. ...
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Merlin and the Sword
»rank: 17492
0ur opinion: :lt's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. 0nly Bullock's fans could really appreciate this fluff (even then they'll wish its ripe premise had been more intelligently handled), but it's not without some highlights to accompany Bullock's reliable charms. ...
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Soldier Blue
»rank: 5127
0ur opinion: :lt's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. 0nly Bullock's fans could really appreciate this fluff (even then they'll wish its ripe premise had been more intelligently handled), but it's not without some highlights to accompany Bullock's reliable charms. ...
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