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Richard III **** (1995, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Robert Downey Jr, Nigel Hawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 3645

Director Richard Loncraine’s 1995 Shakespeare movie gives Ian McKellen a showcase where he dazzlingly re-creates his stage performance as the mad English monarch Richard III, fired by vaulting ambition, hate and revenge on humankind for […]

May, 02

Valmont ***** (1989, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Sian Phillips, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 3522

  Director Milos Forman’s seductive 1989 romantic drama film Valmont stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly and Fairuza Balk, along with Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, Ian MacNeice and Isla Blair. It […]

Apr, 04

Guilty by Suspicion *** (1991, Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Patricia Wettig, George Wendt, Sam Wanamaker, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3373

Writer-director Irwin Winkler’s 1991 drama is an interesting and sincere but mild drama of the Hollywood blacklist intrigues. It is an intelligently written reminder of some uncomfortable facts of Hollywood’s – and America’s – past, […]

Feb, 17

Danny Collins **** (2015, Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer) – Movie Review

Al Pacino finds a great role for himself as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who decides to change his life, quit singing his greatest hits in stadiums and clean up his rock ‘n roll lifestyle act. The […]

Apr, 10

Love Affair ** (1994, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 2328

Director Glen Gordon Caron’s 1994 turgid romance is a bloated and pretty disastrous attempt to re-film director Leo McCarey’s 1939 classic and his remake, An Affair to Remember. Warren Beatty stars in an ideal role […]

Mar, 29

The Face of Love ***½ (2014, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams) – Movie Review

Annette Bening is happily married to her perfect partner in Ed Harris, who promptly dies. A couple of years later she meets and falls for an artist/ teacher (also played by Ed Harris), a man who […]

Dec, 11

The Siege ** (1999, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1506

Something’s gone rather horribly wrong with producer-director Edward Zwick’s ambitious 1999 thriller. Denzel Washington does his usual stalwart job as Anthony ‘Hub’ Hubbard, a special FBI agent in charge of the Counter-Terrorism Task Forcewho has […]

Aug, 02

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