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- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
- The Ride Back *** (1957, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan) – Classic Movie Review 13,913
- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
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- A Taste of Excitement ** (1969, Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Francis Matthews, Sophie Hardy, Paul Hubschmid, Kay Walsh, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 13,906
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A Question of Attribution **** (1991, James Fox, Prunella Scales, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9270
‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle] **** (1974, Bruno S, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira) – Classic Movie Review 9265
Writer-director Werner Herzog’s 1974 historical biographical drama The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser [Jeder für Sich und Gott gegen Alle] tells the real-life mystery of a weird young man called Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S, ideal) who […]
Adoring [Chong ai] *** (2019, Wallace Chung, Beibi Gong, Landi Li) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Larry Yang’s always likeable, often charming Chinese multi-story comedy drama Adoring [Chong ai] (2019) is a happy New Year movie intertwining half a dozen stories about pets and their owners. Oh, good heavens, […]
A Perfect World *** (1993, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T J Lowther) – Classic Movie Review 9260
Producer-director Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World (1993) is well made and decently paced as a crime thriller entertainment, though it is not as exciting or evocative as the similar Hunted (1952), Badlands, The Sugarland Express […]
Trade Winds *** (1938, Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Thomas Mitchell, Ann Sothern) – Classic Movie Review 9253
Director Tay Garnett’s 1938 comedy murder mystery Trade Winds stars Fredric March as hard-bitten former detective investigator Sam Wye, who is sent to head off to the Orient by Police Commissioner Blackton (Thomas Mitchell) to […]
Pardon Mon Affaire [Un Eléphant Ça Trompe Énormément] *** (1976, Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme, Anny Duperey) – Classic Movie Review 9228
Co-writer/ director Yves Robert’s 1976 comedy Pardon Mon Affaire [Un Eléphant Ça Trompe Énormément] is the French original of Gene Wilder’s 1984 American hit The Woman in Red. It shows the efforts of Étienne (Jean […]
Jojo Rabbit *** (2019, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell) – Movie Review
Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) is a bold but awkward, uneasy World War Two Germany surreal satirical comedy, with its major plus points in the performances of Roman Griffin Davis as troubled, lonely 10-year-old […]