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- Memories of a Teenager [Yo, adolescente] *** (2019, Renato Quattordio, Thomas Lepera, Malena Narvay) – Classic Movie Review 13,536
- The Magnificent Fraud * (1939, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland, Patricia Morison, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 13,535
- Those People Next Door ** (1953, Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson, Garry Marsh, Jimmy James, Anthony Newley) – Classic Movie Review 13,534
- The Great Profile *** (1940, John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Lionel Atwill, Edward Brophy) – Classic Movie Review 13,533
- My Best Friend [Mi mejor amigo] *** (2018, Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Lautaro Rodríguez, Guillermo Pfening) – Classic Movie Review 13,532
- Never Love a Stranger ** (1958, John Drew Barrymore, Steve McQueen, Robert Bray, Lita Milan, R G Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 13,531
- Passage Home ** (1955, Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento) – Classic Movie Review 13,530
- Noah’s Ark **** (1928, Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Berry Sr, Louise Fazenda, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,529
- Mark of the Phoenix ** (1958, Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence, Anton Diffring, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 13,528
- Sweet Liberty *** (1986, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lillian Gish, Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 13,527
A Quiet Passion **** (2016, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Joanna Bacon, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Duncan Duff) – Movie Review
Cynthia Nixon is astonishing as the American poet Emily Dickinson in writer-director Terence Davies’s 2016 biographical drama film A Quiet Passion. Emily Dickinson: ‘Clarity is one thing; obviousness is quite another.’ Cynthia Nixon is tremendous, […]
Personal Shopper ***½ (2016, Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz) – Movie Review
Kristen Stewart teams up with writer-director Olivier Assayas after Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) to star as a personal shopper for a rich, busy star in a movie that dangerously tries mix a ghost story with a Paris fashion world drama and […]
Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471
In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]
A Generation [Pokolenie] ***** (1955, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Roman Polanski, Zbigniew Cybulski) – Classic Movie Review 4470
Great director Andrzej Wajda makes his film debut with this striking 1955 drama about the Warsaw Resistance during the German occupation of Poland in World War Two and a group of youths who battle love and adversity […]
Ashes and Diamonds ***** [Popiól i diament] (1958, Zbigniew Cybulski, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski) – Classic Movie Review 4469
Co-writer/director Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 Polish drama made a star of the vibrant Zbigniew Cybulski, who suddenly burst forth in international cinema as Poland’s answer to James Dean, brilliantly playing the leading role of mixed-up young partisan […]
The Girl Next Door *** (2004, Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 4468
Director Luke Greenfield’s 2004 comedy stars Emile Hirsch as Matthew Kidman, an American teen who gets lucky when an ex-porn star (24’s Elisha Cuthbert) moves in next door. Timothy Olyphant plays her pushy producer who […]
Bleed for This *** (2016, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Katey Sagal, Ted Levine) – Movie Review
Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]
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- Memories of a Teenager [Yo, adolescente] *** (2019, Renato Quattordio, Thomas Lepera, Malena Narvay) – Classic Movie Review 13,536
- The Magnificent Fraud * (1939, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland, Patricia Morison, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 13,535
- Those People Next Door ** (1953, Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson, Garry Marsh, Jimmy James, Anthony Newley) – Classic Movie Review 13,534
- The Great Profile *** (1940, John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Lionel Atwill, Edward Brophy) – Classic Movie Review 13,533
- My Best Friend [Mi mejor amigo] *** (2018, Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Lautaro Rodríguez, Guillermo Pfening) – Classic Movie Review 13,532
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