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Rated NR (Equivalent to PG). Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-0. Running time: 1 hour 57 min. Our star rating (1-5): 5 When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-1 ; S/N-2 . Running time: 1 hour 26 min. Ah, you are beautiful, my love; ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. Song of Solomon 1:15 Little Manhattan Eleven-year-old Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) would have said “Yuck!” to the sentiments of the great Hebrew love poem. He was …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt. 6:21 National Treasure Nicolas Cage trades his “serious actor” hat (see Leaving Los Vegas or Adaptation) for that of action hero in this thrilling potboiler. Benjamin Franklin Gates (Cage) grew up influenced more by …
Once again it is time to offer up VP’s Top Ten Films list. Perhaps “past” should preface “time,” as most critics have long since published their lists. However, as one dwelling in the hinterlands, that vast space between NYC and LA depicted in the famous NEW YORKER Magazine’s cartoon cover, I wanted to wait until …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S/N-4 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S/N-4 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the …
Rated R Our ratings: V-2 ; L-5 ; S/N-2 (Note: The last paragraph and the questions contain spoilers, so stop if you have not seen the film.) O LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, you have covered my head in the day of battle. Do not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do …
Rated PG-13 Our Content Rating: V-0 ; L-1 ; S/N-2 Running time — 99 minutes For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. All go …
Rated R Our content rating: V-5; L-3; S/N-2. The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him; but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who …
Rated PG Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Two Brothers Although this film stars Guy Pearce as hunter and tomb robber Aiden McRory, the real stars of Jean-Jaques Annaud’s environmentally concerned story are two tiger cubs. As with his wonderful 1989 The Bear (reviewed in the Dec. 1990 VP), the director use live animals, enhanced …