1. The Ten Commandments (1956), Cecil B. De Mille's most spectacular epic and last film. Although a blockbuster, the film reverts to melodramatic style,
2. Big, hokey, and unintentionally funny.
3. The crammed contents are linked ponderously in a long, warning movie sermon that has authority but little power.
4. Heston may as well be screaming about Soylent Green, but damn if he doesn't make for one hell of an inspiring leader.
5. DeMille remains conventional with the motion picture as an art form. The eyes of the onlooker are filled with spectacle. Emotional tug is sometimes lacking.
6. Still the definitive depiction of the Exodus in the popular imagination.
7. Stirring, even if it's as much showbiz as Bible.
8. Bank holiday afternoon fare it might be, but DeMille's remake of his 1923 silent is a marvellous epic of the kind they don't make any more.
9. A great big wallow, sublime hootchy-kootchy hokum, peppered with lightning that does automatic writing and an unsurpassed homage to the joys of jello.
10. With a running time of nearly four hours, Cecil B. De Mille's last feature and most extravagant blockbuster is full of the absurdities and vulgarities one expects, but it isn't boring for a minute.
Bombastic and occasionally silly but extravagantly entertaining, Cecil B. DeMille's all-star spectacular is a muscular retelling of the great Bible story.

1. As long as there's oppression anywhere, well-told stories like this will always be relevant.
2. A political thriller that thankfully sidesteps the offensive convention of exploring Africa's suffering through the eyes of a white protagonist.
3. Although Catch a Fire was clearly done for the right reasons, the movie dissipates its own tensions.
4. Noyce's straightforward, almost documentary style is especially effective, considering that so many incidents happened pretty much the way they're portrayed.
5. Smoothly directed by Phillip Noyce, the movie relies heavily on well-staged action sequences and two gifted actors to keep its familiar tale from appearing stale.
6. Whatever you make of the film's politics, Luke makes a vivid impression in his most substantial role since Antwone Fisher, and Robbins resists the temptation to make the thinly written Vos a villainous caricature.
7. Derek Luke's amazing performance elevates the movie beyond any misstep.
8. Under the direction of Phillip Noyce, Catch a Fire becomes a suspenseful tale of one man's radicalization and eventual journey through hatred to forgiveness.
9. Right off the bat, Catch a Fire distinguishes itself from other recent international productions about Africa in that it is actually told from an African perspective.
10. Even through the lens of director Phillip Noyce's sympathetic camera eye, it's impossible to keep the term 'terrorist' at bay while watching Catch a Fire.
No stranger to the political thriller, director Phillip Noyce tackles apartheid and terrorism with experienced gusto, while Derek Luke and Tim Robbins hand in nuanced performances.

1. The director's rapid-fire and choppy editing gives you a genuine feel for the many different sides of Karachi, and the urgency of the investigation.
2. Not many movies can break your heart, keep your adrenaline racing and remind you of life's value all at once.
3. Bad Michael Winterbottom movies are not uncommon, but none have been as useless as A Mighty Heart.
4. The movie's frantic bustle releases into an explosion of grief when Mariane finds out what we already know.
5. "A Mighty Heart," like the other post-9/11 Hollywood movies ("United 93" and "World Trade Center"), is a would-be documentary subject inflated with promotion in its incarnation as a narrative feature.
6. Those willing to stay with this often demanding film, though, will find an unusually balanced view that celebrates not only Mariane's courage, but the Pakistanis who fought valiantly on her behalf.
7. The film's strict avoidance of exploitation and sensationalism only adds to the film's emotional impact.
8. Any story being told where the conclusion is anticipated and inevitable retains an enormous, likely insurmountable narrative disadvantage.
9. The twisting of narrative perspective that pushes the missing man's wife so insistently into the foreground makes A Mighty Heart a mighty challenge.
10. Mariane Pearl is a Spartan wife with a steel base throughout the horrific ordeal skillfully directed by Michael Winterbottom.
Angelina Jolie conveys the full emotional range of a woman in a desperate situation in A Mighty Heart, an urgent yet tactful film about a difficult subject.

1. . As an inside view of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Startup.com is definitive.
2. The film managed to tell a good story, present some real people in real situations and give you a little bit of insight into the crazy world that was the 'Internet boom.'
3. A sobering, highly entertaining insight into the innards of that up-and-down business world.
4. I found Startup.com to be a fascinating portrayal of one company's try for the ring, and the quick road to oblivion.
5. ... a cautionary tale of the price of chasing one's dream.
6. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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8. As you watch their lives get sucked into the drain of capital's demands, site glitches and friendship-destroying fights over power, the overwhelming feeling is one of suspense, loss and sadness.
9. Like the best stories of any kind, it captures something universal through an understanding of specific individuals.
10. Highly engrossing and entertaining.

Startup.com is more than just a look at the rise and fall of the new economy. At its center is a friendship being tested to the limit, and that's what makes it worth viewing.