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DVD REVIEW: Final Destination 3
Rad Bennett  |  Oct 05, 2006  | 
New Line
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
This innovative DVD of the slick but unoriginal kill-the-kids ho
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DVD REVIEW: Rome
Rad Bennett  |  Oct 05, 2006  | 
HBO/BBC
Series •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••••
In covering the period from Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul to his as
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DVD REVIEW: Nightwatch
Brandon Grafius  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
20th Century Fox
Movie ••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras ••
In this first installment of a planned trilogy based on th
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DVD REVIEW: The Matador
Ken Korman  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Weinstein Company
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••½
The Matador is equal pa
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DVDs: Three Burials By Mr. Jones
Ken Korman  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sony; Movie ••••, Picture/Sound ••••, Extras •••) didn't win any major American awards, but for many who saw the directorial debut of actor Tommy Lee Jones, this beautiful yet unsentimental take on the modern Western was the film to beat in 2005.

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DVDs: Movies of Tony Scott
Ken Korman  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Crimson Tide Touchstone Unrated Extended Edition
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras
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DVD REVIEW: A Good Woman
Marc Horowitz  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Lionsgate
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••
Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's
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DVD REVIEW: Eight Below
Rad Bennett  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Disney
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound ••••½ Extras ••½
Eight Below is set in Antarctica,
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DVD REVIEW: The 4400
Rad Bennett  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Paramount
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •½
The title refers to 4,400 people who are i
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DVD REVIEW: Caché (Hidden)
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Sony
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
Easily one of last year's best movies, Michael Haneke's drama
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DVD REVIEW: Viridiana
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••½ Extras •••
Viridiana is Luis Buñuel's 1961 tra
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DVDs: Mer de Malle
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 

Director Louis Malle made his feature debut in 1958 at age 24 with Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection; Movie •••½, Picture/Sound •••½, Extras •••½), a coolly controlled tale of a murder plot gone awry.

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DVD REVIEW: Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Marc Horowitz  |  Sep 06, 2006  | 
Universal
Movie ••• Picture/Sound ••• Extras •••
Dave Chappelle is a funny man, and his Block Party has some good la
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DVD REVIEW: Entourage
Rad Bennett  |  Sep 05, 2006  | 
HBO
Movie •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •½
The transfers on the three discs here are some of the best
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The Last Samurai HD DVD
Shane Buettner  |  Jul 25, 2006  |  First Published: Jul 26, 2006  | 

<I>The Last Samurai</I> is a movie that succeeds more than I expected it to in spite of Tom Cruise giving one of the worst performances of all time by an actor of his stature (and I’m not referring to his diminutive height here). I didn't see <I>Samurai</I> in the theater because I was repelled by its marriage of subject matter and star. And no, I'm not a Tom Cruise hater at all. I just had a hard time imagining him in a Samurai picture of any kind. And even my lowered expectations didn't prepare me for how laughably unconvincing Cruise is here as the adrift Civil War hero Nathan Algren. Cruise's performance is all the more frustrating because the man can be nothing short of brilliant when he wants to be (see <I>Born on the Fourth of July</I>, <I>Magnolia</I> and even <I>Interview with the Vampire</I> for proof positive).

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