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The music, coupled with the hideously depressing and stark prison ambiance, raises the emotional impact of this film.
Mind Games raises the bar visually, not beyond Miyazaki, but for anime in general.
The themes and issues it raises are still very much relevant; sexual desire and frustration, the nature of desire, terrorism, the conventions within society that we accept.
To a degree, the cameo by another Warner Brothers character and the ending of the short, along with a wonderful beginning, salvages this short and raises its overall score.
Schenkel is so inattentive to detail that he would have us believe no one raises an eyebrow at the sight of a man morphing into a humongous cobra (not that the Xena-level effects help).
It gave them to hear almost word for word all dialogs from the Book but leaves real philosophical ideas Book raises behind.
Like most made for tv movies, this potentially moving film about the plight of a very brave disabled little girl is hi-jacked by a script that always sticks to the obvious, dialogue which is painful in its banality and a patronising, simplistic attitude to the issues that it raises.
This documentary is hard hitting, and raises serious concerns and questions as to the Truth of the events of September 11th 2001.
Fine acting across the board, anchored by Chang's captivating, believable performance, raises this far above the low-brow antics too often seen in these kinds of films (CRAZY FIRST LOVE immediately comes to mind).
Pretty Baby, by Louis Malle raises a myriad of questions when viewed almost thirty years after its creation.
As for content, The Beach raises deep issues on how we deal with our own existence, experience, sanity and commitments to other people: there did seem to be more noble purpose than just speculating in the emotions of the viewer.
Feeble off-road racing action pic that raises a flicker of interest due to the presence of a young Susan Sarandon (who is given very little to do) and Joe Don Baker in his brief early career as a leading man.
Eddie Bichon, played by Dennis Quaid, is cheating in his wife and she raises an uproar.
It may become clear, but it raises more questions than an answer should.
She soon becomes a murderer after Chip's teacher criticizes about the way she raises Chip.
The solution to the mystery of the child's death raises the stakes of unbelievablility to such a high level that I was finally appalled to have wasted my time watching this crap.
This comprehensive and moving documentary dealing with the hopes and aspirations of gay and lesbian couples to be able to be legally married raises a lot of issues that straight people have probably never considered.
Wow it is the most amazing thing ever... everyone should go out and buy it, even if they don't like anyone who was in it because it all raises money for the Band Aid Charitable Trust anyway.
Then there is the boyfriend who raises objections over a certain priest as he kind of gets fresh with the main girl and it is obvious and the girl keeps going "Don't attack him" and stuff, though if I were the boyfriend I would have dumped the gal when she told me why she was hesitant about having sex as she had a bit to much baggage.
The plot is so unbelievably dull it seriously raises the question of how story lines like these can actually be turned into a movie.
A rare bit of wit in the script raises the score but overall a snoozer.
A group of Russian soldiers discover the tomb of the Dracula family, and one of them foolishly removes the stake from the body of Dracula's dog Zoltan, and in which the dog raises Dracula's servant/original owner too.
No other film raises so many important social issues and does it with such grace, simplicity and charm.
The movie, while wonderfully developing its own nine characters, also raises questions aimed at the viewer, pointedly questioning how each one of us would react in those certain situations.
Totally fresh and with sick twists included everywhere, 'Robot Chicken' raises the bar for other new comedies.
In "the Edukators" Hans Weingartner raises the question: "What happened to the revolutionary generation of the sixties?
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie due to the questions it raises and the future it foretells.
The friendly alien starts as an egg that the boy raises.
The boy says all the aliens want it to be their friends and sure the one he raises is nice enough, but the other one is killing indiscrimintly.
The only major plus this film has that raises it to almost-mediocrity is the idea of television being a topic of a film as early as 1930.
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