Movies Poll: Leah Ireland Movie Reviews Vote for your top choice from the list below. This poll is based upon the selector "Leah Ireland Movie Reviews" by Leah Ireland. Translate: Choose from this list: ANGELA'S ASHES Splendid docu/drama, and humorous narrative that depicts poverty and Catholicism in not so jolly old Ireland.*** END OF THE AFFAIR A beautifully designed, skillfully acted, dreary film set in WII England about obsessional love, true love? ** MAGNOLIA Psychologically violent, pretending, scattered art; Tom Cruise stops at nothing to do a 2000 style Bruce Willis on us.* SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS A film of Japanese American life during the war in Alaska, magnificently filmed and directed.*** STRAIGHT STORY An old man's story of profound affection, simplicity, arcane honor, in exquisitely filmed Americana.*** SWEET AND LOWDOWN Woody is brilliant but weak on story in this fictional bio of a musician's brio with Sean Penn at his best.** THE BEACH Will Leonardo De Caprio ever be a grown up sexy man? Not on these filmy luscious tourist product placement sands.* THE HURRICANE A heroic true story of race and the issues that go far deeper, and are more enduring, a triumph.**** TOPSY-TURVY This backstage bio of Gilbert and Sullivan does and doesn't work, but scenes of the Mikado are a delight.** DREAM OF AFRICA Dreadfully written, directed, acted, movie in which Kim Bassinger reveals she can cry but not act. Magnificent depiction and cinematography of the last glory of post-colonial Kenya. ** HIGH FIDELITY A sweet timely romantic comedy about a hero who finally grows up, and finally commits? John Cusack is divine. **1/2 KEEPING THE FAITH Will the ultimate J. Crew, corporate, ball breaking princess make it to loveville with two inappropriate choices for men? Visit trendy beautifully filmed New York and find out. *** THE SORROW AND THE PITY The best documentary film ever made about the French collaboration with the Nazis, capturing the last of pre Euro Disneyland France. **** THE DINNER GAME Brilliant French sophisticated comedy for adults, catch it before the dreadful American remake. **** FREQUENCY A graphically violent, disaster, crime horror story, held together with woowie-woowie plot that not even Dennis Quaid can't rescue. Another call for 911 on Hollywood. * COTTON MARY Almost any Merchant/Ivory film is worthwhile, maybe even this one, especially if you'd love to film trip to India in the artistically neglected post-colonial 50's * SMALL TIME CROOKS Woody Allan is the master movie absurdist of our culture, he hasn't learned any new tricks, but his old ones are still the best. *** THE CUP A delightful tale of soccer TV invading a monastery of Buddist monks, a must for Tibetans and fellow travelers. ** ME, MYSELF, I Another version of the rose colored, picket fence, completion through love-cottage myth for the 90's career girl. Cute, well done. ** TUMBLEWEEDS A bitter comedy about the rootless and unable to love that litter America's highways--full of heart and soul. *** DINOSAUR Disney writers are the Cretaceous mired in the tar of scaring kids, while the ASTONISHING visuals soar, and if you've seen one dinosaur fight you've seen them all. ** MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 Hollywood karate chops itself again with a Cruise course of unoriginal action packed mayhem and black Porsche sex with a teenager in between 58 scenes of violence. ** GLADIATOR If you can survive 17 scenes of violence, gladiator spectacles, and a lengthy war episode, this fierce film's art is for you. * U-571 There's nothing like gunfights, fistfight, and torpedo attacks while in a submarine with nothing to do while waiting for a chance to steal the Nazis' encryption codes.* VIRGIN SUICIDES An incomplete, mystifying, but captivating look at the end of the insanity of American Catholicism in the weird suburbs that still believe. *** See the newest and search for polls here: