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• Brave Buffalo Fighter: Waditaka Tatanka Kisisohitika by John D. Fitzgerald (1973)

  [7/10]

  "As you can expect from any Fitzgerald work, you get an excellent picture of the period and setting in which the events take place. You get a detailed portrayal of life in a pioneer wagon train, including the reasons for making the trek in the first place and the risks involved in the journey itself."

• Brothers Grimm, The directed by Terry Gilliam (2005)

  [6/10]

  "Expect to laugh, but you shouldn't expect comedy on the order of Gilliam's Monty Python days."

• Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian directed by Andrew Adamson (2008)

  [7/10]

  "Director Andrew Adamson again does an excellent job bringing the spare details of C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian to epic proportions on the screen."

• Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe directed by Andrew Adamson (2005)

  [8/10]

  "On the whole, Adamson has faithfully captured the essence of Lewis's book and given a movie audience the adventure story it expects."

• Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard (1998)

  [5/10]

  "Leonard provides pretty standard fair: a cowboy, a love interest, an evil secret police captain, a need for revenge, several shootouts, and a few close calls. Good, light reading appropriate for a day at the beach or the down time on your vacation."

• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story directed by John Gatins (2005)

  [5/10]

  "Russell's performance doesn't provide any new insight into fatherhood or raising horses, although he does put up a nice argument for a diverse workplace when he defends his Hispanic staff."

• Great Brain Does It Again, The by John D. Fitzgerald (1975)

  [5/10]

  "If you have read the other six volumes in the series, you'll still find enough fun here to keep reading this seventh volume, but you probably won't make this the book that you reread."

• Henry V directed by Kenneth Branagh (1989)

  [8/10]

  "Branagh plays Henry V with and easy elegance, and he delivers the king's motivational speeches with marvelous interpretation and dynamics."

• Horse Whisperer, The directed by Robert Redford (1998)

  [5/10]

  "In order to enjoy The Horse Whisperer, you must meet at least five of the following six criteria: you like horses or movies about horses, you like to look at Robert Redford, you like movies with panoramic scenes of the American West, you like semi-tragic romance movies, and you are a woman. If you meet these criteria, then you will not even notice that 160 minutes passed by while watching The Horse Whisperer."

• Horse and His Boy, The by C. S. Lewis (1954)

  [6/10]

  "The Horse and His Boy tells the only story in The Chronicles of Narnia where the main characters do not come from Earth -- with small cameo roles from Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. I liked the story, but Lewis solves most of the character's problems through coincidence and luck, not through bravery and heroism."

• Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson (1977)

  [8/10]

  "Donaldson creates such an interesting adventure that you want to find out what happens next, regardless of how snotty Covenant treats the Land's inhabitants. Donaldson also has a gift for suspenseful, vivid action scenes."

• Mongol directed by Sergei Bodrov (2007)

  [6/10]

  "Director Bodrov clearly wants to paint a different picture of young Temudjin than most people have from from reading about the savage Gengis Kahn. Mongol paints a picture of a stubborn, religious man devoted to his wife and determined to create a great empire for the benefit of all Mongol people -- 'even if half of them have to die for it.'"

• Samuel, Moroni's Young Warrior by Clair M. Poulson (1993)

  [3/10]

  "The action is fast paced, and Poulson does build suspense well, but I was disappointed by the resolution of almost all the conflicts that I can't really recommend this book to your children, let alone adults."

• Seeker, The: The Dark Is Rising directed by David L. Cunningham (2007)

  [6/10]

  "The Seeker has it fun and scary moments, but the threat of evil -- in spite of its well demonstrated power -- feels hollow, and the teenage protagonist too easily defeats in five days a force that has had thousands of years to prepare."

• Silverado directed by Lawrence Kasdan (1985)

  [9/10]

  "Westerns and comedies don't get much better than Silverado. You get good crisp writing, witty remarks, great characters, and fun rough-and-tumble, .45-blasting action."

• Three Amigos directed by John Landis (1986)

  [4/10]

  "With fondness, I anticipated watching the Three Amigos on DVD. Some of the jokes still made me laugh, but the plot didn't have enough interesting material to really make me want to watch the movie over and over."

  Average score: 6.12