Pieces of April Rating Director Peter Hedges Screenplay Peter Hedges Length 80 min. Starring Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Alice Drummond MPAA Rating PG-13 (For language, sensuality, drug content and images of nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Thanksgiving dinner is a time when all across America…

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City of God Rating Director Fernando Meirelles Screenplay Braulio Mantovani (Novel: Paulo Lins) Length 130 min. Starring Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge, Alexandre Rodrigues, Firmino da Hora, Phelip Haagensen, Johnathan Haagensen MPAA Rating R (For strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review In one of the world’s largest…

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The Station Agent Rating Director Thomas McCarthy Screenplay Thomas McCarthy Length 88 min. Starring Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin, Raven Goodwin, Sarah Bolger MPAA Rating R (For language and some drug content) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review A train whistle blows as the heir of an impoverished legacy finds solitude in the simple…

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Big Fish Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay John August (Novel: Daniel Wallace) Length 125 min. Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Matthew McGrory, David Denman, Missie Pyle, Loudon Wainwright III, Ada Tai, Arlene Tai, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito MPAA Rating PG-13 (For a…

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The Barbarian Invasions Rating Director Denys Arcand Screenplay Denys Arcand Length 99 min. Starring Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Dominique Michel, Yves Jacques, Pierre Curzi, Marie-Josée Croze, Marina Hands, Toni Cecchinato, Mitsou Gélinas MPAA Rating R (For language, sexual dialogue and drug content) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The simple truth about dying…

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21 Grams Rating Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Screenplay Guillermo Arriaga Length 124 min. Starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo MPAA Rating R (For language, sexuality, some violence and drug use) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review What is the weight of one’s soul? Some say that it weighs precisely 21…

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Lost in Translation Rating Director Sofia Coppola Screenplay Sofia Coppola Length 102 min. Starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris MPAA Rating R (For some sexual content) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review A brief glance in an elevator brings two lonely married people together in Focus Features’ Lost in Translation. There are few…

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Sylvia Rating Director Christine Jeffs Screenplay John Brownlow Length 116 min. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Blythe Danner, Michael Gambon, Amira Casar, Andrew Havill MPAA Rating R (For sexuality/nudity and language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The real life story of a troubled poet acts as the background for the Focus Features release Sylvia.…

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Swimming Pool Rating Director François Ozon Screenplay François Ozon, Emmanuèle Bernheim Length 102 min. Starring Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour MPAA Rating R (For strong sexual content, nudity, language, some violence and drug use) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review A mystery writer finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery…

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Love Actually Rating Director Richard Curtis Screenplay Richard Curtis Length 135 min. Starring Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Kris Marshall, Heike Makatsch, Martin Freeman, Joanna Page, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Laura Linney, Thomas Sangster, Alan Rickman, Rodrigo Santoro, Lucia Moniz, Billy Bob Thornton MPAA Rating R (For sexuality,…

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Rating Director Peter Weir Screenplay Peter Weir, John Collee (Novel: Patrick O’Brian) Length 138 min. Starring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin, Max Pirkis, Jack Randall, Max Benitz, Lee Ingleby, Richard Pates, Robert Pugh, Richard McCabe, Ian Mercer, Tony Dolan, David Threlfall,…

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Mystic River Rating Director Clint Eastwood Screenplay Brian Helgeland (Novel: Dennis Lahane) Length 137 min. Starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Adam Nelson, Emmy Rossum, Tom Guiry MPAA Rating R (For language and violence) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Three childhood friends have…

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Veronica Guerin Rating Director Joel Schumacher Screenplay Carol Doyle, Mary Agnes Donoghue Length 92 min. Starring Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarn Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O’Driscoll, Emmet Bergin, Charlotte Bradley, Mark Lambert, Garret Keogh, Maria McDermottroe MPAA Rating R (For violence, language and some drug content) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review…

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The Matrix: Revolutions Rating Director The Wachowski Siblings Screenplay The Wachowski Siblings Length 129 min. Starring Mary Alice, Tanveer Atwal, Ian Bliss, Collin Chou, Laurence Fishburne, Nathaniel Lees, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Keanu Reeves, Bruce Spence, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson, Anthony Wong MPAA Rating R (For sci-fi violence and brief sexual content) Buy/Rent Movie…

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Talent for the Game Rating Director Robert M. Young Screenplay David Himmelstein, Tom Donnelly, Larry Ferguson Length 1h 31m Starring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Jeff Corbett, Jamey Sheridan, Terry Kinney, Thomas Ryan, Felton Perry, Tom Bower, Janet Carroll MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review PREFACE: In the early 2000s, I was writing reviews…

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