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This movie should be seen by every person who believes him or herself to be an enlightened intellectual.

He really doesn't rise very high on the intellectual ladder.

This film is so intellectual, charming and sentimental.

But through some directors' works I have built up an image of the city that never sleeps that's made of jazz, petty crooks and gangsters, Godard-lovers, intellectual wanna-be socialite...

I've done some work in prisons, so I had an intellectual understanding that prisons are a world unto themselves, with their own rules and consequences.

Bereft of makeup and hair shorn to an unflattering bob, constantly scribbling in her diary, she is the embodiment of the intellectual teen; her capacity for articulating cascading emotions seeing her forming a passionate bond with the written word.

What made the series great was that every single episode had a moment in it that transcended the storyline, that had an emotional or intellectual impact that was real.

I agree with the critics who lambasted 'Beyond Borders', a film with the intellectual depth of an infomercial that portrays starving children to elicit donations.

This movie is sort of a "guilty pleasure"--you know, a film you like watching despite the fact that it's not exactly well-acted or intellectual fare.

Dustin Hoffman plays Lenny Bruce, the controversial stand-up comic who views comedy as a form of debate...I am going to take a stab at why this film is in black & white...The vast majority of this film takes place in the late fifties and early sixties..The black and white presentation exudes the era in which Lenny Bruce's popularity prevailed!! Black and White captures the three packs of cigarettes an evening per deviate nightclub era of the Lenny Bruce days so so so cogently!!... Interesting concept.. How many men get their blank blanked.. How many men have blanked a blank.. None?..They aren't telling the truth...especially those in lower middle management!! How about the fact that your wife is not a lesbian, but for purposes of a voyeuristic thrill...Why not?..Kind of degrading!! but for Lenny Bruce, that's the best part... SORT OF!!!...KIND OF!!... How can you curb obscenity when obscenity is the truth?...How does an overzealous, intellectual, New York Jewish comic ignore his upbringing?

You'll probably change the channel or see Marcel Marceau and think that it must be intellectual.

There's always a Disney film around to provide more intellectual stimulation.

This is a good film from a number of viewpoints, including intellectual, visual and emotional, and it even has an intriguing plot line.

This movie is a good example of just getting lost in one without having to be overly intellectual.

This is told in a most innovative way for its time, which makes it more regrettable that the film was handled as a pop extravaganza, when it was an innovative and puzzling product with a structure that demanded a more intellectual participation from the audience; and with an organic use of the flash-forward technique (proposed by its editor, Antony Gibbs), an anticipation device that would become common practice in later years (it is interesting to note that five years later the cinematographer of "Petulia", Nicolas Roeg, would direct Julie Christie in the horror drama "Don't Look Now", which contains a scene film editors often mention as an outstanding example of the flash-forward technique, a sex scene inter-cut with takes of the following scene, edited by Graeme Clifford).

I thought the intellectual chess game between Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling was pure joy.

Angelopoulos again makes the most of an intellectual way of cinema, which is though full of poetry and with the stain of compassion.

So while there is stuff I love, like the scene with the grenades, the movie as a whole failed to connect with me on any sort of intellectual or emotional level.

While I am sure the pseudo intellectual film crowd will "slobber" all over this movie, most people will want to spit on it.

In one of the best genre thriller of its type, this consistent execution, high-quality production provides an intellectual and mostly satisfying experience.

Equally impressive was the bond between the main four male characters who, while different, are all intellectual and successful men.

I admire Night of the Living Dead for its innovative approaches, but I have always found the zombies to be very boring because in moral and intellectual terms they are complete ciphers.

This is a thriller with no thrills, an intellectual mystery with no mystery or intellect.

There was a tremendous intellectual and philosophical upside to Communion that just didn't come out on film.

The film has no dramatic tension due to a lackluster male lead that generates no interest: He is neither intellectual enough nor sexy enough.

Call it self- indulgent, call it intellectual masturbation, I call it boring.

What most call boring, is the intellectual discussions that the main characters speak of as they, being adults, must deal with the water crises in the most mature way they can.

George Segal is a self-styled intellectual author who doesn't write well.

Sure, his movies were never... the intellectual type but this film is so bad he should be ashamed to have done it.

He does so with respect, tact, and intellectual logical proofs.

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