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MIM's Maoist Movie reviews

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Here are some full movie reviews and more than 65 capsule reviews. Most of the capsule reviews are condensed from MIM Notes. The full text of other reviews may be available in the MIM Notes archive on this site. Movie reviews are a great way to comment on popular culture, and all the things that come up in the movies, from crime and sex and war, to political struggles, history, documentary materials, and so on.

You should be sending us reviews, long or short, of the movies you've seen that aren't covered here -- or your reaction to our reviews of movies that are here. Send 'em here.

MIM essays on the movies:

Full Reviews

Angola: The Farm
Blade
The Blue Kite
A Bug's Life
A Civil Action
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Election
Enemy of the State
Go
The Golf War
Higher Learning
Kundun
The Matrix
Mulan
Patch Adams
Seven Years in Tibet
Soldier
Star Trek: Insurrection
To Live
The Truman Show
Welcome to the Doll House
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Yes, In My Back Yard

Capsule Reviews

Alien3 (1992)
Angola: The Farm (1998)
Barbarian Queen (1985)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Bird Cage (1996)
Blade (1998)
The Blue Kite (1993)
Breaking with Old Ideas (1975)
A Bug's Life (1999)
Bullworth (1998)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Children of the Revolution (1997?)
China Cry (Nora Lambe, 1990)
A Civil Action (1999)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990)
The Crying Game
Daughters of the Dust
Dead Man Walking
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Election
Enemy of the State (1998)
Falling Down (1993)
The Famine Within (Catherine Gilday, 1993)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Framed: The Story of Geronimo Pratt (Dennis Mueller and Masimo Pillow, 1993)
Go
The Golf War (1999)
The Good Woman of Bangkok (Dennis O'Rourke, 1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Higher Learning (1995)
Hoffa (1992)
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Incident at Oglala (1992)
Independence Day (1996)
Indian Summer (1993)
Kundun: The Amazing Story of the 14th Dalai Lama (1998)
The Little Thief
Little Vera
Longtime Companion (1990)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, 1992)
The Matrix (1999)
Medics of the People
Menace II Society (1993)
Mermaids (1991)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Mulan (1998)
On Deadly Ground (Steven Segal, 1994)
The Paper (1994)
Patch Adams (1999)
Patriot Games (1992)
The Pelican Brief (1994)
A Perfect World (1995)
The Player (1992)
Quiz Show (1994)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
Rush Hour (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler's List (1993)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
Sliver (1993)
Sneakers (1992)
Soldier (1998)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Starship (1986)
Strictly Ballroom (1993)
Swept Away (1979)
Three of Hearts (1993)
Timecop (1994)
To Live (1994)
Total Recall (1990)
The Truman Show (1998)
Unforgiven (1992)
USA on Trial, Parts I and II (1994)
Welcome to the Doll House (1996)
Wild At Heart (1990)
Yes, In My Back Yard (1998)

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