FilmCritic entries tagged "Jason Isaacs"

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Abduction (2011)

by Bill Gibron on Sep 22 2011
DVD Release Date: January 17, 2012
Abduction

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If Abercrombie and Fitch made movies, they would look something like Abduction. They would feature soulless supermodel types recreating hopeless hyper-reality with such slick Photoshopped precision that nothing could be farther from the truth of everyday life. They would also the by-product of an industry that can't differentiate between a fluke and full-fledged deserving star power. Twilight werewolf Taylor Lautner may make the little girls in the demo all frantic with his hunkiness, but he's not an actor. He has zero screen presence and limited thespian gifts. He might look good without a shirt, but so do a lot of nameless, faceless Men's Health placeholders.

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Cars 2

by Sean O’Connell on Jun 23 2011
DVD Release Date: November 1, 2011
Cars 2

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At the very least, Cars 2 ends the pesky debate waged by Pixar addicts about which of the animation studio's 12 feature films deserves the undesirable "worst" tag. Prior to this summer, passionate Pixar factions passed time making the case...... more »
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Green Zone

by Sean O’Connell on Mar 12 2010
DVD Release Date: June 22, 2010
Green Zone

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Bourne collaborators Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass may have left the international spy franchise behind after two acclaimed installments, but they fall back on a few of their frenzied storytelling tactics to immerse audiences in The Green Zone, a lock-step...... more »
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by Christopher Null on Jun 11 2007
DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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It's gotten to the point where the quality of the films don't really matter: Now I feel like I'm committed to the whole Harry Potter series. I've reviewed the first five now, so by golly, I'm going to stick it...... more »
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Battle of the Brave

by Christopher Null on Jul 26 2006
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006

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Epic romance, period setting (18th century war between Britain and France over control of Canada), amazing cast (check out the last few names), Celine Dion song on the soundtrack... sounds like a recipe for success. Unfortunately, it was not to...... more »
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Friends with Money

by Anne Gilbert on Apr 19 2006
DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
Friends with Money

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It's hard to be in L.A. - to live, to visit, to see in movies - and not think that being jaw-droppingly wealthy is the only way to live life. People drive tricked-out cars worth as much as the (astronomical)...... more »
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Event Horizon

by Keith Breese on Apr 17 2006
DVD Release Date: December 30, 2008
Event Horizon

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After Paul W.S. Anderson unleashed the blockbuster Mortal Kombat, he could do no wrong in the eyes of millions of geeks. He was the fanboy's filmmaker, creating a video game movie that was as fun and trashy as the game...... more »
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Nine Lives

by Chris Barsanti on Oct 14 2005
DVD Release Date: February 14, 2006
Nine Lives

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A well-cast compilation film suffocating on its own self-importance, Nine Lives aims to tie together nine vastly different stories, but ends up telling hardly any of them well. The conceit of writer/director Rodrigo Garcia is to take nine vignettes, each...... more »
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Hotel

by Christopher Null on Aug 6 2005
DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005

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I like Mike Figgis a lot... as a person, I mean. Frankly, I haven't been able to make any sense of his movies since Leaving Las Vegas, and Hotel is probably his least accessible work ever. The story -- as...... more »
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Peter Pan

by Sean O'Connell on Dec 25 2003
DVD Release Date: May 4, 2004
Peter Pan

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The time is right to rekindle our relationship with J.M. Barrie's perpetually adolescent adventurer, Peter Pan. By now, you've probably forgotten Disney's 50-year-old animated adaptation of Barrie's work, and many of us are still trying to purge Steven Spielberg's hollow...... more »

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