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...that should be made. For this intimate epic, tracing the story of two brothers from their student days in the radical sixties to an end that is both tragic and hopeful in the nineties, is one of the truly memorable movie experiences of recent times...
...Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson help him corral the bad guys. In Ford's The Searchers--about a man obsessed by the ravages done to his niece by an Indian chief--Wayne is a cauldron of racial, sexual and violent impulses. It's a searing performance in a dark epic, perhaps the greatest of all westerns. --By Richard Corliss
...boasts, "because this album really does say, 'Good morning.'" Shine It All Around, the first single from Mighty Rearranger, kicks off with a steady drumbeat that echoes the opening bars of Zeppelin's colossal When The Levee Breaks. But then the track quickly mutates into a soaring, optimistic epic as Plant declares, "These are the times of my life/ Bright and strong and golden." He's right, and the album shines brightest when Plant mixes his two musical loves, Western rock and third-world rhythms. Takamba (a word the Tuareg tribe use to describe a camel's gait) splices hypnotic...
...magnificent strategist of organized carnage, as he proved in Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. The battle skirmishes here mix sudden violence with slow-motion artistry. The attractive cast can sell an obsession or articulate a conundrum with equal fervor. Eva Green, in the token-girl role every action epic needs, has a classic movie star's beauty and allure, and Bloom has matured splendidly (the beard helps). He gives Balian heft and winsomeness as a pensive man of action...
...that makes for an odd war epic. But a movie of two minds is infinitely preferable to a movie with none. --By Richard Corliss