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While it certainly is a couple of notches below its action classic original, French Connection II is still a darned good action film that maintains the core of its central character and has some added layers that are genuinely disturbing.
Grounded in a gritty reality – and shot as such – it’s still an action classic today that offers adrenaline-fueled pacing without insulting one’s intelligence.
Finally, a solid film in which the Amazon’s story can be told to current audiences.
Not only an excellent history lesson in Western comedy over the last century but also the beginning of a conversation on why people find certain things and styles humorous.
Life After Death is a disappointing continuation and maybe letting go will be for the best rather than let it continue at an inferior level.
Like the burnouts who stick longer than their leather jackets warrant, the shtick has gotten stale.
Pop fluff intended for kids stuck between Dora the Explorer and Gossip Girl. Consider it a bonus that it’s tolerable, if not fun, for the rest of us as well.
Takes the Disney princess and puts her in the real world, creating a chick flick with a little bit of edge, a whole lot of heart and and even more chemistry between the film’s two leads.
With its subject matter, it could have easily delved into the depths of a TV movie of the week filled with melodramatics and distant characterizations.
Blindness – despite its director, despite its pedigree as a respected piece of modern literature, despite its stellar cast – is a bitter disappointment.
