REVENGE FILM FESTIVAL
Gladiator
Genre: Drama
Date: 2000
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Runtime: 171 minutes
(If there's a soft spot in your heart for the sword-&-sandal epic, then you'll swoon with giddy delight over Gladiator.)
Jami Berard
Revenge film festival
Thursday, Dec 25, 2014, 08:30 PM
Ciné-parc Odeon Boucherville, Boucherville, QC, Canada
Passion
Date: 6 Oct, 1954
Length : 84 minute color
Genre: action , western
Rotten tomatoes: 50%
Once Upon A Time In The West
Date: 1968
Runtime:2 hr. 45 min.
Genre: Western, action
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
('Once Upon a Time...' now looks like an over-cooked mess of style, metaphor and reference.)
David Jenkins
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Date: 1976
Runtime: 135 minutes
Genre: western, action
Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
(An important movie in the maturation of Clint Eastwood as both actor and director.)
Matt Brunson
Commando
Genre: action
Date: 1985
Rotten tomatoes: 69%
Runtime: 90 Minutes
(A violent guilty pleasure from the Schwarzenegger estate)
John Niccum
Unforgiven
Genre: Western
Date: 1992
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Runtime: 131 Minutes
(Eastwood deliberately upends the conventions of the western, subverting his own image in the process.)
Steven Rea
Memento
Genre: Thriller
Date: 2000
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Runtime: 113 minute
(You have to pay close attention to Memento, the most original thriller to come along in years -- and one of the best.)
Jay Boyar
Django Unchained
Genre: Western
Date: 2012
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Runtime: 165 Minute
(Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.)
Lisa Kennedy
Dead Man Down
Genre: action, suspence
Date: 2013
Rotten Tomatoes: 38%
Runtime:118 minutes
(The plot and characters of pulpy revenge thriller Dead Man Down are pure B-movie stuff, yet stars Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace lend the film unexpected class and conviction.)
Jason Best
Kill Bill Volume 1
Genre: action
Date: 2003
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Runtime: 111 minutes
(A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along.)
Todd McCarthy