At the Movies: Reviews of New Films
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"Alexander" &#151; Far from great, "Alexander" sporadically lumbers toward watchable, but mostly it's just bad. And we're not just talking kitschy, B-movie bad. At least that would have been fun. We'll talking all-out, big-budget-bomb bad.
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Mid-Week Top 5 Movies of the Week  (As on January 13th, 2005)
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To see something they have never seen before should be every moviegoer&#39;s greatest hope. It&#39;s one of the chief reasons why true movie buffs are constantly seeking out new kinds of films; it can be entertaining
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The music of director Saran's new film sounds good.
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Top 5 Movies of the Week (As on October 23rd, 2004)
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood offers  moviegoers a choice this weekend: two new thrillers and a  handful of films laden with Academy Award nominations.
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Christopher Nolan's new film is worth a watch.
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Here is the list of the movies that are topping the chart this week.
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Here is a list of the top five movies of the week.
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Hundreds of capsule movie reviews from 2004.
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Top 5 Movies of the Week(As on September 09th, 2004)
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Mira Nair's new film gets good reviews and good box office collections.
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Is the small subtle and strong cinema over? Not quite! If youÂve seen some of the non-mainstream nuggets lined up for the next couple of months, youÂd  have to agree, avant- garde cinema is alive and kicking.
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rediff.com presents some of the top movies stories of the week.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Top 5 Movies of the Week(As on November 18th, 2004)
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A look at the top movies stories this week.