Showing posts with label Year: 2001. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 2001. Show all posts

Lovely & Amazing (2001)

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Comedy-drama written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn) is the mother of two grown-up daughters, Michelle (Cathe...

Spy Game (2001)

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Retiring CIA officer Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) learns that his protege Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) is in trouble in Hong Kong. Muir’s CIA coll...

15 Minutes (2001)

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A fundamentally misconceived thriller that somehow stars Robert De Niro. It’s an extremely heavy-handed satire about fame and the media that...

Evolution (2001)

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Comedy sci-fi directed by Ivan Reitman.  Arizona college professor (David Duchovny) and his geologist pal (Orlando Jones) investigate the si...

Last Orders (2001)

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Written and directed by Fred Schepisi, this is a disappointing adaptation of Graeme Swift‘s Booker Prize-winning novel.  When Alex (Michael ...

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

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Romantic comedy directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. It’s co-written by Richard Curtis and a...

Beautiful Creatures (2001)

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Usual drama/thriller directed by Bill Eagles.  Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch star as two women victimised by men – until they take the law in...

Serendipity (2001)

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Romantic comedy directed by Peter Chelsom and starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.  John and Sara meet by chance in a shop in New York ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

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First part of Peter Jackson’s version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic.  A hobbit called Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) journeys through Midd...

The Others (2001)

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Deeply creepy supernatural thriller.  Nicole Kidman is a mother of two children living in Jersey in 1945. The family begin to hear strange ...

The Mexican (2001)

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Foolish amateur gangster Jerry ( Brad Pitt ) has to perform “one last job”, which involves transporting a legendary gun from Mexico back to...

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

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An expert Russian sniper, Vasily Zaytsev ( Jude Law ) plays a cat-and-mouse game with German sniper Major König ( Ed Harris ) during the Bat...

Donnie Darko (2001)

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Richard Kelly’s deeply enigmatic, fascinating film straddles psychological thriller and horror-tinged mind-bender. Donnie is a troubled teen...

Iris (2001)

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A biopic of Iris Murdoch, a love story and a study of the great writer’s decline into Alzheimer’s , this is a gripping and sad drama. Ada...

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

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Francis Ford Coppola ’s astonishing film deserves all the acclaim it has received. Set during the Vietnam War , but not really about the con...

Black Hawk Down (2001)

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Brutal military drama by Ridley Scott that details the US involvement in the 1993 civil war in Somalia. A UN taskforce is sent into Mogad...

Enigma (2001)

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Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of a Robert Harris World War II thriller set at Bletchley Park in 1943. Dougray Scott plays Tom Jericho, troubled...

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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Completely unbelievable casino heist thriller. Some of the 11 criminals are caricatures, while Brad Pitt just eats during every scene. The...