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Memento

Movie

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

Overall92
Story93
Acting94
Cinematography92
Concept97
Entertaining91
Uniqueness97
Family Friendly—
92MovieNerd Score

The Lighthouse

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Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Overall93
Story86
Acting95
Cinematography94
Concept87
Entertaining93
Uniqueness92
Family Friendly0
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The Empire Strikes Back

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The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.

Overall93
Story91
Acting88
Cinematography89
Concept93
Entertaining90
Uniqueness85
Family Friendly85
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Tropic Thunder

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A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Overall93
Story89
Acting95
Cinematography88
Concept90
Entertaining93
Uniqueness90
Family Friendly20
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In Bruges

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Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Overall85
Story88
Acting88
Cinematography92
Concept95
Entertaining98
Uniqueness94
Family Friendly—
92MovieNerd Score

Double Indemnity

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A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Overall95
Story95
Acting93
Cinematography90
Concept88
Entertaining88
Uniqueness85
Family Friendly—
92MovieNerd Score

The Mission

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When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

Overall92
Story97
Acting98
Cinematography86
Concept87
Entertaining75
Uniqueness89
Family Friendly0
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Roman J. Israel, Esq.

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Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

Overall90
Story90
Acting90
Cinematography90
Concept90
Entertaining95
Uniqueness95
Family Friendly90
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Our Relations

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Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

Overall93
Story94
Acting94
Cinematography79
Concept89
Entertaining95
Uniqueness92
Family Friendly95
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Heretic

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Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Overall90
Story90
Acting93
Cinematography88
Concept93
Entertaining90
Uniqueness90
Family Friendly50
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Mad Max: Fury Road

Movie

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Overall95
Story88
Acting84
Cinematography94
Concept85
Entertaining95
Uniqueness93
Family Friendly30
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Alien

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During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Overall93
Story90
Acting89
Cinematography94
Concept87
Entertaining92
Uniqueness83
Family Friendly23
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The Departed

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To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Overall85
Story92
Acting90
Cinematography90
Concept96
Entertaining91
Uniqueness92
Family Friendly—
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Batman Begins

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Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

Overall91
Story88
Acting89
Cinematography92
Concept91
Entertaining91
Uniqueness89
Family Friendly22
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Superman

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Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

Overall95
Story80
Acting90
Cinematography85
Concept100
Entertaining95
Uniqueness65
Family Friendly—
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

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The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

Overall89
Story90
Acting91
Cinematography89
Concept92
Entertaining92
Uniqueness100
Family Friendly—
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Overall92
Story91
Acting90
Cinematography94
Concept84
Entertaining90
Uniqueness86
Family Friendly50
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The Killer

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After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Overall90
Story88
Acting93
Cinematography94
Concept80
Entertaining88
Uniqueness88
Family Friendly50
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Red Rooms

Movie

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

Overall93
Story92
Acting95
Cinematography90
Concept80
Entertaining85
Uniqueness90
Family Friendly30
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The Mothman Prophecies

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Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

Overall95
Story89
Acting93
Cinematography90
Concept95
Entertaining93
Uniqueness93
Family Friendly30