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Hiroshima Mon Amour ***** (1959, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 4885

The debut movie of the all-time great director Alain Resnais is a beautifully crafted gem, with an intelligent, challenging screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Emmanuelle Riva stars as Elle, a French actress who has an affair […]

Jan, 13

Barney’s Version **** (2010, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman, Mark Addy, Rachelle Lefevre) – Classic Movie Review 4611

Paul Giamatti rightly won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his marvellously rich, entertaining and rewarding performance as a neurotic, grouchy and straight-talking TV […]

Nov, 08

Rabbit Hole **** (2010, Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller) – Classic Movie Review 4605

Playing to all her strengths at her impeccable finest, Oscar-nominated Nicole Kidman gives arguably her best ever performance as Becca Corbett, a mother whose young son Danny has been killed by a teenager driver. Glacial […]

Nov, 07

Dead Again ½ (1991, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Robin Williams, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Wayne Knight) – Classic Movie Review 4401

Kenneth Branagh comes the most awful cropper as director-star of this appalling 1991 romantic fantasy neo noir mystery thriller that intends to tease playfully but ends up just being infuriating. Dead in the water, it was dead […]

Sep, 24

Shattered * (1991, Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 4400

Tom Berenger stars as Dan Merrick, who has a car crash and recovers from a coma with a restructured his face and amnesia, unable to remember even his own wife Judith (Greta Scacchi), who patiently nurses him […]

Sep, 23

Captain Fantastic **** (2016, Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn) – Movie Review

Viggo Mortensen rejoices in one of his most richly satisfying roles as Ben Cash, an idealistic father devoted to raising his six kids in the Pacific Northwest forests with a rigorous physical and intellectual education that […]

Sep, 08

Johnny Got His Gun **** (1971, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards Jnr, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland, Kathy Fields, Diane Varsi) – Classic Movie Review 4281

Writer-director Dalton Trumbo’s brilliant and devastating 1971 movie stars Timothy Bottoms as bomb-wounded First World War soldier Joe Bonham who wakes up without half his body. He has no limbs, sight, hearing or speech. When […]

Sep, 01

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