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The X-Files:  Fight the Future
�all is build-up with no pay-off.�
X2:  X-Men United
�Hollywood loves movies like this.�
Yi-Yi
�We must judge who they are only by their actions�
Yojimbo (1961)
�so many sandals and socks�
You Can Count on Me
�competent and thoughtful character study�even if assembled pieces are somewhat familiar.�
Zelig
�solid intellect but hit-and-miss storytelling.�
Vanilla Sky
�hmmmm��
Vanity Fair (2004)
�wanted another forty or sixty minutes�
Velvet Goldmine
�a perpetual two-hour prance with a contemptuous come-hither look on his face.�
Vera Drake
�a document of working class London life in the 1950s�
A Very Long Engagement
�If there are causes worth dying for, they don�t show up�
The Village
�I can�t decide if it�s clever or ridiculous.�
Waking Life
�vignettes celebrate curiosity, imagination, and the act of dreaming�with the freedom of animation.�
Wall Street
�Gekko is the purest, most undiluted product of capitalism�
Walkabout
�juxtaposition of �civilization� and �wilderness� told in purely cinematic terms of images and expressions.�
Wallace and Gromit:  The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
�to stop the Were-Rabbit, you will need�a bullet!�
Walk the Line
�a real sense of atmosphere for a quickly vanishing time and place�
War of the Worlds (2005)
�everything feels in quotation marks�
The Watcher in the Woods
�the only thing it�s missing is a genuine Indian burial ground.�
The Way of the Gun
�complications and complications until we kind of stop caring.�
Westworld
�like an early draft of �Jurassic Park.��
Whale Rider
�story of these two strong personalities at odds with one another�
Witness (1985)
�be careful among the English�
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
�Willy says:  spare the rod and spoil the child.  We�ve never heard that before.�
Wizard People Dear Reader
�be careful when anyone loves you.�
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