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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Part 2

Review By: Roger Ebert” The Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about time, patience and loyalty — not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends […]

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Part 1

Review By: Roger Ebert” The Shawshank Redemption” is a movie about time, patience and loyalty — not sexy qualities, perhaps, but they grow on you during the subterranean progress of this story, which is about how two men serving life sentences in prison become friends […]

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Review By: Roger Ebert When David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago” was released in 1965, it was pounced upon by the critics, who found it a picture-postcard view of revolution, a love story balanced uneasily atop a painstaking reconstruction of Russia. Lean was known for his elaborate […]

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)

Review By: Roger Ebert Martin Scorsese’s” Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” opens with a parody of the Hollywood dream world little girls were expected to carry around in their intellectual baggage a generation ago. The screen is awash with a fake sunset, and a sweet […]

All the President’s Men (1976)

Review By: Roger Ebert “All the President’s Men” is truer to the craft of journalism than to the art of storytelling, and that’s its problem. The movie is as accurate about the processes used by investigative reporters as we have any right to expect, and […]

The Color of Paradise (1999)

Review By: Roger Ebert Words on a black screen: “To the glory of God.” I was reminded of Catholic grade school, where every page of homework began at the top with our childish handwriting: “JMJ”–for Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Was I dedicating my arithmetic to […]

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Review By: Roger Ebert “This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” — Robert to Francesca Clint Eastwood’s “The Bridges of Madison County” is not about love and not about sex, but about an idea. The film opens with the information that two […]

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It has never been about the What, Art was, is, and will be only in the How. Farouq Abdul-Aziz I have finally reached here! Breathtakingly, a bit late but here I am! It seems that I had to fret and plod my way through crushing […]