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Tag: Action/Adventure

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

Action/Adventure Rated R

This third installment makes no apologies about its intent: to unleash absolute chaos across the city of New York and let regular-guy cop John McClane clean it up. Bruce Willis still exudes a world-weary charm, while Samuel L. Jackson – as an indignant Harlem shop owner who tags along – allows for some comic racial

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

As oppressive and exhausted as the August day this was released in 2007. Actually, the picture feels as if it was made for August, 1999. A still agile Jackie Chan and a still mouthy Chris Tucker team up once again as a pair of mismatched lawmen, but the racial humor and cross-cultural confusion is about

Last Legion, The (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

"There is a disconnect that comes with watching Firth – who is usually associated with classy British romantic comedies – anchor something so tacky."

Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

“…a wonderful stand-in for childhood itself, when kids often have adventures involving things only they can see.

Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“The way that Bourne gets from one place to another with such speed and no obvious source of money makes me wish he was my travel agent.

Rescue Dawn (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“…the deep-seated look of absolute fear never leaves Zahn’s red-ringed eyes.

Sunshine (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“Distressing flickers of incoherence here and there serve as foreshadowing for the chaotic climax, which doesn’t resemble Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as much as it does The Shining.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

"If the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling have often worked as otherworldly echoes of childhood and adolescence … this adaptation does so in a more introspective way than its predecessors."

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)

Action/Adventure Rated NR

  The inherent distraction built into nearly every movie directed by German legend Werner Herzog – wondering how he got the actors, let alone his camera, in such godforsaken places – dominates in this recreation of a Spanish explorer’s doomed expedition down the Amazon River. It doesn’t really matter, though, if such distracting thoughts undermine

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

This is a throwback to a time when action movies were measured by the number of cars they crashed, which means you have to take the 1980s good – muscular, CGI-light stunt work – with the 1980s bad (namely a level of mindlessness that makes Ocean’s Thirteen look like an art film). By now, Bruce

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The Great Dictator (1940)

Comedy Rated G

“Charlie Chaplin was not messing around.”


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