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Fagin is worse than Bill Sikes, because he raises little pickpockets who become murderers.
However, Williams' ex-boyfriend (nice job from Bobby Cannavale) raises doubt about the boy, which prompts Williams to arrange a meeting with him in person.
The story of a family's choices and challenges seem obvious, but it raises the question over and over: "What if it was my family?
The widower family man Dan Burns (Steve Carell) writes the column "Dan in Real Life" giving advices for families in The New Jersey Standard and raises his three daughters alone.
It raises a lot of questions but does not give answers.
As a film this is a first-class documentary but it raises more questions than it answers.
I was greatly affected by the scene of the man and the children who he raises as his own.
The film raises a great deal of tension between characters, particularly between Aimee and the men in her life, but never fully addresses this social friction, leaving the viewer unsatisfied.
I think the movie raises an important point that will always be a topic of heated discussion: could a movie rely solely on technique and still be considered an artistic success?
Perhaps imperfect as a neatly tied-up documentary statement, the film raises real contentious questions about ethnic stereotypes, youth, sexuality, and art (kudos for that).
As the Bourne series raises the bar for action films, and audiences balk at two-plus hour runtimes, the filmmakers of Vantage Point seem like they are trying to bring a fresh, new, unconventional take on the action/thriller genre.
In his 1994 Lamerica Gianni Amelio raises traditional linear Italian film-making to new heights using the methods of neorealism to carry his audience along on a dreamlike, ironic mythologizing journey whose mood and methods are all his own.
This movie raises all the important life questions you will ever have, such as "Will my friends kill for me?"; "How do I get rid of a boss I hate?"; "How do I get the girl I like?" and "Is it ethical to lie to my professor to get a better mark?"
It is cornier than an ethanol refinery, and raises inanity to the height of the ionosphere (like the SST-1 in the film perhaps), or should I say I-wanna- sphere, as in 'I wanna be sick'.
This is an outstanding movie, illustrating life in rural Punjab in Pakistan and how the ugly scepter of religious fundamentalism raises its head and disrupts the peaceful flow of village life under General Zia.
The movie raises good points about reverse racism, people's continuing prejudices and the pressures society puts on 'mixed-race' couples.
The book answers some of the questions the movie raises but because they are so dissimilar it might not be useful to use one to answer the other.
Yet, the most important truth is that our society raises us to fear sex.
I find the humor that Paul Hogan uses to bring this concept to film takes what sometimes seems familiar story lines and raises them to the wonderfully unique.
The film also raises the issue of spontaneity vs. meticulous rehearsal.
I could write an entire dissertation about this movie and the aspects it raises about present day life, but instead I'll just simply state that this movie is flat-out amazing and will certainly make you reflect on the path of life you have chosen to follow.
'Tian mai chuan qi' (AKA 'Touch') follows in the well paid path of the really gorgeous films that came out of Hong Kong and China (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, etc) but it raises the question 'Just how many of these small story visual epics are palatable in repetition?
Without Mr. Douglas, this would still be a good movie, but his performance raises this movie to the level of a classic.
Although Cute and Creepy does not answer all your inquiries about love, it definitely raises new questions.
He raises expectations, gets you excited, pulls out all of his best tricks... and then somewhere around 30 minutes in, it turns to garbage.
For all of the criticism from the other reviews, I found this movie did a better job of raising all of the issues it raises and getting me to think about them, but more from a personal standpoint, and not from so much of a societal standpoint.
Apart from that he overacts when the dude can't even act, he pronounces every sentence with incredible agony, thinking it probably raises his 'acting' skills to a higher plane and makes him look even a more bad guy.
The system, of course, raises civil liberty issues, but seems to work perfectly, that is until Anderton is fingered for a murder.
Like "The Right Stuff," Eastwood also raises the question of what is a hero and why even heroes that have been manufactured by bureaucrats and the media can serve an important function.
Robert Douglas seemed to make a career of playing heavies, and in this film, he raises villainy to an art form.
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