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Advantages: well above expectations
Disadvantages: not many really

The movie was well above my expectation and definitely worth a wait. Tony Leung plays the same man with "In the Mood for Love" but has a different character. The movie is also vaguely related to "Days of Being Wild" in 1990, co-starred by Leslie Cheung and Maggie Cheng. All three films are about the mixture of hustle-bustle and weariness of Hong Kong in 1960s. Tony's performance in this film was again brilliant. Faye Wong performed in WKW film for ...
...in 1994, also co-starred by Tony Leung) and made this film one of a kind. Mysterious gambler Gong Li was also attractive. Zhang Ziyi gave me a positive surprise. The film's technical level (costumes, music, photography etc.) is also very high. Someone suggested 2004 Cannes Palm d'Or should have gone to this film instead of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and now I can totally agree. The number "2046" is the metaphor of Hong Kong's destiny, which implies the last ... Read review

Advantages: Intensely romantic, atmospheric, a brief display of a future filmmaking genius
Disadvantages: Borrows ever so slightly from Wong Kar Wai's CHUNGKING EXPRESS

...his crumbling body with a 3 iron golf club. The bruised and battered wife, without saying a word to her husband as he gasps for breath in the garden, silently joins the young man on his scooter. They drive off into the night and suddenly home-inhabiting doesn't seem so lonely a life after all, as long as they're together. A warm, astonishing film from an astonishing director, 3 IRON might just break your heart. Although the premise is taken in-part ...
...the young man and, moreso, the bubbling genius of a director who, with 3 IRON, in under an hour-and-a-half, is quite clearly on the verge of creating that rarest of artistic distinctions these days, of filling that vast cinematic chasm of late, with a cinematic masterpiece. May it happen soon. ... Read review

Advantages: Marion Cotillard is always good value.
Disadvantages: Russell Crowe andRidley Scott can't do comedy.

Max Skinner is a reptilian stockbroker, loved by his boss and lawyer and reviled by everyone else. But his high-pressure life takes a turn for the unexpected as he inherits a house and vineyard in France from his estranged Uncle Henry; the closest thing he had to a father. He crosses the channel, intending to sort out the estate and flog the house. But once he gets there, he finds himself remembering how happy his childhood holidays in Provence were ...
...the City worth more than a chance at happiness? In years to come "A Good Year" will no doubt be known as Ridley Scott's folly. For a director whose output is usually characterised by its dependence on action set-pieces and high drama, this light comedy seemed an odd choice of project. And sadly my misgivings about his suitability have been realised. It's a bit of disposable fluff that has been dressed up by an impressive cast list and critically ... Read review

Advantages: Mesmerising, Beautiful and Perfect
Disadvantages: Ha, you've got to be kidding

...80 days' or as simply a quintessentially British actor: it may well be the case that he is. However, in this movie he is great, it's impossible to see anyone else doing such a fantastic job at just being a chap. I think the main thing to highlight in this review is that the film is WAY ahead of its time. Made in 1946, it's only once you see the seamless transition from technicolour to B/W, the stairway to heaven and time stopping still can you begin ...
...American radio operator (Kim Hunter). A radio conversation between the two starts the film but is ended abruptly when, Peter being in a buring airplane, bails out minus a parachute; bummer. Anyway by some miracle he survives and as luck would have it gets washed up in the same area as June. Of course they meet, fall in love, the end; or not. As it happens it seems an error occured in heaven when Carter survived his fall, and they want to correct ... Read review

Advantages: funny , sad and devastaing all in one
Disadvantages: subtitles

Aimee And Jaguar [1999] Classification: 15 Starring: Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler, Director: Max Farberbock, Subtitles: English Running Time:125 mins approx this is an exceptional love story between two women a nazi's wife and a jew .and its set in Berlin during the world war two, it takes you on a roller coaster of emotions , ranging from erotic and sad to tragic and devastating and totally unique. its a beautiful love story with set in difficult ... Read review