Search: Starring Arliss Howar

Amistad (1998)

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Amistad is one of [Spielberg's] deeply felt niche pictures that won't cause ripples on the stock market because of its uncompromising nature.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5

Courtroom drama about a mutiny on a slave ship.
Awake (2007)

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Extremely well done.

Val Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A man wakes up during surgery, unable to move, and hears doctors plotting his murder.
The Killer (2023)

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There's a disassociation between the original's ennui and what might be the consequences of sleep deprivation. There's also a rebalancing of its violence, and it might be that which most discomfits.

Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5

After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.
Lapsis (2020)

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Part slowly unfolding mystery, part attack on exploitation in the gig economy, Lapsis is a character-driven drama with some smart comic moments.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market.
Mank (2020)

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This is a film that lets words sizzle more than anything.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5

1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
The Time Traveller's Wife (2009)

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No more than fleetingly touching, rather than achingly romantic.

James Benefield · 2 out of 5

A woman falls in love with a man who spontaneously travels in time.
To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Review preview for To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar

The sort of film that is meant to make you believe in the inherent goodness of mankind.

Susanna Krawczyk · 3 out of 5

Three drag queens get stuck in a small town en route to a big competition.