MIM's Maoist Movie reviews

Maoist Internationalist Movement



Here are some full movie reviews and more than 100 capsule reviews.
Most of the capsule reviews are condensed from MIM Notes. The full text of other reviews may be available in the MIM Notes archive on this site. Movie reviews are a great way to comment on popular culture, and all the things that come up in the movies, from crime and sex and war, to political struggles, history, documentary materials, and so on.


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MIM essays on the movies:

Corporate Concentration And Cultural Hegemony: One Weekend's Movie Sales.
MIM Salutes the Early Godard.
How to write a MIM movie or music review.

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Full Reviews



Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Ali (2002)

All in the Family (1970s TV sitcom)

Angola: The Farm

Animatrix (2003)

Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Aviator (2004)

Eisenstein's "The Battleship Potemkin"    Buy "Battleship"!


Big Fish (2003)

Black and Gold (1999)

Black Hawk Down (2001)

Blade

Blade Runner (1992)

Bloody Sunday (2002)

The Blue Kite

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Boys Don't Cry (1999)

A Bug's Life

Burned by the Sun (1994)

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Chicago (2002)

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

A Civil Action

Collateral (2004)

Conan: The Barbarian (1981) and Conan: The Destroyer (1984)

The Conformist (1970)

The Corporation (2004)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Dune (1984, 2000)

Edges of the Lord (2001)

Election

Enemy of the State

Escape from Sobibor (1987)

Fahrenheit 911 (2004)

Farmingville (2004)

Finding Neverland (2005)

Fog of War (2003)

Gattaca (1997)

Gladiator (1999)

Go


The Golf War

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

The Grudge (2004)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Higher Learning

Hitch (2005)

The Incredibles (2004)

Ivan the Terrible (1944)

Joan of Arc (1999)

Kinsey (2004)

Kundun

La Chinoise (1967)

La Commune (2001)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider (2003)

Le Vent d'Est (1969)

Life and Debt (2001)

Living Utopia (Spanish television documentary on anarchism)

Lord of the Rings (2002)

Return of the King: Lord of the Rings III (2003)


The Machinist (2004)

Mask of Zorro (1998)

The Matrix     Buy it!The Matrix - Standard Collector's Edition
Buy The Matrix DVD

The Matrix Re-Loaded (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979)

Men in Black (1997)

Men in Black II(2002)

Monster (2003)

Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Moulin Rouge

Mulan

Murder on a Sunday Morning(2001)

Mystic River(2003)

Not One Less

Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Patch Adams

Path to War (2002)

Patriot (2000)

Pay it Forward (2000)

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky (2002)

Presumed Guilty(2002)

The Quiet American (2002)

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Run (1970)

Running Man (1987)

Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Seven Years in Tibet

Shrek 2 (2004)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Small Soldiers (1998)

Solaris (1972;2002)

Soldier

South Pacific (1958)

Spiderman (2002)

Spider-man 2 (2004)

Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Star Wars: Episode II: Clones (2002)

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Super Size Me (2004)

Sympathy for the Devil (1970)

Tales from the Hood(1995)

Tank Girl (1995)

Terminator 3 (2003)

Thirteen Days (2001)

The Thomas Crowne Affair (1999)

To Live

Tout Va Bien (1972)

The Truman Show

Unfaithful (2002)

War and Peace (1956)

Weather Underground (2003)

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Welcome to the Doll House

Whale Rider (2002)

White Noise (2005)

Xena: Warrior Princess (1999)

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

X-Men: The Legend of Wolverine (1992,2003)

X-Men 2 (2003)

Yes, In My Back Yard

Yol(1982)





Capsule Reviews









Alien3 (1992)


Along Came a Spider (2001)


Analyze This (1998)

The Anarchist Cookbook (2002)

Angola: The Farm (1998)

Bananas (1971)

Barbarian Queen (1985)


Batman Returns (1992)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)   Buy it
 
The Battle of Russia (1943)   Buy it
 
Before the Revolution (1962)


The Big Kahuna (2000)

The Bird Cage (1996)

Blade (1998)

Blade II (2002)

The Blue Kite (1993)


Breaking with Old Ideas (1975)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002)

A Bug's Life (1999)


Bullworth (1998)

Burn!(1969)    
    Buy it VHS     


Carlito's Way (1993)

Un Chien Andalou (1928)


Children of the Revolution (1997?)


China Cry (Nora Lambe, 1990)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City of Hope(1991)

A Civil Action (1999)


The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

The Crying Game


Daughters of the Dust


Dead Man Walking

Deserter (1933)Buy it VHS

Desperado (1995)

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)


Doing Time, Doing Vipassana


Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)


Election


Enemy of the State (1998)


Falling Down (1993)


The Famine Within (Catherine Gilday, 1993)


Farewell My Concubine (1993)

FBI's War on Black America (1990)  Buy it!


Framed: The Story of Geronimo Pratt (Dennis Mueller and Masimo Pillow, 1993)


Go


The Golf War (1999)


The Good Woman of Bangkok (Dennis O'Rourke, 1992)


Groundhog Day (1993)


The Handmaid's Tale (1990)



Hannibal (2001)


Happy Times (2002)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Hearts and Minds(1974)    Buy it! VHS

  
Higher Learning (1995)


Hoffa (1992)

Homicide (1991)

Inside the CIA: The History(1987) 
Inside the CIA: Assassinations (1987) 
Inside the CIA: Subversion (1987)  




In the Mood for Love (2001)



I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)


Incident at Oglala (1992)  Buy it; show it!



Independence Day (1996)


Indian Summer (1993)

Jakob the Liar (1999)

James Bond 007: Moonraker (1979)

James Bond 007: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Kundun: The Amazing Story of the 14th Dalai Lama (1998)

Kurt & Courtney (1997)




Land without Bread (1932)


The Little Thief


Little Vera



Longtime Companion (1990)


The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)


Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, 1992)

The Master Gunfighter (1975)

The Matrix (1999)


Medics of the People



Memento



Menace II Society (1993)


Mermaids (1991)

Missing (1982)    
    Buy it VHS   



Mo' Better Blues (1990)



Mulan (1998)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

My Own Private Idaho(1991)



Nazarin (1958)



I'm the One that I Want (2000)

One Day in September (1999)

Panama Deception(1992)    
    Buy it VHS     


The Paper (1994)


Patch Adams (1999)


Patriot Games (1992)


The Pelican Brief (1994)


A Perfect World (1995)


The Player (1992)

The Powerpuff Girls (2002)

Quiz Show (1994)

 Buy Rage Against the Machine: The Battle of Mexico City (2001)
    
Reds(1981)    
    Buy it VHS: Reds     


Reign of Fire (2002)


Reversal of Fortune (1990)


Rumble in the Bronx (1996)

Runaway Jury (2003)

Running Man (1987)

Rush Hour (1998)


Saving Private Ryan (1998)


Schindler's List (1993)

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Shrek (2001)

Sleepers (1996)


Sliver (1993)


Sneakers (1992)

Soccer Dog (1998)

Soldier (1998)


Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)


Starship (1986)


Strictly Ballroom (1993)

Strike (1925)Buy it: VHS

Swept Away (1979)

Sword of Lancelot (1963)


Three of Hearts (1993)


Timecop (1994)


To Live (1994)


Total Recall (1990)     


Trainspotting (1996)  



The Truman Show (1998)

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Unforgiven (1992)


USA on Trial, Parts I and II (1994)

Vietnam: The War at Home(1979)
Buy it: VHS



Welcome to the Doll House (1996)


Wild At Heart (1990)


Yes, In My Back Yard (1998)


Z (1969)    
    Buy it VHS   



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