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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Oh fine! Let’s just haul out our swords and start banging away at each other! That will solve everything! In Hollywood, success comes with its own peculiar brand of curses, most notably the expecta...
A Good Year (2006)
You’ll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Suffice it to say I am no...
Blood Diamond (2006)
Let’s hope they don’t discover oil here. Then we’d have real problems. Blood Diamond is a political thriller with a conscience that veers close to being slick commercial exploitation of a serio...
We Are Marshall (2006)
One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this season, probably not next season either but one day, you and I are gonna wake up and suddenly we’re gonna be like every other team in every other sport whe...
World Trade Center (2006)
We prepared for everything. Not for this. Okay, admit it. When you heard that Oliver Stone was going to make a movie about the events of September 11, 2001, a lot of you rolled your eyes and thought,...
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Everyone just pretend to be normal. In a strange way, Little Miss Sunshine is the film that The Royal Tenenbaums could have been. Both movies focus on extended families who are dysfunctional to a com...
Dreamgirls (2006)
Music is supposed to sell. Dreamgirls took a long time to make the trip from Broadway to the screen, so long that when this film appeared I had all but forgotten that it had first been a play. Big a...
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Why would an old faun lie to you? Guillermo del Toro’s dark tale of Franco’s Spain is either a fantastical allegory for the struggle against oppression or a lyrical testimony to the power of a c...
Night at the Museum (2006)
Lawrence! Why are you slapping that monkey? Mixing comedy with elaborate special effects is a tricky balancing act. Humor requires at least the illusion of spontaneity while the effects have to be pl...
Bobby (2006)
Now that Dr. King is gone, no one left but Bobby. Perhaps a better title for this movie would The Martyrdom of Saint Robert. This movie spends most of its two hour genuflecting before the memory of J...
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
If you’re afraid of dying it shows you have a life worth living. Portraits of living people are hard enough, as Helen Mirren accomplished splendidly in The Queen, but it’s debatable whether o...
The Queen (2006)
Will someone please save these people from themselves! The Queen is the story between the near-eternal struggle between tradition and modernity. The bare plot outline of Stephen Frear’s thought...
The Good Shepherd (2006)
What are you going to do, Edward? Save the world? The Good Shepherd uses the classic form of the espionage thriller to tell the story of the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency through the eyes ...
For Your Consideration (2006)
You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater because then all you have is a wet, critically injured baby. Reuniting virtually all of the personnel from Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Migh...
Babel (2006)
This is your fucked-up country, it's your responsibility! Babel, the third and probably final collaboration between director Alejandro González Iñárritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga, is a well-act...