| Beowulf |
( Release: Nov. 16, 2007 Rated: PG-13 - for intense sequences of violence including disturbing images, some sexual material and nudity Avg. Score: 4.17/5
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) The Gist —
Beautiful to look at for the most part, but some of the faces are creepy and the dialogue is goofy. Source: Movies.com |
| Beowulf |
Beowulf's groundbreaking animation, stunning visuals, and talented cast make for an extremely entertaining time at the movies. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Beowulf |
Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, Robin
Wright-Penn...
Review:
I expected the film version of the epically tedious Old English
poem to be a craptacular. Director Robert Zemeckis used the same
motion-capture process in 2004's The Polar Express and
turned live actors into digital humans who looked invaded by body
snatchers. Boy, have things changed. The eighth-century Beowulf,
goosed into twenty-first-century life by a screenplay from sci-fi
guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have
you jumping out of your skin and begging for more. Be sure to see
it in 3-D. I can't vouch for the flat version, but the 3-D
Beowulf will debut on a record number of digital screens
(1,000, and 90 in IMAX). Put on those plastic glasses and ride,
baby, ride. I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of
clarity and oomph. It's outrageously entertaining....
Rating: 3 Stars Source: RollingStone.com |
| Beowulf |
Unlike director Robert Zemeckis' previous animated family-friendly efforts, such as The Polar Express, the violent Beowulf is definitely NOT for the younger set--or the faint of heart. But then again, age-old epic poems seldom are. Source: Hollywood.com |
| Beowulf & Grendel |
Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Beowulf (Paramount) |
Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone, Robin
Wright-Penn...
Review:
I expected the film version of the epically tedious Old English
poem to be a craptacular. Director Robert Zemeckis used the same
motion-capture process in 2004's The Polar Express and
turned live actors into digital humans who looked invaded by body
snatchers. Boy, have things changed. The eighth-century Beowulf,
goosed into twenty-first-century life by a screenplay from sci-fi
guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have
you jumping out of your skin and begging for more. Be sure to see
it in 3-D. I can't vouch for the flat version, but the 3-D
Beowulf will debut on a record number of digital screens
(1,000, and 90 in IMAX). Put on those plastic glasses and ride,
baby, ride. I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of
clarity and oomph. It's outrageously entertaining....
Rating: 3 Stars Source: RollingStone.com |
| Beowulf - "Myth Mixed in 3D Epic" |
Source: Box Office Mojo |
| Beowulf - 11/16/2007 |
Source: filmcritic.com |
| Beowulf / *** (PG-13) |
"Beowulf" (PG-13, 114 minutes). A titanic epic battle between the monster Grendel and the hero Beowulf, shown by director Robert Zemeckis with rip-roaring gusto by using the same technology as his "Polar Express," so that animated characters look almost real. With the voices (and sometimes the appearances) of Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson and Crispin Glover (who however doesn't look anything like Grendel). Full frontal female nudity and yet a PG-13 rating because, you see, Jolie isn't really there, although she's there enough she says she won't be taking her own kids. Absurd violent action in the Monty Python spirit. Rating: Three stars. Source: RogerEbert Headlines |
| Beowulf / *** (PG-13) |
In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not for this blasted infirmity that the Fates have dealt me, you would have heard from me such thunderous roars as to shake the very Navy Pier itself down to its pillars in the clay. Source: RogerEbert Headlines |
| Beowulf 2007 |
The movie tells what might have been the real story of Beowulf, adding in all kinds of juicy secrets that the original writer of the epic would never have been privy to. It also adds a few things in that tie the three great battles of the Beowulf tale into a single plotline. It might have been kind of cool if there were some substance to the embellishments, but in the end theyre basically just an excuse to turn Grendels mother into Staceys mom. Source: Cinema Blend |
| Berkeley |
( Release: Oct. 12, 2007 Rated: Not Rated Avg. Score: 2.5/5
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) The Gist —
Goes way beyond its reach and fails miserably. Source: Movies.com |
| Bernard and Doris |
Starring:
Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes
Review:
This stunner of a movie is so far under the radar you'll have to go
to HBO to find it. Get crackin'. It's the hip antidote to multiplex
junk such as Mad Money and Meet the Spartans.
Susan Sarandon is at her scrappy, sexy best as tobacco heiress
Doris Duke ? think Paris Hilton with brains and genuine hotness.
And this is Ralph Fiennes like you've never seen him, as Bernard
Lafferty, a secretly alcoholic, furtively gay Irishman who stumbles
into a job as her butler. The time is 1987. Six years later, Doris
is dead and Bernard, out of rehab, controls her billion-dollar
estate. Was it murder? So went the rumor, but the charges didn't
stick. The deft script by Hugh Costello cheerfully admits, "Some of
the following is based on fact and some of it is not." In reality,
Bernard resembled Philip...
Rating:
3.5 Stars Source: RollingStone.com |
| Beyond Hatred |
( Release: Jun. 15, 2007 Rated: Not Rated Avg. Score: 3.75/5
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) The Gist —
Engrossing, emotional documentary that takes an unexpected approach to difficult subject matter. Source: Movies.com |
| Beyond Hatred |
In this deeply moving, award-winning French documentary, a family reflects on the murder of their 29-year-old son and tries to move beyond feelings of hatred and revenge. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Beyond Hatred - 6/14/2007 |
Source: filmcritic.com |
| Beyond Honor |
Beyond Honor, the debut feature from Writer/Director Varun Khanna, is a strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Beyond the Gates |
( Release: Mar. 9, 2007 Rated: Rating Pending Avg. Score: 3.75/5
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) The Gist —
Interesting account of Rwandan genocide, but a little too dry and not enough action. Source: Movies.com |
| Beyond the Gates |
Joe Connor has come to teach in Rwanda because he believes he can make a difference. When the school becomes a haven for thousands of Rwandans fleeing the genocide, Joe promises his brightest pupil, Marie, that the UN soldiers will protect her from the hordes of extremist militia baying for blood outside the school. Source: Rotten Tomatoes |
| Beyond the Gates - 3/8/2007 |
Source: filmcritic.com |
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