Movies Rated 10 Stars
The prestige is a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy, full of obsession, deceit, and jealousy, with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) were competitors. […]
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Andrew is a drummer and a first year student at the Schaffer Conservatory. He’s selected by the school’s senior instructor, Mr. Fletcher, to play on his studio band. Fletcher is – to say the least – a difficult and demanding task master who accepts and expects nothing less that perfection from his students. His methods
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne is convicted of a double murder, even though he claims his innocence. He’s sentenced to two life sentences at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another prisoner serving a life sentence, Ellis “Red” Redding, picks him as the new guy most likely to crack under the pressure.
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This movie is based on the autobiography “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,” Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish that plays the piano at a radio station, sees his hometown Warsaw slowly change as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw ghetto, but is
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Rural Texas… Welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug dealers who have all killed each other in a drug deal gone wrong. Rather than report to the police, Moss decides to simply take the briefcase he found at the crime scene which had $2 million inside for himself. This sets the
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Interesting story time for this one. I saw a DVD of this movie for rent at a library and I really liked the cover, wasn’t tempted to take it home and watch it, though, so, almost two decades later, I decided to finally watch it, and, I loved it! A parody of disaster movies relies
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This is the ultimate Western parody. A town called Rock Ridge where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. Hedley Lemar, a politically connected evil guy sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable so that they can build the railroad. After the sheriff is killed, the town
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I honestly thought this movie wouldn’t live up to the hype of being one of the best movies ever made. This movie is A!M!A!Z!I!N!G! It’s hypnotising! Once I started watching it, I was sad that there was an intermission halfway through this movie, but, that intermission is needed, because even without the intermission, the movie
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I haven’t watched this movie in a long time. I have it on DVD, it’s just been sitting on my shelf for a long time, collecting dust. This is the best Terminator movie and honestly one of the best action movies ever. A great plot, great acting from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong,
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Well, what can I say about this movie? Hard to say anything new about it, really. So much has been written and said about this movie. It’s impossible to do a review of this movie. So, I guess I can just shortly explain the plot and praise the performances in this movie. Jack Torrance (Jack
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